Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The program was launched to beautify the city landscape, ease vehicle traffic, improve pedestrian traffic, facilitate the water-bearing capacity of the ground, and increase biodiversity. A new goal was also introduced that aimed to reach net zero emissions in the electricity sectors by 2040. followed by Boston and Seattle).

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Business Green

JULY 19, 2022

Ruling on a case brought by Friends of the Earth, ClientEarth, and the Good Law Project, Mr Justice Holgate agreed the strategy lacked sufficient explanation or quantification as to how the decarbonisation plans set out in the Net Zero Strategy published last autumn would achieve emissions targets for the 2030s and beyond.

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Business Green

MARCH 5, 2021

This landmark largest ever sovereign Green Bond highlights the diversity of environmental levers which need to be tackled to address the climate and biodiversity crisis. The French Citizens' Climate Convention used its final meeting this week to launch a stinging attack on the government's attempts to translate its recommendations into law.

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Business Green

MAY 29, 2020

The decree has come into immediate effect, although the Italian parliament will have 60 days after the initial publication of the measures to introduce amendments to the law. New Zealand steps up plans to create 11,000 biodiversity jobs. The so-called 'eco-bonus' is set to apply from July 1 this year until December 31, 2021.

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Business Green

JULY 15, 2022

If you do not support the current target are you proposing to change the law to shift or scrap the net zero target? If no, are you concerned that changing the target could undermine planned investment in the electric vehicle supply chain? What is your strategy for the upcoming COP15 Biodiversity Summit?

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Business Green

MAY 25, 2022

The money behind INEOS and Borealis , argues demand for plastic is set to fall in the coming years due to incoming laws aimed at curbing plastic use, and that therefore banks are putting their investments at risk. The study, Who finances the plastic flood?

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Business Green

JUNE 5, 2020

Hungary approves net zero law and issues green bond. Hungary has become the latest country to pass net zero legislation, after the national parliament this week approved a law that establishes a 2050 climate neutrality goal for the central European state. VW launches €2bn Chinese electric vehicle push.

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Business Green

JUNE 10, 2021

Talks are also said to be on-going on easing trade barriers for electric vehicles and boosting access to climate finance for developing countries, with reports yesterday suggesting German Chancellor Angela Merkel is prepared to sign off an increase in its climate funding for poorer nations.

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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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Grist

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

The United States doesn’t have any federal laws that say electric utilities have to switch to carbon-free power. We don’t yet have any national rules mandating the sale of electric vehicles or plans to phase out oil and gas drilling. Despite years of talk about a tax on carbon, we don’t have that either.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Meanwhile, critics have also warned the government is yet to address how it plans to make up for loss of public revenues currently generated through fuel duty, which are expected to fall sharply as the switch to electric vehicles gathers pace. The fact such work is being done is encouraging.

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2023

I am grateful to Chris Skidmore - the man who signed our climate commitments into law - for his detailed report today, which offers a range of ideas and innovations for us to consider as we work to grasp the opportunities from green growth.". Falling costs of solar, storage, heat pumps and electric vehicles are all outpacing predictions.

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Business Green

MARCH 31, 2023

Businesses leaders urge EU committees to champion Nature Restoration Law An alliance of 12 major business networks is this week urging key European Parliament committees to support and strengthen a proposed Nature Restoration Law, which if passed would set out legally binding goals for restoring ecosystems and biodiversity.

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Business Green

JANUARY 30, 2020

From creating supply chains for electric vehicles, to decarbonising heavy industry; from designing new, green financial products to designing low carbon buildings, the opportunities of this industrial revolution are endless - with the prize of two million green collar jobs by 2030," she said.

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Business Green

JUNE 29, 2023

As the Minister who signed into law the UK's world-leading net zero target, Skidmore has long advocated for the investments, technologies, and policies that can deliver a sustainable, healthy, and prosperous economy for all.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

In 2014, the electrical engineer and MBA became the first woman to lead a U.S. As electric vehicles drive toward the mainstream, General Motors has come full circle as well. It mass-produced the first electric car in the 1990s, then literally crushed most of them in 2003. 2 is to get the stock price moving.".

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Business Green

AUGUST 17, 2022

Meanwhile, green groups also voiced concerns over both candidates' apparent desire to cut back on remaining legislation originally derived from the EU, which the RSPB today warned could lead to a backsliding on protections for biodiversity and habitats. That's the future of the UK," the PM said.

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2022

Transport: Electric vehicles powered by low carbon electricity are identified by the analysis as having the largest decarbonisation potential for land-based transport. But it warns that low ambition policies increase the risk of locking-in high carbon buildings for decades.

