DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

She has contributed to law conferences, diplomatic events, and environmental summits as well as podcasts, interviews and articles for publications and broadcasters ranging from TIME Magazine to the New York Times and from The Guardian to the BBC. What she realized was that the aspect that protects our rights is actually criminal law.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

Conservation charity becomes co-claimant in legal action against the government over alleged failures in plan to tackle sewage overflows. The Marine Conservation Society has today announced it is backing legal action against the government over its failure to do more to tackle sewage spills into English waters. We're out of options.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 2, 2020

UN summit confronts Global biodiversity crisis. Global leaders gathered virtually this week to discuss the environmental crisis that is devastating the world's ecosystems, at the inaugural UN Summit on Biodiversity, a event designed as a primer for the delayed, crucial COP15 Biodiversity Summit in Kunming, China, next year.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Investor-state dispute settlement” (ISDS) mechanisms allow companies to sue national governments if they believe regulation or unfair competition is impeding their investments. Boyd is calling on states to reform or leave these treaties. Despite their impacts, ISDS cases are cloaked in secrecy.

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Business Green

MAY 5, 2022

Lawyer and activist Farhana Yamin considers XR’s cultural, political, and business impact three years after it drove London to a standstill in 2019. The global political order had already been fraying at the edges thanks to creeping authoritarianism, populism, inequality, and post-Covid economic headwinds.

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Planet Pulse

DECEMBER 14, 2021

In remote regions of the world or those where political conflicts reduce access to protected areas, researchers and conservationists need solutions for monitoring activity that threatens wildlife and ecosystems. . We have to protect nature’s pristine areas,” explains Manuel Engelbauer, FZS’s South American program officer. Trust in data.

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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. But a public auction for offshore blocks off the coast of Buenos Aires, held in 2019, is viewed by the government and the handful of oil companies as a potential turning point.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 14, 2023

In spite of a political will to prevent renewable developments from leading figures and inconsistent policy directions, the sector is picking up huge momentum and we expect this to deliver huge strides in 2023. Mark Rowcroft. We need to develop projects that address decarbonisation and restoration targets together.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Business leaders and environmental campaigners hail the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework as a major - if flawed - breakthrough for nature protection efforts. The result will be stronger accountability and better-informed decisions by investors, governments, consumers and businesses themselves.".

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2022

After months of protracted and often bitter wrangling, Ireland’s coalition government yesterday published emissions budgets for each part of the economy, in a bid to meet its ambitious climate goals. After the painful financial crash of 2008/9, the political atmosphere in Ireland ahead of the lifting of quotas was febrile.

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Business Green

JANUARY 19, 2023

Could an innovative partnership between a US clothing firm and the Albanian government provide a new template for corporate conservation efforts? The Albanian government has moved relatively quickly to deliver on its 2021 election manifesto pledge to establish a new national park.

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Business Green

JULY 20, 2020

This government's pledge is not only to stem the tide of loss, but to turn it around - to leave the environment in a better state than we found it. And we will not be able to hide behind EU law when there are difficult decisions to make or indeed blame the EU when things don't work.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

To deliver on that last pledge, the government certainly has a mountain to climb. Since the 25 Year Environment Plan - the government's last major effort in this area - was published five years ago, there has been no demonstrable progress against any of its 23 leading environmental goals.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Government belatedly confirms suite of 13 legally binding targets to reverse species loss, boost water and air quality, cut waste, and increase tree cover over the next 20 years. The target to increase tree and woodland cover to 16.5

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Business Green

JANUARY 31, 2023

Environment Secretary Therese Coffey said the policy programme will help the government "continue" its work on improving the natural environment through subsidy reforms, tree planting programmes, and better enforcement of the pollution rules covering water companies. Here, BusinessGreen rounds up all the main reaction to the new plan.

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Business Green

JULY 15, 2022

But the nature of the format means they are unlikely to be seriously quizzed on what should be the defining economic and environmental issue faced by their government. The chair of the CCC has likened the UK government's climate resilience strategy as being like 'Dad's Army'. They should be asked about it, at length and in-depth.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Environmental Audit Committee Chair Philip Dunne talks to BusinessGreen about the need for 'a tax system fit for net zero Britain' and the right time to judge whether the government has delivered on its green recovery promises.

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Business Green

MARCH 15, 2022

So, fast forward a few years from now, could the same trend be repeated for nature-related risks such as biodiversity loss and habitat destruction? But the complexity of measuring the disparate risks from various forms of nature and biodiversity damage has proved to be hugely challenging.

