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

AUGUST 9, 2022

And yet, so complete is their disconnect from the real world that these zombie arguments continue to stumble across the political landscape desperately looking for an issue, any issue, to attack. To adapt the old saying, the best time to deliver such policies was a decade ago, the second best time is now. Soaring energy bills?

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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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Business Green

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Campaigners have long argued that while major fossil fuel companies are spending big sums on publicly pushing messages that suggest they are committed to decarbonising by investing in greener forms of energy, in reality the overwhelming majority of their capital expenditure still goes towards oil and gas.

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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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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 UK government protests that it's increased its green investment," he said.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Campaigners have long argued that while major fossil fuel companies are spending big sums on publicly pushing messages that suggest they are committed to decarbonizing by investing in greener forms of energy, in reality, the overwhelming majority of their capital expenditure still goes towards oil and gas.

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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

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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Business Green

MARCH 24, 2023

The report from centre-right think tank Onward - titled Forced to Move - argues the government should act now to provide safe, legal routes for climate refugees to reach the UK while also stepping up investment in climate resilience measures in countries that are most vulnerable to climate impacts.

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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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GreenBiz

APRIL 27, 2021

Bold policy and funding proposals from governments in China, the European Union and now the United States; ambitious capital investment plans from the world’s leading automakers; and continuing technological advancements — all contribute to a bullish outlook for market penetration of electric vehicles over the next decade and beyond.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

As Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen have established themselves as epicenters for high-tech investment and innovation, the Chinese government has shifted its focus to building out a competitive technology ecosystem in this cloudy inland metropolis. Chang, who is American and previously worked on market expansion for U.S.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Tory strategists themselves with the idea that the next election could be more like 1992 than 1997, but if the Party is to engineer one of the biggest polling recoveries in electoral history the government desperately needs some success stories and positive political momentum to carry it into a general election campaign next year.

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Energy Innovation

MARCH 16, 2022

Energy Innovation partners with the independent nonprofit Aspen Global Change Institute (AGCI) to provide climate and energy research updates. But local and national policies can address potential pitfalls and ensure that RECs can indeed be a mechanism for energy justice in the transition. Policy implications and solutions.

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Business Green

JANUARY 18, 2022

Citizens are encouraged to purchase private insurance policies in order to receive better healthcare. It is just one project as part of a wider programme of science research funded by the UK government's Strategic Priorities Fund on UK climate resilience," a spokesperson added. "It

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 14, 2021

This current decade — the next eight years — represents the largest effort that will be required for new job creation to ensure that we have a workforce that’s well aligned with the changing energy landscape,” Teika Newton, domestic policy manager for Climate Action Network Canada, told reporters on a press call.

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E2 Environmental Entrepreneurs

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

As you likely know, last June Oregon was on the brink of passing a statewide Cap-and-Invest carbon pricing program ?—?standing Our work in Oregon since the end of the 2019 session has run the advocacy gamut and is a powerful reflection of the array of advocacy tools E2 will deploy to drive policy victories.

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Business Green

APRIL 8, 2022

Citi similarly pledged $1tr by 2030 to "finance and facilitate a wide array of climate solutions." For example, if those four banks continued to fund fossil fuels for the rest of the decade at the rate they did in 2021, it would total just over $1.6tr of new investment by 2030. Hence the growing focus on banks' say-do gap.

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 27, 2021

Bold policy and funding proposals from governments in China, the European Union and now the United States; ambitious capital investment plans from the world’s leading automakers; and continuing technological advancements — all contribute to a bullish outlook for market penetration of electric vehicles over the next decade and beyond.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 30, 2020

Climate change is the most significant global threat we face today. Conference Buyers Guide: An Introduction to Purchasing Carbon Offsets (Workshop):Offsets can help companies reduce their carbon footprints and drive much-needed investment to projects that lower emissions or draw down carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The reserve is home to a vast array of rare and critically endangered animal species, including pangolins, sun bears, and - perhaps most famously - the Sumatran Tiger, of which there are less than 400 left in the wild. We need to develop a proper policy and strategy starting from now."

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Mr. Sustainability

JUNE 27, 2020

A case to ‘recreate’ the technical and economic prosperity of the 1920s in the 2020s, by gradual divestment in ‘old’ energy systems and investment in ‘new’ renewable industries. Aligning economic stimulus and policy packages with climate goals is crucial for a long-term viable and healthy economy. It is summer 2020.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Bush joined other world leaders and signed the first global treaty to combat climate change, saying that an "unprecedented era of peace, freedom and stability" in the wake of the Cold War would spur action to protect the environment. "We But three decades on, times have changed radically. Climate fears.

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Andrew Winston

DECEMBER 22, 2021

It captures a huge array of corporate goals, announcements, partnerships, government action, and more. Climate change and COP26 (results are not enough). Climate change: IPCC report is ‘code red for humanity’… here. Google cracks down on climate change denial by targeting ads… here.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Long-term environmental policy observers will note that the EPA’s beginning coincided with a burst of public interest and participation to clean up America’s degraded skies, water and land. Bipartisan politics largely died. It has carried out its mission through the various statutes enacted by Congress beginning in 1970.

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

This paper explores how governments and private interests have hijacked public narratives to serve political or corporate agendas. This applies to the fossil fuel and other industries as well as political.parties and most notably, political leaders like Donald Trump. Media and politics are intimately intertwined.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Long-term environmental policy observers will note that the EPA’s beginning coincided with a burst of public interest and participation to clean up America’s degraded skies, water and land. Bipartisan politics largely died. It has carried out its mission through the various statutes enacted by Congress beginning in 1970.

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

BIDEN: It [climate change] is the existential threat humanity faces, global warming. I went out to tech -- you have a facility where you have one of the largest, largest solar panel arrays in the world. Invest in battery technology. And I would invest in rail, in rail. That's where most of the greenhouse.

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Business Green

AUGUST 8, 2022

The landmark legislation's climate provisions could unlock billions of dollars of low carbon investment and millions of green jobs - but it also paves the way for new fossil fuel infrastructure. After decades of gridlock, the US looks set to pass sweeping climate legislation for the first time.

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Mosaic

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Emissions come from physical things,” Tom Steyer, the businessman and investment-firm manager, who, after a Presidential run in 2020, is focussing on investing in climate solutions, told me. We weren’t able to invest the private capital. So now the battle moves from hearts and heads to houses.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

For the first time in its 175 year history Scientific American announced that it issuing a political endorsement. As we now know from the Woodward tapes, Trump knew the virus was deadly, but he lied to advance a political agenda. In contrast to Trump the Democratic presidential nominee has a science based policy agenda.

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