Business Green

MAY 4, 2021

But political action will determine whether it actually does. track is feasible but would require halving global emissions by 2030 compared to 2010 and reaching net zero emissions by mid-century. This answer depends on the ambition of governments, and the effectiveness of campaigning by non-government organisations and others.

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The Guardian: Energy

JUNE 20, 2024

We did so knowing that taking action to tackle the climate crisis was supported by all the major political parties. It had been the Conservative party in opposition under David Cameron that had backed the Climate Change Act more than a decade earlier because we argued that climate action was more important than political divisions.

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Clean Energy Canada

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Students of conservative political history, however, will note that climate action and political longevity are intertwined — and that Poilievre might want to rethink hitching his wagon to Prairie populists. The choice before Poilievre is merely a political one. This post originally appeared in the Ottawa Citizen.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), any group working for a foreign country to conduct political activity or public relations in the U.S. political strategy group GMMB , to lobby for the UAE to host the newly created International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), an intergovernmental body. Under the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 14, 2024

CT Group was founded by political consultant and lobbyist Lynton Crosby in 2002. Hiring CT Group appears to be the latest attempt by the Legatum Group to expand its political influence. This raises a number of interesting political questions.” Reform UK campaigns on an overtly anti-climate platform.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Si2’s data reveal that proponents were filing resolutions as far back as 2010 on issues that have risen to stark prominence in 2020 as the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and social unrest over racial inequality have rippled through the business world. Policy & Politics. Shareholder Activism. Sponsored Article.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 15, 2024

The company, it was noted, needed to “carefully consider tone and content of campaign given new political environment. According to a 2017 priorities review, the biggest risk to BP’s reputation had shifted away from 2010’s Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico to “the policy and politics of climate change.”

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

While it now stands a little higher than when Kocher first took over, it remains sharply down from its pre-transition levels in 2010. An open letter of support was published in a French business newspaper earlier this week and signed by figures across the business and political worlds, including the major of Paris, Anne Hidalgo.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 17, 2025

Irrespective of cost, Norways considerable EV incentives have had the effect of making 89 percent of new vehicles purchased last year EVs, according to the Norwegian Road Federation , up from less than 1 percent in 2010. The post Atlas-Affiliated Think Tank Wants Canada to Pump Breaks on EVs appeared first on DeSmog.

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The Verge: Energy

MAY 18, 2024

BHRRC has documented 631 allegations of human rights abuses since 2010 for seven key minerals used in electric vehicles, rechargeable batteries, and renewable energy technologies. Across its entire data set going back to 2010, labor violations including 53 work-related deaths make up a quarter of all allegations.

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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. Notably, he was the only member of the shadow cabinet to vote against the war in Iraq in 2003. Awful loss.

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The Guardian: Energy

JUNE 11, 2024

Eighteen years on from David Cameron’s “hug a husky” campaign of 2006, where the climate and nature crises were largely viewed with cross-party consensus, we look back through the (many) Tory manifestos since 2010 to see how the Conservatives’ environmental message has evolved. Continue reading.

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Business Green

JUNE 11, 2024

The UK Green Business Awards and their forerunner the BusinessGreen Leaders Awards have now been running for over a decade - and Trewin Restorick has judged them all I was one of the judges of the first BusinessGreen Leaders Awards way back in 2010. With energy and transport there are now clear transition paths towards low carbon.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 23, 2021

In 2010, the Central Government of China integrated the "Guideline on Strengthening Joint Prevention and Control of Atmospheric Pollution to Improve Air Quality" into its 12th Five Year Plan. Policy & Politics. Air emission reform in China. Contributors. Christopher Hazen. Chemicals & Toxics. Sponsored Article.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

In the 2009 Budget , the then Chancellor Alistair Darling had announced that fuel duty would increase by two pence per litre on 1 September of that year, and by one pence per litre in real terms each year from 2010 to 2013. pence per litre for both petrol and diesel. Since then, there has been no increase in the nominal level of fuel duty.

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Business Green

APRIL 1, 2022

Dale Vince is looking for a new owner for Ecotricity, the pioneering green energy company he founded off the back of a single wind turbine over 25 years ago, with the entrepreneur considering embarking on a new career in politics, he revealed today.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 14, 2020

Political impetus to decarbonize? The political response to the coronavirus crisis could also shape emissions trends. But emissions still rebounded globally from 2009 to 2010 as countries restarted economies reliant on fossil fuels. ” The EIA forecasts a 25 percent decline in U.S.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 8, 2021

According to the report, significant progress has been made since 2010 on various aspects of the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 7, but progress has been unequal across regions. billion in 2010 to 759 million in 2019. Globally, the number of people without access to electricity declined from 1.2

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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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The Guardian: Energy

OCTOBER 30, 2024

The decision to freeze fuel duty and keep the 5p cut made by the Conservatives in 2022 is attracting some fury, not least because the tax relief is estimated to have raised UK greenhouse gas emissions by 7% since 2010.

