Clean Energy Canada

MAY 1, 2023

It is a truly pan-Canadian sector, from the assembler producing electric vehicles in Windsor, to the construction worker building energy-efficient housing in Yellowknife, or the lineworker building power lines that will help electrify our lives. The energy transition represents a huge opportunity for Canadian energy workers.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 24, 2020

In particular, the unprecedented move will require an unprecedented leap forward in policies that can make electric vehicles affordable and beneficial for Lyft drivers within the next 10 years. Lyft Director of Sustainability Sam Arons pointed to Lyft's policy work in Colorado during the Political Climate podcast last week.

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Business Green

JUNE 26, 2020

Plus all the top green business news from around the world this week, including Denmark's new climate law and the Australian mining sector's net zero pledge. Denmark agrees 'landmark' climate action law. French citizens' climate assembly opposes 28 hour working week. IETA sets out net zero carbon trading vision.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 20, 2022

As the former Energy Minister who signed net zero into law, for the sake of our environment and climate, I cannot personally vote tonight to support fracking and undermine the pledges I made at the 2019 General Election," he wrote. "I Political instability makes business owners unsure - What will taxes be? What will be cut?

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Front And Centered

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

We require a Just Transition because the physics of climate are unforgiving, because it’s the right thing to do, and because it’s the only politically possible path toward what we really need. The solutions that will allow us to break from business as usual are those that are rooted in justice.

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Grist

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Global leaders belly-flopped well short of the pool at a pivotal climate-protection summit, even after the United Nations declared a “code-red” emergency. . And, in the United States, political gridlock chopped the heart out of Congress’ most ambitious clean energy plan. . Electric vehicles are making huge inroads in the market.

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Business Green

JULY 15, 2022

The truth is that the climate crisis is about the economy and the environment, which is to say it is about everything. Our political leaders bear a genuinely world historic responsibility to try and drive the development of a net zero emission economy in less than three decades and end the obliteration of nature. Are you scared?

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

A lack of coordinated policies, constant changes of direction, and a failure to build up delivery capability have left the UK "well off track" to meet its overarching emissions target, the leading think tank argues in its new report Net Zero: How the government can meet its climate change target.

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2023

After all that, the Conservative MP was primed to unveil his 340-page report with a big PR push at a launch event on Monday, harbouring hopes it could once again catapult climate change to the top of the Westminster agenda. You do need to make priorities and decisions in politics. Maintaining political consensus.

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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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GreenBiz

APRIL 6, 2021

Consider a recent global survey conducted by the Institute for Policy Integrity at New York University School of Law, focused on climate change risks and their related costs. Fewer than 1 percent said climate change is not a serious problem. more use of bicycles or electric vehicles. The people speak.

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Business Green

JULY 11, 2022

Braverman and Badenoch will double down on one of their key points of differentiation with the other candidates, while at the same time recognising that full blown climate scepticism is no longer much of a vote winner, even amongst the Tory Party's ageing membership. Is the plan to repeal the Climate Change Act and quit the Paris Agreement?

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 14, 2020

The business community, the media reported, was “ panicked ” and “ worried ” about capitalism, questioning whether it’s the right model in a world of climate change and inequality. The Economist dedicated an entire issue to the climate crisis and the Financial Times launched a site to “reset” capitalism.

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2023

Business and Energy Secretary Grant Shapps said: "With a wealth of talent and expertise, and a track record to be proud of, the UK is well placed to ensure that tackling climate change also brings new jobs and investment for businesses and communities. "I Plaudits for focusing on the essential topic of ‘delivery'.

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Business Green

JUNE 7, 2021

Electric vehicle sales continued to surge throughout the pandemic and are expected to grow rapidly in the coming years as almost every major auto manufacturer plots a future beyond the internal combustion engine. The impact of that stark conclusion is continuing to reverberate around global markets.

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Business Green

JUNE 29, 2022

It's been a big week for European climate policy, and the implications are likely to ripple far beyond the EU itself. The Council is now ready to negotiate with the European Parliament on concluding the package, thereby placing the European Union more than ever in the vanguard of fighting climate change.".

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Business Green

JUNE 10, 2021

Discussions leading up to the hotly-anticipated summit are already said to have delivered hugely significant commitments on fossil fuels and clean energy , company climate risk disclosure , and global minimum corporate tax levels. Such decisions, he said, threatened to undermine the chances of a successful outcome in Glasgow in November. "I

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Business Green

JUNE 10, 2022

Most of the work relates to greening the city's buildings - electric heat pump installations, weatherizations and solar panel and battery installations. However, trainees also have the opportunity to learn other in-demand skills, such as electric vehicle charger maintenance and Wi-Fi installation. From Bed-Stuy to nationwide.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 16, 2020

In their eyes, it doesn’t do enough to address climate change and allows emitters to continue polluting the air in the meantime. But seven years on, researchers, regulators and activists are still arguing about how California’s most famous climate policy has affected its most vulnerable residents — and how to do better.

