DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Shadow business secretary Ed Miliband has labelled Rishi Sunak a “climate delayer” after the UK chancellor said almost nothing about climate change in his speech at the Conservative Party conference today. The post UK Chancellor Criticised for ‘Silence’ on Climate Change in Party Conference Speech appeared first on DeSmog.

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Elemental Excelerator

JANUARY 23, 2024

And while Canada’s coast faces countless climate threats, Elemental Policy Lab Fellow Na’im Merchant said it also could become important for climate resiliency as an unparalleled resource for ocean-based carbon dioxide removal (CDR) methods. In 2022, an estimated 600,000 people were exposed to rising seas along these coastlines.

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EDF + Business

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

With corporate political spending and lobbying under increasing scrutiny and a new administration advancing financially material, government-wide climate action, financial institutions have good reason to reassess their climate lobbying. They must actively support the public policies needed to achieve net zero emissions by 2050.

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Energy Innovation

JANUARY 27, 2022

The research synopsis below comes from AGCI Program Director Emily Jack-Scott and a full list of AGCI’s updates covering recent climate change and clean energy pathways research is available online at [link]. Achieving and sustaining that level of action requires that people are not incapacitated by climate anxiety or despair.

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Business Green

JUNE 5, 2024

Where once there was broad agreement across party lines on the severity of the climate crisis and the economic gains that will result from tackling it, there is now an angry, petulant row over the wisdom of promoting clean technologies and deploying them as fast as possible. There are two complementary responses.

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Business Green

JANUARY 30, 2020

When you think of Green Parties, no matter the country you're in, you instinctively associate them with left-wing politics. This typically manifests itself in the form of left-wing, anti-capitalist economic policies. The label of ‘watermelons' captures the essence of this; green on the outside but, red really on the inside.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Proposed Climate and Ecological Emergency Bill would see international aviation, shipping, and consumption fall within the UK's 2050 net zero target, while putting climate assemblies on a formal standing. Based on the Paris Agreement goal to limit global warming to 1.5C Based on the Paris Agreement goal to limit global warming to 1.5C

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Bright Blue unveils series of policy recommendations for government to tackle both housing and climate crisis The government is once again facing calls to make building new green homes an urgent priority, as part of its efforts to deliver on the UK's net zero emissions goals.

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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. Non-renewable resources and technologies that have been essential to our advancement and industrialization may ultimately be what takes us out. For businesses, making these changes needs deliberate and intentioned action.

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Energy Innovation

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The research synopsis below comes from AGCI Program Director Emily Jack-Scott and a full list of AGCI’s updates covering recent climate change and clean energy pathways research is available online at [link]. Among the projections: climate impacts worsen nearly 60 percent of infectious diseases. Source: Mora et al.

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Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 19, 2024

is well down the path of implementing one of North America’s strongest climate plans. s clean energy sector could grow six per cent a year out to 2050, if our political leaders seize the opportunity. industries adapt to climate impacts. The plan is working: B.C. residents and businesses. families to make ends meet. Finally, B.C.

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Business Green

MARCH 25, 2021

While climate change is not one of the main priorities for the Scottish voters at present, this may well change once the coronavirus pandemic subsides and excitement around COP26 builds. The average Scottish National Party parliamentary seat has 10 per cent more jobs in carbon intensive industries than the national average.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 30, 2024

The UK’s leading climate science denial organisation has appeared on GB News more than 35 times over the past seven months, DeSmog can reveal. Meanwhile, over the last year, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has overseen a row-back of several key climate pledges.

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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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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Anti-net zero campaigners and climate science deniers are claiming credit for the Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s weakening of UK green policies, as a senior official told DeSmog that civil servants were left “scratching their heads” after being ignored by Sunak this week. Household energy efficiency standards would also be dropped.

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Business Green

AUGUST 18, 2022

The Oxford English Dictionary's Patricia Stewart charts how language related to the environment, climate change, and sustainabiliy is changing to reflect global new realities and concerns. Therefore, it can be used as a tool to understand the evolution of society and the challenges it faces at a given time.

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Energy Innovation

JULY 14, 2020

Energy Innovation partners with the independent nonprofit Aspen Global Change Institute (AGCI) to provide climate and energy research updates. In a May 2020 paper in the Oxford Review of Economic Policy, a team of economists led by Cameron Hepburn led a survey to assess the most climate-friendly recovery policies.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 12, 2023

Freund said that it was important for policymakers to interact with lobbyists in “any healthy democracy”, but that “wherever there could be an influence of money on politics, the bare minimum is to make it transparent and give voters the possibility to hold decision makers accountable.”

