DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2022

As our sample, we took the communications of 14 EU players who were identified in a 2021 DeSmog investigation as key opponents of EU environmental policy reforms. Instead, the message – which echoes positions often used by the fossil fuel lobby – is that EU policy should optimise incentives. See Table.).

Europe 96

Europe Sustainability Agriculture Biodiversity 96

Business Green

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Green business leaders will be hoping Sunak reaffirms his commitment to the UK's net zero target and provide markets with much-needed policy clarity to support the net zero transition following weeks of political turmoil, policy U-turns and economic upheaval.

Policy 69

Policy Politics Government COP 69

DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The Argentine government, with the cooperation of an array of global institutions, has the country locked in an “oil and gas trap,” mortgaging the country’s future on fracking even as the financial risks continue to grow, the report warns. But it’s not at all clear the bet will pay off. The new Profundo report , commissioned by 350.org,

Fossil fuels 82

Fossil fuels Government Policy Investment 82

GreenBiz

JULY 19, 2021

In looking across the broad array of business, environmental, social, technological and political topics that cross my screen and engage me in daily conversation, there is a temptation to allocate a growing share of mind for pessimism. Mon, 07/19/2021 - 02:00.

Politics 483

Politics Innovation Fossil fuels Carbon-negative 483

Business Green

AUGUST 16, 2020

For example, the use of nature-based flood management approaches helps to restore local environments and provide carbon sequestration. Enhancing flood resilience requires ensuring that all necessary social, human, natural, physical and financial systems are in place to mitigate future flood risks.

Resilience 65

Resilience Climate change Policy Investment 65

Business Green

AUGUST 19, 2022

However, following claims from Truss last week that field-based solar arrays were a "depressing" sight in the British countryside, her rival Sunak today broadly echoed her stance, promising to "make sure that high quality farmland is kept in production and not used for housing, ‘rewilding' or large-scale solar farms".

Solar Energy Monitor 69

Solar Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Agriculture 69

Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2022

And yet, so complete is their disconnect from the real world that these zombie arguments continue to stumble across the political landscape desperately looking for an issue, any issue, to attack. To adapt the old saying, the best time to deliver such policies was a decade ago, the second best time is now. Soaring energy bills?

Fossil fuels 101

Fossil fuels Technology Energy Energy 101

Business Green

MARCH 23, 2023

That is the hypothesis advanced in a new report published today by the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science. The authors predicted the package could enable litigation multiple fronts.

Law 40

Law Packaging Europe Policy 40

Greenability Magazine

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

During his tenure, Kansas City experienced a paradigm shift that positioned environmental considerations as an integral part of all city planning, policy and activities. “I Murphey advised on all projects and policies that could build a more sustainable and prepared Kansas City.

Education 138

Education Sustainability Climate change Waste 138

Business Green

AUGUST 22, 2022

Consumer behaviour change must carry almost a third of the weight of delivering net zero - and there are plenty of policy options at the next PM's disposal, argues think tank Onward. However, the next Prime Minister is certainly not lacking for policy options. Collective green tech incentives.

Home Energy Monitoring 36

Home Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 36

Business Green

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

He argues oil and gas company advertising is usually not directed at getting consumers to buy their products and services, but is more akin to political lobbying. This is political advertising that they're running to maintain their influence over public policy," he suggests.

Fossil fuels 73

Fossil fuels Carbon-negative Politics Sustainability 73

Hydrogen Fuel News

MARCH 20, 2024

Pressure at the Pinnacle: Exxon’s Ultimatum Exxon, a key player in the push toward a low-carbon economy, is in the spotlight with its ambitious plans for the world’s largest low-carbon hydrogen facility in Baytown, Texas. “We’re investing billions of dollars to reduce the carbon intensity of our natural gas.

Hydrogen 103

Hydrogen Demand Policy Carbon 103

Business Green

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

This week, I'll try to untangle one of the more complex, confusing and contentious aspects of our food systems: the emerging market for soil carbon offsets. Everyone was polite, but it's clear that divisions run deep. To the Establishment, that's dangerous thinking that threatens to undermine the entire market for soil carbon offsets.

