Business Green

AUGUST 11, 2021

Polls consistently show significant public concern over the climate crisis and a strong desire for action, but are the right questions being asked? If climate change is - among many, many other struggles - a battle for hearts and minds, then it is one that has in recent years seen momentum finally turning in a greener direction.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

New YouGov survey reveals over half of Brits think climate change is 'the biggest risk to the Earth's future' and are taking steps to curb emissions. Moreover, the results hint at frustration at the government's response to climate change.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Business travellers appear to be cutting down on flying since the pandemic, amid heightened awareness of the climate impact of air travel and growing pressure from employees for their companies to develop greener travel policies, fresh survey findings today indicate.

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Transportation Policy Climate change Investment 51

Business Green

MARCH 22, 2021

Since the Paris Agreement was adopted five years ago, the impact of export credit agency (ECA) policies on climate change has come under greater scrutiny. Specifically, how to ensure that UKEF's financing and insurance policies abroad match the UK's ambitious progress and pledges on climate at home.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 21, 2022

A new report by Reality Team, a nonprofit digital marketing group, suggests that social media ads can help reach people who aren’t closely watching topics like climate change or vaccine science and are often targeted by disinformation campaigns. Reaching the ‘Super Online’ From the jump, Reality Team took a pragmatic path.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 21, 2019

A Liberal minority government has been elected in Canada and this is good news for climate action. A Liberal majority government would have meant more climate dualism. Their minority status may force them to ratchet up their climate ambitions and soften their support for the fossil fuel industry.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

It feels fair to say there are a fair few concerns within the green economy about the prospects for ambitious climate and environmental policy under Prime Minister Liz Truss and her newly appointed Cabinet.

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Energy Energy Policy Climate change 69

Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Germany's climate diplomacy coup, Duke Energy's ambitious new coal phase out plans, and all the big green business news from around the world this week. Greenpeace International boss Jennifer Morgan appointed as Germany's top climate diplomat. target will be the guideline for Germany's climate foreign policy.".

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 18, 2021

In the 2021 London mayoral campaign, a number of candidates — some with histories of fringe positions in opposition to clean air measures, COVID-19 restrictions and action on climate change — seized on practical as well as environmental and social justice arguments to work opposition to LTNs into their campaign platforms.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Net Zero Festival: Author Kim Stanley Robinson and experts from BritainThinks, Hubbub and Lancaster University debate the challenge and opportunity of securing public support for climate action. Call it a fuel crisis and everyone responds with queues at petrol stations, call it a climate crisis and it just doesn't land in the same way.".

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Clean Energy Canada

JULY 4, 2023

VANCOUVER – An overwhelming majority (71%) of Canadians support the federal government’s forthcoming Clean Electricity Regulations—designed to ensure that Canada’s electricity grid is 100% clean by 2035—finds a new poll from Clean Energy Canada and Abacus Data. Totals may not add up to 100 due to rounding.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 14, 2021

What’s the single word that fossil fuel giant ExxonMobil’s flagship environmental reports to investors and the public tie most closely to climate change and global warming? The risk of climate change and its potential impacts on society and the ecosystem are widely recognized ,’ says another the following year.”.

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Clean Energy Canada

MAY 28, 2020

New Abacus Data-Clean Energy Canada polling reveals that the current economic and health challenges have done little or nothing to diminish support for infrastructure changes that will create a cleaner Canadian economy in the future. Gone are the days of pitting climate against the economy.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

It’s a recurring theme that somehow the livestock sector and eating meat is detrimental to the environment, that it is a serious negative in terms of the climate change discussions,” Hsin Huang, Secretary General of the International Meat Secretariat (IMS) , told his audience. The Climate Impact of Meat.

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Clean Energy Canada

JANUARY 3, 2020

A strong majority of Canadians believe the transition to energy that produces less impact on climate change is a global conversation, bound to happen, and something necessary whether we like it or not. Across Canada, 78% say the intent is to fight climate change. This view is equally widely held in Alberta.

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Government Energy Energy Climate change 116

Business Green

JULY 20, 2022

Public polls point to strong support for climate action, as Tory leadership race enters the final straight with Rishi Sunak, Liz Truss, and Penny Mordaunt all hoping to make the cut. Polling of both members and the wider public indicate climate and environmental policy should remain key issues in the summer-long leadership race.

