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Policy Advocacy Fights the Risks of Climate Change

EDF + Business

The only way to mitigate those risks is to cut emissions at speed and scale and strengthen the grid – and that requires public policy. Decarbonizing has begun, but public policy is crucial to ensuring the necessary reductions to stabilize the climate. This is especially true when it comes to climate-related policy.

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A Plan to Unlock Local Clean Energy for A Climate-Resilient California Grid

GreenTechMedia

It’s exposing both the vulnerability of our existing electric system and the opportunity to use clean energy as a critical resilience strategy. Like much of the country, California is faced with a “new abnormal,” in which wildfires and other climate-related disasters are becoming more frequent and destructive.

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The role of antitrust law in creating energy democracy

Renewable Energy World

One way that the Center for Biological Diversity centers justice and equity in its work is by addressing energy policies and utility companies that disproportionately harm communities of color. The center does this in three ways: strategic litigation, the mobilization of people power and movement building, and effective policy advocacy.

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Let’s incubate the Green Swans hatched by the COVID-19 Black Swan

GreenBiz

These events, made visible by the COVID-19 virus, have shown us the fragility of systems pushed to their breaking point by design constraints to maximize return on investment in the absence of resiliency. . Government policies that stimulated the growth of solar accounted for 60 percent of that price decline.

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Meet the Policy Lab Fellows working to accelerate innovative climate solutions

Elemental Excelerator

Changemakers Louise Bedsworth, Heather McTeer Toney, Josh Stanbro, and Randall Winston join Elemental Policy Lab to help close the gap between technology and policy. I am thrilled that the Lab will support these seasoned changemakers as they pursue bold, innovative policy solutions to the climate crisis.”. “I

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'Climate neutrality is our destiny': EU unveils net zero by 2050 Climate Law

Business Green

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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Poll: British public 'overwhelmingly' backs robust supply chain deforestation laws

Business Green

Of almost 1,700 adults polled, 68 per cent said they supported setting a target date in law to remove all deforestation from UK supply chains, with just four per cent opposed to such a move, according to the survey, which was commissioned by WWF. Further details on the proposed legislation are expected to emerge in the coming months.

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