DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Climate Change Countermovement Coalitions 1989-2015 , author Robert Brulle, looks at “key political coalitions that worked to oppose climate action. Tags: Association of American Railroads climate denial In the paper, Networks of Opposition: A Structural Analysis of U.S.

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The Guardian: Energy

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Opposition climate and energy spokesperson had pointed to SMRs as a solution to Australia’s energy needs, but experts raise questions over price tag Get our morning and afternoon news emails , free app or daily news podcast The only company to have a small modular nuclear power plant approved in the US – cited by the Australian opposition as evidence (..)

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

In those early years, we focused most of our attention on the merchants of doubt who were scuttling political action to address global warming in the United States. . Tags: Climategate climate science denial Copenhagen Climate Summit

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 24, 2020

Meanwhile, political leaders are trying to get money to struggling people and businesses, setting the stage for trillions more dollars in spending on infrastructure. If you have any other show topic ideas, tag The Energy Gang and The Interchange on Twitter. How will it all pan out? We’re trying to figure it out, just like you.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 12, 2019

For these reasons — a growing energy deficit, a worsening economic situation, and large oil and gas reserves trapped underground — there is enormous political support for kick-starting an American-style fracking boom in Argentina. Tags: Argentina Vaca Muerta Shale fracking finances US State Department Vista Oil and Gas YPF

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Energy and Cleantech Council

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Earlier this week, Greenwire (subscription required) had an interesting story about the role that EPA’s estimate of the cost to comply with the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards rule played in the politics and judicial review of the rule. Unfortunately, the $9.6 There have been efforts to figure out why this happens so regularly.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

  That said, the production of green H2 using electrolyzers does require rare metals such as platinum and iridium that come with a high price tag.  Much of the high cost associated with those units is in the manufacturing of the hydrogen fuel cells themselves, not in the materials required to produce them. 

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2019

PragmatIC says its technology could allow a low-cost inlay (tag) to be incorporated in packaging, allowing consumers to access information about product usage, food storage, cooking instructions and local recycling. Finding the solution through innovative technology.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

That it did so is, in itself, remarkable, given the political climes. It placed the price tag at up to 10.5 Policy & Politics. Last week, a subcommittee of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) issued a report addressing climate risks to the U.S. financial system. percent of GDP by 2100. Finance & Investing.

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Business Green

JULY 2, 2021

Chaired by Krishnan Guru-Murthy, Gavin Esler, Lucy Siegle, and James Murray, the three day event will explore how the net zero transition is shaping policy and politics, technology and innovation, nature, finance, culture, supply chains, infrastructure, and every aspect of the global economy.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

One of the most common responses to the gathering political campaign against the UK's net zero strategy is that it is important not to underestimate such an experienced and effective band of campaigners, regardless of how modest they may be in number. It is simply not plausible. But worst than that, it is obviously implausible.

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Terra Infirma

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

We received a political leaflet with a cartoon of enormous flies and other insects crawling over a bin alongside a list of diseases spread by rats (the same party later implemented two-weekly collections when they took control of the Council).

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

But, as Fidler points out, she was trying to advertise a careers event, not make a political point. Fidler stressed Facebook urgently needed to tweak its approach order to prevent green groups getting snarled up in a system primarily designed to stop misinformation and political ads.

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Business Green

JULY 5, 2020

Yet just one in 10 businesses confirmed that they were assessing climate risk as a priority, while an overwhelming majority of businesses surveyed - 72 per cent - said they saw climate as a 'political problem'. Bearing the brunt of this current pandemic will be an immediate focus for many companies.

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Planet Pulse

JANUARY 11, 2024

All of yesterday’s growth and fun came with a steep price tag. But politically, power is held by those who control energy. PlanetScope • Nord Stream Pipeline Breach, Baltic Sea • September 26, 2022 Many countries are quick to slap oil sanctions on others as a penalty for political trespasses.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 1, 2021

But he’s more worried about climate change than about the price tag. Climate change, a few years back, was something to be discussed by higher management and politics. The price of the beans Selga imports has risen 60%. It’s bigger than the cost of freight, it’s structural,” Selga said.

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Business Green

MAY 23, 2021

Difficulties around resource intensive budget tagging and project identification could also be avoided. Sustainability-linked sovereign bonds could help some governments overcome short-term political incentives to degrade natural capital. MDBs could also play a key role in setting credible, measurable targets.

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Low Impact

JUNE 7, 2020

Whereas some other OPD projects have amazing houses, with price tags I’d shudder to have a guess at. So if someone else wants to buy that smallholding, to become an organic smallholder, they’re going to have a huge price tag, because someone wanted to build a massive house. That’s a problem isn’t it? I think you’re absolutely right.