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Last year Hicks rhetorically asked on his blog whether climate researchers were “over-hyping because they have a political agenda,” terming them “those chronic-doomster semi-scientists.” based conservative think tank that has questioned the scientific consensus on climate change.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 17, 2024

During his two decades in Parliament, Poilievre voted in favor of the environment and climate action just 13 times, DeSmog calculates based on a comprehensive list detailing every House of Commons vote he’s made as a federal politician. There’s no indication Conservatives will do anything other than destroy climate policy,” May said.

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Clean Energy Canada

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Not only does this make good economic sense, but it is also a political win-win. Keeping high-paying jobs in Canada that will also help us meet our climate goals must be a top priority for the re-elected government—something that resonates across the political spectrum. And with the EU and U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 27, 2021

After decades of sowing doubt about climate change and its causes, the fossil fuel industry is now shifting to a new strategy: presenting itself as the source of solutions. Coming from backgrounds in economics, ecology and public policy , we have spent several years focusing on carbon drawdown. That support may be coming.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

OCTOBER 17, 2023

As the world grapples with the urgent need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and combat climate change, sustainable energy engineering has taken center stage.  Reliance on fossil fuels contributes to greenhouse gas emissions and climate change. Promote research into advanced energy storage technologies.

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Elemental Excelerator

APRIL 21, 2023

Elemental Excelerator, a nonprofit investor driving climate technology for social change, announced today the expansion of its climate coaching team to encompass experts in project and carbon finance, policy and equity and access. “Participating in the Elemental program has been transformational for us.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

With the start of the 28th annual United Nations climate summit, COP28, just two weeks away, a battle is brewing over the role of fossil fuels as nations try to stem the tide of climate change. While these technologies may seem promising in theory, in practice they face substantial constraints and challenges.

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Charged

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

In UK politics, climate change policies cut across party lines. This translated to a wide range of pro-EV policies, and the results can be plainly seen in London, which has become one of the world’s most charged cities. Boris Johnson’s Tory government set an official goal of reaching “net zero” emissions by 2030.

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Andrew Winston

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Companies Must Find the Courage to Back Up Statements on Climate Action. The world’s largest companies are rapidly raising the bar on their commitments to tackle climate change. They would want to support policies that accelerate the shift to clean technologies, right? by Andrew Winston and Paul Polman.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Akielly Hu, Grist’s news and politics fellow, discussed the growing popularity of degrowth with Kohei Saito — a Marxist author whose 2020 degrowth manifesto quickly turned into a bestseller in Japan and beyond. . In your free time, you play sports, spend time with loved ones, garden, and engage with local politics.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

The UK is the latest country whose government environmental groups have sued for failing to take sufficient action on climate change. Technological solutions, such as capturing carbon directly from the air and storing it underground, are still at the pilot stage, and there are concerns about their cost and ability to safely store CO?.

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Business Green

AUGUST 10, 2022

Engineered carbon removal technologies such as CCUS, DAC, and BECCS are increasingly seen as crucial to the net zero transition, but spreading the costs fairly remains a challenge. After all, the sums needed to develop and scale such advanced technologies, most of which remain unproven at scale, are significant, at least in the short term.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 22, 2021

Biden and the future of clean energy politics. The theory goes that in order to rapidly deploy clean energy, you need three elements: technology; policy; and finance. When these components are integrated, we’re able to thoughtfully accelerate the speed and scale of clean technologies. Sarah Golden.

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Business Green

MARCH 2, 2023

Skidmore said the new coalition would take in the views of green businesses leaders, community groups, local councils, academics, and other stakeholders as it works to deliver 10 separate reports on how to decarbonise specific sectors of the economy and add more policy detail to the recommendations contained in the Net Zero Review.

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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

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The report was also shared by leading climate science denial groups, including Net Zero Watch, the campaign arm of the Global Warming Policy Foundation. However, the Civitas report has been criticised as inaccurate by several prominent climate academics and journalists.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 14, 2023

Welcome to the second in our series of articles featuring industry insiders highlighting the trends and technologies we can expect to see in 2023. Both COP27 and COP15 have shown that as we tackle the dual crises of climate change and biodiversity loss, we cannot treat these challenges in isolation.

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Business Green

JULY 11, 2022

Two separate reports this morning have set out the case for Ministers to press ahead with a raft of policies that can drive a shift away from the blast furnace method of steel production.

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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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