Energy 40

Energy Energy Climate change Global warming 40

Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Climate Resilience: Satellite imagery aids in identifying climate-stressed regions, facilitating adaptive strategies to combat climate change impacts. For example, satellite imagery archives can be used to track changes in a crop growing region over time.

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Agriculture Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 70

Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Here are fifty recently published books on the subjects of global warming, climate mitigation and social change. Climate impacts 2. Climate action 4. From sunny day flooding caused by higher tides to a sewer system on the brink of total collapse, the city undeniably lives in a climate changed world.

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Climate change Ethics Sustainability Health 95

Business Green

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Our ambition is to catalyse the investment, innovation, technology and skills development that will ensure the UK prospers in the global economy - one that is on course to reach net zero, achieve a stable climate, and restore nature on this beautiful planet on which we all depend. Karen Ellis is chief economist at WWF.

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Government Resilience Fossil fuels Investment 57

Business Green

MAY 12, 2020

Committee on Climate Change CEO discusses infrastructure, airline bailouts, COP26 and making the best of a bad situation. It was a historic moment, hailed by CCC chair and veteran of Westminster climate politicking Lord Deben as "the most special day" as he blinked back tears at last year's BusinessGreen Leaders Awards.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 2, 2020

On this episode of Political Climate , the last in our monthly “ Path to Zero ” series, we talk about climate targets and what it’s going to take to meet them. Recommended reading: GTM : House Democrats Spell Out Climate, Clean Energy Priorities in Sweeping Plan. Hint: R-E-S-P-E-C-T. Path to Zero.

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Business Green

MAY 5, 2020

Climate-friendly stimulus policies to reboot economies in the wake of the coronavirus crisis offer a far better mechanism for boosting jobs and growth, compared to unconditional bailouts for high carbon industries, a major new analysis by a group of leading economists has found.

Climate change 75

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Amid a widely reported skills crunch, renewables firms also find themselves more frequently plundered for green expertise. The pace of renewables innovation, and the need to fail forward to combat climate change, means that ideas are actively encouraged in the sector."

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Fossil fuels Policy Demand Climate change 68

Clean Energy Canada

MARCH 31, 2020

Canada doesn’t have vehicle regulations of its own but has directly adopted the American rules: when they change in the U.S., they automatically change in Canada. They deliver cheaper commutes, cleaner air and help fight climate change. There’s a policy for that, and it helps combat climate change” (National Observer).

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Pollution Climate change Health Government 55

Clean Energy Canada

FEBRUARY 22, 2020

The language of that movement—green this and radical that—isn’t really in their lexicon, as evidenced by last fall’s election campaign by the Conservative Party of Canada and Premier Jason Kenney’s creation of a “war room” to combat the “anti-energy campaign” after his United Conservative Party took power in Alberta.

Energy 52

Energy Energy Wind power Fossil fuels 52

Green Market Oracle

MAY 4, 2020

According to recent polling there is a trend towards increased concern about climate change and evidence to suggest growing public support for environmental protections. Here is a summary of the results of 15 polls conducted in the last five years that survey American attitudes on climate change and the environment.

Climate change 52

Climate change Health Pollution Government 52

Business Green

AUGUST 13, 2020

Joe Biden in the White House, and potentially Democrats in control of the Senate too, could turbo-charge climate change as an investment theme, argues Schroders' Simon Webber. The US response to Covid-19 looks set to be the dominant election issue as we head towards the November polls. Detailed plans for net zero emissions.

Climate change 63

Climate change Investment Policy Electric vehicle 63

Grist

AUGUST 3, 2019

This story was originally published by Wired and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Nothing’s more American than a science-hero — an indomitable, big-brained hasher-out of ideas that change the world, that make the impossible possible. In other words: nutrition, doctors, and climate change.

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

The climate crisis represents an unprecedented threat to human civilization. PUBLIC SPHERES a) Introduction b) Cornerstone of democracy c) Exclusive public spheres d) Media controls public spheres e) Social media has changed public spheres 2. Social media has changed public spheres Social media has radically changed the landscape.

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Grist

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Exit polls say 61 percent of white men and 55 percent of white women tried to reelect Donald Trump, the same leader who purposely denied his own voters, along with the rest of the nation, his advance knowledge of how deadly the novel coronavirus could be.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 24, 2020

The convention highlighted efforts to combat the scourge of racism and calls to defend democracy. It recognized scientists and acknowledged climate advocates. CLIMATE CRISIS Two years ago teen climate activist Greta Thunberg began her first School Strike. We can, and we will, deal with climate change," Biden said.

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