DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 21, 2024

Experts agree: [carbon capture and storage] is one of the most important low-carbon technologies required to achieve societal climate goals.” Under a newly proposed law, ads like these could be banned in the state of Pennsylvania. So says ExxonMobil, in a Facebook ad targeting hundreds of thousands of people across the United States.

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Green Business Bureau

JUNE 30, 2023

Non-renewable resources and technologies that have been essential to our advancement and industrialization may ultimately be what takes us out. Political, market, and infrastructural barriers remain, dragging progress toward a clean economy — but your business has the power to mitigate these constraints.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

But the need to inject reliability into fiscal and policy-based environmental decision making is not confined to carbon pricing alone; we need long lasting environmental policy across the board if we are to deliver on our 2050 net zero commitment. But climate targets alone, even if they are enshrined in law, won't get us to net zero.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 14, 2023

Welcome to the second in our series of articles featuring industry insiders highlighting the trends and technologies we can expect to see in 2023. Until now, there has been an absence of inter-department communication and leadership, with BEIS and Defra creating inconsistent and ineffective policy. Mark Rowcroft.

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Business Green

JUNE 14, 2021

A Swiss law that would have taxed polluters for their emissions and used the revenue to offer public healthcare rebates and fund climate solutions was narrowly defeated in a national referendum over the weekend in what has been dubbed a cautionary tale for policymakers around the world looking to implement carbon pricing policies.

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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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The Guardian: Energy

JULY 21, 2024

Last week, the government’s advisers warned that only a third of the carbon reductions required by law would be met under existing plans. But the Tories’ turn against net zero policies has meant little progress on the rollout of low-carbon technology.

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Clean Energy Canada

JUNE 26, 2024

In this webinar, Clean Energy Canada’s vice president of policy and strategy, Rachel Doran, the Pembina Institute’s senior analyst, Sarah McBain, and the University of Calgary’s Dr. Sara Hastings-Simon will reflect on why provinces are so important in Canada’s energy transition, perhaps now more than ever.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

A second just-released report reveals that to mitigate that growth, the use of carbon capture and storage (CCS) and carbon dioxide removal (CDR) technologies would have to reach gigaton scale in less than 10 years, which might not be possible. Carbon dioxide removal technologies, he added, “are very nascent.”

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The Verge: Energy

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Weaponizing an agency against law-abiding businesses for political reasons must not be permitted,” Brian Morgenstern, head of public policy at Riot Platforms, said in a post on X yesterday celebrating the legal victory.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 30, 2024

The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), founded in 2009 by former Conservative chancellor Nigel Lawson, produces reports that contradict established climate science, and advocates against policies to limit greenhouse gas emissions.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

.” Even the threat of such cases is having a chilling effect on public environmental policy, Boyd has found. The law firm Jones Day frames ISDS climate claims as “an opportunity – if brought in the right forum – for companies exposed to certain climate-related government measures to vindicate their rights.”

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

MARCH 20, 2016

While technology and capital both drive the clean economy, policy is just as important. Women in Cleantech and Sustainability (WCS) recently held a panel discussion on the role of policy in driving cleantech and provided an inside look into the careers of three women who have shaped cleantech policy in California and beyond.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 17, 2024

The Conservative leader, which some polls suggest is favoured by Canadians to be the next prime minister, stated earlier this year that as far as climate policy goes he’s in favour of “technology, not taxes,” without providing concrete details. He is meanwhile enthusiastic about oil and gas expansion.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Parliament's Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) today unveiled a wide-ranging report on the government's green recovery agenda which argues major reforms to UK taxation and the swift release of long-awaited policy strategies will be central to laying the foundations of a greener, job-rich economy that protects nature. Green investment.

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Business Green

JULY 1, 2024

And even some former Conservative Ministers are saying they will vote for Labour in protest at Rishi Sunak's repeated attacks on climate policies. The good The good green policy decisions are more numerous than observers realise. Theresa May became the first leader of a major economy to put a net zero target in law.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 23, 2021

It’s clear that a dedicated infrastructure is currently lacking, production costs outweigh less-clean competitors, and that government policy shows technology agnosticism is a myth. With hydrogen, we have the technology and the skills needed to give our energy sector the shake-up it needs to meet our goals. Production costs.

