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U.S. Green Technology
FEBRUARY 4, 2022
Government officials recognize the importance of conservation services and team up with professionals to develop solutions. The post Green Government Policies Save Lives appeared first on U.S.
The Environmental Blog
JUNE 4, 2021
Local governments are uniquely impacted by climate change. But climate change’s cruelty extends to American governance, too. The level of government least able to mitigate and adapt is the level of government most affected. Climate Change Local Governments
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DeSmogBlog
APRIL 9, 2021
A Conservative peer who was until last year a trustee of the UK’s most prominent climate science denial group is set to be appointed to a parliamentary committee tasked with overseeing the UK government’s climate policy.
Eco-Business
JANUARY 12, 2022
Amid the flurry to decarbonise post-COP26, firms in Asia also appear to favour hydrogen fuel and face more pressure from shareholders
Speaker: Bruce Armstrong Taylor, Co-Founder & Managing Director of SmartNations Foundation, Jimmy Jia, Venture Partner at Pi Labs, Fabienne Durand, Senior Advisor to the SmartNations Foundation, & Roger Strukhoff, Executive Director of the Tau Institute
The Carbon Zero, Circular Economy, is easily the most profoundly important result of digital transformation. Industry 4.0 has a massively cumulative impact on dematerialization (in all forms) and resultant decarbonization (both emissions and embodied) throughout the economy. Join panelists Bruce Armstrong Taylor, Jimmy Jia, Fabienne Durand, and their moderator Roger Strukhoff as they discuss how bending the carbon/GHG heavy linear economy to the circular is one of the hidden benefits of digital disruption.
The City Fix
APRIL 27, 2022
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GreenBiz
APRIL 30, 2021
Policy, not politics, will change America's meat habits. I think the meat wars are going to be worse than energy," Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental policy expert at New York University, told the HEATED newsletter. Jim Giles. Fri, 04/30/2021 - 02:30.
GreenBiz
SEPTEMBER 14, 2020
Policy for a Circular Economy: Part 2. policy landscape around plastics, recycling and solid waste management? The steady growth of public attention around plastics and packaging has led to a revitalized policy focus in the U.S. packaging policy landscape.
Clean Energy Canada
APRIL 14, 2022
It also makes governments more accountable as the impacts of their policies are more closely tracked. The post Canada’s 2020 emissions data shows impact of COVID—but also climate policy appeared first on Clean Energy Canada. Media Releases Canada Emissions Federal Government
Clean Energy Canada
FEBRUARY 23, 2022
SEEKING a strategic thinker and energetic leader to join our policy team’s efforts to advance clean transportation priorities in Canada. Provide advice and contribute to policy discussions federally and, where appropriate, at provincial levels of government. Create Policy.
Clean Energy Canada
APRIL 26, 2022
TORONTO — Governments around the world are using public procurement—the system used to make purchasing decisions—as a tool to tackle climate change and support jobs. Here in Canada, governments buy about 30% of all steel, cement, and concrete sold annually.
Envirotec Magazine
JANUARY 12, 2022
Both ClientEarth and Friends of the Earth are taking the government to court over strategies intended to advance the transition to a low emissions future. The Government claims that those producing pollution should bear the cost of managing it.
Business Green
MAY 18, 2022
Policy decisions surrounding new coal mines, air passenger duty, and North Sea oil and gas are undermining the government's net zero agenda, think tank warns. A lack of joined-up policy making has often undermined cross-government ambitions," the IfG report states. "In
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The City Fix
MARCH 3, 2021
In some ways, cities are like households: they must make adjustments in spending based on cash flow. If your income is cut in half, then you may have to dramatically rethink your standard of living. COVID-19 has hit many households. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.
GreenBiz
JUNE 18, 2021
Companies are jumping aboard the federal packaging and recycling policy train. With new federal bills up for review and debate, and packaging being a bull’s eye, the status of packaging and recycling policy is in flux. We need those policy motivators," she said.
