Business Green

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Calls grow for a rethink of the controversial Retained EU Law Bill, amid concerns over threat to worker, consumer, and environmental protections. The Bill has become a cause celebre for arch-Brexiteers within the Conservative Party, who are keen to see the government bring an end to any EU influence over UK laws as quickly as possible.

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Business Green

JANUARY 26, 2021

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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Solar Industry

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

million to 11 states, 20 tribal nations and two territories in the eighth round of funding Grid Resilience State and Tribal Formula Grants. Amount: $13 million) Florida will strengthen labor standards and protections for the workforce that is responsible for implementing grid reliability and resilience projects.

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Business Green

MARCH 4, 2020

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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GreenBiz

JUNE 23, 2020

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. . Entrepreneurs are on the verge of creating an era that will be marked by abundance, sustainability and resilience.

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Green Market Oracle

MAY 11, 2020

The Collective Resilience Summit will take place May 12 - 17, 2020. This free, online and highly interactive summit will explore how to develop and sustain the individual and collective resilience we need to meet our increasingly complex global challenges with wisdom, skill and compassion. Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Founder.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Landmark legislation passes into law, but concerns remain over how new Environmental Land Management System will be enacted. NFU President Minette Batters said that "as the first domestic legislation covering agriculture for over 70 years, this really is a landmark moment for our food and farming industry".

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

The Prime Minister is being urged by his own father to establish a target to reverse the decline of species and habitats into law, as part of a major campaign launched this morning geared at tackling escalating rates of biodiversity loss in the UK.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

This consultation is an opportunity for the UK to develop world-leading policies on climate disclosure and, by reducing the significant climate risk, could be key to ensuring the country's long-term economic resilience and financial stability. ClientEarth has outlined where FCA proposals fall short and our recommendations for how to fix them.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

With the end of Moore’s Law looming ever closer, Owen Thomas, founder of Red Oak Consulting, argues that the energy sector will continue to thrive as HPC invariably moves to the cloud. It is now well recognised that Moore’s Law is nearing its end.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Ministers should urgently 'make a clear statement of ambition' on climate and flood resilience, UK climate, infrastructure and insurance experts warn. It is not the first time the government has faced calls to step up its climate adaptation and resilience efforts.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 9, 2023

One of the latest announcement’s coming out of Biden’s infrastructure law is an investment aiming to spur smart water and water efficiency projects in the US. “These water efficiency improvements are small, but when combined throughout the west, the projects play an important role in communities becoming more resilient to drought.”

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Business Green

MAY 25, 2022

Ministers at the Department for the Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs (Defra) believe existing EU laws are too focused on legal interpretation rather than science, hindering the development and marketing of precision bred plants and animals. Outside the EU we are free to follow the science," said Environment Secretary, George Eustice.

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Energy Storage News

OCTOBER 19, 2023

billion programme to “strengthen grid resilience and reliability” across the US includes funding for microgrids and other projects that will integrate battery storage technologies.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 8, 2021

And, California tries to fix the busted recycling system with a “truth in advertising” law aimed at plastics companies. Today, non-wires alternatives such as microgrids can provide more sustainable, resilient and economical ways to deliver reliable power. The Energy Gang is a Wood Mackenzie podcast. Learn more.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Hoffman referenced bouts of funding made available by the US DOE’s Grid Resilience and Innovation Partnership ( GRIP ) programme. The major funding programme, part of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and consisting of $10.5 billion, aims to enhance grid flexibility. According to Hoffman, new collaborations will be crucial.

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Front And Centered

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Washington passed 100% clean electricity into law earlier this year, and with public input government agencies are currently drafting rules to guide utilities on how to comply with the law by phasing out fossil fuel emissions and integrating equity in their service models. 100% Clean Energy by 2045 is now the law in Washington!

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 16, 2023

New laws will scrap the cap on civil penalties and significantly broaden their scope to target a much wider range of environmental offences On 15 August the Environment Agency launched a consultation on changes to variable monetary penalties – financial penalties that can be imposed for certain environmental offences.

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Business Green

JUNE 5, 2020

With that in mind, he urged the world to "move towards a greener, cleaner, and more resilient future" and to invest in rebuilding economies "so we bounce back stronger than before". We're reminded on #WorldEnvironmentDay that nobody can do this alone. 4/4 pic.twitter.com/lhQGTURjCh.