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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. Continued innovation and investment will see this hurdle cleared in time.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

“The worry is that carbon removal will be something we do so that business-as-usual can continue,” said Sara Nawaz, director of research at American University’s Institute for Carbon Removal Law and Policy. “We Nawaz co-wrote a report released today titled “ Agenda for a Progressive Political Economy of Carbon Removal. ”

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

The policy, which backs further aviation growth, was dismissed as “ pure greenwash ” by environmental groups, which cast doubt on the viability of the technologies and solutions proposed. He is also the CEO of Sheriff Global Group, which trades private jets, according to Politics Home. Not a Good Look’.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 4, 2024

But federal records newly reviewed by DeSmog reveal that the group’s co-founder has personally donated to the Conservative Party of Canada, whose leader Pierre Poilievre is campaigning to abolish the country’s most prominent climate policy, a nationwide tax on carbon emissions, saying it brings “misery and suffering on the Canadian people.”

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Planet Pulse

JUNE 29, 2021

Amy has a fantastic track record of scaling legal organizations and navigating evolving legal and regulatory landscapes at rapidly growing technology companies. Most recently, Amy served as Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary at Mozilla, where she has been responsible for leading the Legal, Policy and Security functions.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

can be searched by Sustainability Topic, Academic Discipline and Office or Department.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

By putting in place the enabling primary legislation that bridges legal gaps, creates new laws, or brings clarity to existing laws. The Act also empowers the UK Government to fund hydrogen though a levy and to set strategic priorities in CCUS though a CCUS Strategy and Policy Statement.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 10, 2024

Labour plans to overhaul planning laws, and massively expand the grid to transport electricity in pylons across the country from dozens of new solar and wind farms. Meanwhile Caroline Lucas, Westminster’s most vocal climate champion, has retired from politics, with four new Green MPs entering the fold.

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The Verge: Energy

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

“I worry about situations where renters don’t have as much control over their living situations,” said Jamal Lewis, a regional director of state and local policy for Rewiring America, a nonprofit dedicated to electrifying homes. Money is key because electrification isn’t cheap Investing in the right technologies can help, too.

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Clean Energy Canada

MAY 1, 2023

Canada’s clean energy sector is made up of companies and workers that help reduce carbon pollution, whether by generating clean energy, helping move it, reducing energy consumption, or developing low-carbon technologies. Stefan Pauer , Manager of Technology and Economic Analysis at Clean Energy Canada.

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Grist

JANUARY 31, 2024

But support for specific policies is somewhat of a different story. They stay in touch through increasingly sophisticated communication technology, and they share in preserving cultural and culinary traditions, from afar. An increasingly large majority of people the world over want to see their governments taking decisive action.

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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

The storage of nuclear waste is always a hot political topic. Recycling policies are in place in France, some other European countries, as well as Russia, China, and Japan. technology to the rest of the world. She said that political support for nuclear power is improving. Ramping up Nuclear Power. and push U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 20, 2023

In September 2019, a group appeared on the Brussels political scene pledging to “bring back a balanced debate” about the benefits of meat and dairy. The register is quite clear that groups organising communication campaigns on EU policy must be on the transparency register, especially when it includes meeting with Commissioners.”

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Business Green

JULY 23, 2021

Having been peppered with increasing policy demands since the UK was announced as host, each carrying with it the threat of failure on the international stage, the funnel of COP26 is a big public relations nightmare to manage. Glasgow isn't a ribbon cutting event, it requires real political muscle. and ‘is it worth it?'.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

We need more political love for geothermal energy […] and we need more people, because it’s going to grow, it’s booming,” Ms Brommer said. ukasz Koli?ski, MOL has applied for four geothermal licences in Hungary, Mr Kapes said, and has been awarded all four, as well as two additional licences in neighbouring Croatia.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 25, 2022

The European Union’s scientific and political communities are locked in a battle over whether gas and nuclear can be considered green investments. It’s a “green investment guidebook,” said Henry Eviston, spokesperson on sustainable finance at WWF European Policy Office. ” Henry Eviston, WWF European Policy Office. “And

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

“This incident puts an exclamation point on concerns communities across the country have been raising for years about the dangers the CCS industry poses to public safety and drinking water,” Food & Water Watch policy director Jim Walsh said in a statement today responding to the news. million barrels of oil annually by the year 2100.”

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 6, 2024

The American Chemistry Council is deathly afraid of effective policies that will actually reduce the production of plastics, because that means less chemicals to be sold to make plastics,” Enck said. are fully operational — and even if all of them were fully operating, their combined capacity would represent just 1.3

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Business Green

JUNE 26, 2020

Plus all the top green business news from around the world this week, including Denmark's new climate law and the Australian mining sector's net zero pledge. Denmark agrees 'landmark' climate action law. IETA sets out net zero carbon trading vision.

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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.

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