The City Fix

MARCH 22, 2024

If a picture can tell a whole story, then the image below of an intersection in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, shows the past, present and future of global transformation in the transport sector. During Transforming Transportation 2024, which focused on.

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Front And Centered

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Last year the House and the Senate each proposed massive, multi-year packages that failed to pass and failed even harder at closing the justice deficit in our transportation system. People of color have been largely left out of the benefits of the billions spent on transportation and bear a disproportionate share of the burdens.

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38 North Solutions

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Vice President, Policy 38 North is seeking a highly motivated Vice President (VP) to join our fast-growing team of clean energy and technology policy experts. About 38 North 38 North is a bipartisan consulting firm that provides business development and public policy services to innovative companies and organizations.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

3rd Annual Future of Carbon Policy Forum. With the election results coming into focus, states will continue to be sources of leadership on carbon policy. Join us on November 18th (3-5:15 PM with social hour to follow) for the Third Annual Future of Carbon Policy Forum to find out. . Political and Implementation Perspective.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

3rd Annual Future of Carbon Policy Forum. With the election results coming into focus, states will continue to be sources of leadership on carbon policy. Join us on November 18th (3-5:15 PM with social hour to follow) for the Third Annual Future of Carbon Policy Forum to find out. . Political and Implementation Perspective.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

OCTOBER 22, 2020

3rd Annual Future of Carbon Policy Forum. Back by popular demand, join us for the Future of Carbon Policy Forum. We will examine the pivotal role that carbon policy can play in addressing the multiple challenges of economic recovery, public health, transportation, and equity. Register Now. Helen Clarkson. Rajinder Sahota.

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Charged

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

It is high time for industry and political leaders to be strong and decisive, and deliver meaningful policies and actions to fight climate change. We’re committed to doing our part and encourage our peers as well as political leaders around the globe to do theirs.” Source: Transport and Energy

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EDF + Business

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

With corporate political spending and lobbying under increasing scrutiny and a new administration advancing financially material, government-wide climate action, financial institutions have good reason to reassess their climate lobbying. They must actively support the public policies needed to achieve net zero emissions by 2050.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 11, 2024

” The budget statement “predictably majored on pre-election giveaways political dividing lines”, said Ashden policy lead Will Walter, adding that it “will do nothing for those living in cold, damp, expensive to heat homes or for local authorities struggling to provide basic services.”

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Carbon pricing has always been a thorny political issue, but as Ministers weigh how to drive the next phase of the net zero transition some experts believe it has a critical role to play. It all started with such ambition.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Major polling exercise reveals climate policies that are popular with public would deliver on the government's goal of cutting emissions by 39 per cent by 2030 on 2019 levels.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

DECEMBER 17, 2019

2nd Annual Future of Carbon Policy Forum. The 2nd Annual Future of Carbon Policy Forum brought together over 100 participants to build momentum and collaboration in achieving carbon reduction goals in the state. 5-Kenneth-Dragoon-RHA-Future-of-Carbon-Policy-Dec-2019. December 12, 2019. 7-Kelly-Hall-LCPI-Clean-Fuels_12_12.

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Business Green

JULY 13, 2021

Details of Transport Decarbonisation Plan revealed to Financial Times, as separate report suggest ministers are continuing to lock horns over the best way to introduce new carbon pricing mechanisms. If we're going to put in the right investment for decarbonising transport, let's do it right and futureproof for the long-term.".

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 18, 2019

This is leadership for the climate and for mobility.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2022

But the reports - from the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), and International Energy Agency (IEA) - all warn that governments, investors, and industries need to deliver much more ambitious green policies, technologies, and solutions if still rising global emissions are to thrown into reverse.

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The City Fix

JANUARY 28, 2021

Since its beginning in Sweden in the 1990s, Vision Zero has become a global movement to prevent road fatalities and serious injuries by undertaking a Safe System approach to road safety. But despite the documented successes of the approach in. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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The City Fix

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Climate change is the defining challenge of our time, and clean energy and green transport are the keys to addressing it. Less than two decades ago, energy emissions seemed to be spiraling out of control as countries were locked into. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Key players in California energy politics. Successes that have inspired women to get involved in politics. Why you ignore policy at your peril! Mary Hughes , a longtime political strategist, is president of Hughes & Co., a strategic communications and political consulting firm in Palo Alto. REGISTER. ?

