DeSmogBlog

MARCH 1, 2024

By denying, derailing, delaying, and deflecting meaningful discussions around the sector’s key issues, the agriculture industry is using the same tactics as the tobacco and fossil fuel lobbies. The livestock industry is also making an effort to target young people, researchers said. In the U.S.

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Front And Centered

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

The law is asking a lot of Washington’s 65+ electric utilities who must plan their transition actions, secure clean sources for the electricity they serve customers, assess and equitably manage the impacts of their decisions on communities, and minimize the burden of rising rates on low-income households. .

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Business Green

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Don't listen to the fossil fuel enthusiasts pushing fracking as a solution for the UK's currently volatile energy market, argues ECIU's Dr Simon Cran-McGreehin. The gas crunch gripping Europe is directly caused by volatile international gas markets that expose the UK to demand surges in Asia and political manipulation by Putin.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 17, 2023

billion liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in her Pennsylvania hometown, she will be facing off against some of the most powerful fossil fuel interests in the United States. The task force’s members include the Pennsylvania director of the American Petroleum Institute, the most powerful fossil fuel lobby group in the U.S.,

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Smart Energy International

JULY 26, 2022

ABeam Consulting reports that the business environment for electricity retailers in Japan is changing dramatically due to the need to introduce renewable energy in order to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050 as well as the rising cost of procuring electricity in response to soaring fossil fuel prices globally. Have you read?

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Grist

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Renewable solar and wind power now typically costs less than fossil-fuel alternatives. That’s looking more doable as renewable-energy prices drop, providing an alternative to fossil fuels. Seattle this year passed a law to phase out natural gas in new commercial establishments and large apartment buildings.

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R-Squared Energy

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Earlier this month, France’s constitutional court upheld a law cutting palm oil from the country’s list of approved biofuels and eliminating associated tax exemptions. Sinar Mas spinoff Paper Excellence, for example, has been picking up Canadian assets, estimating that the company’s customers in Asia will ensure long-term demand.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Investors are taking action as it is not only permitted by law but is in many cases required to ensure their ability to generate returns in the long-term as a core fiduciary duty and benefit from the opportunities associated with the shift to a net-zero emissions economy.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 14, 2020

The other big shift this year was a clear sprint for the exits from fossil fuel investment. Senate to pass common-sense gun laws. The alternative protein trend is also global, with Hong Kong-based Omni Pork offering vegan substitutes across Asia. Is there financial risk in taking a stand?

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The City Fix

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Today’s climate change headlines often seem at odds with each other. One day, it’s catastrophic wildfires wreaking havoc around the world; the next, it’s an optimistic piece on the rapid scale-up of solar and wind power. Taken together, such stories.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 26, 2023

This ruling followed a 2021 decision in the same case, in which the court ruled that the governments had violated their legal obligations, under Belgian civil law and European human rights law, in failing to protect citizens from dangerous climate change.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 26, 2021

i] Sites are planned in Germany, the US and Asia. xi] Advanced recycling processes reduce the need for fossil fuel extraction for virgin plastics. Plastic waste is an urgent environmental challenge; 350m tonnes of plastic is produced worldwide annually,[ii] with half becoming waste in less than a year.[iii] Geyer, J.R.

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Fairsnape

MAY 15, 2020

The Story of Plastic travels around the globe, with time spent speaking with plastic sorters and zero waste activists mainly in Asia, and exposes a world wide seemingly unsurmountable catastrophe driven by corporate interests. The film was scheduled for box office cinema release but the Corona Virus has put paid to that.

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Business Green

JANUARY 15, 2023

However, a big opportunity exists among many regulated countries, many of which still rely heavily on fossil fuels, to have cleaner grids. If a company has a lot of activity in Asia Pacific markets, for instance, they won't have a choice of where their power is coming from.

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Elemental Excelerator

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Solar panels, wind turbines, batteries, and electric vehicles are becoming mainstream and cost effective, allowing us to transition much faster away from fossil fuels. The clean energy economy is here and ramping up in full force. Both of these concerns reveal an often-hidden side to the clean technology revolution.

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Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 22, 2021

Fortunately, thanks to its nearly fossil-fuel-free electricity grid, B.C. the construction of the new Pattullo Bridge replacement, which will cross the Fraser River between New Westminster and Surrey, will not use low-carbon Canadian steel but imported steel from Asia. Here in B.C., and Canadian producers.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 13, 2021

However, while on the surface it may appear to be a positive shift towards lowering the greenhouse gas impact of their projects, the rhetoric about carbon-neutral LNG is mostly hollow, in another attempt to greenwash new fossil fuel projects into existence. government spent more on fossil fuel subsidies (C$1.3

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Business Green

JULY 16, 2021

India is the world's second largest coal consumer after China, and also holds the fourth largest reserves of the fossil fuel worldwide. They also pledged to mobilise investment in green energy in Central and Eastern Europe, as well as South and Southeast Asia. Trading begins in China's long-awaited national carbon market.