Energy Innovation
MARCH 9, 2022
This week, Energy Innovation launched the Oregon Energy Policy Simulator (EPS) , our newest state-specific, open-source, peer-reviewed, and nonpartisan model that estimates the environmental, economic, and public health impacts of hundreds of climate and energy policies.
Women in Cleantech and Sustainability
JUNE 21, 2021
Policy Manager | Center for Resource Solutions | San Francisco. Center for Resource Solutions (CRS) is seeking a candidate with 2-5 years’ experience to join its expanding renewable energy policy and market development team. This position will track CRS state policy outreach and play a key role in supporting CRS’s technical assistance and international policy work, along with the new Clean Energy Accounting Project (CEAP).
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 2, 2021
government procurement can lead the clean economy. After 50 years of incremental progress in making its purchasing more sustainable, the federal government still faces tremendous challenges to making acquisitions value sustainability, reduce carbon and halt climate changes to our environment. Every decision the government makes with its $600 billion of annual purchasing power has an impact — it could and should be a positive one. Policy & Politics. How U.S.
Eco-Business
JULY 28, 2020
Governments are unwilling and market forces are not enough. Tackling a problem as complex as climate change in the post-Covid era requires systemic change, argues author Roland Kupers
Envirotec Magazine
MARCH 25, 2022
Reaching net zero carbon emissions by 2050 is impossible without urgent changes to national planning policy, analysis by CPRE, the countryside charity, appears to have found. The fact that they don’t come close to doing so is proof of the failure of current national planning policy.
Women in Cleantech and Sustainability
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
Local and Regional Policy and Government Affairs Manager | San Francisco Public Utilities Commission | San Francisco. The Local and Regional Policy and Government Affairs (PGA) Manager will coordinate complex policy and government affairs duties for the SFPUC, shepherding legislation through the local and regional legislative process and responding to constituent requests from elected officials.
Green Business Bureau
FEBRUARY 25, 2021
Green Procurement Policy. A green procurement or green purchasing policy (GPP) is put in place to guide businesses when acquiring materials, supplies and services and selecting such products based on their impact on the environment and human health. Green Procurement Policy Principles.
Eco-Business
MAY 27, 2022
The global population relies on water for its survival - yet the conversation on how water resources are managed and governed is missing from the global policy stage, said experts at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting on Wednesday
Women in Cleantech and Sustainability
MAY 7, 2021
Senior Administrative Analyst for Policy and Government Affairs | CleanPowerSF | San Francisco. The PGA team is responsible for SFPUC’s public policy and political strategy at the local, state and federal level around water, wastewater, energy, climate change, infrastructure financing and workforce development. We work in a fast-paced environment, often managing complex and impactful policy issues and projects with multiple moving parts.
Elemental Excelerator
APRIL 21, 2022
In our work deploying first-of-their-kind projects with climate tech entrepreneurs, we hear again and again that policy barriers present constant challenges, regardless of the industry in which they operate. That’s why we launched the Policy Lab on Earth Day in 2021.
Envirotec Magazine
MARCH 31, 2022
The body representing Scottish SME resource and waste management operators says recycling services across the country are under threat following the UK Government’s refusal to exempt the sector from today’s cutting of the Red Diesel exemption.
altenergymag
SEPTEMBER 30, 2021
In 2020 and early 2021, the rapid evolution of EVSE infrastructure continued. In several nations, efforts are underway to deliberately plan and deploy large-scale interconnected EV charging stations along major transportation corridors. Digitalization, interoperability, and charging network roadmaps are all important concerns in the planning process. In several cases, stimulus packages are supplementing money for EV infrastructure
EDF + Business
JUNE 9, 2020
Governments have a pivotal role in developing and implementing policy and regulation that achieve ambitious emission reduction outcomes. ” Download the policy recommendations. The post EU methane policy recommendations appeared first on EDF+Business.
