GreenBiz

JANUARY 21, 2021

Despite years of progress by leading corporations toward ESG, corporate social responsibility (CSR), environmental health and safety (EHS) and sustainability goals, the reality is that board members overseeing these companies are still trying to discern how all of this applies to them. Pull Quote.

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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.” and “Merchants of Doubt,” is a leading authority on the origins of disinformation about science and public health.

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Business Green

JUNE 6, 2021

Manifesto by young people signals demand for climate action from business. Business regulation and tax policy could be subject to a 'future generations law' to assesses its impact on young people if a new 'Youth Manifesto' is enacted. and meaningfully engaged by decision-makers across politics and business.?If encouraged?and

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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

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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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The first, the Nature Restoration Law, includes plans to restore 20 percent of degraded ecosystems in the EU. The findings come at a crucial time for nature-friendly laws in Europe, which scientists say are critical to securing the bloc’s food supply and tackling both climate breakdown and biodiversity collapse.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Health & Safety Regimes and Public Confidence Safety is a key concern when dealing with a combustible gas such as hydrogen. Poor health and safety standards resulting in accidents, death, personal injury and damage to property could potentially deter the  industry from moving forwards. 

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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.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2021

When fierce storms appear on the horizon, the children get especially anxious and the elderly worry, which has impacts on their health. The implications and ingenuity of the suit gave the people of Kivalina an international media platform to raise awareness of their ongoing fight to survive the perils of climate change.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 31, 2023

It’s time to kick dirty fossil fuel-aligned interests out of our politics once and for all.” Ditch These Targets’ Jenkyns has publicly opposed the UK’s legally binding target to cut emissions to net zero, which is backed by the world’s top climate scientists. Rapidly cutting carbon emissions is necessary to limit global warming to 1.5°C

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

In a statement responding to the summit’s shortfalls, Greenpeace International Executive Director Mads Christensen said that lagging governments should expect to be held accountable “on the streets, in the courts and at COP28,” the last a reference to the upcoming international climate treaty conference in Dubai.

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GreenBiz

MAY 10, 2021

Blank scholar at UC Davis School of Law. With the current social and political climate and the broader push for sustainability across all sectors, it is without a doubt that sustainable finance is integral to propelling us into the greener future. Marjan Kris Ramos Abubo. It is definitely something I will keep my eyes on.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 21, 2020

This story was originally published by Southerly , in partnership with Scalawag and Environmental Health News for its Powerlines series, which looks at climate change, justice, and infrastructure in the American South. South, which is already bearing the brunt of climate change effects. . “As Danielle Purifoy.

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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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Grist

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

But when it comes to climate change, adults have left the next generation with more questions than answers. Now, more than 30 years later, the critical moment is upon us to confront global climate change. These are some of the young climate leaders who are pushing hard for environmental action. Our own kids.

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 25, 2022

In this article, we discuss the tie between climate change and affordable housing, the role that legislation and government funding plays, along with a list of top U.S. Climate Change and Affordable Housing. The Role of the Government in Addressing Climate Change and Affordable Housing.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 6, 2024

Plastic production is expected to double in the next 20 years , and the climate and public health crises it creates are growing exponentially, too. 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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Grist

JUNE 14, 2023

Hello, and welcome to Part 2 of our series on personal action in the face of climate change. Montana is one of three states that has established a right to a “ clean and healthful ” environment in its state constitution.) “Montana is a big emitter of fossil fuels and is contributing to climate change.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

President Biden has directed labor officials to draft laws that will protect workers under extreme heat conditions. The severity of heatwaves has been on the rise, thanks to climate change. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has been asked by the president to develop the new guidelines.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 8, 2020

When climate change doesn’t seem to affect you directly, it can be easy to overlook. ” This goal will become reality “when everyone enjoys the same degree of protection from environmental and health hazards and equal access to the decision-making process to have a healthy environment in which to live, learn, and work.”

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Green Market Oracle

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

With our planet changing so drastically over the last hundred years and the future all but in question due to climate change, eco-psychology is more important than ever for clinicians and thinkers alike. The solutions, like the world itself, are ever evolving. in response to the ecological crisis,” Dr. Turner-Essel says.

