DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2021

When approached for comment, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) distanced itself from the discussions, saying they were “independent of government” and had “not been part of our policy-making process”. “No Preferential Treatment’. for the climate compatibility checkpoint?. “?Discussions Discussions ?on

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Clean Energy Canada

OCTOBER 21, 2024

In this webinar, Clean Energy Canada VP of policy and strategy Rachel Doran, communications director Trevor Melanson, director of public affairs Joanna Kyriazis, and policy advisor Jana Elbrecht will present the reports’ main findings and unpack its implications. The door to cleaner homes and lower bills must be open to all Canadians.

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Join us at 11am PT/2pm ET on November 23 as some of Canada’s leading climate think tanks offer informed insight on the most politically salient issue of the year. Louise has more than 30 years’ experience in climate change policy, communications, and solutions-related advocacy and programming.

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Business Green

MAY 6, 2020

BEIS released a suite of documents regarding 'clean heating' policy last Tuesday including most importantly details of what will follow on from the RHI. This policy consultation comes in advance of a long awaited energy White Paper and in advance of a heat and buildings framework expected to be released later this year.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Reform UK , formerly the Brexit Party, is a vocal critic of climate action, and last year called for a referendum on the UK’s net zero policies. Mordunat is a director at the Global Warming Policy Foundation and served as its chair from April 2017 to November 2019. Earlier this year, Tice claimed “there is no climate crisis”.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Now the alliance is launching a hunger strike to demand that the victims of a 2016 environmental disaster in central Vietnam caused by Formosa Ha Tinh Steel Corporation, a subsidiary of the Formosa Plastics Group, be compensated for their losses, that the polluted area be restored, and that those who have been jailed for protesting be released.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Key players in California energy politics. Successes that have inspired women to get involved in politics. Why you ignore policy at your peril! Mary Hughes , a longtime political strategist, is president of Hughes & Co., a strategic communications and political consulting firm in Palo Alto. REGISTER. ?

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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. A relative newcomer to climate policy, she was appointed the shadow minister for industry and decarbonisation in September 2023.

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Energy Innovation

JULY 14, 2020

In April, daily emissions fell by as much as 17 percent , and total 2020 emissions may be 7-11 percent lower than 2019 (as projected by the Energy Policy Simulator , and a new opinion piece in Nature by Hanna et al., Figure 2 Mean survey results of recovery policy archetypes (2008-2020) aggregated using relativity-adjusted scores.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 12, 2024

Reform’s policies are in step with its donors. McMurdock does not appear to have spoken publicly about climate policy. In a profile on Reform’s website, McMurdock describes his politics: “I am committed to the principle that there is no such thing as government money — only your money, collected through taxes.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

It is the most robust analysis of where greenhouse gas emissions are headed under current policies — and where they need to be headed to limit warming. The report’s findings are particularly significant this year because countries are set to conduct the first-ever “global stocktake” since the Paris Agreement was ratified in 2016.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 28, 2020

But with a bribery scandal involving Exelon subsidiary Commonwealth Edison eroding its political clout in the state, and Illinois Governor JB Pritzker saying he won’t support the utility’s preferred plan to boost its nuclear plant revenue, it’s unclear whether Exelon will get what it says it needs to keep the plants open.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

May, who was UK Prime Minister from 2016 to 2019, was speaking last night at an event hosted by the Conservative Environment Network (CEN), which represents more than 100 Tory MPs who back policies to cut emissions and protect nature. In her speech, May called on Conservatives to unite ahead of the UN COP26 climate summit.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

JANUARY 26, 2021

Senior Associate, Policy | The Ad Hoc Group | Washington, DC. SENIOR ASSOCIATE, POLICY. We are experts at the intersection of policy and business with a mission to help scale the technology businesses needed to build a more sustainable future. an energy efficiency software company that sold to Oracle in 2016.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

” Even the threat of such cases is having a chilling effect on public environmental policy, Boyd has found. In 2016, TransCanada — since renamed TC Energy — sued the U.S. ISDS mechanisms are also affecting fundamental human rights. Individual EU member states, including Spain, Germany, and France, have already pledged to quit.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 7, 2022

None of the coverage notes that NZSG leader and former Brexit minister Steve Baker is a trustee of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), whose founder and board member Lord Nigel Lawson recently said “global warming is not a problem”. ‘Politically-Motivated Climate Deniers’.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The report was also shared by leading climate science denial groups, including Net Zero Watch, the campaign arm of the Global Warming Policy Foundation. This comes as Prime Minister Rishi Sunak last week announced several delays to the implementation of his government’s net zero policies.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Last year Hicks rhetorically asked on his blog whether climate researchers were “over-hyping because they have a political agenda,” terming them “those chronic-doomster semi-scientists.” Michael Shermer speaking at the 2016 FreedomFest in Las Vegas, Nevada. As for politics, I am liberal, while Dr. Peterson is conservative,” he said.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