Clean Energy Canada
NOVEMBER 19, 2020
We particularly welcome the new requirement that the federal government report on its own climate-related financial risks and opportunities, under the purview of the finance minister. Media Releases Climate Policy Federal Government
Eco-Business
APRIL 10, 2020
If signed, the extension will give the industry and investors the certainty and confidence needed to maintain wind energy momentum in the country, experts say
CleanTech Alliance
AUGUST 30, 2019
On Thursday, the federal government announced it will be giving $22 million to help the city create an urban climate centre […]. Industry News Public PolicySource: CTV News Vancouver, Alyse Kotyk, August 29, 2019 t’s been eight years since Vancouver adopted the goal of becoming the greenest city in the world by 2020 and that deadline is swiftly approaching.
Clean Energy Canada
APRIL 7, 2022
VICTORIA — Mark Zacharias, special advisor at Clean Energy Canada, made the following statement in response to the federal government’s Budget 2022 : “Today’s federal budget was the first step toward realizing last week’s historic Emissions Reduction Plan to reach Canada’s 2030 climate target.
Envirotec Magazine
JULY 9, 2021
In comparison, research published by the University of Cambridge earlier this year showed that there have been 14 government strategies containing 689 policies to tackle obesity. For example, only five per cent of policies (one policy) contained any details of a cost and/or budget.
Inhabitat - Innovation
DECEMBER 30, 2020
The Australian government appears conflicted in its efforts to adopt environmentally progressive policies following the country's recent bushfires and record temperatures
GreenBiz
OCTOBER 27, 2020
Brown, female and on the bus: A personal journey into transportation policy. I was raised in such strictly traditional surroundings, we may as well have been in my grandparents’ village in Iran, just without the bombs and threats from the government (at least, not at that point).
Planet Pulse
MAY 25, 2022
government’s industry-defining procurement vehicle for unclassified commercial satellite imagery and represents the Federal government’s significant investment in and commitment to the commercial remote sensing sector and the capabilities and value it provides.
Women in Cleantech and Sustainability
AUGUST 17, 2021
Vice President, Policy | CalStart | Washington DC. CALSTART is seeking a highly motivated, experienced, and results-oriented Vice President to lead industry stakeholders and partners in government to develop and implement policies that support clean transportation at the national and state levels. The candidate should have a strong track record of working with diverse stakeholders and coalitions to advance major public policies.
Business Green
MAY 7, 2021
With G7 and COP26 fast approaching, Environmental Audit Committee chair Philip Dunne argues the government must adopt a solutions-driven approach to environmental policy. The government should be commended for how quickly it offered financial support to protect businesses and jobs.
Women in Cleantech and Sustainability
AUGUST 17, 2021
Federal Policy Director | CalStart | Washington DC. CALSTART is seeking a Federal Policy Director to advance our work nationally. The Federal Policy Director (FPD) will play a key role in working with us and our 270+ member companies to identify, develop, and secure passage of new laws, regulations, and investments that will accelerate the growth of the clean transportation industry. Advancement of policy is a core CALSTART strategy to grow the industry.
Low Carbon Prosperity
DECEMBER 17, 2019
2nd Annual Future of Carbon Policy Forum. The 2nd Annual Future of Carbon Policy Forum brought together over 100 participants to build momentum and collaboration in achieving carbon reduction goals in the state. 5-Kenneth-Dragoon-RHA-Future-of-Carbon-Policy-Dec-2019.
Business Green
DECEMBER 28, 2020
Green Alliance warns that major decarbonisation policy gaps must be filled next year if government is to achieve its bold 2030 carbon reduction target. We'll be looking for the government to move from ambition to action in 2021, with new policies to make hitting the targets possible.".
Envirotec Magazine
MARCH 17, 2022
The UK government announced new environmental targets in four key areas of air quality, water, waste reduction and woodland cover on 16 March. On air quality, the government has proposed a legally-binding target to halve the levels of PM2.5
DeSmogBlog
OCTOBER 15, 2021
An influential think tank with close ties to MPs has hired a head of policy who called the government’s climate policies “socialist” and likened proposed green legislation to a “Soviet Five Year Plan”.
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