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. Both had to wrestle with outside factors that affected emissions, such as the Great Recession and California’s other climate policies. As the U.S.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

These critics rarely have much in the way of workable policy proposals to help those households on lower incomes, nor anything you could call a track record when it comes to tackling poverty. But it does highlight how the way the costs and benefits associated with the transition are shared is a policy choice.

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Business Green

APRIL 19, 2021

Political and business leaders have certainly talked a good game in the wake of the coronavirus crisis. Three major new reports raise alarm that for all the talk of a green recovery on the national and international stage net zero transition plans remain badly underpowered.

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Clean Energy Canada

JUNE 27, 2023

If you have noticed a lot more electric vehicles on the roads lately, your eyes are not deceiving you. One in five vehicles sold in B.C. is now electric, a milestone that makes B.C. With its pre-existing EV advantage, population density, abundant clean electricity, and political environment (B.C.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

One of the most common responses to the gathering political campaign against the UK's net zero strategy is that it is important not to underestimate such an experienced and effective band of campaigners, regardless of how modest they may be in number. It is simply not plausible. But worst than that, it is obviously implausible.

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Energy Innovation

OCTOBER 21, 2020

By Sarah Spengeman and Surili Patel, Director, Center for Climate, Health and Equity, American Public Health Association. The vast majority of the pollution that damages human health is produced by burning fossil fuels to power our homes, cars, and businesses. PM 10) – three of the most damaging pollutants for human health.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

May, who was UK Prime Minister from 2016 to 2019, was speaking last night at an event hosted by the Conservative Environment Network (CEN), which represents more than 100 Tory MPs who back policies to cut emissions and protect nature. But the shift to electric vehicles is happening and with enthusiasm.”.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

When the government recently announced its intention to increase National Insurance to pay for a £12bn investment in health and social care, I can't have been alone in thinking about other ways in which they could raise the funds. Chris Sherrington is head of environmental policy and economics at Eunomia Research & Consulting.

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Business Green

AUGUST 7, 2023

Priti Patel's latest attack on green policies makes little sense and offers no alternative vision for the future - it deserves to be rejected, line-by-line The attacks on the UK's climate policies are now coming thick and fast. There have been citizens assemblies, myriad policy consultations, and thousands of MPs' surgeries.

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EDF + Business

JUNE 24, 2021

For companies whose business depends on trucks, including shipping-dependent brands, large fleet operators and truck and engine manufacturers, the pressure to reduce emissions is especially urgent – given that pollution from medium and heavy-duty vehicles not only contributes to climate change but also causes serious harm to human health.

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Business Green

APRIL 22, 2020

What does the coronavirus crisis mean for delivering net zero policy and a successful COP26? The big question for business leaders, investors, and campaigners is to what extent will the health crisis and epic economic fallout disrupt and delay the planned net zero transition? In short, "nothing has changed, yet everything has changed".

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Business Green

JANUARY 18, 2022

London Mayor Sadiq Khan is considering a raft of new policy measures to tackle transport emissions in the capital, including proposals for new charges for motorists, following the publication of a new report today detailing the huge scale of the challenge if London is to deliver on its target of becoming a net zero city by 2030.

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Business Green

MARCH 29, 2023

The ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel cars and vans from 2035 had originally been envisaged as a means of driving the shift to electric vehicles (EVs) or potentially hydrogen fuel cell vehicles and as such would ban the sale of all new ICE vehicles. Legislative certainty is vital for business planning.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 27, 2021

This can leave a lasting impact on the health of our oceans as well as communities who rely on fishing for stability. Fisheries should implement a strict policy requiring all netting, lines and other onboard waste to be collected and disposed of properly. Ban Overfishing Endangered Species. Use Lead-Free Fishing Gear.

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Front And Centered

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

We require a Just Transition because the physics of climate are unforgiving, because it’s the right thing to do, and because it’s the only politically possible path toward what we really need. There is $40 million from some state and mostly federal funding for weatherization and home health of low income households.

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Business Green

APRIL 20, 2020

The report sees the influential Abu Dhabi-based agency join the UN, the IEA, and a raft of top political and business figures in calling for economic recovery plans to focus on driving more ambitious climate action. The time has come to invest trillions, not into fossil fuels, but into sustainable energy infrastructure.".

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Business Green

AUGUST 13, 2020

The EU's proposed Green Deal shows that the right policy initiatives could address the economic crisis and climate change simultaneously. So, as we started 2020, sustainability and climate change were riding high on the political and corporate agenda. Isabella Hervey-Bathurst is Portfolio Manager/Global Sector Specialist at Schroders.

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Business Green

AUGUST 22, 2022

Against this sobering backdrop, political leaders are scrambling for policy fixes to try and mimimise the looming economic storm. Meanwhile, a host of policy proposals for tackling the twin energy and cost of living crises continued to be bandied about in the press this weekend.