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Terra Infirma

JUNE 13, 2024

Going back further, David Cameron’s ‘hug a husky’ environmental campaign helped rehabilitate the Tories in the eyes of the electorate before the 2010 election. Never mind the moral, economic and practical arguments, their current strategy makes no electoral sense whatsoever.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 12, 2020

Their presence caused the usual mix of delight and anger, and in 2010 Scottish Natural Heritage planned to remove them. political support, and it may be that they will spread by themselves. Save the Free Beavers of the Tay” Facebook group. the Scottish government granted beavers full legal protection in 2019. Beavers look to be ?on

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 25, 2023

“I even took off my farm boots and wore high heels to come here today,” Camila Telles told the audience of political activists, business executives, and students at April’s Liberty Forum, an annual conservative gathering in Brazil sponsored by the Atlas Network. IEE also participates directly in Brazilian politics, Brun says.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

Politicians and industry figures are applying sustained public and political pressure to have the appeal dropped, despite the High Court having approved the legal challenge. From 2000 to 2010, Irish agricultural emissions had reduced steadily. Overall agriculture sector emissions rose by 10.4

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 26, 2022

Founded in 2010, its board of directors and advisors come from some of the top legal, lobbying and financial firms in Canada. This might seem like an odd pairing, because Netflix by some measures is one of the most politically liberal tech companies, and MLI is arguably one of Canada’s most rightwing think tanks.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Related Comprehensive Green School Information and Resources 2010 - 2019 Subscribe in a reader can be searched by Sustainability Topic, Academic Discipline and Office or Department. Bars in graphs can be clicked to view resources that align with a particular category. Click here to access the summary.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2022

By far the most politically contentious aspect of the new emissions budgets involves Ireland’s livestock-dominated agriculture sector, which currently accounts for 37.5 After the painful financial crash of 2008/9, the political atmosphere in Ireland ahead of the lifting of quotas was febrile.

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Grist

MAY 31, 2020

But 2010 was different. In 2010, that fledgling government had few resources to handle an existential climate threat, but it did have plenty of scientists and researchers traipsing through its immense backyard, studying everything from permafrost to prehistoric glaciation.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 17, 2020

Newsom the political cover to declare to voters that a more robust system of accountability is in place.” While Newsom has lifted his opposition to the financing portion of PG&E’s plan to emerge from bankruptcy, other disputes between the utility and state government remain. “It also gives Gov.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 19, 2022

My son was born in 2010, which means his life is going to play out over the 21st century. I started getting concerned about it — and I started to be concerned in particular with climate communication — because my background is in literary analysis research into how language has political effects, how it creates political dispositions.

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Clean Energy Canada

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The cost of new solar projects declined globally by 88 per cent between 2010 and 2021, while onshore wind fell by 68 per cent. With the global winds powering a shift to renewable energy, it’s high time for all political leaders to shed any outdated ideas about renewables. And both B.C.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

Politicians and industry figures are applying sustained public and political pressure to have the appeal dropped, despite the High Court having approved the legal challenge. From 2000 to 2010, Irish agricultural emissions had reduced steadily. Overall agriculture sector emissions rose by 10.4

Agriculture 98

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 9, 2024

The politician is also a long-standing ally, teacher, and host of a political series on Brasil Paralelo’s YouTube channel. His political connections reveal an intricate network that links Brazilian far-right organizations that deny climate change with international think tanks. He spoke at the Liberty Forum in 2018 and in 2010.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2022

It estimates that between 2010 and 2019 the average value of nature-dependent exports worldwide - inflated to 2019 values - amounted to $7.4tr, but that much of this value was tied up in non-renewable resources such as climate-damaging fossil fuels or minerals, metals, and ores.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Conway, authors of the classic 2010 book Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming , have released a new book placing that doubt machine into a longer arc of U.S. business and political history. and global politics. politics for the past 100-plus years.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 21, 2021

In Part 2, we’ll review how Earth Day has transformed with changing trends – namely, political shifts, environmental activism, climate change awareness and social diversity and inclusivity. 2010 : 75,000 global partners across 192 countries engage with Earth Day.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 4, 2022

Doug Parr, policy director for Greenpeace UK, told DeSmog: “We’ve long known that the oil and gas industry has strong connections right at the top of politics and this appears to extend to the Russian industry as well. Moral Imperative’. He previously chaired the company, which is backed by Russian oligarch Alexander Djaparidze. .

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