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Business Green

MAY 29, 2022

And today, UK and US researchers at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), have sought to deliver some sobering, if not wholly surprising, answers to these critical questions. per cent by the end of the century, they estimate.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

The plan is to be reviewed next Spring, but the government indicated the price freeze could stay in place for up to two years with the price tag expected to reach up to £150bn. As a result, domestic energy bills should stay at around current levels through this winter.

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Business Green

AUGUST 16, 2021

While meeting peak grid power demand in 2050 with CCS and hydrogen requires roughly £40bn in capital expenditure, it estimates that this would be significantly less than the estimated £170bn price tag from scaling alternative technologies to ensure firm and flexible power such as nuclear, pumped storage or lithium-ion batteries.

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Business Green

MARCH 12, 2023

This tag line remains at the heart of the global B Corp movement. When it comes to system level change, Harvard political scientist Erica Chenoweth points to the importance of securing support from powerbrokers (in other words, people) within institutions which benefit from the status quo, for instance corporations and shareholders.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

The political consensus on the UK's climate strategy has never looked more frayed at precisely the same time as public support for bolder climate policies has never been higher - and the opposition is seeking to take full advantage of that fact. We want to see all political parties put it at the heart of their economic strategies.".

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Business Green

JULY 7, 2021

But that's not guaranteed - political courage needed, and all eyes on COP26… pic.twitter.com/jcQt5vqDln. That is why the Treasury is currently working on a crucial assessment of the fiscal requirements of decarbonisation in the form of its long-awaited Net Zero Review, which is expected to emerge later this year.

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Business Green

JUNE 24, 2021

As ever, the CCC's assessment of the potential costs of net zero offers a powerful tonic to the loud minority of political and media commentators who have taken to bemoaning the price tags attached to the projects that can help avoid catastrophic climate impacts. Silence from the Treasury opens the door to climate action 'naysayers'.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

That it did so is, in itself, remarkable, given the political climes. It placed the price tag at up to 10.5 Last week, a subcommittee of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) issued a report addressing climate risks to the U.S. financial system. percent of GDP by 2100.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 17, 2022

Earlier this year, Trans Mountain said the price tag could reach C$21.4 The boondoggle has increasingly become a political liability, and the federal government said it would not offer further public funding for the pipeline. Since then, costs have exploded to new heights.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

That it did so is, in itself, remarkable, given the political climes. It placed the price tag at up to 10.5 Last week, a subcommittee of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) issued a report addressing climate risks to the U.S. financial system. percent of GDP by 2100.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 13, 2020

At the University of Louisville, Myles merged his libertarian-leaning politics with a curiosity about climate change, a subject that kept coming up in English class and in debates with his friends. Tags: Covering Climate Now republican party climate change U.S. Mitch McConnell green new deal American Conservation Coalition

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

This leads to a wide range of replacement times; a meter tagged as faulty in January 2020 could be replaced as late as December 2021, nearly two years later, while one identified in December 2020 could be replaced within a year.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

The operational failures of last month’s public safety power shutoff only strengthened those calls, with San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo leading a political effort to explore turning the utility into a publicly owned cooperative. The move also highlights the increasing role that CCAs are taking in California’s energy future.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

DECEMBER 18, 2023

This is inherently wasteful and it comes with a price tag of emissions. Under the Biden administration in the US, we are fortunate to have a political landscape that is very pro-renewables. One of the most important things we can do is decarbonize heating, and our Celsius Energy startup speaks directly to that.

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Business Green

MARCH 23, 2022

The price tag is almost identical - £2.7bn for a world-leading bus service against £2.5bn cutting a few pence off fuel duty - but the difference to real people's lives would be immeasurable.". The Statement was a missed opportunity to make progress in these areas and use them as drivers for economic growth and recovery.".

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

From Rio to Glasgow: The political recognition of our climate crisis increases On the 9th of May, 1992, the United Nations Framework Convention on Change (UNFCCC) was adopted. The ongoing commitment towards UNFCCC – via COP – symbolizes how the political recognition of climate change has increased globally. C) within reach.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

The real question the government faces - the political question - is who is going to pay?" The huge price-tag for this unprecedented intervention lays bare the cost of our reliance on volatile and expensive gas," he said. This support does not come cheap. The bill will be picked up by working people.".

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 6, 2020

Richard Matsui: You majored in political science and economics, got your JD, then started your career at KPMG focusing on M&A. Brad Bauer: I started out working at a law firm in Boston then tagged along with my then-girlfriend, now wife, when she finished school and started practicing in San Francisco. Starting out in renewables.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

MARCH 15, 2024

Geothermal energy can provide the missing piece in the puzzle for a continuous, carbon-neutral energy supply and is unique in the renewable energy ecosystem in that it can provide electricity, heat, and value-added mineral extraction, independent of weather and global geo-political conflicts.

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