GreenTechMedia

APRIL 9, 2020

Last month, Lightsource announced the financing of a 260-megawatt Texas project during a week when financial markets saw their worst since October 2008, which kicked off the Great Recession. “Certainly, it is a different market,” said Smith. “We have a very full plate.”

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 12, 2021

But as project economics and scale have improved, and governments are locking in decarbonization laws, a very different environment has been created. The firm had 370 megawatts' worth of wind farms in operation with a target to build this up to 1 GW by the end of 2008. BP’s big pivot.

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GreenBiz

JULY 20, 2020

Earlier this year, Danone became the first listed company to become an "enterprise à mission," a new type of corporation created by a 2019 French law. Workers fills up milk storage tank at a Danone dairy plant in Normandy, France, April 2008. Cecilia Keating. Mon, 07/20/2020 - 00:30. Sponsored Article. Source: Photoagriculture.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

CRUK, which includes John Lewis as one of its members,[i] launched in 2008 with the aim of diverting carpet from landfill and recovering raw materials.[ii]. viii] Center for International Environmental Law (2015) Plastic & climate: The hidden costs of a plastic planet. Available at: [link]. Available at: [link]. [ix]

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Grist

AUGUST 12, 2021

Take, for example, the 2008 case of Native Village of Kivalina v. We’re citing the hell out of it,” said Pat Parenteau, a law professor at Vermont Law School. ExxonMobil Corp., in which Native Alaskans sued ExxonMobil and 23 other energy giants for damages associated with coastal erosion.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Good Law Project and Ecotricity CEO Dale Vince threaten court action unless government reviews airports planning policy before the final approval process for third runway begins. We think that's unlawful. Without government planning permission, the project cannot go ahead.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

Spending the past year as Ecolab’s president and COO, he joined as an executive vice president in 2008 after capping off 15 years as Nestlé’s head of corporate sales in Europe. Beck, trained in mechanical engineering and aerodynamics, worked at one time for the European Space Agency. Rosalind 'Roz' Brewer, COO and Group President, Starbucks.

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Business Green

APRIL 14, 2020

Covid-19 crisis will result in a "worse shock" to the economy than seen 12 years ago, according to the group, and "what worked for the 2008 financial crisis may not be sufficient to overcome this one". The group warns the shock to the economy caused by the coronavirus pandemic will be tougher than the 2008 financial crisis. "We

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

” As one of the first analysts in the renewable energy sector, Demas has since taken on the responsibility of helping to push our industry forward, through the 2008 recession and now in the uncertain times of COVID-19 and broader social unrest. But as it’s said, “With great power comes great responsibility.”

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

A UK-qualified barrister, environmental policy expert, and former journalist and theatre critic, Shine brings huge experience to the role gained during a varied career that has spanned four continents and many sectors including business, law, policy, media, and the arts.

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Business Green

MAY 25, 2020

But as we start to think of life beyond the current crisis, the question is naturally starting to arise - what should bailouts look like this time round, and what can we learn from 2008/09? While the UK government was pioneering in passing the UK Climate Change Act in 2008, now 164 governments have climate change commitments enacted into law.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Back in 2008 the law changed so that whenever occupancy of any building alters an Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) must be provided to the new occupant, whether a purchaser or tenant. Anecdotally, it is thought that such law-breaking accommodation is likely to be fairly sub-standard. Heat pumps are scarce.

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Business Green

APRIL 6, 2020

Key architect of the 2008 Climate Change Act returns to frontline politics, as Sir Keir Starmer unveils Labour's new front bench team. As such, Miliband was instrumental in passing the 2008 Climate Change Act, which set UK decarbonisation targets into law and established the Committee on Climate Change (CCC).

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Business Green

MARCH 2, 2022

Friends of the Earth claims government’s flagship Net Zero Strategy is ‘woefully inadequate’ and that Heat and Buildings Strategy breaches equalities laws. We believe the government has breached the Climate Change Act 2008, a vital piece of legislation that Friends of the Earth was pivotal in bringing into law.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Back in 2008 the law changed so that whenever occupancy of any building alters an Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) must be provided to the new occupant, whether a purchaser or tenant. Anecdotally, it is thought that such law-breaking accommodation is likely to be fairly sub-standard. Heat pumps are scarce.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

By putting in place the enabling primary legislation that bridges legal gaps, creates new laws, or brings clarity to existing laws. Indeed, in WBD’s recently published 2024 Energy Transition Outlook Survey Report, businesses still identify effective legislation as a key accelerator of the energy transition.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 23, 2021

The UK pledged to prevent global warming from spiraling out of control by signing the 2015 Paris Agreement – enshrining into law the ambitious climate change target to cut emissions by 78% by 2035. He joined Logan Energy Limited in 2008 as Director of Operations and became Managing Director and CEO in 2012.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

A UK-qualified barrister, environmental policy expert, and former journalist and theatre critic, Shine brings huge experience to the role gained during a varied career that has spanned four continents and many sectors including business, law, policy, media, and the arts.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

JULY 2, 2021

a leading thought and practice innovator in mindfulness-based antiracism and social justice, Professor of Law at the University of San Francisco and author of the award-winning book, The Inner Work of Racial Justice: Healing Ourselves and Transforming Our Communities Through Mindfulness. is Professor of Law at the University of San Francisco.