The newly approved changes will boost those targets dramatically for investor-owned utilities Arizona Public Service and Tucson Electric Power, mandating a 50 percent cut in carbon emissions from 2016 to 2018 average levels by 2032 and a 75 percent cut by 2040. are facing bigger and more devastating wildfires.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 28, 2022

In 1990 he founded the Science and Environment Policy Project (SEPP) that expounded these views. Peterson is known for his self-help books and opposition to “identity politics”, but has increasingly been spreading climate science misinformation. He argued that warming caused by greenhouse gas emissions was “trivial”.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 11, 2023

The founder and honorary president of the Global Warming Policy Foundation has announced he will be retiring from parliament. The newspaper – which regularly runs columns attacking climate action – notes Lawson’s pivotal role in the official Brexit campaign, Vote Leave, during the 2016 EU referendum.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 12, 2023

Both Lohia and his wife are listed on Companies House as living in England, having seemingly moved to London in 2016. Lohia’s Tory donation has also raised wider concerns among campaigners about how the British political system allows a few big money donors to fund political parties.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 6, 2024

During a campaign event for the European elections in Valladolid he said: “We cannot have a Common Agricultural Policy ideologically conditioned by fanatics and eco-radicals lobbies”. She began her political career in 2016 with Silvio Berlusconi’s Forza Italia.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 12, 2024

Since then, the Conservative government has made a series of U-turns on its own net zero policies, attacked Labour’s green spending plans, and doubled down on its support for new fossil fuel projects, approving more than 100 new North Sea oil and gas licences. Agnew has donated £18,000 to the Conservative Party and its politicians since 2016.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2023

Speaking at Policy Exchange’s summer party on Wednesday (28 June), the prime minister boasted that the think tank’s work “helped us draft” the government’s crackdown on protests, according to Politico. Rishi Sunak has confirmed that a fossil fuel-funded think tank helped to draft his government’s laws targeting climate protests.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 1, 2024

He said that it was important for the government to have “interlocking policies” on “the quality of our rivers”, “marine protected areas”, “air pollution”, and “nature restoration”. From 2015 to 2023, he was a director of the Global Warming Policy Foundation , the UK’s leading climate science denial group.

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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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Grist

JULY 5, 2023

Today’s story focuses on a vehicle for systemic change that at first glance may not seem like a space for personal action: policy. should be enacting more ambitious climate policies, but influencing that as an individual may feel out of reach. Stinnett worked for over a decade as a political campaign adviser in the early 2000s.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

That could be done by directly recovering a range of fixed utility costs through state sales or income taxes, although the idea of the state collecting taxes and shifting them to the state’s investor-owned utilities may well be politically unpalatable, the report notes.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 3, 2023

Policy Exchange, one of Westminster’s most prominent think tanks, engaged in a high-level influencing campaign over the UK’s North Sea oil and gas policies while being funded by fossil fuel interests, DeSmog can reveal. Policy Exchange received $30,000 from the oil and gas supermajor ExxonMobil in 2017.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Others have attacked climate policies and blamed high energy bills on renewable power. These climate-wrecking policies won’t help our efforts to tackle the cost of living scandal and the energy crisis, they’ll totally undermine them. In the book he said climate policies would “push up electricity bills”, according to the Guardian.

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 13, 2021

Current Rebate Launched in South Australian Home Battery Scheme Up to $300 per kWh installed 2018 NSW Interest Free Solar Loans Interest free loans of up to $9,000 to retrofit a battery 2020 ACT Battery Rebate $825 per kW of Sustained Peak Output 2016 Solar Victoria $4,174 per household 2019.

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Clean Energy Canada

JANUARY 12, 2021

Meanwhile, almost three-quarters (73%) support policies that make pollution-intensive products and activities gradually more expensive , if at the same time these policies also make climate-friendly alternatives cheaper and more available. as per the 2016 Census. Totals may not add up to 100 due to rounding.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Koch Industries may be best known to clean energy and environmental advocates as the oil and gas, chemicals and paper giant led by Charles Koch, who with his now-deceased brother David Koch funded a network of groups promoting conservative and libertarian public policies. Pittsburgh, Pa.-based

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Clean Energy Canada

JUNE 20, 2023

has a long history of pioneering climate policies that are eventually adopted nationally or by other provinces, and with its pre-existing EV advantage, population density, abundant clean electricity, and political environment (B.C. s Lower Mainland, the results of which inform a new report, On the Road to Net Zero: How B.C.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

In his first speech after staging a stunning political comeback at Brazil’s presidential elections, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva vowed to halt the Amazon deforestation that surged under outgoing rival Jair Bolsonaro. In order to succeed, Lula won’t just need to face down farmers, loggers, and miners. He will also have to win a battle of ideas.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 3, 2019

That auction was set to follow three earlier rounds in 2016-17 that transformed Mexico into one of the hottest global renewables markets, drawing many of the world's leading developers. 'Not averse to renewables' Amid the political haze, developers contacted by Greentech Media declined to comment on the direction of the market.

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