GreenBiz

JANUARY 21, 2021

That same study shows, however, that in 2020, 45 percent of directors say that ESG issues are a regular part of the board’s agenda, which demonstrates an increase from 34 percent in 2019. Time for training. How can boards (public and private) improve their efficacy in ESG oversight for long-term value?

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 17, 2022

While subject to consultation, the revised targets are to be incorporated into the Environment Act , which became law on 10 November last year. Kate Nield of environmental law firm ClientEarth said the target date was “far from ‘world-leading’”. Evidence of the pubic health problem presented by PM2.5 Water quality. Woodland cover.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

There’s a lot of beautiful things that happen out of [Richmond]," says Khamphanthong, a community organizer with the Asian Pacific Environmental Network whose family emigrated from Laos in the 1980s. But at the same time, when you look at the reality of it, it is sad.". California has done exactly that.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 9, 2023

Elite law schools in the United States are disproportionately funneling their students into jobs serving fossil fuel clients, according to a new report published Thursday. LSCA, an organization of law students working to hold the legal sector accountable for its role in the climate crisis, has previously scrutinized the top ranked U.S.

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Solar Power World

MARCH 5, 2020

Today, a diverse group of environmental, labor, and civic organizations sent a letter to New York State legislative leaders urging them to reform renewable energy siting to help New York State meet the legal mandates of the 2019 climate law for 70% renewable energy by 2030.

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GreenBiz

JULY 30, 2020

At the current rate of AI adoption — with no changes in the underlying computer server hardware and software — the data centers needed to run those applications could claim 15 percent of that power load, semiconductor firm Applied Materials CEO Gary Dickerson predicted in August 2019.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 26, 2023

Diverse compounds are emitted by everything from motor vehicles to power plants, and include both greenhouse gases and short-lived climate pollutants – which are known to fuel global warming – as well as a host of volatile organic compounds that can lead to short- and long-term health problems in humans. trillion, equivalent to 6.1

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 5, 2020

First and foremost, that's our primary platform," Renfrew told me during an on-stage interview in 2019. Calder ventured to Jharkhand in January 2019 to see what she could learn about which suppliers were in compliance with Beautycounter’s human rights and safety standards. "We We are focused on safety for human health. On the ground.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 23, 2020

Saturday marked the one-year anniversary of the passage of perhaps the most ambitious law ever adopted by a U.S. Local Law 97, one of 10 bills in the sweeping Climate Mobilization Act , requires New York City’s 50,000 largest buildings to reduce their carbon emissions by 40 percent by 2030 and by 80 percent by 2050.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Si2 is a nonprofit organization that provides impartial research and analysis about corporate responsibility issues for institutional investors and maintains a rich database of information on shareholder resolutions, including support levels and the most detailed and precise issue taxonomy available in the marketplace. Industry support.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 9, 2020

Louis Mayor Lyda Krewson recently signed a law establishing a mandatory Building Energy Performance Standard in the city, which is the second-largest in Missouri. The standard will be set to ensure that 65 percent of the buildings in each property type will have to save energy to comply with the law. and Washington state.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 17, 2020

While many companies have stepped up in some fashion to address the urgency of the moment, few have done so in ways that could help advance the kinds of long-term structural changes needed to ensure that the organization's lofty statement has enduring impact. But their 2019 statement is unlikely to lead us in that direction.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Backed by the Austrian chapter of the youth climate strike organization Fridays for Future, a group of 12 children and adolescents launched a landmark constitutional climate case against the Austrian government on Tuesday. BREAKING NEWS : Today, 12 children take the Austrian Climate Protection Law to the Constitutional Court!

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GreenBiz

MAY 26, 2020

Dawn Rittenhouse was director of sustainable development for DuPont from 1998 until 2019. In my experience, successful crisis management forces organizations to see externalities and ecosystems which have not always been self-evident. Take time to be observant before deciding on how sustainability can be a solution. .

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 4, 2024

“The Carbon Majors research shows us exactly who is responsible for the lethal heat, extreme weather, and air pollution that is threatening lives and wreaking havoc on our oceans and forests,” said Tzeporah Berman, international program director at the grassroots environmental organization Stand.earth, in a press release. In the U.S.,

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Front And Centered

MAY 17, 2019

It allowed the state to “remedy discrimination against, or under-representations of, disadvantaged groups as documented in a valid disparity study or proven court of law.” This affects not only issues like education, but the states policies and resource allocations related to issues like climate, energy and the environment.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 28, 2020

But solar developers got some help too, with the IRS allowing for investment tax credit-qualified equipment bought in 2019 to be delivered into October and providing added assurance that developers will receive benefits as long as they have “reasonable” expectation that equipment will be delivered in the required timeframe.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 26, 2020

Despite its long-time leadership in wind and solar energy, Germany still had 44 gigawatts of coal plants running at the end of 2019, and parts of the country remain economically reliant on coal. There are also compensation packages for workers in mines and power plants who lose their job as a result of the coal exit laws.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Canadian environmental organizations welcomed the news, by and large calling it a much needed cap on pollution. The draft regulations, which are now proceeding through their public consultation phase, aim to cap greenhouse gas emissions from the oil and gas sector at 35 percent below 2019 levels by 2030. billion ($47.95

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GreenBiz

MARCH 22, 2021

In its report, the WEF suggested companies track their shared value contribution by defining metrics organized into four categories — Principles of Governance, Planet, People and Prosperity — in order to increase the comparability of sustainability reporting. An Earth-Strike demonstration in Austria in 2019. Redefining fiduciary duty.

