GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Our grid isn't ready for climate change. Last summer, when 750,000 Californians experienced rolling blackouts as heatwaves overtook the west, some politicians in Texas took the opportunity to blame liberal policies to explain the outages. . Biden/Harris/AOC want to make CA’s failed energy policy the standard nationwide.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Pollution, poverty and race collide in many other disadvantaged communities across California — and the country — and some argue that the state’s climate policies haven’t helped. In their eyes, it doesn’t do enough to address climate change and allows emitters to continue polluting the air in the meantime. As the U.S.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Yes, it’s possible to make money and save the world from climate disaster. Climate Change Conference. But what if solving the global climate crisis wasn’t about political willpower or technical know-how? Optimizing energy usage is like Fitbit for energy usage. By Elena Lucas.

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Grist

JANUARY 31, 2024

.” — a passage from “ Cabbage Koora ,” by Sanjana Sekhar The spotlight Nearly 4 in 5 people support doing “whatever it takes” to mitigate climate change, according to a survey published late last year by the firm Potential Energy.

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Smart Energy International

JULY 19, 2022

Taking the ‘human factor’ into consideration when designing and implementing energy policy is crucial to achieving energy transition goals, writes Dr Rosa Garcia-Verdugo. Changes in people’s buying habits need to be consistent to speed up the green transition, say experts.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The circumstances surrounding his termination are documented among thousands of pages of public records and internal company documents that provide a penetrating look into the multi-billion dollar stakes of negotiations between governments and state-sanctioned monopolies that are shaping the future of energy systems in Oregon and beyond.

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Business Green

APRIL 22, 2021

Carbon Tracker study finds solar and wind energy potential is 100 times as much as global energy demand. As such, the analysts predict exponential growth for the solar and wind power sectors, noting that "humans specialise in extracting cheap energy, and fast". per cent of solar and 0.16 per cent of daily sunshine.".

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Grist

JANUARY 19, 2022

In an article published in the academic news outlet The Conversation last week (and in the academic journal Climate and Development last month ), three scientists from New Zealand, including a former lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, argued that the world’s climate experts should take action — by not taking action.

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Grist

DECEMBER 15, 2021

This story is part of the series Getting to Zero: Decarbonizing Cascadia , which explores the path to low-carbon energy for British Columbia, Washington, and Oregon. Worried about the climate crisis? And, in the United States, political gridlock chopped the heart out of Congress’ most ambitious clean energy plan. .

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Business Green

MARCH 28, 2023

That is the stark conclusion from the Climate Change Committee (CCC) today, which has once again laid bare the glaring failure of successive governments to prepare society - businesses, homes, infrastructure, resources, the natural world, and beyond - for the increasingly damaging impacts of the climate crisis.

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Business Green

JUNE 27, 2021

Indeed, recent decisions to freeze fuel duty and cut air passenger duty on domestic flights paint a picture of a government with lofty environmental goals, but without a comprehensive plan and the political will to back these up. Environmental taxes are a powerful tool to help with climate change.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

First launched in 2007, the EPC regime for homes and buildings was designed to ensure UK compliance with an EU directive to reduce the amount of energy used by both commercial and domestic properties.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

In February 2021, German agribusiness giant BASF hosted a virtual wine tasting, a seemingly cozy affair swirling glasses of Portugal’s finest in front of a webcam debating the future of EU agricultural policies. Read more about the industry’s climate lobbying at DeSmog’s agribusiness database.

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Business Green

JUNE 16, 2021

All the top reaction from leading figures across business, politics, academia, think tanks and green groups to the CCC's latest assessment of the UK's preparedness for climate change. Here, BusinessGreen rounds up all the top comments from business, politics, academia, think tanks and civil society.

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Business Green

AUGUST 22, 2022

Consumer behaviour change must carry almost a third of the weight of delivering net zero - and there are plenty of policy options at the next PM's disposal, argues think tank Onward. However, the next Prime Minister is certainly not lacking for policy options.

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Planet Pulse

APRIL 14, 2023

From revealing the changing wheat fields of Ukraine to generating new AI-enhanced models to monitor natural disaster risk, Planet, our customers, and our partners are pushing into new arenas, embracing both the space renaissance and the data revolution. space – an ode to the power of the force.

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Business Green

JANUARY 20, 2021

Government confirms Future Homes Standard will apply to any new homes built from 2025, delivering a major uptick in the pace of the shift away from gas boilers - but campaigners are left disappointed by failure to adopt more rapid timetable.

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Business Green

MARCH 22, 2022

Major poll of 30,000 people suggests Europeans are concerned about climate change and want ambitious action to tackle it, but lack confidence the issue will be resolved by mid-century. Roughly the same percentage - 56 per cent - also agreed that climate policies would be a source of economic growth.