Soil 67

Soil Carbon Agriculture Sustainability 67

Business Green

JANUARY 23, 2023

Ministers may have been reluctant to talk about it too much for fear of antagonising climate sceptic colleagues on the backbenches and sparking accusations that energy efficiency, nature, and onshore renewables policies were still hopelessly inadequate. The PM set out less than a year ago what is needed to transform our economy," Danker said.

Government 73

Government Politics Policy Electric vehicle 73

AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

.” He argued oil and gas company advertising is usually not directed at getting consumers to buy their products and services but is more akin to political lobbying. “This is political advertising that they’re running to maintain their influence over public policy,” he suggested.

Fossil fuels 28

Fossil fuels Carbon-negative Sustainability Organic 28

Business Green

APRIL 4, 2022

The third in a trilogy of reports over the past year or so, today's - dubbed Climate Change 2022: The Mitigation of Climate Change - was particularly highly anticipated due to its focus on solutions to the aforementioned crisis the world currently faces, in terms of technologies, policies, nature-based measures and finances. on the table.

Fossil fuels 36

Fossil fuels Business Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring 36

Business Green

MAY 12, 2020

Lending high-level economic and political credence to that growing public clamour for action, the work of Chris Stark and his small team at the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) in driving the issue up the agenda should not be forgotten. Suddenly, barely days into 2020, a new paradigm began to take shape. That's the biggest risk.".

Carbon-negative 76

Carbon-negative Politics Climate change Government 76

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Highly Commended: Carbon Intelligence. In a hugely competitive category, Greenhouse PR narrowly won out thanks to a year of rapid growth, packed with high impact campaigns promoting the best of green business and an impressive array of pro-bono work. Zero Carbon Campaign - #PriceOutPollution. Communications Agency of the Year.

Packaging 95

Packaging Innovation Real Estate Aviation 95

AGreenLiving

JULY 19, 2021

Yosie Mon, 07/19/2021 – 02:00 In looking across the broad array of business, environmental, social, technological and political topics that cross my screen and engage me in daily conversation, there is a temptation to allocate a growing share of mind for pessimism.

Politics 36

Politics Innovation Fossil fuels Climate change 36

GreenBiz

APRIL 27, 2021

Bold policy and funding proposals from governments in China, the European Union and now the United States; ambitious capital investment plans from the world’s leading automakers; and continuing technological advancements — all contribute to a bullish outlook for market penetration of electric vehicles over the next decade and beyond.

Electric vehicle 447

Electric vehicle Electricity Politics Transportation 447

Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Tory strategists themselves with the idea that the next election could be more like 1992 than 1997, but if the Party is to engineer one of the biggest polling recoveries in electoral history the government desperately needs some success stories and positive political momentum to carry it into a general election campaign next year.

Politics 36

Politics Government Policy Climate change 36

GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

China trade war, California policy and business leaders have forged ahead with efforts to collaborate with China on the advancement of low-carbon energy technologies considered both financially lucrative and critical to mitigating the worst impacts of climate change. Credit: New Energy Nexus). Despite the ongoing U.S.-China

Building Energy Monitoring 130

Building Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring 130

GreenTechMedia

MARCH 20, 2020

That doesn’t mean, however, that renewable energy groups and states pursuing clean energy policies now support the broader changes that FERC’s December order has forced on PJM, including the controversial minimum offer price rule (MOPR). in ways that could lead to FERC's order being overturned.

Nuclear Power 170

Nuclear Power Fossil fuels Natural gas Demand 170

Business Green

JUNE 19, 2020

But ultimately such measures emerged as piecemeal additions to wider stimulus programmes that simultaneously drove high carbon investment. Inevitably, the wide range of calls for action vary somewhat, with each offering different views on which technologies to support and which policy levers to pull.

Government 59

Government Packaging Carbon Policy 59

Business Green

APRIL 8, 2022

Bank of America, for example, committed to "mobilize $1tr by 2030" toward "low-carbon, sustainable business activities." Citi similarly pledged $1tr by 2030 to "finance and facilitate a wide array of climate solutions." Wells Fargo said it would pony up $500bn by 2030 toward activities "that help the transition to a low-carbon economy."

Fossil fuels 51

Fossil fuels Policy Global warming Natural gas 51

Business Green

JANUARY 18, 2022

Citizens are encouraged to purchase private insurance policies in order to receive better healthcare. These include research programmes to protect the environment and communities from the effects of climate change and to support a move to a low carbon economy.". This transitional period worsens care for the poorest in society."

