DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The Assembly is a network of social, environmental, and political groups that have banded together to oppose offshore oil drilling along Argentina’s Atlantic coast. There is no way that the oil industry can guarantee a low ‘risk’ or impact on biodiversity and, consequently, on the population,” he said. The move was highly unpopular.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

To its credit, what Defra has delivered this week is one of the most comprehensive and holistic environmental policy documents from any UK government to date. This will help safeguard the environmental ambition of the schemes and strengthen the political case for maintaining the farm budget after 2024."

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Business Green

JULY 7, 2022

Fluctuating temperatures and extreme weather events are creating an ever-increasing cocktail of risk for companies, including volatile commodity and energy prices, stranded assets, increased political and litigation risks and distinct new demands. These factors influence how business is conducted and, consequently, how lawyers must practice.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 25, 2022

The European Union’s scientific and political communities are locked in a battle over whether gas and nuclear can be considered green investments. I think that’s the typical example of that political exchange that went on.” Many — including the Platform on Sustainable Finance — say that’s where it falls short.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 16, 2022

However, Environment Secretary Thérèse Coffey, who announced the new goals today at the critical COP15 UN biodiversity summit currently taking place in Montreal, insisted the targets were "ambitious" and would be "challenging to achieve". "We Charles Watson, chairman at campaign group River Action, was similarly unimpressed. "We

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Like many corporations, the global COVID-19 pandemic and lack of usual in-person events meant they had to get creative about how to shape the political debate and find new allies to support their agendas. The European Biodiversity strategy, which is another core plank of the Green Deal, includes similar goals.

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Business Green

JANUARY 31, 2023

Moreover, the document includes England and Wales' first ever target to expand hedgerow protection, promising to create or restore 30,000 miles of hedgerows a year by 2037. The goal must be for us to exceed the current targets for air quality, biodiversity, water and resource efficiency and to do it more rapidly.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

We found that degradation in water quality progressed to potentially lethal levels for aquatic life — documenting thousands of instances in which chronic and acute water quality thresholds were exceeded between 1985 and 2015,” the researchers wrote. The paper suggests that all of this might have happened in violation of federal law.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The hike is just one example of the links – uncovered by an October DeSmog investigation – between large farming unions and six influential MEPs who oppose nature-friendly laws, all of whom, like Dorfmann, are members of the conservative European People’s Party, or EPP. She adds, “I value the work that MEPs do.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Every policy, law, regulation, study, analysis, proposal or action that has the climate crisis in mind is built on the basis of those two figures: 1.5 Like a chicken and egg dilemma, who came up with these goals first, politics or science? Political Origins of 2°C. That paragraph, in article 2, paragraph 2.a., Another time jump.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 28, 2022

While advocates promote it as a “carbon negative” climate solution, experts and campaigners have argued that BECCS is technically unproven, and that the practice poses risks for biodiversity, land and food security. In a submission on Thursday to California’s Draft 2022 Scoping Plan – the state’s climate strategy – Drax argued the U.S.

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Grist

JUNE 29, 2022

The Environmental Defense Fund, the American Forest Foundation, American Forests, and TNC are also members of the Forest-Climate Working Group, a political advocacy organization, alongside scores of wood product companies, including Enviva and Drax, biomass energy behemoths whose carbon-intensive operations have polluted U.S.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 19, 2019

Canada is also home to the tar sands , some of the most carbon intensive forms of energy on Earth they and a deadly threat to biodiversity. They have succeeded in keeping significant pieces of federal climate legislation from becoming law.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 24, 2020

Johnson hailed the deal - which the government claims is worth £668bn of trade, in 2019 terms - as a victory for the UK, which allows it to "take back control" over laws, borders, money, and fishing waters, while von der Leyen said the agreement meant EU rules and standards "will be respected".

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Business Green

JANUARY 31, 2020

The UK will also still be bound by EU law and fall under the jurisdiction of the EU Court of Justice, albeit now without any say on those laws are developed and enforced, with British MEPs and judges having left Brussels and Luxembourg respectively this week. At the same time the chances of a big political row are considerable.

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Business Green

MARCH 7, 2021

Study upon study has documented how the combination of lower average incomes and women's role as primary caregivers means they typically bear the brunt of extreme weather events and are statistically more vulnerable to the food, energy, and water shortages that can be caused by a changing climate.

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Business Green

MARCH 7, 2021

Study upon study has documented how the combination of lower average incomes and women's role as primary caregivers means they typically bear the brunt of extreme weather events and are statistically more vulnerable to the food, energy, and water shortages that can be caused by a changing climate.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 22, 2020

Sustainability questions are being embedded into requests for proposal documents and onboarding materials. Her clients at PwC include corporations from the energy, transportation and retail sectors, government agencies and nonprofits with goals in biodiversity, circular economy, climate change, social inclusion and human rights.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 4, 2023

On the global policy level, after an uninspiring climate meeting (COP27), the global convention on biodiversity produced an impressive target to protect 30% of the planet for nature. This was a key example of the politically motivated backlash against ESG and companies taking social positions coming from the political right (see #5 below).

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