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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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Reforms include measures to halve pesticide use across the bloc – proposals that have alarmed an industry worth €12 billion in Europe alone each year. Scientists say the raft of green measures, aimed at tackling spiralling climate breakdown and biodiversity collapse, are crucial for the future of Europe’s food supply.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The country is working on making a “hydrogen acceleration law” a reality. ” As Germany, Europe’s largest economy, has shut down its last nuclear power plants, its looking toward developing hydrogen infrastructure to help supply the power that so many of its industries desperately need.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The number of operational clean hydrogen production projects worldwide is set to at least double in the next five years, according to research published on 23 October by law firm Pillsbury , with 108 set to start producing the gas by the end of 2028. home to 7 (7%); the UK home to 7 (7%); and Japan home to 7 (7%).

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Business Green

MAY 10, 2021

Pollsters and political leaders may be fixated on the post-Brexit political realignment that has seen the 'red wall' turn blue while opposition parties start to nibble at the 'blue doughnut' in the south and suburbs, but are we also starting to see evidence of a green realignment that could yet inform the pace and shape of the net zero transition?

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 2, 2024

The demonstration would be the culmination of a wave of Europe-wide protests by farmers, which have triggered an unprecedented rollback of environmental measures. The group hopes to rally 100,000 people to attend protests on June 4, in what it sees as a critical moment to influence voters.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

She has contributed to law conferences, diplomatic events, and environmental summits as well as podcasts, interviews and articles for publications and broadcasters ranging from TIME Magazine to the New York Times and from The Guardian to the BBC. What she realized was that the aspect that protects our rights is actually criminal law.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 14, 2021

A UN-backed report funded by the EU outlines a proposal whereby the recycling of certain components and sub-systems within electronic equipment should be mandated by law. Acceptance by the manufacturing and recycling industry is also needed, as the standards will only work when there is widespread adoption.”.

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Business Green

JUNE 18, 2020

While many are hearing the need to align immediate spending packages with longer-term goals, the idea of a green recovery is being met with political opposition from many quarters. The EU Climate Law should be swiftly enacted, and the 2030 target for greenhouse gas emission reductions strengthened to at least 55 per cent.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 29, 2022

The 2022 dialogues’ theme will take into account political and legislative agendas, as well as the national context of each hosting country. Over 600 participants were counted from across Sweden, Germany, Bulgaria, Poland, Slovenia, Ireland, Latvia, Italy, Portugal and Greece.

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Business Green

JANUARY 19, 2023

From its source in the Pindos Mountains in north-west Greece to its meeting with the Adriatic Sea in Albania, the Vjosa river flows uninterrupted for more than 270 kilometres, making it the longest free-flowing river in Europe outside of Russia. But the picture is much more complicated.

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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 European Parliament’s committees are expected to vote on pesticide laws (the “SUR regulation”) from July. But the laws have been the subject of intense lobbying, and have run into growing political resistance.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2023

Under Italian law, a request for mediation is a mandatory prerequisite for filing a defamation lawsuit. CASE’s analysis, published last year, recorded 111 SLAPPs in Europe in 2021, as opposed to four in 2010. CASE’s analysis, published last year, recorded 111 SLAPPs in Europe in 2021, as opposed to four in 2010.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 20, 2023

Campaigners have called on the EU to urgently reform its rules around lobbying transparency after DeSmog revealed that a US oil-linked advocacy group has been lobbying against major green reforms in Europe, without declaring its activities. Corporate Europe Observatory is now calling on the EU to make its lobbying register legally binding.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The hike is just one example of the links – uncovered by an October DeSmog investigation – between large farming unions and six influential MEPs who oppose nature-friendly laws, all of whom, like Dorfmann, are members of the conservative European People’s Party, or EPP. I really don’t need their [industry groups’] opinion on this.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 19, 2024

In the words of Lady Justice Carr, who read out the ruling of the court: “The circumstances would not include the political or philosophical beliefs of the person causing the damage … Evidence from the defendant about the facts or effects of climate change would be inadmissible.” The flaw in this logic is obvious.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 2, 2021

Lawyers representing Grande-Synthe argued that the government was legally bound by the target, as well as its duties under the Paris Agreement, the European Convention on Human Rights, and French environmental law more broadly, and said current policies were not sufficient to meet them. Climate Justice History’.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

ZN Shine ceased operating in Europe in 2015 after running afoul of EU trade rules. and Europe? “In Europe, we are completely dependent on China [for solar modules],” says Stefan Reber, managing director and CTO of German solar materials firm NexWafe. That deal may have marked the zenith for UK-China relations.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

What’s more, the political opportunity to bring the country together through heartland interest in thriving agriculture and coastal interest in climate action is one that could help unify a country that is divided against itself on climate action. Policy & Politics. Policy & Politics. At a high level, the U.S. Paris Agreement.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

So far, the farmers have won key concessions, with the EU decision on Tuesday to drop its plans to cut pesticide use, hot on the heels of the same move by France on Friday, despite numbers of birds and pollinators plummeting in Europe. And that is the big divide between farmers’ organisations currently in Europe.”