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Business Green

JUNE 11, 2021

New analysis reveals how G7 climate laws slashed CO2 emissions by 1.3 Fankhauser and Eskander said emissions reductions from the G7 remained "critically insufficient" when set against the goals of the Paris Agreement, but they stressed that the new analysis showed that climate laws have successfully "bent the curve" of emissions.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 2, 2021

G criteria includes whether a company makes effective decisions, complies with the law, meets the needs of external stakeholders, uses accurate and transparent accounting methods, and stakeholders are allowed to vote on important issues. This is followed by Asia Pacific with 174. Every company, as a legal entity, requires governance.

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Business Green

JANUARY 23, 2023

While our competitors across Europe, Asia and the US are making their move - and going hell for leather, we seem to be second guessing ourselves - and hoping for the best," he warned. Even before we get into the growth possibilities of emerging tech, like Carbon Capture and Storage."

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Business Green

MAY 22, 2020

The moment that law was put on hold every single manufacturer of plastic bags immediately switched to virgin resin," Bagaria said. He also noted the importance of "catalytic capital" to advance recycling and prevent plastic pollution in developing markets, such as Circulate Capital 's investments in Southeast Asia.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 9, 2019

They spend your money to buy a seat at the UN Security Council, and also, they are giving your money to other countries to fight climate change in Asia and build roads in Africa. We need to support the rule of law and human rights around the world because we are world leaders. The other leaders on this stage are globalist.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Out of apparently nothing, the Democrats could pull together a good enough package of incentives as the climate components of an expediently misnamed Inflation Reduction Act became law. Asia is not racing toward gas as it remains unaffordable, and investment flows to alternatives. Two wrongs don't make a right.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Given the challenges of energy transition, Europe is optimally positioned to lead this movement by implementing political and economic policies that will incentivize oil and gas companies to leave fossil fuels behind and make the transition to deep geothermal. He founded his law firm in Berlin in 1992.

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GreenBiz

MAY 17, 2021

Badalian received an environmental law degree from Lewis & Clark Law School, which helped shape his policy work, he says. Most recently, Barudin led a tribal task force with the nonprofit group Vote Solar to support New Mexico's new law enabling tribes and pueblos to access community solar programs. Elsa Wenzel. LinkedIn .

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 28, 2022

As a coalition of communities resisting fossil fuels in the U.S., we in the People vs. Fossil Fuels coalition recognize that these extreme weather events are not an accident of nature. End of the Fossil Fuel Era. South Asia and across the world from the threats that fossil fuels pose to our lives.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Add to that a huge round of new licences for North Sea oil and gas extraction – and no further windfall taxes on energy companies making bumper profits – and it’s clear the former Shell manager has few qualms about going all-out for fossil fuels. Kemi Badenoch – Trade Secretary. Zahawi earned £1.3

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2022

A prominent pro-fossil fuel author, who has argued for the “moral case” for fossil fuels, has a track record of disparaging writings about what he views as “inferior” cultures. He has testified before Congress on invitation from Republican lawmakers, who praise and parrot his arguments in favor of more fossil fuels.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

EU 2035 car ban clears final hurdle Plans to ban the sale of new internal combustion engine cars across the EU from 2035 cleared their final major hurdle this week, as MEPs approved a new law that formalises long-standing plans to phase out petrol and diesel vehicles. Yes, this means [we need an] international refugee law."

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Unsustainable

MAY 1, 2019

A Few Relevant Data Points With the advent of the Industrial Revolution in the late 18th century, humans began their dependence on the burning of fossil fuels?coal Many other countries in South and Southeast Asia with rapidly growing economies are expanding their use of coal to create electricity.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 17, 2021

Badalian received an environmental law degree from Lewis & Clark Law School, which helped shape his policy work, he says. Most recently, Barudin led a tribal task force with the nonprofit group Vote Solar to support New Mexico’s new law enabling tribes and pueblos to access community solar programs.

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Climate Tech VC

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The company is expected to expand across Asia, Australia, and Europe and is also pushing into Latin American markets. In other updates on global climate talks, Russia will oppose a pre-COP 28 agreement to phase out fossil fuels. The Sultan is head of Abu Dhabi Oil Co.,

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Business Green

JULY 29, 2022

It remains to be seen whether the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 secures enough Democrat support to pass the Senate, and indeed the Democrat-controlled Congress, and concerns remain over the details of the legislation that may offer sizeable support to fossil fuels as well as clean energy.

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Business Green

JUNE 7, 2022

President Joe Biden yesterday responded to rising fossil fuel costs and the continued Congressional deadlock that is blocking White House efforts to pass climate legislation by approving a package of emergency measures designed to accelerate US clean energy technology manufacturing.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 22, 2020

Global Compact, as co-founder of sustainable fashion company Fauna and as project manager for sustainable fashion at nonprofit Redress Asia, among other roles. Across these roles, Liu picked up skills she uses to help companies set and achieve their sustainability goals at Futerra. How does electrification happen in public housing?

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Jordan Cove LNG was a colossal fossil fuel project that would have been the state’s largest single source of greenhouse gas emissions if it had been built. A corporation in a foreign country could ship fracked gas — fracked from a foreign country — using Oregon as their stepping stone to ship their gas to Asia.

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