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Tackling climate change, clause by clause: Inside one non-profit's push to rewire contract law to 'change the world'

Business Green

Want to find out more about how contract law and litigation can help drive forward the net zero transition? They allow you to take a recommendation or ambition - for instance net zero as defined by the Oxford Principles - and code it into law into a way that is legally enforceable.". You can sign up for a free pass now.

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How cities can influence the energy system

GreenBiz

cities and counties transition to clean energy for their own operations and communities, many are finding that stakeholders and policies beyond their jurisdictions affect their ability to purchase clean energy. Influencing statewide energy policy. This can create challenges for meeting locally defined resolutions and commitments.

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The NICFI Satellite Data Program: Celebrating Three Years of Using Space to Help Reduce & Reverse Tropical Forest Loss

Planet Pulse

Strategic Area #1: Land Use Policies Land use governance is critical to reducing deforestation, decoupling deforestation from commodities production, and meeting global climate and sustainable development goals. Hear directly from NICFI users on impacts of the program 3 years to date. 89% of Guyana’s forests, which sequester 8.9

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Burned Out: Documents Reveal The Gas Industry’s Use Of Tobacco Tactics Over Gas Stove Emissions

DeSmogBlog

One of these, from 1972, included a listing for a “ Public Relations Workshop Report ” and there it was in black-and-white: a Hill & Knowlton executive center stage at AGA’s 1972 PR Workshop, recommending key facets of the firm’s tobacco playbook to the gas industry. And was the industry taking other steps to impact policy?

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Citizens' Assembly set to craft UK strategy for Net Zero

Business Green

110 members of the public will travel to Birmingham this weekend for the first in a series of weekend workshops to help establish how radical the UK could be in pursuing net zero. Members of the Assembly were selected at random, with 30,000 initial invitations sent out to take part.

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BP and Environmental Defense Fund Collaborate to Reduce Methane Emissions

CleanTX

EDF will not receive any funding from BP, consistent with EDF’s strict policy prohibiting receipt of funds from energy companies and corporate collaborators. EDF will provide input on science, technology and policy. BP’s financial and technical support builds on EDF’s policy and scientific contributions. percent. # # #.

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Climate Corps awards

EDF + Business

Phoebe is an active alum who has served as a Climate Corps alumni mentor, local event host and advocacy workshop participant. She created a user-friendly tool that estimates the timeframe for a renewables site to be considered carbon neutral by calculating a project’s total emissions from procurement through construction and operation.