DeSmogBlog
SEPTEMBER 7, 2022
European law-makers are due to vote on a revised renewable energy directive next week, part of the EU’s Green New Deal to slash carbon emissions by 55 percent by 2030. The post Biomass Lobby Makes ‘False’ Claims to Sway EU Law-makers appeared first on DeSmog.
Business Green
DECEMBER 16, 2022
Companies need shared definitions if they understand what greenwashing actually is and how it can be tackled. Now more definitions of greenwashing are cropping up, in Europe in particular. These definitions, coupled with new anti-greenwashing laws , are meant to help suss out bad actors.
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Front And Centered
OCTOBER 24, 2023
In the next few weeks, the Washington State Department of Ecology is set to deliver a decision on whether to turn Washington’s cap and trade program into a carbon über-market tying our climate future to California and Québec. permits to pollute) into one marketplace where the permits are traded at the lowest possible cost.
DeSmogBlog
JULY 27, 2023
He’s an ExxonMobil scientist in a company ad that also shows other scientists in a high-tech lab working to develop “low-carbon technologies.” All over the world, carbon-intensive industries and corporations are being challenged over their greenwashing strategies, and the number of relative cases in litigation is multiplying.
Grist
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
Some of the most difficult-to-understand words were mitigation , referring to efforts to reduce emissions to slow down climate change, and carbon-neutral , when there’s no net increase in the amount of carbon dioxide in the air. Only 15 percent of those interviewed in the study mentioned climate change in their initial definition.
DeSmogBlog
JULY 22, 2021
However, the proposals are not yet law, and big European business groups are lining up to water them down, despite adopting official positions supporting climate action, according to a new report by InfluenceMap, a corporate watchdog group. But it opposes the EU’s efforts to end a tax break for jet fuel.
DeSmogBlog
JULY 27, 2023
This comes as major polluters are increasingly deploying digital tactics to detract from negative headlines about their record profits and decades-long contribution to climate change. percent of their annual capital expenditures in low carbon technologies between 2010 and 2018. million views.
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