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Front And Centered

JUNE 20, 2020

Advocacy by Front and Centered, our members, and allies helped create this Task Force during the 2019 Legislative Session in order to develop strategies that address environmental health disparities with guidance from the communities most impacted by pollution. What do you think?

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 6, 2024

A wave of farmers protests in Europe earlier this year were jumped on by populist politicians, resulting in the watering down of measures including a law to restore nature – ignoring that many of the farmers’ concerns were unrelated to green rules. Lee has spread misinformation about organic farming.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

French environmental organizations Notre Affaire à Tous, Friends of the Earth France, and Oxfam France last week filed what they say is the world’s first climate lawsuit against a commercial bank, suing BNP Paribas over its continued funding of fossil fuels. They also say that the financial sector more broadly is on notice.

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Front And Centered

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Many of the policy recommendations were sculpted from the stories gathered at the ‘community conversations’ we hosted – in person and then virtually – with ten different Front & Centered member organizations across the state. These are just snippets of the recommendations. Read the full report to go deeper!

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 19, 2022

The organization that paid for the ad, and dozens of similar Facebook ads so far in 2022, was set up to spread pro-oil propaganda on behalf of the Alberta government. The province earlier set aside a budget of $80 million for the Canadian Energy Centre in its 2019 Budget, paid for by climate taxes on the province’s biggest polluters.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 20, 2020

The request comes from nonprofit environmental law organization Earthjustice on behalf of demand response aggregator Voltus. When they are needed for emergencies, as they were during the 2019 polar vortex, they haven’t performed very well, he added.

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Grist

MARCH 2, 2021

When Weatherly Oil and Gas filed for bankruptcy in February 2019, the company was walking away from several hundred Texas wells. The volatility of the oil market hasn’t helped: Price fluctuations and a long-term market slump caused a spike in bankruptcies in 2019, and sagging demand due to the pandemic accelerated the pace.

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Grist

JUNE 12, 2024

Earth Day organizers educated people about the value of sorting through their trash and advocated for community recycling programs. Corporations responded by creating the first anti-litter organization, Keep America Beautiful, founded in 1953 by the American Can Company and the Owens-Illinois Glass Company.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2023

Under Italian law, a request for mediation is a mandatory prerequisite for filing a defamation lawsuit. Total is seeking a judicial ruling that would force the organizations to withdraw their report and all references to it, with a penalty of 2,000 euros (around $2,200) per day for every day the materials remain publicly available.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 5, 2021

in 2019, and 76.2 By under-declaring their emissions, and based on the annual average ETS carbon price of around €21 per ton in 2019 and €27 in 2020 and 2021, the two plants together may have avoided paying the EU between €26.6 Three years later, Bulgaria passed new laws restricting offshore ownership. for 2018, 79.5 and Cyprus.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 25, 2024

At a fundamental level, the federal securities laws enforce a straightforward proposition,” Sanjay Wadhwa, acting director of the SEC’s Division of Enforcement, said in a statement announcing the settlement, “investment advisers must do what they say and say what they do.” which defends corporate clients, noted in an advisory to clients.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

In 2019, a mere 16% of executives stated sustainability as a built-in business function. The majority (50%) of organizations thought sustainability was “ fairly well ” integrated, as opposed to an ideal “ extremely well ” target. There’s been a 38-fold increase in sustainability-related laws and regulations since 1972.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Under the Act, passed in 2019, most buildings over 25,000 square feet—roughly 50,000 residential and commercial properties across the city—must meet new energy efficiency and greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) reductions by 2024, and stricter limits in 2030. This was the first foray for many building owners to understand how much energy they use.

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Grist

JANUARY 12, 2023

Between 1998 and 2019, Exxon gave more than $37 million to organizations that sought to sow confusion about the scientific consensus around climate change and obstruct efforts by governments to take action. The judge who ruled in Exxon’s favor said at the time that the case was “a securities fraud case, not a climate change case.”.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Here is an AASHE summary of 2860 sustainability focused academic programs comprising 672 organizations in 27 countries including 52 U.S. Related Comprehensive Green School Information and Resources 2010 - 2019 Subscribe in a reader States and Territories 9 Canadian provinces. Click here to access the summary.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

In France, three non-governmental organizations sued the oil company Total over alleged “inadequate” environmental and human rights assessments of its oil project in Uganda and Tanzania. Royal Dutch Shell alleging that Shell’s contributions to climate change violate Dutch and human rights law.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

In 2019, the Governance Accountability Institute (G&A) announced that 90% of large companies (S&P 500 Index) published sustainability and responsibility reports. Yes, good CSR practices can create a socially sustainable organization. Sustainability and CSR Trends. Benefit #1: CSR presents new business opportunity.

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