DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2023

Rishi Sunak has confirmed that a fossil fuel-funded think tank helped to draft his government’s laws targeting climate protests. Sunak’s statement yesterday appears to confirm openDemocracy’s allegation that sections of the 2022 law were ‘directly inspired’ by Policy Exchange’s report. million to the party since 2014.

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Energy Innovation

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Energy Innovation partners with the independent nonprofit Aspen Global Change Institute (AGCI) to provide climate and energy research updates. Discouragingly for many, it may already seem too late to stave off the worst impacts of climate change. California is in the middle of another unprecedented fire year.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 14, 2024

It is curious how certain agencies, including Lynton Crosby’s, end up advising both the Tories and their friends,” Jolyon Maugham, director of the Good Law Project, told DeSmog. Legatum’s Agenda Founded in 2007, the Legatum Institute claims to promote the “prosperity of individuals, families, communities and nations”.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 12, 2022

I've always found it curious how, on the whole, the business community has been much slower to ‘get' the seriousness of the global ecological crisis and the profound threat it poses to the future of business, the global economy and - well - humanity, as compared to the threat posed by climate change.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

C above pre-industrial levels , recognizing that this would significantly reduce the risks and impacts of climate change”. It was at COP21, where the Paris Agreement , the most important climate pact to date, was enshrined. A decade later, in 2005 and 2007, EU heads of government would confirm this path.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 28, 2021

Scientists were just beginning to grasp the gravity of climate change. Both sectors offered various incentive programs without triggering claims of “destructive competition” that is prohibited by law. Another problem for Duke: The law requires it to conserve electricity, not energy in general. Musser questioned.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The Environment Bill will has finally been passed into law, thereby becoming the Environment Act. His words apply equally to rebuilding biodiversity as they do to addressing climate change. I introduced the concept of biodiversity offsetting and gains from development in 2007 when I set up the Environment Bank.

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Jigar Shah

JUNE 11, 2019

Prominent among these shifts is an increase in ride-sharing and public transit over car ownership, and an elevated political awareness of climate change. Lastly, we need to increase the clean energy industry 10x to stave off the worst impacts of climate change. People switched because in 2007 George W.

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Grist

MAY 11, 2022

This, in spite of the fact that Southern California, along with much of the West, is in the midst of what experts call a megadrought that some believe may not be a temporary, one-off occurrence, but a recurring event or even a climate change-driven permanent “aridification” of the West.

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 6, 2021

I started doing this in 2007 and, with a few exceptions, continued it annually through last year. This year, I’m changing it up, for several reasons. Consider a recent global survey conducted by the Institute for Policy Integrity at New York University School of Law, focused on climate change risks and their related costs.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 13, 2021

This idea that we are going to burn more fossil fuels to solve climate change is ridiculous,” Tracey Saxby, a marine scientist with My Sea to Sky, a B.C.-based Just Phase 1 of LNG Canada,” Andrew Gage, a staff lawyer with West Coast Environmental Law, told DeSmog, referring to B.C.’s s climate goals. “We

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Business Green

JULY 22, 2022

He participated in the work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore. For example, US law prohibits interstate commerce of cannabis and derivative products, meaning that whatever is sold in a given state must be grown and produced there.

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Jigar Shah

JUNE 11, 2019

Prominent among these shifts is an increase in ride-sharing and public transit over car ownership, and an elevated political awareness of climate change. Lastly, we need to increase the clean energy industry 10x to stave off the worst impacts of climate change. People switched because in 2007 George W.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 25, 2023

From the dimly-lit stage, she opened the event’s first-ever panel on agribusiness with familiar talking points, mocking leftists for blaming climate change on cows. IEE has been a finalist for the Atlas Network “Templeton Freedom Award” several times, and won the award In 2007.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Abstract: There is a growing recognition among businesses, policymakers, and the general public regarding the economic and societal risks of climate change. Chart 5 – Support for a revenue neutral carbon tax in the 2018 Yale Program on Climate Change Communications poll is at 68% nationally, and 69% in Washington State.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 6, 2022

This figure increased by ~2% in recent years, which can be attributed to the one million tree planting program launched in 2007. For instance, in 2019 the state passed a new law named the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act , which raised the 2030 target from 50% of electricity generated by renewables to 70%.

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Clean Energy Trust

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

One of the more recent efforts at regulating space debris, primarily focused on the active orbital operations of satellites, is a set of global guidelines that was released in 2007 by the United Nations’ Office for Outer Space Affairs in coordination with NASA and the European Space Agency.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021 Elsa Wenzel Mon, 01/11/2021 – 02:15 The big stories of 2020 were not just about a pandemic, a reckoning on racial justice, an economic calamity and the ever-imminent rise of climate change impacts. Since 2007, Cisco has reduced its GHG emissions by 55 percent since 2007.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 15, 2021

Greentech Media launched in 2007 before the solar industry as it looks today even existed. Residential solar prices more than halved from 2007 to 2021, reaching $2.97 New financing options have flooded the market for home installations and large-scale projects, changing how projects are funded and expanding markets.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2022

The well sat unused in 2006 and 2007 — “shut in due to Hurricane Rita,” records show — then was used to inject less than 5,000 barrels of wastewater shortly before the sale to Black Elk in 2009. The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law signed this past November set aside $4.7 No other volumes were reported after Black Elk took over.