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Green Market Oracle

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

With our planet changing so drastically over the last hundred years and the future all but in question due to climate change, eco-psychology is more important than ever for clinicians and thinkers alike. The solutions, like the world itself, are ever evolving. in response to the ecological crisis,” Dr. Turner-Essel says.

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Grist

DECEMBER 16, 2019

By the second day, the Santa Barbara County Public Health Department and the county’s Air Pollution Control District had issued an air-quality warning, and local libraries and nonprofits urged residents to protect themselves from the harmful smoke and ash, offering free N95 respirator masks. According to Emily Williams, a Ph.D.

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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. And you’re right. It’s basic science.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

As the planet heats up, allergy seasons are getting longer and the climate crisis is “violating” her “right to health” said Comparelli, a climate activist in her 20s with Fridays for Future Italy. The activist is one of two hundred plaintiffs suing Italy for taking insufficient action to fight climate change.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Veteran sustainable food and farming experts welcomed the strategy as one that just might have a genuine shot at transforming the agriculture sector and result in better public health, contribute to ending the vertiginous decline of biodiversity, and lower greenhouse gas pollution. Reforms Will Jeopardise Food Production’.

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Planet Pulse

APRIL 12, 2022

By combining optical and radar data, we also produce our Biomass Proxy product, which is used by agricultural companies like BASF to help monitor the health of their customer’s fields. All three of our Planetary Variables can be found listed as Essential Climate Variables, crucial datapoints that characterize the Earth’s environment.

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GreenBiz

MAY 24, 2021

How can environmental justice best be advanced in the current political moment that is part of a greater historical transition to a non-white population majority by the mid-2040s? Integration of EJ as a major component of social justice that substantially reduces income inequality, health care, housing and other quality of life disparities.

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Business Green

JUNE 7, 2021

The new frameworks will allow us to find ways to incentivise the restoration of woodlands and old growth forests, actions to revive soil health, the regeneration of peatlands, and the protection of our coastal habitats. The UK Infrastructure Bank is poised to serve as one of these critical institutions to deliver the valuation of nature.

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Clean Energy Canada

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Climate change is already negatively impacting the health of Canadians, impacts that will become more severe in relation to the extent of warming that occurs. The link between airborne pollution from the combustion of fossil fuels and respiratory health is well-known. billion in health-related costs per year. [xv]

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Co-author Professor Carlos Peres said the results “clearly illustrate the potential value and importance of considering sustainable game hunting within the REDD+ political process at both national and international scales”. Pandemic zoonotic diseases from bushmeat are an existential risk on par with climate change.”.

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Business Green

MARCH 25, 2020

The Covid-19 virus, our personal health and safety and the response by the government and public health authorities are rightly occupying much of our work and home life at present. With the Bill having been debated in the Lords on 24 March, this important legislation is expected to become law very soon. million signatures.

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Business Green

APRIL 14, 2020

Energy policy veteran Alan Whitehead retains key position, as Matthew Pennycook named Shadow Climate Change Minister. Meanwhile, Labour MP for Greenwich and Woolwich and a long-standing advocate of climate action, Matthew Pennycook, was appointed Shadow Climate Change Minister.

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Business Green

MARCH 8, 2020

As the UK readies for the upcoming COP26 Summit in Glasgow in November, the Corporate Leaders Group on Climate Change urge government to deliver ambitious net zero strategy. So far, many of the changes in reducing emissions have passed with minimal change or awareness from the public," the group argues.

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Defend Our Future

OCTOBER 18, 2019

He recently graduated from Northern Arizona University with a double major in Criminology and Political Science with a Spanish minor. schools, and the resources that schools need to better support immigrant students and families in our threatening and rapidly changing political and legal environment. With an earnest interest in.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Seed Climate justice is the goal, and Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people are keeping a focus on that goal through a series of campaigns supported by the Australian Youth Climate Coalition (AYCC). IEN is a grassroots effort started in the United States in 1990.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 25, 2022

The European Union’s scientific and political communities are locked in a battle over whether gas and nuclear can be considered green investments. I think that’s the typical example of that political exchange that went on.” IIGCC has published an open letter calling for gas to be excluded from the EU #taxonomy. "The

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