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Business Green

MARCH 4, 2020

Titled Delivering strong and sustainable growth in the UK: A special decade for innovation and investment , the report puts forward a series of policy recommendations for recently appointed Chancellor Rishi Sunak to consider ahead of next week's Budget, all of which centre on how to accelerate the UK's net zero transition. "The

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

Net zero strategies will fail unless they proactively manage the impact of decarbonisation policies on workers, communities and households. Climate action can have multiple additional benefits, for biodiversity, public health, and food security. They must be aligned with broader environmental, social and economic objectives.

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Business Green

JUNE 26, 2020

By this, we mean that policies should enable companies and sectors to cooperate through trading policies, including use of natural climate solutions and a wide range of technological removals.". In the face of a historic health and economic crisis, it is perhaps more important than ever.".

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Grist

DECEMBER 15, 2021

And, in the United States, political gridlock chopped the heart out of Congress’ most ambitious clean energy plan. . In British Columbia, Premier John Horgan’s government detailed policies to nearly double climate-protection efforts. Will improve public health. Would make electricity more dependable.

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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. The UK would be in a lot better position from an energy cost and security perspective if it had more renewables and electric vehicles, not less.

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Greenability Magazine

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

During his tenure, Kansas City experienced a paradigm shift that positioned environmental considerations as an integral part of all city planning, policy and activities. “I Murphey advised on all projects and policies that could build a more sustainable and prepared Kansas City.

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Business Green

JUNE 3, 2020

Gabrielle Ginér, BT's head of environmental sustainability, discusses the CO2 benefits of digital services and the challenges of shifting to a fully electric vehicle fleet. But, as with any other company currently, BT is set to face a very different economic and political landscape when the UK emerges from the coronavirus crisis.

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Business Green

JULY 11, 2022

With the gap between many of the leading candidates on fantasy uncosted tax cuts, inhumane asylum policies, and their complicity in the last six months of rolling scandals as slender as Boris Johnson's sense of propriety, climate policy, net zero, and how to respond to soaring energy bills will become critical issues in the leadership election.

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Business Green

JUNE 16, 2021

All the top reaction from leading figures across business, politics, academia, think tanks and green groups to the CCC's latest assessment of the UK's preparedness for climate change. Here, BusinessGreen rounds up all the top comments from business, politics, academia, think tanks and civil society.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The political turmoil of the summer saw the government repeatedly resist calls for it to take a more pro-active stance on advising households and businesses on how to save energy. But experts from across the green economy continue to lament the lack of progress on energy efficiency policy.

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Business Green

MARCH 3, 2021

But today felt particularly disappointing given the sharp contrast between the patchwork of welcome but largely underpowered green policy announcements and Sunak's rhetorical recognition that the combination of the covid and climate crisis presents a unique historic moment when a full spectrum green recovery strategy is utterly essential.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

I’ve long viewed Jacobson’s life — and his collaboration with researchers, cultural icons, business leaders and political leaders — as a well-written movie script. Congress; and policy pros serving President Obama. Jacobson’s Early Story. On the evening of July 10, 2011, Jacobson attended a swanky event in San Francisco.

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Business Green

JULY 27, 2021

Will well-intentioned critiques of demonstrably inadequate net zero strategies catalyse more ambitious decarbonisation plans or will they inadvertently undermine a trend that has helped successfully push climate issues up the corporate and political agenda? Putting net zero targets onto statute books has real legal and institutional value.

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2023

The findings of his Review may do little to convince the net zero sceptics in his own party, but if they take the time to read it they might find themselves pleasantly surprised by how reasonable its 129 recommendations are - and how economically, politically, and socially rational to boot. G overnance.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

This position will follow public health guidelines issued by the City of Los Banos, Merced County, and the State of California. PCE offers a generous benefits package, including: Individual, family and domestic partner health insurance. Health and dependent care flex spending account. PHYSICAL AND WORKING CONDITIONS.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 9, 2020

As such, while the world is still not on track to limit average temperature wise to 'well below' 2C, as required under the Paris Agreement, the analysis suggest the net zero transition is rapidly accelerating, and with the right policy support the shift "will come faster than we think", according to Systemiq founding partner Jeremy Oppenheim.

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Business Green

JUNE 23, 2020

Worldwide there is growing recognition of the moral imperative to ramp-up efforts to tackle the climate crisis," said Matthew Fell, CBI chief UK policy director. Third, the report reiterates previous calls for the government to deliver a series of key policy decisions that have been stuck in the pipeline for months.

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Business Green

JULY 7, 2021

It does expect the total cost to be far higher - over £1.4tr - but this is offset by more than a trillion pounds in net zero associated savings, such as the reduced running costs for electric vehicles and lower energy bills that will come from more efficient homes and buildings. — Tim Lord (@timbolord) July 6, 2021.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Advice on health and road safety remains in place, Ministers continue to condemn all kinds of activities, more specifically Truss is pursuing plans to tell farmers and landowners precisely which parts of their property they are not permitted to install solar panels on and bribe households to accept fracking wells in their communities.

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