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Grist

JULY 6, 2024

With this initiative, the University of Chicago is attempting to position itself as the place for serious scientific consideration of the logistics and implications of Earth system interventions aimed at reversing or counteracting climate change.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Since 2007, when an international commission called OSPAR began keeping records, North Sea drilling sites have discharged over five billion cubic metres of produced water into the ocean. At the end of the day waste is what’s going to move the needle,” says Auch.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 31, 2023

For more on those problems, see CarbonCaptureFacts and the Center for International Environmental Law for starters. Here we are talking about a basic practical question: what would it take to build a “sewer system” big enough to handle the carbon dioxide that polluters are currently dumping for free in the atmosphere?

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Climate action honors that legacy — because climate change is as stark an inequality issue as it gets and requires every bit as much doggedness to address. Climate action honors that legacy — because climate change is as stark an inequality issue as it gets and requires every bit as much doggedness to address.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

Resolutions to global challenges such as climate change, poverty, inequality, biodiversity loss, habitat destruction, resource depletion, racism, and exploitation need the backing of our economic system. By 2007 , 82 businesses were certified by B Lab. How can you implement this initiative in your business?

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 14, 2023

“We have been warning about the dangers posed by climate change for decades,” climate scientist Cathy Whitlock testified to a Montana court on Monday, “and yet Montana continues to aggressively pursue an expansion of fossil fuel utilization and production.” court – the first was in 2007.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 15, 2023

Julia Olson, the lawyer who took Curry’s deposition, has described her as “the number one climate skeptic scientist that the Republicans go to for testimony in Congress, that the fossil fuel industry goes to.” She does not have a leg to stand on,” climate scientist Kevin Trenberth told DeSmog.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Political Ties Energy Uniteds campaign manager, Jarret Coels, is a former employee of the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) and the Saskatchewan Party, the party thats been governing that province since 2007. Prior to that, McMillan was elected as a Saskatchewan Party legislative representative in the 2007 election.

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Grist

AUGUST 5, 2024

To judge by recent Supreme Court decisions, the world didn’t know much about climate change a half century ago. climate change) that couldn’t be anticipated. climate change) that couldn’t be anticipated. Her paper ballooned into an 124-page analysis, soon to be published in the journal Ecology Law Quarterly.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Climate action honors that legacy — because climate change is as stark an inequality issue as it gets and requires every bit as much doggedness to address. Climate action honors that legacy — because climate change is as stark an inequality issue as it gets and requires every bit as much doggedness to address.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Climate action honors that legacy — because climate change is as stark an inequality issue as it gets and requires every bit as much doggedness to address. Climate action honors that legacy — because climate change is as stark an inequality issue as it gets and requires every bit as much doggedness to address.

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Unsustainable

AUGUST 23, 2019

Globalisation was effective during the transition that appeared after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Berlin Wall, but since the global financial crisis began in 2007 the world economy has been hanging on the cliff, struggling to get up. Financial crisis, indeed, the outcome of Washington Consensus and finally inequality, too.

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Unsustainable

MAY 1, 2019

words by Henry Lewis Introduction As the clock continues ticking toward the collective future of the human species on planet Earth, there are still some among us who are either skeptics or out-right deniers of climate change. coal first and then later oil and natural gas? Fast forward to 1988 and a series of natural disasters?extreme

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 9, 2021

by Richard Schmalensee, Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management and Davide Schoenbrod, Professor, New York Law School. With the election of President Joe Biden and rising public concern about climate change, Washington seems increasingly likely to act to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

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Grist

JANUARY 23, 2020

After Toledo’s water crisis, Ohio went further, passing a law that prohibits farms in the western Lake Erie region from applying fertilizer on frozen or rain-saturated soil. In this 2007 photo, hogs are shown in a pen at a 4,800-head swine farm in Amanda, Ohio. Kiichiro Sato / AP Photo.

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Business Green

JANUARY 5, 2022

World leaders should not allow wider geopolitical tensions over alleged human rights violations to derail efforts to combat the climate crisis, according to former UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon, who has argued "we must put [out] the fire first, then let's talk about human rights".

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Enervee

JANUARY 2, 2020

Backtracking on bulb standards agreed in 2007 In a Grinch-like move just before the holidays, the Trump Administration announced that it will block the energy-saving lightbulb standards signed into law by President George Bush in 2007 from entering into effect as planned on January 1, 2020. Overall, you save 83% with the LED.

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