DeSmogBlog

MARCH 1, 2024

Experts said the promotion was misleading and ignored the global warming impact of UK diets. The advert was produced by CleanFoodFacts.com, a site run by the Center for Organization Research and Education (CORE) – a network established by veteran industry lobbyist Richard Berman.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 22, 2021

The solution to this is perhaps more transparency and accountability — which can be achieved only through enhanced, standardized, non-financial disclosure metrics, as well as the acknowledgement and management of externalities, such as global warming, increasing social fragmentation and unrest. Redefining fiduciary duty.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2021

Bespectacled, tall, and barrel-chested, with blonde hair and a beard punctuated by gray, Cole stood confidently before a classroom of conference attendees at a University of Oregon environmental law symposium in 2008, less than a year before his death. Abascal gave Cole a desk and a phone, and Cole got to work. Early Influences.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

This is “due to the sector’s role in driving global warming, and the seismic risks that climate change and the energy transition present to the industry,” he explained. The reverse is also true: litigation brought by outside organizations against oil and gas companies can influence shareholders and, in turn, increase pressure.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 23, 2021

Rapid progress towards establishing net zero industry clusters can be facilitated by making best use of regional resources and organizations. The UK pledged to prevent global warming from spiraling out of control by signing the 2015 Paris Agreement – enshrining into law the ambitious climate change target to cut emissions by 78% by 2035.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

A Public Campaign of Deception First, as the complaint notes, “Defendants have known about the potential warming effects of GHG emissions since as early as the 1950s.” Nuclear physicist Edward Teller warned the oil industry at an API event in 1959 that global warming might melt the polar ice caps and submerge coastal cities.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

“The activities proposed by Equinor Argentina will degrade an ecosystem that is already threatened by overfishing, global warming and pollution.”. The company’s stock immediately jumped by nearly 9 percent after the law was changed. When the law passed, the public reaction was immediate and intense. December 16, 2021.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

“Climate litigation is a formidable tool to put pressure on the State and ask to strengthen its efforts in the climate fight,” said Marica Di Pierri, spokesperson for A Sud, the organization bringing the lawsuit. “As That’s why we have decided to [bring] the first Italian climate lawsuit.”.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JUNE 8, 2022

Assembly Bill 32, the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, requires CARB to develop and update every five years a scoping plan that describes the approach California will take to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to achieve the goal of reducing emissions to 1990 levels by 2020.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Instead of enjoying carefree childhood hobbies , they are protesting, litigating, organizing, and public speaking about the importance of policy-based climate solutions. Look up parent-centric climate organizations like Parents for Future , Climate Mama , Science Moms , Climate Action Families.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The report also highlighted a number of key global developments within the CCS industry. These included the United States introducing new policies and laws, most notably the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) which provides enhancements to the 45Q tax credit for CCS.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

But the incident pointed to a serious problem: Ruminant livestock, mostly cattle, account for 30 percent of all global methane emissions, pumping out 3 gigatons of the gas every year in their burps, farts, and manure. And as a review published by the U.N. The need to rein in methane emissions is especially urgent in Cali­fornia, home to 1.8

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 25, 2023

Telles was joined on the stage by Joaquim Alvaro Pereira Leite, who served as an environment minister under Bolsonaro, and Antônio Cabrera, a former agriculture minister, known as a critic of laws protecting Indigenous territories from conversion into livestock ranches. trillion in 2022.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The UK organizers of the COP26 climate conference very publicly declined to offer international oil companies any slots in the conference or any formal role in the event, and oil companies without credible climate programs were also barred from sponsoring events at the high-stakes international talks currently underway.

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Better Ventures

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

But now, with global warming knocking on our door, the case for mitigation and adaptation solutions is making more and more financial sense. To date, insurance and financial organizations have relied upon predictive risk models based on historical trends. We would love to chat!

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CleanTX

MARCH 20, 2019

These areas of work build on BP’s methane reduction target; EDF’s extensive methane research, business analyses and other innovation projects; and both organizations’ participation in the Methane Guiding Principles , a multi-stakeholder initiative aimed at broad engagement to continually reduce emissions globally. percent. # # #.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

A “high ambition” coalition of nations such as France, Tuvalu, Ethiopia, and Ireland backed by climate scientists, climate and civil society organizations , and the UN Secretary General , are calling for commitments to phase out coal, oil, and gas. percent of current global energy sector emissions.

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R-Squared Energy

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Earlier this month, France’s constitutional court upheld a law cutting palm oil from the country’s list of approved biofuels and eliminating associated tax exemptions. Biofuels are still expected to play an important part in hitting ambitious climate targets; to keep global warming under 1.5°C C by 2100, at least 26.3%

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Grist

DECEMBER 16, 2019

As changing weather patterns driven by global warming have extended California’s wildfire season and increased the intensity and size of the infernos burning across the state, residents who don’t take precautions do so at their own peril. According to Emily Williams, a Ph.D. particulate matter are designated as “unhealthy.”