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Charged

APRIL 1, 2020

I’m looking out the window at my 2008 Volkswagen Touareg, and I bet that’s got sixty or seventy electronic black boxes, three hundred pounds of wiring harness, and software from twenty different companies in it,” Wright told me. However, it was soon revealed that Daimler had already been making similar overtures to BMW.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 1, 2020

For the past nine years, Chicago-based utility ComEd has earned excessive profits from a regulatory structure set in place by a 2011 state law whose passage has been linked to a bribery scandal that’s embroiled key state lawmakers and ComEd’s former CEO.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 31, 2023

Record is a major Conservative donor, having given nearly half a million pounds to the Conservative Party since 2008. He added that Jenkyns is a “seasoned campaigner and understands how to get our message across to the general public.” He has also funded the GWPF.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 26, 2021

He added that “whether they are enough is not a matter for the court” and noted there was “no requirement in the [Climate Change Act] 2008, or in government policy, for carbon emissions for all road transport to become net zero”. billion second Road Investment Strategy (RIS2).

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Seven states, as well as Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia, have passed 100 percent clean energy transition laws. All 100 percent state laws, and some city and county policies, also include interim targets to keep clean energy deployment on track. The binding nature of these targets is also noteworthy. Washington D.C.

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Grist

MARCH 26, 2021

But for the past two years, a committee of 16 people with various expertise in the physical sciences, economics, policy, law, and ethics have been sitting with that discomfort as they met regularly to develop an American research agenda for this nascent and highly controversial field of science. Between 2008 and 2018, U.S.

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Business Green

JULY 19, 2020

To mark a year since the UK's 2050 net zero emissions target was written into UK law we gathered the views of a raft of industry experts to debate the technologies, investment and policy needed to reach net zero, and the role business will play. Can lessons from the past help shape our net zero future?

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Miliband, an instrumental figure in getting the Climate Change Act into law when he was Energy and Climate Change Secretary in 2008, also argued that the proposed mine was not needed to support UK's steel industry, noting 85 per cent of coal production from the project is earmarked for export.

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R-Squared Energy

JUNE 10, 2024

Disclaimer: I worked for ConocoPhillips from 2002 to 2008. For instance, the FTC requested additional information from Exxon and Pioneer regarding their proposed deal, which is a standard step in assessing whether a merger could be anticompetitive under U.S. Follow Robert Rapier on Twitter , LinkedIn , or Facebook

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 10, 2024

Labour plans to overhaul planning laws, and massively expand the grid to transport electricity in pylons across the country from dozens of new solar and wind farms. Many of Labour’s new MPs will be too young to remember when Miliband became the UK’s first Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change under Gordon Brown in 2008.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 5, 2021

More than a dozen — including Brikel, Bobov Dol and others checked by GMI Verify — were privatized between 2003 and 2008 at low prices and through controversial tender processes. Three years later, Bulgaria passed new laws restricting offshore ownership. The ownership histories of several of the other plants are unclear. and Cyprus.

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Business Green

MARCH 8, 2020

In 2020, after setting in law a target to decarbonise its economy over the next 30 years, and ahead of hosting a meeting of global governments to discuss increasing climate ambition around the world, the UK, more urgently than ever before, needs to set out how it will deliver what is required in the face of a climate emergency.".

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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. This raises a number of interesting political questions.”

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

As such, new legislation is to be introduced would prohibit larger businesses in the UK from using forest risk commodities that have not been produced in line with producer country laws. Our new due diligence law is one piece of a much bigger package of measures that we are putting in place to tackle deforestation.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Sinclair campaigned against green taxes in senior roles at the TaxPayers’ Alliance pressure group from 2008 to 2013. In 2016, he blamed high energy prices on solar and wind power, saying on Twitter: “This is how UK climate policy works. Huge investment in renewables etc -> higher profits -> higher prices.”.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Miliband, who had an instrumental role stewarding the UK's Climate Change Act into law as Energy and Climate Change Secretary in 2008, said his priorities for the new brief would be leading Labour's Green New Deal policy platform, including its recent pledge to invest £28bn a year on climate action.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 2, 2023

Lord David Frost – a Conservative peer and former Cabinet Office minister who was appointed in November – is also a GWPF director , along with Terence Mordaunt , who has donated £342,500 to the Conservative Party and its MPs since 2008 via First Corporate Consultants and First Corporate Shipping.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2021

TAN, however, argues that ministers had a legal duty under the Climate Change Act 2008’s statutory targets and the Paris Agreement to consider the strategy’s full impact on the environment and could not leave that assessment to the planning stage of individual road projects. The strategy doesn’t mention RIS2.

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