Business Green

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

The Chancery Law Project is bringing together all sections of the legal profession to try and drill climate action into contracts, regulation and national laws. As awareness of climate change and its impacts grows, a question frequently asked by many is: what can I do to help?

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Business Green

DECEMBER 17, 2021

The agreement includes a number of environmental clauses, with Chapter 22 of the FTA published yesterday reaffirming the UK and Australia's commitment to protecting biodiversity and achieving the climate goals contained in the Paris Agreement.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 7, 2024

Our biggest existential threat, climate change, is no longer a scientific model of the future; it’s now a relentless daily challenge. Most famously, the governor of Florida kept battling one of the world’s most beloved brands, Disney, over the company’s position on state laws targeting the LGBTQ+ community.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

As you know, I'm now devoting all of my time and energies to the role of COP President-designate whilst continuing as a full member of the UK government cabinet. By the end of 2020 net zero was firmly established as the law. And I hope I speak for all of us when I say welcome back to the USA in our shared fight against climate change.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 15, 2021

UK monarch hits out at those who 'talk but don't do' when it comes to climate change, amid reports several world leaders will not be attending the Glasgow Summit. Extraordinary isn't it - I've been hearing all about COP," the Queen appears to say. Still don't know who is coming. We only know about people who are not coming.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 8, 2022

I've been writing about the UK climate policy landscape for 15 years and I genuinely can't recall a reaction like it. It is in no way limited to political opponents and environmental activists whose jobs inherently require a degree of performative hostility towards government ministers. This time there is none of that.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

It was both a success and a missed opportunity, and blah blah blah – readers will be well-versed in the platitudes and endless “more must be done” variants that pepper politicians’ speeches after the more-or-less annual UN Climate Change Conference. His conclusions seemed to signal a dwindling of hope in the political process.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Climate change and the net zero transition pose huge risks to the financial system unless action is taken, but they also offer massive business opportunities. And by COP in Glasgow we will look to have those types of commitments across the financial sector, right into the private banking sector as well.". It's a net zero COP.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Over two weeks in November, world leaders and national negotiators will meet in Scotland to discuss what to do about climate change. It’s a complex process that can be hard to make sense of from the outside, but it’s how international law and institutions help solve problems that no single country can fix on its own.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 2, 2021

Over the past few years, the term "climate risk" has risen to the fore , taking up residency inside the world's biggest banks and investors. Today, it is part of many companies’ toolkit as they seek to understand the impacts of climate change on their business and society. And it’s not just climate.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 2, 2021

Shell and the new era of climate risk Joel Makower Wed, 06/02/2021 – 02:11 Over the past few years, the term “climate risk” has risen to the fore , taking up residency inside the world’s biggest banks and investors. And it’s not just climate. A quick data point: According to the U.S.

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R-Squared Energy

DECEMBER 28, 2021

The biggest takeaway from this order was an indefinite “pause on new oil and natural gas leases on public lands” until a comprehensive review on the climate change impacts can be completed. Although it will take years for some of these actions to impact oil supplies, the political impact was felt immediately.

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Green Market Oracle

JUNE 1, 2020

In the same way that Trump denied climate change and the coronavirus , he also denies the existence of systemic racism. Floyd is the latest in a seemingly unending stream of unarmed black men killed by law enforcement. Climate change isn’t just an environmental issue; it’s about keeping our communities safe.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 9, 2022

It's not enough for companies to report about their financial activities and liabilities as required by law, according to Sen. Nor is it enough for the US Securities and Exchange Commission to demand, as expected soon, that businesses report about climate liabilities as well. Sheldon Whitehouse.

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Green Market Oracle

JUNE 23, 2020

However, many want to see national standards in policy, law and training for all of the 18,000 police agencies in the U.S. For the first time in American history these demands seem to have found a political foothold. In Maryland, a bipartisan work group of state lawmakers announced a police reform work group.

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Mosaic

DECEMBER 27, 2022

passed, and the city whose mayor, Michelle Wu, has been as outspoken an advocate of environmental politics as any civic leader in the country. And even getting new construction to go electric is a trial—as attorney general, Healey had no choice but to rule that state law prohibited town ordinances from banning gas hookups in new buildings.

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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. Climate change will get worse.

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CleanTechnica

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Pledge to end car emissions needs to be backed by actual targets.

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