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Charged

AUGUST 13, 2022

There’s broad agreement that the changes will help to speed EV adoption, but there’s also concern that some provisions of the law could be counter-productive, at least in the short term. Automakers are already moving in this direction, and the new law should strengthen this positive trend. Buy American, or else!

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2023

It is a far from unsurprising message from Skidmore, who having signed the 2050 target into law, has long been a staunch advocate for an ambitious net zero agenda. All that is needed is more political urgency, policy clarity, and real world action to mobilise investment, drive clean tech deployment, accelerate the transition.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Dylan White , and Sam Wong As countries around the world accelerate the transition to clean energy, the race to gain shares in the electric vehicle (EV) manufacturing market is intensifying, with global sales of EVs rising 31% in 2023. [1]

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Business Green

JANUARY 5, 2021

Now, after four-and-a-half-years of political turmoil and wrangling over everything from parliamentary sovereignty to the legal small print of fisheries agreements, the UK and EU have a trade deal, averting the very real threat of an economically disastrous cliff-edge Brexit. Climate change. Firstly, the good news.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 24, 2020

In particular, the unprecedented move will require an unprecedented leap forward in policies that can make electric vehicles affordable and beneficial for Lyft drivers within the next 10 years. Lyft Director of Sustainability Sam Arons pointed to Lyft’s policy work in Colorado during the Political Climate podcast last week.

Policy 28

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Business Green

JANUARY 23, 2023

There were plenty of missteps and missed opportunities along the way, but over the past 12 years the UK took coal from around 40 per cent of the power mix to less than two per cent, built a genuinely world leading offshore wind industry, embraced electric vehicles, and built an ecosystem of cutting-edge clean tech and green finance firms.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Burning that oil emits much more CO2 than what is captured , which means the technology wouldn’t represent a feasible solution to address climate change. The results were impressive: Compared with the flex fuel-powered F-150, the fully electric version, powered by renewable wind energy, reduced CO2 emissions by 2.4

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The big stories of 2020 were not just about a pandemic, a reckoning on racial justice, an economic calamity and the ever-imminent rise of climate change impacts. In 2014, the electrical engineer and MBA became the first woman to lead a U.S. Elsa Wenzel. Mon, 01/11/2021 - 02:15. One in five is Black.

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 6, 2021

Consider a recent global survey conducted by the Institute for Policy Integrity at New York University School of Law, focused on climate change risks and their related costs. Fewer than 1 percent said climate change is not a serious problem. more use of bicycles or electric vehicles.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The tough talk over fixed deadlines, regulatory autonomy, and the UK government's apparent willingness to tear up the political declaration it signed only a few months ago has further raised already heightened tensions on both sides of the Channel. Paris Agreement and other global green treaties. European courts.

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Business Green

AUGUST 2, 2021

But in keeping with the seriousness of the Covid-era the next month looks set to be dominated by an intensifying and hugely important political row over the future of both the British economy and the planet itself. Another told the paper that "washing plates has set our climate change messaging back a year". She's unaccountable."

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2023

The proposed law would impact 215 of Australia's biggest polluters, which are currently responsible for 28 per cent of the country's greenhouse gas emissions, according to the Sydney Morning Herald. China wind, solar, and electric vehicle rollout rapidly accelerating.

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Business Green

MAY 10, 2021

Pollsters and political leaders may be fixated on the post-Brexit political realignment that has seen the 'red wall' turn blue while opposition parties start to nibble at the 'blue doughnut' in the south and suburbs, but are we also starting to see evidence of a green realignment that could yet inform the pace and shape of the net zero transition?

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

JULY 9, 2021

Third Way’s Climate and Energy Program (CEP) is looking for a Communications and Content Advisor with an advanced understanding of federal climate and clean energy policy, and with a particular understanding of the politics and public opinion on clean energy and climate change, as well as the framing and context for climate and clean energy policy.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

JULY 9, 2021

Third Way’s Climate and Energy Program (CEP) is looking for a Research and Content Advisor with an advanced understanding of federal climate and clean energy policy, and with a particular understanding of the politics and public opinion on clean energy and climate change, as well as the framing and context for climate and clean energy policy.

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Business Green

JUNE 29, 2023

Following opening speeches from BusinessGreen editor-in-chief James Murray and Shadow Climate Change and Net Zero Secretary Ed Miliband, all the winners and highly commended entries were announced.

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Business Green

JUNE 23, 2021

BusinessGreen rounds up all the reaction to the CCC's climate assessment from green businesses, think tanks, politicians and NGOs. Here, BusinessGreen rounds up the reaction from leading green figures in business, academia, campaign groups, and politics to the CCC's most important intervention of the year.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

The row threatens to overshadow a major speech from the Prime Minister Boris Johnson tomorrow that is designed to mark the start of a "year of action" on climate change in the run up to the COP26 Summit. 2020 is a vital year for climate action and we will ?be

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