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 17, 2020

It will require building out an entire ecosystem of electric vehicle infrastructure and incentives, and getting into the weeds on policy. On this episode of Political Climate , we speak to Lyft’s director of sustainability, Sam Arons, about this bold new strategy. Next stop: Regulations.

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Business Green

APRIL 30, 2020

The North West Hydrogen Alliance - a regional trade body backed by several local councils and leading gas companies such as Shell, Cadent, and INEOS-owned Inovyn - today launched a roadmap setting out "quick and easy steps" to deliver a rollout of hydrogen technology across the UK transport sector.

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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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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Clean Transportation Business Development Advisor | SDG&E | San Diego. Develops relationships with community organizations to help secure community support for clean transportation initiatives and applications. The post Clean Transportation Business Development Advisor appeared first on Women in Cleantech & Sustainability.

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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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Business Green

JUNE 29, 2022

It would be easy at this point to simply list the litany of policy failures and the paucity of political leadership documented by the CCC's almost satirically titled progress report. The growing fears charging infrastructure and public and active transport networks are struggling to keep pace with soaring demand.

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Energy and Cleantech Council

JUNE 16, 2021

On June 10, 2021, the Transportation Climate Initiative Program (TCI-P) states released a final model rule creating a regional cap-and-trade-program to reduce carbon emissions from the transportation sector. We wrote about the draft model rule and its implementation challenges when it was released at the beginning of March.

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Elemental Excelerator

APRIL 21, 2023

Elemental Excelerator, a nonprofit investor driving climate technology for social change, announced today the expansion of its climate coaching team to encompass experts in project and carbon finance, policy and equity and access. “Prior to participation in Elemental, CarbonCure did not have a defined public policy strategy.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Ahead of the Prime Minister's promised new green recovery package, a new report from the business advocacy group outlines a raft of near-term policy interventions that could put the UK on track to reaching net zero emissions. The gap between the government's net zero rhetoric and its policy agenda remains.

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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

MAY 11, 2020

Government launches £250m emergency active travel fund, but campaigners warn Prime Minister's advice to avoid public transport could fuel car-focused recovery. He added that commuters should also "avoid public transport if at all possible - because we must and will maintain social distancing, and capacity will therefore be limited".

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Clean Energy Canada

JUNE 20, 2023

There’s just one problem: most transport emissions in the province come from commercial vehicles like big rigs and delivery vans. KEY FACTS Transportation is responsible for 42% of all climate pollution in B.C., VANCOUVER — B.C. is Canada’s undisputed electric car leader, where one in every five vehicles sold is now electric.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

According to the European Federation for Transport and Environment (T&E), for the electric grid to not be a roadblock hampering the future of Europe’s electric transport sector, namely heavy-duty EVs, it will be imperative for all stakeholders to become active immediately.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Far from cutting back on public investment in net zero projects, channelling public investment into the transition is the most responsible and cost-saving policy available to the government, it argues. Public support for net zero remains undimmed.

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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. Producing hydrogen at a centralized hub then supplying to on-site refueling stations or transporting to external customers is very well suited to hydrogen.

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Business Green

AUGUST 14, 2022

Deliberative democracy is a valuable tool that can help the next PM craft climate policies that are effective and popular, writes Lancaster University's Jacob Ainscough. The real source of debate over climate policy now lies firmly within questions of how, not if, net zero should be achieved. But that assumption is simply wrong.

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Business Green

APRIL 7, 2021

All in all, the report offers advice that should apply not just to policymakers and those with the power to drive legislative and political change, but also to those pulling levers of change in the business world. We need to build on what's gone well, and learn from what's gone badly, if we're to tackle climate change.".

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Grist

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Akielly Hu, Grist’s news and politics fellow, discussed the growing popularity of degrowth with Kohei Saito — a Marxist author whose 2020 degrowth manifesto quickly turned into a bestseller in Japan and beyond. .” In your free time, you play sports, spend time with loved ones, garden, and engage with local politics.

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Business Green

APRIL 8, 2021

Former colleagues and friends have paid tribute to former Conservative frontbencher Peter Ainsworth, who played an integral role in pushing conservation and climate action into the political mainstream. Peter Ainsworth was a key driver of our modernising agenda in opposition, particularly our environmental policy," he said on Twitter. "It

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