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Business Green

JUNE 7, 2021

Valuing nature in practice is key to taking a whole-of-government approach to meeting net zero and nature targets, writes Pollination's James Cameron. The UK government has a once-in-a-generation opportunity to make good on its philosophical commitment to value nature and transform the way in which we measure national economic performance.

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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. Governments, it turns out, are just as involved as nuclear and gas lobbies. I think that’s the typical example of that political exchange that went on.”

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 9, 2021

Under the heading “Transformative effort to tackle climate change and biodiversity loss,” the seven economies: Commit to a multi-year effort to meet our net-zero commitments and environmental objectives in a way that is positive for jobs, growth, competitiveness and fairness. Pull Quote The writing on the wall is clear.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 7, 2022

"We strongly believe that we need all the political will and momentum and direction coming from heads of state to push the process forward, because it has become a very, very adversarial process," Aboulmagd said. European Parliament approves charging cable standard rules. France launches national energy saving campaign.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 17, 2021

The UK government said it expected the deal to unlock £10.4bn of additional trade, while "setting new global standards in digital and services" and reducing restrictions on travel and work between the two nations. This is just the start as we get on the front foot and seize the seismic opportunities that await us on the world stage.".

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Business Green

JULY 31, 2021

Sometimes described as the 'lungs of the planet', the Amazon is one of the most biodiverse regions on Earth and is also a major store of carbon, which is released into the atmosphere when the rainforest is burned, further exacerbating climate change. Meat and dairy account for around 14.5 Reign of fire.

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Business Green

MARCH 5, 2021

Strong political will is needed to make affordable, clean, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all a reality by 2030," said UNECE executive secretary Olga Algayerova. "As The government said €8.5bn had been issued at a re-offer price of 99.168, equivalent to a 1.547 per cent gross annual yield.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Meanwhile, the idea that GDP is a poor measure of economic success has moved from fringe obsession to become the subject of formal government reviews. That the level of biodiversity loss and nature degradation cannot continue indefinitely without severe and potentially catastrophic repercussions.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

But these solutions obviously were not enough to compensate for the government’s failure to act boldly and swiftly on the issue. These feelings worsen if parents “fail to understand why and how their worries about the climate and biodiversity crisis can affect them daily, constantly.” Who is saving the day?

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Instead, communities hosting wood pellet facilities are not only further burdened by pollution and other local dangers, they are also entangled in yet another climate damaging trend — the destruction of biodiverse hardwood forests and the rise of monoculture tree plantations to produce energy that appears to pose climate threats similar to coal. .

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

The paper suggests that all of this might have happened in violation of federal law. These findings demand regulatory action under federal environmental laws including the Endangered Species Act and Clean Water Act, because these activities are concentrated in an area with high numbers of imperiled species,” the study states.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2022

We can come up with a high-integrity stamp, but the political reality is that there’s a tension between setting a really high bar and not wanting to exclude everything that’s already out there in the market today,” Broekhoff said. ‘Merely Greenwashing ‘ Launched on the eve of the COP26 U.N. Surging Demand.

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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

JANUARY 13, 2023

BusinessGreen rounds up the reaction from green experts to Chris Skidmore's indepedent review of the government's approach to delivering on its climate targets. The Net Zero Review is a catalogue of the the countless opportunities the drive towards net zero can deliver for business, communities, and government. Over to Government now.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 3, 2021

The government is pressing forward with plans to clamp down on illegal deforestation in the supply chains of UK businesses, with the launch today of a consultation on which commodities and businesses should fall within the scope of the new rules, and how these rules should be enforced.

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Business Green

MARCH 3, 2023

As part of Northern Ireland's new climate law, the Executive is now in the process of establishing interim emissions goals and carbon budgets for the remainder of the 2020s and beyond, which it is required to complete before the end of this year.

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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

JUNE 10, 2021

Asked by BusinessGreen to rate the UK's global leadership position in 2021 - as hosts of the G7 and COP26 summits - Polman lamented the "inconsistencies" in the government's messaging, such as its tacit support for a new coal mine in Cumbria and its decision to slash its global aid commit from 0.7 per cent to 0.5 per cent of GDP this year.

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2023

But it is also a handbook for how businesses, governments, and investors can work together to avert the worst case scenarios faced by civilisation, setting out the levers that need to be pulled to secure a more liveable and prosperous future for humanity. Lobbying for a 1.5C

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