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Business Green

MARCH 11, 2020

"We are particularly encouraged by today's announcements on five-year funding settlements for city leaders to invest in local transport improvements, and by the additional investment in electric vehicle charging points, both of which are in line with our National Infrastructure Assessment recommendations. "We

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

And with good reason: renewables and electric vehicles have fared better than their fossil fuel counterparts during the pandemic, greener transport options have surged in popularity, and there is growing evidence that companies are, if anything, doubling down rather than ditching their sustainability efforts.

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Grist

MARCH 17, 2023

A category of metals that play an essential role in technologies ranging from smartphones to wind turbines to electric vehicle motors, rare earths are currently mined only at a single site in the United States. Geological Survey, or USGS, announced the discovery of rocks that are rich in rare earth elements near Pennington Mountain.

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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. How will they be enforced and governed?

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Pressure increases on President Moon Jae-In to put 2050 net zero target in law and raise country's Paris climate ambitions. million electric vehicles and 200,000 hydrogen fuel cell cars on its roads by the same date, backed by 450 new hydrogen refuelling stations.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

In 2014, the electrical engineer and MBA became the first woman to lead a U.S. As electric vehicles drive toward the mainstream, General Motors has come full circle as well. It mass-produced the first electric car in the 1990s, then literally crushed most of them in 2003. .” 2 is to get the stock price moving.”

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Business Green

MAY 10, 2021

Caroline May, EMEA head of environment at law firm Norton Rose Fulbright, echoed much of Moho's sentiment, arguing that high level emissions reduction targets announed by the government in recent months "now need to be backed with swift action and implementation, particularly as we rebuild the economy after the pandemic".

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Business Green

DECEMBER 29, 2022

With good reason: The climate and biodiversity crises, combined with the social and economic equity crises, are providing momentum and incentives for staying the course. And there were new climate laws in the United States and Europe, which breathed new life to climate action in those countries. It's not just on-road vehicles.

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EDF + Business

MARCH 1, 2021

He has a Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering from Vellore Inst of Tech (India), and MS in Biological Engineering from the Utah State University, and PhD in Molecular Biology from the University of Southern California. Alexandra (Aly) Criscuolo. Radhika Lalit. Colleen Metelitsa.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

She has also spoken favourably about electric vehicles and said in May that recent months had “highlighted the need to accelerate our journey as a global community away from hydrocarbons” and “decisively turn our backs on the era of dependence on polluting fuels”. Robert Buckland – Wales Secretary.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Electric vehicle sales growth is generally cheered by environmentalists - but according to a new report from Amnesty International credible concerns remain over the potential for environmental harm and human rights abuses in the supply chain of the fast-expanding sector.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

Over the past year, many professional services organizations that previously had little to say publicly about their climate change strategy — from law firms to management consultants to ad agencies — found themselves under closer scrutiny not just for their own footprint but for supporting some of the biggest climate deniers around.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 22, 2020

She’s an advocate of " Absolute Sustainability, " a Quantis philosophy that challenges businesses to take planetary boundaries into account not just for carbon emissions but also for biodiversity, land use, freshwater consumption, the phosphorus cycle and the nitrogen cycle. . Elsa Wenze. Sarah Reed, 27. LinkedIn | Twitter.

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Business Green

JULY 29, 2022

UN Secretary-General António Guterres welcomed the "historic" decision as a landmark development that he said underscored the collective will among governments worldwide to fight the triple planetary crisis of climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution. It is also more effective, legitimate and sustainable.".

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Grist

MARCH 12, 2021

He knew that lithium is a key metal used in batteries for electric vehicles and the power grid, and he knew the United States is going to need a lot of it to transition off fossil fuels. By 2030, that figure could rise to over 300,000 metric tons, driven largely by a booming electric vehicle market. In 2020, the U.S.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 11, 2019

Brown also signed aggressive new laws committing to carbon-free electricity statewide by 2045 and requiring solar on all new homes. 3) Electric vehicle sales are exploding, and it’s not just small vehicles : even container ships are going electric. So even if U.S.

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Climate Tech VC

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

In either case, this wasn’t on our bingo card… In the news, the British government passed new reforms to speed up interconnection, Colombia launched a $1B biodiversity fund, the US released $6B in funding for climate resiliency, and the US and China made modest progress on methane reduction at APEC.  Or a red herring?

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Andrew Winston

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The big stories of 2023 included the “anti-ESG” movement’s silencing effect on many companies; the explosion of clean tech; new reporting laws that are pressuring companies to measure and do more; and most oddly, the annual global climate meeting held in the United Arab Emirates, a petro-state. So, what will 2024 look like?

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