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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. Again, funding directed to a heavy polluter and an extremely energy-intensive industry. There’s also $ 323.9 million proposed.

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Business Green

MAY 16, 2021

The BBC's The People vs Climate Change documentary offers a compelling case for giving the public a voice in tackling the greatest challenge of our times. For veterans of the climate and environmental beat, however, that refrain has historically often been a source of major frustration.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 1, 2020

They are also home to much of the world’s biodiversity, and regulate key aspects of the carbon cycle. In short, forests are vital in global and national efforts to combat climate change and biodiversity loss, and eradicate hunger and poverty. Around the world, 1.6 The five trends revealed by the research are: 1.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 17, 2020

Pacific Gas & Electric is on the verge of escaping from its 18-month bankruptcy , only to begin a years-long effort to prevent a repeat of the disasters that pushed it into insolvency in the first place. PG&E must keep up with the state’s ambitious clean energy, environmental and electrification goals. Of that, about $7.8

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Business Green

MARCH 16, 2021

The announcement of the policy package is part of a new Industrial Decarbonisation Strategy that will be published later today, the government revealed. It also announced a new goal to ensure roughly 40 per cent energy used by industrial players by the same date is powered by lower carbon fossil fuels.

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2023

The findings of his Review may do little to convince the net zero sceptics in his own party, but if they take the time to read it they might find themselves pleasantly surprised by how reasonable its 129 recommendations are - and how economically, politically, and socially rational to boot. G overnance.

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Grist

JULY 24, 2019

Natural gas has been touted as a green energy source by some because, when burned for fuel, it emits less CO2 than coal. So all the political and policy understanding about our emissions are linked to these inventories.” That’s especially bad news, since methane is roughly 25 times more potent a greenhouse gas than CO2.

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Business Green

MARCH 16, 2021

The announcement of the policy package is part of a new Industrial Decarbonisation Strategy that will be published later today, the government revealed. It also announced a new goal to ensure roughly 40 per cent energy used by industrial players by the same date is powered by lower carbon fossil fuels.

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Business Green

MARCH 4, 2021

The truth, as ever, is complicated, with the Budget having left many unanswered questions and kicking several crucial issues down the road, while at the same time serving up a raft of potentially game-changing green policies that look set to further embed climate action right at the heart of the UK's financial establishment.

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Business Green

JANUARY 4, 2023

From energy to climate and housing to healthcare, all the way through to stagnating wages, strikes, and declining public confidence in his government's Brexit project, crises abound in almost every direction for the UK and its new Prime Minister. Rishi Sunak certainly has a job on its hands in 2023.

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Business Green

MARCH 3, 2021

All the reaction from green groups, businesses, political figures to Rishi Sunak's hugely important pandemic-recovery, pre-COP26 Budget announcement. Chris Stark, chief executive of the Climate Change Committee, said: Not much to say about this Budget - a comment in itself. — Chris Stark (@ChiefExecCCC) March 3, 2021.

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Business Green

JUNE 29, 2022

A 2035 ban on sales of new fossil fuel cars and vans in Europe now looks inevitable, after long talks led to EU Council agreement on a host of crucial green policies. It's been a big week for European climate policy, and the implications are likely to ripple far beyond the EU itself.

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Earth Gratitude

JULY 11, 2017

This month, I had the pleasure to interview Kathleen Rogers and Ken Berlin, the president and CEO of The Earth Day Network and The Climate Reality Project , respectively. The interviews were centered on ways that we can all support a more beautiful common home, without a change in lifestyle. As Kathleen notes: “Kids are tough.

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Grist

DECEMBER 16, 2019

candidate at the University of California, Santa Barbara, who specializes in climate science, social science, policy and the law, the climate change effects that California has experienced so far are just the tip of what’s to come. Enforcing the use of masks requires monitoring by the state, for example.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Europe’s wood pellet market is worsening environmental racism in the American South Danielle Purifoy Wed, 10/21/2020 – 00:45 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.

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Business Green

MARCH 16, 2022

Energy security and net zero requires a rethink of the way energy consumed and used. But what policies do experts think shuold feature to the government’s upcoming Energy Security Strategy and Spring Statement? It was a glaring omission.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 20, 2019

New Frontiers in Renewable Energy and Resources will take place on November 25-26, 2019 in Rome, Italy. The theme is "Renewable Energy for a Better Future" and the it will include: Keynote talks, Plenary sessions, Discussion Panels, B2B Meetings, Poster symposia, Video Presentations, and Workshops.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 16, 2020

.” Pollution, poverty and race collide in many other disadvantaged communities across California — and the country — and some argue that the state’s climate policies haven’t helped. 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 2, 2021

By the late 1970s, the petroleum industry had spent about two decades collecting information from their own scientists and outside experts and knew that burning fossil fuels would create catastrophic climate change. And the company was monitoring all scientific research and policy activities, through a single collection point.

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