DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 11, 2024

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak used his address at the COP28 climate summit in December to claim that “climate politics is close to breaking point”, while stating that the UK will meet its net zero targets, “but we’ll do it in a more pragmatic way, which doesn’t burden working people.”

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 4, 2024

No political party should be taking any money from fossil fuel interests whatsoever,” Caroline Lucas, until recently the Green Party MP for Brighton Pavilion, told DeSmog. DeSmog has also revealed that the governing Conservative Party has received £8.4

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Terra Infirma

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Back in 2004 when I was first elected Councillor, I was part of the first change in political control of the Council for 31 years, a real shock to the system for all involved. So, fast-forward 16 years, the end of the PFI project is in sight and the Council has been back under the previous political regime for 9 years.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 19, 2024

A number of climate consensus studies conducted between 2004 and 2015 found that between 90 percent and 100 percent of experts agree that humans are responsible for climate change. The GWPF and NZW have a number of political ties. Labour MP Graham Stringer is a director of the GWFP, having joined its board of trustees in 2015.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 10, 2024

Meanwhile Caroline Lucas, Westminster’s most vocal climate champion, has retired from politics, with four new Green MPs entering the fold. However, the newly elected representative for Camberwell and Peckham is not short of star credentials in both politics and policy. But it will undermine work to tackle the climate crisis.”

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

Gutierrez joined NRG from Dynegy in 2004 as an energy portfolio director. She is a chicken farmer, a zoo doctor, a firefighter, a polar marine biologist, a park ranger and a political candidate. The engineer holds master’s degrees in mineral economics and petroleum economics. One in five is Black.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 26, 2021

While major spills would attract wide media coverage and subsequently political interest in mitigation, the tiny, yet constant leakages caused by evaporation of VOCs would go by unnoticed.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

million from 2002-2004. NW Natural acknowledged these “improvements in gas measurement and estimating” in its 2004 annual report. Based on gas cost data in company SEC filings from 2002-2004, if NW Natural reported 1 percent unaccounted-for gas to the OPUC during this period, it would be overestimating its gas costs by $4.3

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Terra Infirma

MARCH 30, 2021

A parallel thread on my career was getting elected to Newcastle City Council in 2004. I was Deputy Executive Member for Environment and Sustainability for seven years and then, following a change in political power, became Shadow Cabinet member for the same role (apart from one year off at the behest of the electorate).

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Green Business Bureau

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

In 2004, Kofi Annan, then the UN Secretary, asked major financial institutions to partner with the UN and the International Finance Corporate. ESG topics are interlinked and draw attention to the multifaceted risks of social, technological, political, environmental, and economic business aspects.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Cluff was its chairman until 2004, during which Charles Moore, Dominic Lawson, and Boris Johnson were editors. Tessa’s husband Henry Keswick, chairman emeritus of the conglomerate Jardine Matheson and a major Tory donor, used to own the influential conservative Spectator magazine and sold it to Cluff in the early 1980s.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

“It’s important that we recognize dairy is not just about emissions,” Donald Moore, GDP’s executive director and the public face of P2DNZ, said during a presentation at the UN High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development last July. Neither Land O’Lakes, Nestlé, USAID, nor ILRI responded to requests for comment.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 15, 2021

In 2004, Margie Richard of Norco, Louisiana, co-founder of the environmental watchdog Louisiana Bucket Brigade, was the first Black American to be awarded the Goldman Prize for her efforts to force Shell to pay to relocate residents living nearest the company’s heavily polluting Norco chemical plant.

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Grist

MARCH 27, 2024

And replacing one grass with another is labor-intensive; a 2004 report by the University of Georgia said it would take farmers who made the switch about three years to break even. For one thing, friendly fescue, formally known as “novel endophyte fescue,” costs twice as much as the toxic variety — $4 for a pound of seed versus $2.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

APRIL 20, 2021

Since 2004, New Energy Nexus (formerly known as California Clean Energy Fund) has leveraged billions in investment, invested in 100s of clean energy enterprises, and launched industry leading centers for solution collaboration. With our network, we directly boost hundreds of entrepreneurs annually while uplifting thousands more.

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Business Green

JULY 3, 2024

While studying for my Masters Degree at the University of British Columbia (Canada) back in 2004, I 'discovered' corporate social responsibility, or CSR as it was called at the time. These factors are creating a strong drive to decarbonisation whatever the political backdrop.

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Business Green

JULY 3, 2024

While studying for my Masters Degree at the University of British Columbia (Canada) back in 2004, I 'discovered' corporate social responsibility, or CSR as it was called at the time. These factors are creating a strong drive to decarbonisation whatever the political backdrop.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

In this vision, GRID Alternatives , a non-profit solar installer, was formed in 2004. She has been with SEPA since 1992, when the organization was Utility Photovoltaic Group, leaving for a brief period before returning to SEPA in 2004.

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Unsustainable

MARCH 10, 2020

This group of stunning islands was at the forefront of the Tsunami destruction in 2004. The effects on India’s islands The Andaman and Nicobar Islands form an Indian archipelago in the Bay of Bengal. People lost their homes, jobs and loved ones. Their socio-economic lives were heavily impacted.