Government 36

Government Climate change Resilience Health 36

E2 Environmental Entrepreneurs

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

As you likely know, last June Oregon was on the brink of passing a statewide Cap-and-Invest carbon pricing program ?—?standing standing only a State Senate floor vote away from becoming the second state (behind California) to institute an economy-wide price on carbon. denying a quorum?

Investment 78

Investment Organic Politics Carbon 78

Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 30, 2020

It will specifically explore systemic solutions to the climate crisis focusing on clean energy, electrified, transportation, the circular economy, carbon removal and sustainable food systems. Protein is being sourced from an increasingly long list of plants, synthesized from carbon dioxide sucked from the air, and extracted from insects.

Building Energy Monitoring 52

Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Solar Energy Monitor 52

AGreenLiving

JANUARY 20, 2021

Joe Biden has produced plans in an array of key areas — environmental protection, clean energy and racial equity among them — and has promised action in his first 100 days as president. When everyone is at the table: The emergence of the first carbon-neutral U.S. In short, we need bigger tables where everyone gets a seat.

Carbon-neutral 28

Carbon-neutral Government Sustainability Real Estate 28

AGreenLiving

APRIL 27, 2021

Bold policy and funding proposals from governments in China, the European Union and now the United States; ambitious capital investment plans from the world’s leading automakers; and continuing technological advancements — all contribute to a bullish outlook for market penetration of electric vehicles over the next decade and beyond.

Electric vehicle 28

Electric vehicle Electricity Politics Transportation 28

Business Green

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The reserve is home to a vast array of rare and critically endangered animal species, including pangolins, sun bears, and - perhaps most famously - the Sumatran Tiger, of which there are less than 400 left in the wild. Some rough estimates put the entire Kampala Peninsula's peatland carbon storage at upwards of 6.5

Business Energy Monitoring 36

Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor 36

GreenBiz

JANUARY 20, 2021

Joe Biden has produced plans in an array of key areas — environmental protection, clean energy and racial equity among them — and has promised action in his first 100 days as president. When everyone is at the table: The emergence of the first carbon-neutral U.S. Wed, 01/20/2021 - 01:30. Pull Quote.

Carbon-neutral 462

Carbon-neutral Government Sustainability Real Estate 462

Mr. Sustainability

JUNE 27, 2020

Aligning economic stimulus and policy packages with climate goals is crucial for a long-term viable and healthy economy. According to Carbon Trackers , we are talking about a value of between 14-129 trillion dollars for fossil fuel assets alone and revenue streams of trillions of dollars annually.

Energy 78

Energy Energy Fossil fuels Investment 78

Business Green

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Consequently, businesses and investors will be both watching COP26 to see what policy and market signals come out of the meeting and attempting to influence proceedings by stepping up calls for an ambitious new wave of global climate action. Climate fears. For companies, the most relevant is BINGO - Businesses and Industry NGOs.

COP 65

COP Climate change Policy Fossil fuels 65

Andrew Winston

DECEMBER 22, 2021

It captures a huge array of corporate goals, announcements, partnerships, government action, and more. Alibaba Group Announces Carbon Neutrality Goal by 2030… here. Maersk Seeks $150-a-Ton Carbon Tax on Shipping Fuel… here. How the Capitol Riot Thrust Big American Companies Deeper Into Politics… here.

Climate change 167

Climate change Sustainability Carbon-neutral Carbon 167

Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

I went out to tech -- you have a facility where you have one of the largest, largest solar panel arrays in the world. This is a crisis, and a lot of our plans are very similar to get to carbon neutral by 2045, 2050, something like that. there has to be a heart to the policy to get this done. That's where most of the greenhouse.

Fossil fuels 52

Fossil fuels Climate change Carbon-neutral Health 52

Business Green

AUGUST 8, 2022

The landmark legislation's climate provisions could unlock billions of dollars of low carbon investment and millions of green jobs - but it also paves the way for new fossil fuel infrastructure. Finally climate policy action is getting real," he said. The US is set to get its first ever carbon equivalent tax - on methane.

Fossil fuels 36

Fossil fuels Methane Carbon-negative Carbon-neutral 36