Business Green

JANUARY 15, 2023

Powers, vice president for global cleantech and renewables at Schneider Electric, who explores how public-private sector collaboration can help unshackle the surging demand for renewable energy. I think a lot of the feedback that you hear from any of the COPs is we're not doing enough and we're not doing it fast enough. And I agree.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

And if traders are going for zero illegal deforestation instead of zero gross deforestation (including legal and illegal), then the roadmap isn't more than just reiterating national laws. In my eyes, that certainly doesn't merit a big COP announcement. The roadmap's definitions also bring up a geography question.

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Clean Energy Trust

DECEMBER 6, 2021

The bipartisan infrastructure bill was signed into law. The COP 26 climate conference took place! Infrastructure Month! Here’s a summary from Canary Media. Here’s another summary from the AP. For example, $7.5 billion or so to electrify their entire bus fleet). How do people feel about the outcomes?

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

And then November will see Glasgow host the COP climate change summit, taking place five years on from the historic Paris Agreement. With the UK holding the COP presidency, top of the agenda will be to encourage countries to ratchet-up climate ambition to get us closer to 1.5C

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 5, 2022

A few months later, corporate giants also spoke out against state laws meant to restrict voting. The COP26 meeting in Glasgow ended the same as every COP: there was clearly progress in what countries committed to, but given the scale of a crisis that the UN Secretary General called “ code red for humanity ,” it was woefully inadequate.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 17, 2021

The UK is COP President for another year, with the job of building on the legacy of the Glasgow climate conference," she said. Unearthed accused farmers of taking advantage of loopholes in anti-deforestation laws introduced in the state in 2018 to continue to clear rainforest so as to expand ranches in the region.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Fossil fuels are everywhere at this COP except in the decisions being negotiated by governments,” Nikki Reisch, the director of climate and energy at the Center for International Environmental Law, wrote to DeSmog from Glasgow.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Dr Ben Caldecott, director of sustainable finance at the Oxford Sustainable Finance Programme, said the new rule, alongside the wider sustainable finance disclosure rules set out in the Treasury's new roadmap, were a "world first" that would "spur demand for climate solutions and sustainable finance".

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Business Green

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The partial deal is dependent on the agreement of reforms to the ETS on which further discussions are due this week, but if finalised and signed into law, the CBAM would be a landmark climate policy of global import, signalling the start of a new epoch for global trade policy.

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Business Green

JULY 19, 2022

Ruling on a case brought by Friends of the Earth, ClientEarth, and the Good Law Project, Mr Justice Holgate agreed the strategy lacked sufficient explanation or quantification as to how the decarbonisation plans set out in the Net Zero Strategy published last autumn would achieve emissions targets for the 2030s and beyond.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Every policy, law, regulation, study, analysis, proposal or action that has the climate crisis in mind is built on the basis of those two figures: 1.5 Even so, it was a major breakthrough as the first COP to mention the temperature goals we are all familiar with today. For the first time at a COP , a target of 1.5

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Business Green

JANUARY 19, 2021

Opponents of the mine have noted that if the government is successful in catalysing the development of green steel production, as the UK's net zero targets suggest it must be, then the new mine risks seeing demand for its coal curtailed in the coming years. We have to galvanise and energise when it comes to that public facing campaign.".

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 7, 2024

Most famously, the governor of Florida kept battling one of the world’s most beloved brands, Disney, over the company’s position on state laws targeting the LGBTQ+ community. Some in the investment community even pushed back on anti-ESG laws — partly because, as one analysis concluded, those state laws could cost taxpayers $708 million.

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GreenBiz

JULY 20, 2020

Earlier this year, Danone became the first listed company to become an "enterprise à mission," a new type of corporation created by a 2019 French law. For example, when social distancing regulations were at their most demanding, trips to train farmers on new practices and discuss investment and financing plans became logistically impossible.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The bill’s backers hope the law will make it easier for farmers and landowners to get paid for storing carbon in their fields and forests. But it’s unclear how the law will address farmers’ biggest concerns. They’re also worried about being fairly compensated.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The COP insiders who feel responsible for maintaining an artificial sense of suspense can relax and tell the truth: There will be no breakthrough agreement because delegates have never had the power to deliver one and never will, until most citizens in their home countries demand it. As it sinks in that the crucial 1.5C

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Business Green

JULY 15, 2020

Earlier this year, Danone became the first listed company to become an ‘entreprise à mission', a new type of corporation created by a 2019 French law. The pioneering governance structure will see the food giant officially entrench environmental, social, and societal objectives into its bylaws, alongside more typical profit goals.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

And by COP in Glasgow we will look to have those types of commitments across the financial sector, right into the private banking sector as well.". It's a net zero COP. That's the objective. That's the expectation.". The decade of delivery. But there is still a long way to go.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 20, 2020

Danone’s Eric Soubeiran: ‘The food system is broken’ Cecilia Keating Mon, 07/20/2020 – 00:30 Earlier this year, Danone became the first listed company to become an “enterprise à mission,” a new type of corporation created by a 2019 French law. “You showed evidence that finance can change the world.

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Climate Tech VC

JANUARY 16, 2024

Fortescue unveiled a green ammonia dual-fuel ship at COP.   Ammonia demand for fertilizer and other existing uses by IEA scenario (Source: IEA ) Shipping fuel: Maritime shipping, which accounts for 3% of CO2 emissions, is betting big on ammonia. tons of CO2 per ton of production—accounting for 1.8% of global emissions. 

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R-Squared Energy

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Demand has returned, but supply hasn’t caught up. As an example, ConocoPhillips COP — the largest publicly-traded pure oil and gas produce — is up 80% YTD versus an S&P 500 return of 26%. trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act was signed into law by President Biden in November. The 2021 Infrastructure Bill.

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Climate Tech VC

OCTOBER 10, 2023

⚡ Amperon , a Houston, Texas-based electricity grid demand forecasting platform, raised $20M in Series B funding from Energize Capital, D.E. In other updates on global climate talks, Russia will oppose a pre-COP 28 agreement to phase out fossil fuels. Shaw Group, Veriten and HSBC Asset Management.

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Green Market Oracle

JUNE 1, 2020

Floyd is the latest in a seemingly unending stream of unarmed black men killed by law enforcement. Although Trump and others point to the destruction and looting and try to characterize protestors as "thugs" and "domestic terrorists", the vast majority are lawful and non-violent. We do not want to go through this anymore.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 9, 2022

It's not enough for companies to report about their financial activities and liabilities as required by law, according to Sen. Nor is it enough for the US Securities and Exchange Commission to demand, as expected soon, that businesses report about climate liabilities as well. Sheldon Whitehouse.

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Green Market Oracle

JUNE 23, 2020

However, many want to see national standards in policy, law and training for all of the 18,000 police agencies in the U.S. For the first time in American history these demands seem to have found a political foothold. People are coming together to demand an end to police brutality and combat the scourge of racism.

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Mosaic

DECEMBER 27, 2022

And even getting new construction to go electric is a trial—as attorney general, Healey had no choice but to rule that state law prohibited town ordinances from banning gas hookups in new buildings. But Boston has almost three hundred thousand housing units, and Massachusetts, in all, has three million. When economists talk about the I.R.A.

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