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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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ThinkGeoEnergy

APRIL 10, 2024

The initial plan was to fund the measures of the roadmap from the “Climate Protection, Resilience and Transformation” fund. For this purpose, the State of Berlin is working to submit an application for a coherent mining law permit that will cover the entire city area.

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Charged

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law includes $7.5 EVgo and Delta share a commitment to developing a resilient supply chain here in America, and this collaboration showcases the companies’ capability to deliver the high-quality, high-power fast chargers we need to meet the growing demand for fast charging across the country.”

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 17, 2020

The many faces of energy resilience Michelle Moore Mon, 08/17/2020 – 00:30 This series explores how clean energy can deliver on finance and corporate social and governance goals alongside climate and environmental benefits. “Resilience” is a powerful word in 2020. That’s the vision. But how is that vision valued?

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 8, 2021

And, California tries to fix the busted recycling system with a “truth in advertising” law aimed at plastics companies. Today, non-wires alternatives such as microgrids can provide more sustainable, resilient and economical ways to deliver reliable power. The Energy Gang is a Wood Mackenzie podcast. Learn more.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced $42 million for 15 projects across 11 states meant to improve the reliability, resiliency, and flexibility of the domestic power grid through the research and development of next-generation semiconductor technologies.

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38 North Solutions

APRIL 19, 2024

As an advisor to the Department of the Navy, he helped develop third-party financed microgrids to increase the Navy’s energy resilience. If successful, the geothermal facilities will supply Air Force installations with clean, resilient, baseload energy under a long-term Power Purchase Agreement. As an energy counsel in the U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 30, 2019

By 2025, we expect a majority of states to have passed laws setting a renewable energy target between 80 and 100 percent, and we predict some states will have significant renewables penetration, including 50 percent in California and Hawaii and 40 percent in New York. Create a framework for assessing the value of resilience.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 12, 2019

The territory's new energy policy became law earlier this year — and regulators are deciding what mix of renewables it has.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Over the next three years, the project will develop predictive, proactive and preventative capabilities for nature conservation and law enforcement by combining forensic intelligence and remote sensing technologies into one system.

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Energy Innovation

MARCH 4, 2022

These models represent physical laws captured in computer code and simulated on supercomputers at research centers around the world. link] The post Climate Science And Financial risk: Forging A Path To More Climate-Resilient Businesses appeared first on Energy Innovation: Policy and Technology. Petabytes of tempting data. Fiedler, T.,

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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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Front And Centered

AUGUST 29, 2022

The law has major gaps in its approach, including: Most importantly, a failure to engage communities on the frontlines in community self-determination: While the funds above may be named to benefit disadvantaged communities, without guarantees of active participation these funds will likely miss the mark. Gaping Gaps.

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Front And Centered

MARCH 26, 2024

The following is a statement by the Front and Centered Coalition Leadership regarding I-2117: The campaign to repeal these recently enacted laws represents a reckless and bad faith effort by a wealthy individual and his politics of despair and division to undermine well-intentioned policy for the environment, education, and healthcare.

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Charged

JUNE 21, 2022

Governor Jared Polis of Colorado has signed SB 193 into law, providing $65 million for an electric school bus grant program. The state will award funding to school districts to help finance, purchase and maintain electric school buses, and to install charging infrastructure.

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Business Green

JUNE 1, 2020

We are therefore writing to ask that the economic recovery plans you are developing align with the UK's wider goals and deliver a clean, just recovery, that creates quality employment and builds a more sustainable, inclusive and resilient UK economy for the future. Philip Law, Director General, British Plastics Federation.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 11, 2020

The energy storage industry's proposal would take $150 million from the roughly $460 million remaining for a particular class of customers the CPUC has designated for special treatment — a highly lucrative $1-per-watt-hour incentive for what are called “equity-resiliency” projects. California Sen.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 21, 2021

The new Rethink Farming report presents evidence that farming with nature can restore natural assets and improve resilience to a warming world. But it’s in farmers’ best interests to start acting on climate change and nature recovery now, where on-farm action can make businesses more resilient.”. “We

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