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Grist

MARCH 27, 2024

And replacing one grass with another is labor-intensive; a 2004 report by the University of Georgia said it would take farmers who made the switch about three years to break even. For one thing, friendly fescue, formally known as “novel endophyte fescue,” costs twice as much as the toxic variety — $4 for a pound of seed versus $2.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 16, 2020

While California already has cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 13 percent since their peak in 2004, many residents still suffer from high levels of air pollution — much of it produced by fossil fuels. Many feel that their communities would have seen greater progress if the state had regulated emitters directly, says Katie Valenzuela.

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Mearth

JANUARY 30, 2021

Winning the award for Best Software in The International Gaming Awards 2010, Entwine Tech was founded in 2004 and provides products to more than 50 licensees all over the world. The high picks for the UK and the Europe markets are there together with Politics and some pretty intriguing TV/Specials thrown into the mix.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

Gutierrez joined NRG from Dynegy in 2004 as an energy portfolio director. She is a chicken farmer, a zoo doctor, a firefighter, a polar marine biologist, a park ranger and a political candidate. The engineer holds master’s degrees in mineral economics and petroleum economics. One in five is Black.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2021

Cole argued that the law was not the ultimate weapon, but only one, and that the overarching goal is political empowerment toward systemic change. Harris said that to address this systemic problem, Cole argued that the law was not the ultimate weapon, but only one, and that the overarching goal is political empowerment toward systemic change.

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Business Green

JUNE 17, 2020

per cent, marking its fastest growth since 2004; and renewables share of power generation increased from 9.3 This combined health and economic shock is bound to reshape the global economic, political and social environment in which we all live and work," he observed. "It Growth in primary energy consumption slowed to 1.3

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 30, 2024

Political Links Prominent right-wing politicians and journalists sit on the GWPF’s board of trustees, including Tory peer Lord David Frost , former Australian prime minister Tony Abbott , and Telegraph chief interviewer and columnist Allison Pearson. We expect the trustees to now fully implement the proposed changes.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 23, 2024

No political party should be taking any money from fossil fuel interests whatsoever,” Caroline Lucas, the Green Party MP for Brighton Pavilion, told DeSmog. “To This investigation is yet more evidence of the stranglehold the oil and gas industry has on our politics,” Georgia Whitaker, Greenpeace UK’s climate campaigner, told DeSmog.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 21, 2023

It’s time to kick toxic fossil fuel interests out of politics once and for all,” Caroline Lucas, Green Party MP for Brighton Pavilion, told DeSmog. However, the fallout of the mini budget and Truss’s political demise has been accompanied by the waning influence of the IEA in government. ’ 2022 report into think tanks.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Angus is a long-serving legislator, having represented his Northern Ontario riding of Timmins-James Bay since 2004. Thanks to uncritical support from mainstream Canadian media and major Canadian political parties, fossil fuel advocacy in Canada goes far beyond the think tanks and lobbyists.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Indonesia: A nation in transformation Central to APRIL's story are the rapid political and economic shifts that have taken place in Indonesia since the country gained independence from Japan and the Netherlands in the 1940s. The big question for campaigners is how effective these policies are actually proving.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Its main facility, opened in 2004, now occupies about 8 acres along the San Jacinto River in Channelview. Joe Lopez died in 2004 of kidney failure triggered by diabetes at the age of 65. Those left behind tend to be poorer and have less political power. Since opening in 2004, it has expanded from 3.4 acres to 8.5

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 15, 2023

The NatCon conference is being organised by the US-based think tank the Edmund Burke Foundation (EBF) and intends to catalyse a “revival” of a political philosophy based on “national identity and culture” alongside “god and country”. million ($2 million) from foundations related to petrochemicals giant Koch Industries from 2004 to 2017.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 21, 2021

Political Shifts: Earth Day Gains Momentum Despite Political Turbulence. This was no doubt a political win for Earth Day. However, by the turn of the century, Earth Day once again faced turbulent political opposition. political arena as president, a period said to have a concerted assault on many green organizations. “

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 29, 2019

In 2004, a consorted global efforts succeeded in slowing deforestation in the region. European leaders have also indicated that trade deals with Brazil are contingent on protecting the Amazon. While protecting the Amazon may seem impossible, we have done it before. However, to succeed today we will need a far more ambitious global effort.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 18, 2022

Political Shifts: Earth Day Gains Momentum Despite Political Turbulence. This was no doubt a political win for Earth Day. However, by the turn of the century, Earth Day once again faced turbulent political opposition. political arena as president, a period said to have a concerted assault on many green organizations. “

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Grist

JANUARY 10, 2024

But the killings set off a political and scientific storm, with many biologists and advocates saying the operation called into question the core of the agency’s approach to managing wildlife, and may have even violated the state constitution. We can present the data, but what you do with the data is ultimately a political decision,” he says.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 27, 2025

Four other Public Service commissioners followed Long to the governors mansion, most recently Kathleen Babineaux Blanco in 2004. Long, Louisianas populist demagogue, would become governor at age 34 and a U.S. Senator at 38.

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