DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The appointment comes as senior Conservative Party figures continue to embrace anti-climate politics. Last month, Energy Security and Net Zero Secretary Clare Coutinho met with and praised fuel pricing lobbyist Howard Cox , a Reform UK candidate who wants to “scrap net zero” and claims that “man is not responsible for global warming”.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The pair of California leaders were there to discuss the lawsuit the state had recently filed against Big Oil on behalf of the people of California to hold fossil fuel companies accountable for the effects of climate change. But California is the first fossil-fuel-producing state to do so.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Slow-to-change investors and greenwashers in the business community will lose their cover to continue propping up the fossil fuel economy. Some previously untargeted companies, brands, institutional investors and geographies will be thrust into the limelight as central problems in the battle against climate change.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Investors in foreign development projects have “weaponized” a system of secretive tribunals, delaying progress on climate change and other environmental crises and having “enormous impacts on human rights,” according to a new report by a United Nations expert. Boyd is calling on states to reform or leave these treaties.

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Business Green

MAY 5, 2022

Lawyer and activist Farhana Yamin considers XR’s cultural, political, and business impact three years after it drove London to a standstill in 2019. The world is in a fractious state - geopolitically, economically, and climatically.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The Guardian and the Good Law Project also revealed today that EnQuest Heather, a subsidiary of EnQuest, had been awarded a new oil and gas licence. Jolyon Maugham, executive director of the Good Law Project told DeSmog that: “The Electoral Commission records these contributions as donations to the Conservative Party.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 11, 2024

The GWPF’s director Benny Peiser has suggested it would be “extraordinary anyone should think there is a climate crisis”, while the group has also expressed the view that carbon dioxide has been mis-characterised as pollution, when in fact it is a “benefit to the planet”. DeSmog has previously revealed that the Conservative Party received £3.5

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Green Business Bureau

JUNE 30, 2023

Climate change threatens not only the planet, but the very survival of the human species. Political, market, and infrastructural barriers remain, dragging progress toward a clean economy — but your business has the power to mitigate these constraints. We’ve all heard the scenario over and over again.

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Low Impact

AUGUST 8, 2021

There’s a question we often hear: “why don’t you start a political party?” Political parties write their manifestos, that members of the public read (OK, that part is pure fantasy). NB: the only difference between a lot of this behaviour and fraud is the law. Then you can implement your proposals. We live in a democracy.’.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

In Australia, a student filed a consumer complaint with Ad Standards against the financial services organization HSBC for claiming to support the protection of the Great Barrier Reef despite its links to fossil fuel operations. Globally, the number of climate-change-related lawsuits has more than doubled since 2015.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

MAY 1, 2019

Job Description: The Center for Biological Diversity seeks a full-time Clean Transportation Advocate/ Staff Attorney in our Climate Law Institute to join our bold and progressive campaign to advance the urgently needed transition away from fossil fuel vehicles to zero emissions transportation in California and around the country.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

MAY 1, 2019

Job Description: The Center for Biological Diversity seeks a full-time Clean Transportation Advocate/ Staff Attorney in our Climate Law Institute to join our bold and progressive campaign to advance the urgently needed transition away from fossil fuel vehicles to zero emissions transportation in California and around the country.

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Green Market Oracle

MAY 22, 2020

The coronavirus may facilitate fundamental changes that help us to combat climate change. If we are to tackle climate change we will need to see widespread changes. What we need is a psychological change that augurs a paradigm shift.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Are lawyers and accountants doing enough on climate change? Joel Makower Tue, 10/13/2020 – 01:40 When it comes to the climate crisis, it’s not just what you make and sell, it’s what you do, and for whom you do it. Exhibit A: law firms. But, hopefully, lead.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

A proposal to limit HSBC bank climate risk exposure by ending coal financing, a resolution to cut Chevron’s supply chain emissions, a move in support of a climate risk lawsuit against Polish energy company Enea SA. Promoting the role fossil fuels play in “encouraging development and alleviating poverty.”

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Business Green

JUNE 7, 2021

Investment in clean energy from fossil fuel majors saw a marked uptick during the pandemic in 2020, research suggests. Meanwhile, oil and gas companies' social license to operate is under siege as public concern over the impacts of climate change increases and investors concerns over stranded asset risks become widespread.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 31, 2023

Conservative MP Andrea Jenkyns has become a director of Net Zero Watch (NZW), a pressure group which denies climate science and campaigns for more fossil fuel extraction. It’s time to kick dirty fossil fuel-aligned interests out of our politics once and for all.”

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Business Green

MAY 3, 2020

States' commitments to combat climate change may also affect contractual performance. As parties traditionally allocate business risks when contracting, these climate change-related risks now more than ever require careful consideration by contracting parties. Potential impact of climate-change on contracting parties.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Are lawyers and accountants doing enough on climate change? Joel Makower Tue, 10/13/2020 – 01:40 When it comes to the climate crisis, it’s not just what you make and sell, it’s what you do, and for whom you do it. Exhibit A: law firms. But, hopefully, lead.

