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Are lawyers and accountants doing enough on climate change?

GreenBiz

Exhibit A: law firms. According to a new report from Law Students for Climate Accountability, most of the top 100 law firms in the United States "provide far more support to clients driving the climate crisis than clients addressing it." The study analyzed litigation, transactional and lobbying work conducted from 2015 to 2019.

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Liz Truss Book Calls for Climate Laws to be Abolished and Boasts of Effort to Cancel UK COP Summit

DeSmogBlog

and EU to drop their landmark climate change laws, spreads falsehoods about green policies, and fondly recalls an attempt to cancel a major climate conference. The UK government has given £20 billion more in support to fossil fuel producers than renewables companies since 2015. is beyond reach.

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Reduce, reuse, recycle, register?

GreenBiz

In order to be patentable, globally harmonized patent law requires innovations to be new and involve an inventive step. And, according to a leading patent database , from 2015 — the year in which the landmark Paris Agreement was adopted — to 2019, the number of patents published per year in this class increased by approximately 40 percent.

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Biomass Lobby Makes ‘False’ Claims to Sway EU Law-makers

DeSmogBlog

European law-makers are due to vote on a revised renewable energy directive next week, part of the EU’s Green New Deal to slash carbon emissions by 55 percent by 2030. Rakos has also come under fire from Laurence Tubiana, a former French diplomat and an architect of the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change, over his claims.

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China’s new frontier for VOC regulations

GreenBiz

This enshrined into law China’s first air emissions management plan and formalized an approach to regional collaboration. 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.

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Solar Net Metering Under Threat as Shadowy Group Demands Intervention in State Policies

GreenTechMedia

Ari Peskoe, director of the Electricity Law Initiative at Harvard University, wrote in a tweet that NERA’s petition “seeks to end net metering as we know it.” The day after NERA’s filing, FERC set a May 14 deadline for parties that might oppose or support it to file comments that could influence its decision.

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Is Florida’s proposed infrastructure law anti-EV or pro-competition?

Charged

In 2015, California enacted a law that allowed utilities to have a central role in rolling out infrastructure, but included measures designed to protect independent charging operators. ChargePoint supported the law, as did several of the investor-owned utilities). The Florida charging bill may not become law this year.

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