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 26, 2023

Diverse compounds are emitted by everything from motor vehicles to power plants, and include both greenhouse gases and short-lived climate pollutants – which are known to fuel global warming – as well as a host of volatile organic compounds that can lead to short- and long-term health problems in humans.

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Grist

APRIL 8, 2021

But in February, shortly before an independent Harvard advisory committee was expected to give the go-ahead, a group of Swedish environmental organizations and the Indigenous Saami Council sent a letter demanding the project be canceled. It’s yet another holdup for solar geoengineering research.

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Grist

JANUARY 12, 2023

The chart below shows how global warming projections modeled by Exxon scientists compared to the actual temperature that ensued. Between 1998 and 2019, Exxon gave more than $37 million to organizations that sought to sow confusion about the scientific consensus around climate change and obstruct efforts by governments to take action.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 9, 2023

Last year, environmental groups filed a complaint with the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, an intergovernmental body, alleging that Eni’s plans to increase oil production ran contrary to its net zero goal. Eni did not respond to a request for comment on its early knowledge of climate change. That case is still pending.

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Front And Centered

MAY 17, 2019

It allowed the state to “remedy discrimination against, or under-representations of, disadvantaged groups as documented in a valid disparity study or proven court of law.” This affects not only issues like education, but the states policies and resource allocations related to issues like climate, energy and the environment.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 22, 2021

The solution to this is perhaps more transparency and accountability — which can be achieved only through enhanced, standardized, non-financial disclosure metrics, as well as the acknowledgement and management of externalities, such as global warming, increasing social fragmentation and unrest.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

It’s more about politics and policy that drives organizations and individuals to “attack the science and confuse the public,” as Michael Mann wrote in his 2016 book, “The Madhouse Effect: How Climate Change Denial Is Threatening Our Planet, Destroying Our Politics, and Driving Us Crazy,” co-written with cartoonist Tom Toles.

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Green Technology

OCTOBER 13, 2022

He served on the California State Board of Education’s Curriculum Commission and then founded Ten Strands as a nonprofit organization to support California’s efforts to achieve statewide penetration of high-quality environment-based education into schools. What made you decide to move from the private sector to teaching?

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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 For the first time, it proposed encompassing all the gases that cause global warming in a single indicator. That paragraph, in article 2, paragraph 2.a., They are our lighthouse.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 11, 2023

Direct air capture may play a role someday, but the best option now is to halt carbon emissions in the first place, said John Fleming, senior scientist at the Center for Biological Diversity’s Climate Law Institute. Two of the four DAC hubs funded by the Department of Energy will be located on the Gulf Coast. “DAC link] — Mark Z.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 18, 2023

Instead, they are required to contract with “ industry-governed organizations ” — private trade associations — to promote products. R-CALF USA doesn’t only blame the private trade associations for overturning the law that allowed “Made in the USA” labels. “It’s Although they are run by the U.S.

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Charged

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

In the last few years, driven by the severe impacts of climate change and global warming, the shift toward electric and self-driving vehicles in the automotive industry is showing an unstoppable momentum. The world’s major automobile markets such as the United States and Europe are taking steps to phase out gas-powered vehicles.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Birders and organized labor dominated a recent public comment period, while beach towns were mostly mum. But unchecked global warming poses an exponentially greater danger. How might global warming alter its annual trek? By Elizabeth Ouzts , Energy News Network.

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Business Green

MAY 26, 2022

Traditionally, companies would put all the information they considered to be financially material in their financial reports, as is required by securities law. Climate change is an incredibly complex issue, so it's unrealistic to expect most organizations to have in-house climate expertise. Why climate reporting is different.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

JANUARY 11, 2015

Del Chiaro has taken these two attributes and poured them into her career of working in public policy to help pass green laws and regulations. Signed into law in 2006, the legislation created a mandate to put 3,000 megawatts of solar on California roofs by the end of 2016. We’ve only scratched the surface.

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Rinexii

JANUARY 22, 2021

This also means that as early as the 1980s, the people who would define the laws of nations around the world also knew about climate change. We need an organized response, and the cooperation of everyone, for the best possible chance at mitigating the current climate crisis. Similar preparation times, similar outcomes?

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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. degrees Celsius.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

After the Biden administration’s bipartisan infrastructure law was passed , the administration hailed the bill’s $4.7 The law’s current implementation also offers no assurances that the new jobs promised for oil and gas industry workers will materialize, although it is a stated goal of the law.

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