GreenTechMedia

JUNE 30, 2020

The budget for the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA), Australia’s flagship energy innovation funding body, is set to run out this year, and the current administration has yet to confirm that more cash will be allocated. Australia’s ruling Liberal Party has tried to do away with ARENA in the recent past.

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Business Green

MARCH 5, 2020

The Investment Association (IA), which represents 250 members with £7.7tn under management, has set a three-year deadline for listed companies to clearly explain how they plan to measure and manage climate-related risks and opportunities through their annual reports.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Chancellor poised to announce new multi-billion pound investment programme in bid to cut UK energy demand by at least 13 per cent this decade. Bloomberg reported late yesterday that Chancellor Jeremy Hunt will today announce a new multi-billion pound spending push designed to slash the UK's energy demand by at least 13 per cent this decade.

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Business Green

JANUARY 26, 2022

Led by its procurement division Foodbuy, the company said it had opted to stop purchasing air freight-supplied fresh fruit and vegetables as part of a wider review of its supply chain focused on boosting regenerative agriculture, plant-based proteins, and seasonal and local sourcing.

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Business Green

MARCH 11, 2020

The Chancellor also hinted that further green infrastructure and R&D plans would be announced as part of the delayed National Infrastructure Strategy and this autumn's Spending Review. But he also insisted that today's Budget would mark the "first steps" in that process. So I will abolish the tax relief for most sectors.".

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Bernard Goldstein, a young professor at the New York University School of Medicine, researched the health impacts of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) produced by gas stoves. In a series of studies, Goldstein and his colleagues identified a higher incidence of respiratory problems among schoolchildren from homes with gas stoves.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 20, 2023

In January 2022, the EU introduced world-leading laws to curb on-farm use of antibiotics, an integral component of intensive livestock farming where they are used in large volumes to prevent or treat outbreaks of disease among animals kept in crowded conditions. A review of public website domain names data reveals that meatthefacts.eu

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Business Green

MARCH 3, 2021

The Chancellor stressed the bank would have support for the UK's "green industrial revolution" at the heart of its remit, providing a mechanism for accelerating investment in new renewables, grid, and hydrogen infrastructure. He also emphasised the need for a more proactive industrial strategy over the coming years. "If

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Business Green

MAY 16, 2022

The world cannot lose sight of the urgent need to tackle the climate crisis amid soaring energy costs and Russia's brutal war in Ukraine, COP26 President Alok Sharma has warned this morning, arguing that a failure to honour the commitments made at last year's Glasgow Summit would be "an act of monstrous self-harm".

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 3, 2024

News spread quickly that day last November, but by word of mouth, says Denny Khamphanthong, a 29-year-old Richmond resident. “It would be nice to have an actual news outlet that would actually go out there and figure it out themselves.” New bars and art exhibits. Soon, black smoke blanketed the sky.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Climate Home News reported this afternoon that negotiations over the next round of formal UN climate talks remain stuck in a stalemate following a meeting this week to discuss the prospect of holding virtual talks in the run up to the COP26 Summit in Glasgow in November. Reports: Plans for virtual pre-COP26 talks remain deadlocked.

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Elemental Excelerator

AUGUST 12, 2022

Not to mention President Biden also signed the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022 , putting about $67 billion toward zero-carbon industries and climate research. Boosting shared solar installations through the 10-year extension of the 30% Investment Tax Credit, which is now technology neutral and covers energy storage, clean hydrogen, and more.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

AUGUST 31, 2021

Draft and/or edit public-facing and plain language executive summaries for technical reports that CUTRIC produces as part of its Knowledge Series . Coordinate member and client assessments/surveys of assessing “website user experience” as part of CUTRIC’s ongoing efforts to review and improve on its website offerings and website presence .

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 30, 2024

Keeling’s findings would lead him to conduct a separate series of experiments from the top of the Hawaiian volcano Mauna Loa resulting in the famous Keeling Curve — a visual depiction of rising atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) caused by the burning of fossil fuels. Read the entire document on DocumentCloud.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

For the past several years, Georgia Power has gone to great lengths to skirt the federal rule requiring coal-fired power plants to safely dispose of massive amounts of toxic waste they produced. This story was originally published by ProPublica. Sign up for their newsletter, The Big Story , to receive stories like this one in your inbox.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

NEW SERIES| Documents reveal how a secretive fossil-fuel backed lobby group manipulated the UN's climate programs [link] pic.twitter.com/OOyuNCwZtz — DeSmog UK (@DeSmogUK) April 25, 2019 So, how much do trade associations spend on political activities, such as public relations? Similar efforts continue today.

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EDF + Business

AUGUST 1, 2023

Thankfully, there’s good news to keep us all motivated, and plenty of opportunities for further progress. And a new report from EDF finds that states with climate commitments can shrink the remaining emissions gap to the U.S. electric power sector in 2022. Happy Anniversary, Inflation Reduction Act! Don’t miss out!

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

During the same year that Last Generation was blocking roads in Germany, farmers used the exact same tactic , blocking roads with their tractors to protest a renewable energy policy that they don’t feel provides enough incentives for biogas. The next year, Fisher started the IEA. Credit: Olaf Kosinsky ( CC BY-SA 3.0

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Climate Tech VC

JANUARY 29, 2024

This week brings two great examples with LanzaJet’s new SAF facility in Georgia and H2 Green Steel’s plant in Sweden, both layering different kinds of capital, each derisking the next to build their first commercial facilities.  tons of H2’s steel for 5-7 years, setting the stage for future investments.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 16, 2024

But no matter—video of Morano’s boat protest landed on Fox News and spread like a ripple through the social media groups that have sprouted to oppose offshore wind. Hard-won federal policies like the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act put that target within reach. In other words, climate change. One of those names is John Droz.

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