DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 26, 2022

consulting and PR firm, with a long history of waging influence campaigns for fossil fuel corporations, is under scrutiny by a congressional committee as part of a broader investigation into the decades-long efforts by the oil industry and its allies to block action on the climate crisis. A powerful Washington, D.C.,

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

And energy providers the world over are rushing to slash their reliance on fossil fuels as the clean energy transition gathers pace. Between 2008 and 2017, fossil-fuel industry trade associations in the U.S. And as pressure ramps up on major advertising and PR firms for change, the impact is already being felt.

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Elemental Excelerator

APRIL 29, 2022

The last couple months have been a hard lesson about the danger and limitations of our old-school fossil fuel economy. Only actions and policies that cut the cord with oil will save lives now. And many other cities, counties, and states have passed and implemented similar policies in recent years. Circular Economy.

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Business Green

APRIL 16, 2021

In separate announcements yesterday, Citi has committed to delivering $1tr in sustainable finance by 2030, of which half will go to climate solutions, while JP Morgan Chase said it facilitate and finance $1tr in green initiatives by the end of the decade as part of a major $2.5tr sustainable finance target.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

They hoped to convince policymakers and the climate community that reversing carbon emissions — in addition to reducing them — was essential to limiting the worst impacts of climate change. A lot has changed since then. There’s generally two reasons scientists say carbon removal will be necessary to tackle climate change.

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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.

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Climate Tech VC

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

UK climate policy slide In a shocking press conference on Wednesday , UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced delays and rollbacks to the nation’s climate policies. The move by Sunak may actually undermine the UK’s defense , which cited key climate policies that he scrapped last week.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Tickets are just $30 and are on sale now HERE This event uniquely positions itself at the intersection of policy, technology, and industry. Shaping Policy : The summit serves as a ground for discussions that could shape future policy and investment in the hydrogen sector.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

“I don’t see that in their climate plans they are creating a systematic transformation,” said Shefali Sharma, European director at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, a U.S.-based This means corporations are using the term to describe a vast array of different practices.

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Business Green

JULY 15, 2020

Through unprecedented collaboration with the extraordinary array of businesses, academic and environmental institutions that make up the Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership, this government is putting its full weight firmly behind the Net Zero campaign," said Shapps.

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Energy and Cleantech Council

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) for a proposed floating offshore wind research array. This Roadmap is likely to offer a comprehensive analysis of the opportunities and challenges (and therefore, insight into prospective state policy positions) that may arise as offshore wind development advances in the Gulf of Maine.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2022

Upfront investments in low carbon infrastructure deliver much faster paybacks than they did a year ago, because the fossil fuels they displace are orders of magnitude more expensive. per cent gain, almost entirely as a result of higher fossil fuel prices. per cent loss of GDP to a 0.5

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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.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2022

DeSmog’s analysis also shows that European agribusiness has borrowed from Big Oil’s lobbying playbook, with arguments that echo tried and tested tactics and messaging used by the oil and gas industry to block action on climate change. See Table.). The analysis showed the same messages being used by multiple allied players.

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Business Green

AUGUST 19, 2022

The UK solar industry has rubbished claims from Tory leadership candidates Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak that solar farms pose a threat to farmland, pointing out that climate change poses by far the bigger risk to food security and therefore further underscores the need to decarbonise energy sources.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Several sets of factors converged to make these funds an even better bet than the S&P 500, Dow Jones or NASDAQ exchanges that covered a broad array of individual equities, mutual funds or indexed portfolios. A declining investment rationale for fossil fuels. ESG investors were not unwise. What was once a trend is now a rout.

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Business Green

MAY 6, 2020

But these groups have been joined by a wide array of mainstream businesses, with a host of Blue Chips across Europe calling on politicians to place the net zero mission at the heart of their stimulus packages.

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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. Accelerating climate change will keep the federal research and development spigot open.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

There is strong evidence that decarbonisation and tackling the climate emergency are major concerns for people in Britain. More than 80 per cent of the public say they are concerned about climate change and more than 30 per cent think it is one of the top three issues facing the UK. methane - CH4).

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Clean Energy Canada

AUGUST 23, 2019

But what about those wind turbines, those solar arrays, those hydro dams? Over the past few months, we’ve been writing this series to inform readers about just what exactly the federal government is doing in the fight of our lifetimes — that is, the fight against climate change. Those policies we just mentioned?

