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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Business Green

JULY 2, 2020

Global review of climate litigation highlights increasing instances of activists and governments using courts to force climate action from businesses and governments.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The appointment comes as senior Conservative Party figures continue to embrace anti-climate politics. Last year was the first on record to see consistent global warming of 1.5C, according to the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service. DeSmog has previously revealed that the Conservative Party received £3.5

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 11, 2024

Hintze, a Conservative peer and hedge fund manager, was one of the early funders of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) , founded by the late Conservative chancellor Nigel Lawson. Steve has never discussed environmental policy with him. Steve is fully committed to the government’s net zero aims.”

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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). Governments can only implement a narrow range of policies – and even then, only policies that don’t challenge corporate profits or power.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2024

A senior figure at the influential Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) think tank contributed to a new documentary that spread numerous myths about climate change. According to the website Skeptical Science, which debunks climate misinformation, Climate The Movie contains more than two dozen myths about climate change.

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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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GreenBiz

JUNE 9, 2021

Under the heading "Transformative effort to tackle climate change and biodiversity loss," the seven economies: Commit to a multi-year effort to meet our net-zero commitments and environmental objectives in a way that is positive for jobs, growth, competitiveness and fairness. Policy & Politics. What this means for boards.

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Business Green

JUNE 20, 2021

Businesses of all types have potential exposure to litigation for climate change-related harm - it is critical they understand this rapidly evolving landscape, argue White & Case's Mark Clarke and Gwen Wackwitz. In recent years, the number and scope of climate change-related actions has increased dramatically.

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Energy Central

MAY 12, 2022

The development of scientifically sound, economically sensible, and politically feasible climate-change policies would seem to be a case in point. Such an approach is well illustrated by the thinking of Jonathan Wiener, the William and Thomas Perkins Professor of Law at Duke Law School, who.

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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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Business Green

MARCH 10, 2022

The Northern Ireland Assembly has passed climate change legislation committing the region to reaching net zero carbon emissions by 2050, after draft legislation tabled by Agriculture and Environment Minister Edwin Poots was approved by the nation's lawmakers on Tuesday.

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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

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 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. For businesses, making these changes needs deliberate and intentioned action.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Ex Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has joined the UK’s main climate denial group saying: “we need more science”. Abbott announced he was “pleased” to join the board of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), which had “consistently injected a note of realism into the climate debate”.

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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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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

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Ed Miliband has been handed the newly created role of Shadow Secretary of State for Climate Change and Net Zero in Labour's frontbench team, passing his previous business brief on to Jonathan Reynolds, as the party seeks to laser-in on the government's post-COP26 green agenda. — Ed Miliband (@Ed_Miliband) November 29, 2021.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

But the need to inject reliability into fiscal and policy-based environmental decision making is not confined to carbon pricing alone; we need long lasting environmental policy across the board if we are to deliver on our 2050 net zero commitment. But climate targets alone, even if they are enshrined in law, won't get us to net zero.

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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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Business Green

OCTOBER 26, 2021

It means that, at present, collective global pledges fall wildly short of the 55 per cent reduction by 2030 needed to stave off some of the more crippling effects of climate change by capping global temperature rise at 1.5C, the lower, safer limit set out by the Paris Agreement. warming pathway.

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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

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

The legal pressure on governments around the world to deliver more ambitious climate policies is continuing to intensify, according to a major new analysis from the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

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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

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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Business Green

JULY 7, 2022

Fluctuating temperatures and extreme weather events are creating an ever-increasing cocktail of risk for companies, including volatile commodity and energy prices, stranded assets, increased political and litigation risks and distinct new demands. These factors influence how business is conducted and, consequently, how lawyers must practice.

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Business Green

JUNE 24, 2021

Government's climate agenda marred by uncertainty and delay which risks undermining COP26 and net zero transition, Climate Change Committee warns. I'm afraid we are very concerned about where things stand," said the Committee's CEO, Chris Stark.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 12, 2024

Equinor has a majority stake in the Rosebank North Sea oil field, which has been dubbed a “carbon bomb” by environmental law charity ClientEarth. This may have implications for how climate change is covered in the UK. GB News in Turmoil GB News hosts regularly attack climate policies and the science behind them.

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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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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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Andrew Winston

APRIL 16, 2019

[I've been watching, with some joy, the rise of the youth climate movement. A month ago, a couple million kids took to the streets to protest inaction on climate change which, as they see it, threatens their entire future. Dianne Feinstein of California about her support for climate policies.

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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

APRIL 4, 2024

But federal records newly reviewed by DeSmog reveal that the group’s co-founder has personally donated to the Conservative Party of Canada, whose leader Pierre Poilievre is campaigning to abolish the country’s most prominent climate policy, a nationwide tax on carbon emissions, saying it brings “misery and suffering on the Canadian people.”

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 14, 2023

They argue that the laws will cause a drop in EU food production and lead to widespread economic losses. The biggest risks to food security stem from climate change and the loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services,” said the letter, which was sent to all Members of the European Parliament. “The

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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”. Perry, a PR executive, is a regular guest on TalkTV, which had an average monthly reach of 1.7

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 14, 2023

In spite of a political will to prevent renewable developments from leading figures and inconsistent policy directions, the sector is picking up huge momentum and we expect this to deliver huge strides in 2023. The Energy Security Strategy will continue to fail to deliver the policy changes needed to deliver outcomes promised.

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