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Business Green

MARCH 4, 2020

EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen claims law will see net zero taken into account 'in all future policy and legislation'. A Europe-wide 'Climate Law' that would legally require all EU members to build net zero economies by 2050 has been unveiled today by the European Commission as the key pillar of its Green Deal vision.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 25, 2024

Weatherford, a lawyer from the corporate law firm Baker Hostetler, stated in opening arguments that Mann was so disliked that “even his own family won’t come to court to defend him.” New denial” approaches now make up 70 percent of all climate denial claims made on YouTube, according to the report, up from 35 percent six years ago.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

While California already has cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 13 percent since their peak in 2004, many residents still suffer from high levels of air pollution — much of it produced by fossil fuels. In their eyes, it doesn’t do enough to address climate change and allows emitters to continue polluting the air in the meantime.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

With the start of the 28th annual United Nations climate summit, COP28, just two weeks away, a battle is brewing over the role of fossil fuels as nations try to stem the tide of climate change. He also referenced building “an energy system free of all unabated fossil fuels.” Credit: Dana Drugmand.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2021

s investigative journalism arm, and the British Channel 4 News this summer exposing how the oil giant and lobby groups such as the American Petroleum Institute seed doubt about climate change and undermine legislation to stop global warming. This conversation has been edited and condensed for clarity. Document 1: 1959.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 21, 2023

As lawsuits mount against the fossil fuel sector for decades of sowing climate disinformation, the PR and ad agencies , banks , institutional investors , and law firms that work with the industry are also facing increased scrutiny. This overlap raises conflict of interest concerns, experts say.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Despite its name, ambition was largely lacking at mid-September’s Climate Ambition Summit at the United Nations in New York. Secretary General António Guterres asked nations to arrive at the session with concrete commitments for phasing out fossil fuels, observing in his opening remarks that “humanity has opened the gates of hell.”

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2023

Greenpeace Italy and Re:Common have alleged in their climate lawsuit — Italy’s first — that despite knowing at least as early as 1970 that burning fossil fuels posed a serious climate risk, Eni went on to promote “natural” –- or methane – gas as a safe energy source for decades. the spokesperson stated.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 15, 2023

His Majesty the King alleges Canada’s policies and actions that perpetuate fossil fuels and worsen the climate crisis amount to violations of youths’ fundamental rights under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Unfulfilled government promises are not going to protect young people from climate change.”

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 4, 2024

It’s certainly interesting — or telling — that he made a political donation to the leader of the official opposition,” Emilia Belliveau, energy transition program manager for the non-profit organization Environmental Defence, told DeSmog. But he opposes national laws designed to address it.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2021

Working closely with the community, Cole represented the residents in lawsuits fighting against major mining and fossil fuel companies, including the groundbreaking case Kivalina v. That impact carries over directly into the climate change context,” he concluded. Fighting for Justice.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Building upon years of research on activism, democracy, and climate politics, Fisher explores the state of the climate movement today to understand how radical direct action is evolving as the climate crisis worsens. And as they get older, and they have more free time, they can become climate grandmas.

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The Environmental Blog

JULY 18, 2019

The key findings on climate change have claimed it to be the biggest peril to the present generation and the future generations with the last three decades being successively warmer at the Earth’s surface (IPCC “climate change 2014”). 2. The Challenge of Climate Change. 3. Application of Ethics.

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The Verge: Energy

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Such reductions require massive infrastructural changes, especially in our homes, where water and food are often warmed with what is known as “natural gas” but is better understood as methane gas, a potent greenhouse gas that contributes to climate change. But I grow anxious just thinking about it.

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Grist

JUNE 14, 2023

Hello, and welcome to Part 2 of our series on personal action in the face of climate change. ” Claire Vlases, one of 16 young people suing the state of Montana The spotlight On Monday, a trial began for the climate lawsuit Held v. “Montana is a big emitter of fossil fuels and is contributing to climate change.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 6, 2024

Yet experts and advocates agree that chemical recycling doesn’t work, and when it does, is mostly used to create more fossil fuels to be burned. We can’t allow that — environmental justice demands that we leverage our political power to stop the plastic industry from polluting, exploiting, and expanding in vulnerable communities.”

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Business Green

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Don't listen to the fossil fuel enthusiasts pushing fracking as a solution for the UK's currently volatile energy market, argues ECIU's Dr Simon Cran-McGreehin. The gas crunch gripping Europe is directly caused by volatile international gas markets that expose the UK to demand surges in Asia and political manipulation by Putin.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 2, 2023

A TalkTV presenter co-hosts a YouTube show with the leader of a climate science denial group, on which he has called climate change a “paganistic religion” and said rising CO2 emissions will make the world “more green”. This Crazy Net Zero Thing’ Walker has also used his TalkTV platform to spread climate science denial.

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