Business Green

JUNE 18, 2020

Generations-old conversations about injustice have been borne out by death rates amongst BAME communities; and the urgent need to build resilience to shocks like climate change has been illustrated by the impacts of this health crisis on economies and societies.

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Business Green

JUNE 24, 2021

The government is failing to back up its climate commitments with credible action, with almost all its green policy efforts marred by uncertainty, delay, and a insufficient engagement with the public about the scale of changes ahead, and time rapidly running out for Ministers to get the UK's net zero agenda on track.

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 15, 2021

Lew Milford founded CEG in 1998, after working over several years on clean energy and utility restructuring dockets in New England while with the Conservation Law Foundation. With CEG, Milford focused on how state and communities could develop sound renewable energy policies, programs, and finance tools. Keane, President of SmartPower.

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Business Green

MAY 3, 2020

Domestic laws in many civil law countries include provisions recognising hardship. Moreover, and regardless of whether the law applicable to the contract contains any such provisions, parties may include in their contracts clauses that provide for the possibility of renegotiating or terminating the contract for reasons of hardship.

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Business Green

JUNE 1, 2020

As with all UK businesses, we are committed to ensuring that all possible efforts are made to save lives and tackle the current health crisis and resulting economic downturn. Since the Climate Change Act came into law, the UK has made significant progress in reducing its emissions at the same time as delivering economic growth.

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Greater community resilience – Sustainable buildings also support community resilience to withstand the impacts of climate change. It also puts pressure on developers and builders to stay on top of the continually evolving laws, regulations and certification requirements surrounding green building.

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Front And Centered

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Rather than requiring California and Québec to meet Washington standards, Ecology this week announced it is prepared to offer up legislation this coming session that would weaken the Washington law.

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Front And Centered

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Inslee’s Proposed 2024 Supplemental Budget [ Print Version ] Washington Governor Jay Inslee released his Proposed 2024 Supplemental Budget today which includes policies and programs aimed at confronting the climate crisis and supporting environmental justice. Front and Centered Responds to Gov.

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Front And Centered

JANUARY 14, 2022

Harris-Talley (37th LD), is the way we move toward a just and regenerative energy system that puts the health and well-being of current and future generations first at every stage of the energy process, from generating power to lighting and heating our homes. We cannot go back to disconnections and debt. Priorities Front and Centered Shaped.

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Greentown Labs

AUGUST 31, 2020

Atyia Martin has worn many hats—there’s her emergency management hat, her diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) hat, her public health hat, even her FBI hat! Previously, Martin was the chief resilience officer for the City of Boston, where she worked to improve the city’s climate resilience and justice.

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Front And Centered

MAY 4, 2023

There was a lot on the line this year as the legislature was responsible for, among other things, creating a new two-year state budget, responding to climate and environmental challenges, and tackling other issues related to housing, homelessness, drug possession, and the ongoing mental health crisis.

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Andrew Winston

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Most companies rely on a dated model of engagement on policy with governments and civil society, compartmentalizing their political influence activities into an organizational silo, just as they used to do with their supply chains. (By A recent example is BP’s roller-coaster ride of engagement on climate policy in the state of Washington.

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The Environmental Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2022

It integrates three key concepts: environmental health, financial viability, and social and economic justice. And sustainable farms tend to be more resilient to extreme weather events, like droughts and floods. And in some cases, sustainable agriculture is even being mandated by law. The Benefits of Sustainable Agriculture.

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Front And Centered

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

In this pursuit, we can put justice at the center through a new Health Environment for All (HEAL) Act building on the just released Environmental Justice Task Force report. 2021 POLICY PRIORITIES. Plan for climate resilience. Build Foundational Infrastructure for Resilience and Just Transition.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 21, 2020

This year’s $173 million plan, which includes $94 million in reservation fees to place a hold on hundreds of 2-megawatt diesel generators for quick deployment, “is not a long-term resiliency strategy,” CPUC administrative law judge Colin Rizzo wrote in the proposed decision. How PG&E got to this point.

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Front And Centered

APRIL 14, 2020

This bill would have required that all transportation packages be evaluated through community-centered criteria that embraces equity, environmental justice, accessibility, safety, health, economic vitality, and other key values. Here are important policies that we tracked and helped shape or opposed this legislative session.