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Europe is another problem area. Flutura Kusari, senior legal advisor at the European Centre for Press and Media Freedom, says SLAPPs have become a serious threat to public participation in Europe. It also gave her a different political frame of reference. “I Speaking Out. Public Interest.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Together they would reassure the world that the United States can honor its climate commitments; help stave off the effects of a carbon border tax planned in Europe; and, if designed right, position U.S. Part of the problem has been the political impasse in Washington over clean energy and climate policies. Industrial policy.

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Charged

AUGUST 22, 2019

Obviously, such plans have opponents, and they aren’t likely to become law without political battles. Some saw the beginning of a brown backlash that would strike down proposed car bans across Europe. Paris and Amsterdam have ambitious plans to banish dinosaur burners by 2030.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

MARCH 12, 2024

The new law also changes the duties of the Energy Conservation and Management Division of the Energy, Minerals, and Natural Resources Department to make them the authority in regulating the exploration, development, and production of geothermal resources on public and private land.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

The change will be introduced as an amendment to the EU's climate law. The Commission is likely to have found a target that is achievable and politically palatable to all member states. Europe deployed 3.6GW of offshore wind in 2019. That deployment may now be front-loaded.

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Business Green

MARCH 5, 2020

Her short hand assessment is justified, no matter how many political noses it puts out of joint. And yet, today's reaction to the unveiling of the EU's new Climate Law still grated. The Commission and Europe as a whole need to be doing a lot more to cut emissions right now. Better still, the law promises near-term progress.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 28, 2023

Of course, the more likely reason is that we are leading up to an election where already the environment is being used as a political football.” The UK’s is currently 8th in Europe, in one league table for recycling rates, according to Eurostat. Valpak’s CEO Steve Gough struck a more conciliatory note.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 13, 2021

In October of this year, the captain of that supply ship, Giuseppe Sotgiu, paid a heavy price for his decision: an Italian judge sentenced him to a year in prison for violating humanitarian law. Rising seas, desertification, famine — all of it will drive the desperate to places like Europe and the U.S.,

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

talked with Yusuf Latief about flexible ways of managing the grid, a new platform for solving congestion problems that will be announced at Enlit Europe and their experience of the energy industry. And politics often takes too long. This could all be done much faster, but that’s how politics work. Can you tell me more?

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Business Green

MARCH 23, 2023

That is the hypothesis advanced in a new report published today by the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science. The authors anticipate the upcoming Fit for 55 package in particular is set to trigger several new cases.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 21, 2021

Political Shifts: Earth Day Gains Momentum Despite Political Turbulence. During this period, president Jimmy Carter supported the drive for new and improved environmental law which continued throughout his term up until 1981. This was no doubt a political win for Earth Day. struggled under these political constraints.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

"With Catherine beside him, our new Prince and Princess of Wales will, I know, continue to inspire and lead our national conversations, helping to bring the marginal to the centre ground where vital help can be given," Charles said of his son and daughter-in-law.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 21, 2021

The Aarhus Convention, established under the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, gives citizens of signatory nations the right to access environmental information, participate in environmental decision-making, and access justice in environmental matters.

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Mr. Sustainability

AUGUST 22, 2020

Summary - Politics is a tug-of-war for power and control of resources. Most political commentators and newspapers think in terms of what leaders want to do for their countries, but that’s the wrong way of understanding politics. That’s the true key to understanding politics, and to learn how to fix politics.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 26, 2021

It’s a complex process that can be hard to make sense of from the outside, but it’s how international law and institutions help solve problems that no single country can fix on its own. I worked for the United Nations for several years as a law and policy adviser and have been involved in international negotiations.

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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

The storage of nuclear waste is always a hot political topic. She said that political support for nuclear power is improving. The bipartisan infrastructure law allocated $6 billion into current reactors and $2.5 nuclear designs from Eastern Europe because of energy security concerns. Huff what the U.S. and push U.S.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 18, 2022

Political Shifts: Earth Day Gains Momentum Despite Political Turbulence. During this period, president Jimmy Carter supported the drive for new and improved environmental law which continued throughout his term up until 1981. This was no doubt a political win for Earth Day. struggled under these political constraints.

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