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Writing on BusinessGreen last year , Labour's Shadow Energy and Climate Change Minister Alan Whitehead argued that the government had failed to give the regulator "a legal steer towards decarbonisation", having failed since 2013 to issue a formal Policy Statement clarifying its role. Ofgem's Nine Point Plan - At a glance.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 12, 2020

But carbon is also moving constantly through the global economy, which historically has been powered by burning fossil fuels for energy. As a result, carbon dioxide (CO2) and other emissions have risen dramatically since the industrial revolution, presenting a daunting array of challenges for people, planet and prosperity.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

JANUARY 28, 2022

Our mission is to build an inclusive ecosystem that rapidly finds, funds, and scales climate tech innovation globally. . market cap of corporate partners, $1B AUM of investor partners (across five continents), and 62 startups reflecting climate innovations solving for all major emissions sectors. . monthly startup check-ins .

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2022

Yet while that very broad assessment certainly remains true, today's intervention from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was always going to be a little different. This report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is a litany of broken climate promises. on the table. on the table.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The latter gets you a pink badge and coveted access to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) diplomatic process. This insider ticket makes companies party to which countries are pushing for strong climate targets and who is saying things that go against their interests.

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Business Green

JUNE 29, 2022

The Climate Change Committee's myriad charts serve to hammer home the scale of the decarbonisation challenge. Credit: Climate Change Committee. The UK has one of the most stretching fossil fuel car sale phase out timelines in the world, with the end of new pure petrol and diesel cars set to begin within just eight years.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 9, 2021

More real estate owners, operators, developers and investment firms see the appeal of future-proofing properties from climate shocks such as floods and fires; from market shocks such as high prices for scarce fossil fuels; and from policy shocks such as any future laws requiring climate disclosures or that tax or penalize greenhouse gas emissions.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

It’s a recurring theme that somehow the livestock sector and eating meat is detrimental to the environment, that it is a serious negative in terms of the climate change discussions,” Hsin Huang, Secretary General of the International Meat Secretariat (IMS) , told his audience. The Climate Impact of Meat.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 15, 2021

Slow progress on microgrid policy. megawatt solar array and 8.8-megawatt-hour Fossil fuels vs. renewables, centralized vs. distributed power. ” The Redwood Coast Airport Renewable Energy Microgrid, an $11.5

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

For all the evidence the Paris Agreement has catalysed an era-defining array of clean tech innovations and a remarkable shift in public opinion, there have been baseless arguments that the entire COP process is an exercise in futility. What sacrifices are you willing to make for climate change?'. How about we sacrifice those?

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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 ideas are there. But we are not racing against ourselves. per cent in 2021.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

Resolutions to global challenges such as climate change, poverty, inequality, biodiversity loss, habitat destruction, resource depletion, racism, and exploitation need the backing of our economic system. Does your company offer an explicit policy for transgender healthcare coverage? Does your company offer paid caregiver leave?

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Business Green

MAY 12, 2020

Committee on Climate Change CEO discusses infrastructure, airline bailouts, COP26 and making the best of a bad situation. Climate change and our collective response has once again - albeit understandably this time - found itself playing second fiddle to a more immediate crisis, the full ramifications of which remain far from clear.

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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. Reasons for cautious hope in a sea of gloom Terry F.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 1, 2021

greenhouse gas emissions that drive climate change. The electric grid also is highly vulnerable to climate change effects, such as more frequent and severe droughts , hurricanes and other extreme weather events. For both of these reasons, the power sector is central to the Biden administration’s climate policy.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Several sets of factors converged to make these funds an even better bet than the S&P 500, Dow Jones or NASDAQ exchanges that covered a broad array of individual equities, mutual funds or indexed portfolios. A declining investment rationale for fossil fuels. ESG investors were not unwise. What was once a trend is now a rout.

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Grist

AUGUST 17, 2023

But that ethos created an unintended outcome: An expanding body of research shows that the West’s overgrown forests are fueling unnaturally severe wildfires that can cause irreparable ecological damage and massive economic loss. This array of species and surfaces reduces fire intensity and promotes biodiversity.

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