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Elemental Excelerator

MARCH 13, 2020

However, it wasn’t until I finished Howard Law, fresh out of courses on environmental justice, clean air, and climate change that I saw how I could articulate my passion through my work. I began working on environmental equity policy in 2012 in California.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

So we can build these policies that will become a postcard from the future for the rest of the country,” said David Hochschild, chair of the California Energy Commission, speaking last week at a UCLA summit on state and local progress toward 100 percent clean energy. 100% targets come in different forms. Washington D.C.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Europe’s leading farming lobby group Copa-Cogeca has used the war in Ukraine as a pretext to push back behind the scenes against flagship EU laws to protect nature, DeSmog can reveal. It urges European decision makers to “protect our health and the environment, and to make our agriculture resilient”.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 10, 2022

But with Ministers yet to go on the record with their detailed policy plans and several departments said to be at loggerheads over key parts of the new programme, environmental groups remain fearful that the UK's green policy framework is about to fundamentally weakened. A strong environment and a strong economy go hand in hand.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

And I will deliver on the National Health Service.". Green business groups therefore also sought to stress the importance of Britain's new PM delivering ambitious net zero and nature policies in order to boost the UK economy amid worrying headwinds from inflation, soaring energy costs and stagnating growth.

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Front And Centered

MARCH 7, 2019

Front and Centered has been helping to shape the bill since August, working with Governor Inslee’s policy staff, legislators and clean energy and conservation advocates to ensure people with lower incomes and frontline communities benefit from this transition. Additionally, improvements need to be made before this bill becomes a law.

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GreenBiz

MAY 10, 2021

Blank scholar at UC Davis School of Law. Project appraisal is one of the key elements in the feasibility analysis of any initiative, which means that the financial health of any project or initiative is crucial for its forthcoming success. Marjan Kris Ramos Abubo. Investors can engage with businesses about their ESG practices.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

In February 2021, German agribusiness giant BASF hosted a virtual wine tasting, a seemingly cozy affair swirling glasses of Portugal’s finest in front of a webcam debating the future of EU agricultural policies. Invited to the event was a small group of Members of the European Parliament (MEPs).

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Front And Centered

MAY 17, 2019

Good environmental policy starts with equitable decision-making process. The proposed Office of Equity ** , would have facilitated and track outcomes for state policy and systems change to promote equity in policy, practice, and outcomes and require agencies to use equity assessment tools.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

As such, the WWF said a resilient, 'nature-positive' economy must be established in the wake of the pandemic, an effort that will require multi-stakeholder collaboration and action across the private and public sectors. "We We are wrecking our world - the one place we call home - risking our health security and survival," she said.

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Grist

JUNE 14, 2023

In March 2020, 16 youth plaintiffs filed suit against the state, alleging that by enacting policies that promote fossil fuel production, the state government violated their constitutional right to a healthy environment. I’ve become more resilient, learning to navigate the complex world of bureaucracy and courtroom procedures.

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Business Green

APRIL 15, 2020

At the same time the groups help millions of people benefit from a healthy environment, champion laws and policies that protect the planet, and restore of the millions of hectares of woodland, wetlands and meadows that can help mitigate climate change. Otherwise we'll just find ourselves lurching from one crisis to another.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The biodiversity net-gain requirement is among the most important conservation policy initiatives of the last two decades, argues Environment Bank chairman and founder Professor David Hill CBE. The Environment Bill will has finally been passed into law, thereby becoming the Environment Act.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

JUNE 24, 2021

This position will have key responsibilities for effective and meaningful outreach and education to a wide variety of audiences and stakeholders in areas related to climate, energy, resiliency, and financing. Experience developing new policies and programs along with process improvement and potential expansion for existing programs.

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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. These are some of the young climate leaders who are pushing hard for environmental action. Kids need parents to engage, too.

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2023

The Plan for Water , released by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) this morning, outlines the government's intention to change the law to increase penalties on water companies that break environmental law, and make it easier for regulators to impose fines on firms without lengthy court processes.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

As the planet heats up, allergy seasons are getting longer and the climate crisis is “violating” her “right to health” said Comparelli, a climate activist in her 20s with Fridays for Future Italy. Sometimes it’s so bad that she has to spend whole afternoons in bed with her windows closed. Above all, though, Comparelli is afraid.

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Business Green

MARCH 4, 2021

Now we need large-scale actions that are good for human health and good for the planet.". "The drop in CO2 emissions from responses to Covid-19 highlights the scale of actions and of international adherence needed to tackle climate change.

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Front And Centered

AUGUST 19, 2019

Moreover, thanks to planned solar projects and new state laws encouraging clean energy development, the industry is poised to grow even further. Employment is a part of a holistic solution to our mission of improving community environmental health and Just Transition. .” – Jill Mangaliman, Executive Director of Got Green.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

To its credit, what Defra has delivered this week is one of the most comprehensive and holistic environmental policy documents from any UK government to date. The statement itself stresses that the environmental principles are "not rules and cannot dictate policy decisions".

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

MARCH 8, 2021

Build monitoring, supervision, and resiliency mechanisms to observe, react to, and maintain platform health, performance, and security. Experience supporting Information Security policies, controls, and initiatives. Each of us has the power and responsibility to promote the health and safety of fellow Sila-zens.

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