GreenBiz

JULY 22, 2020

The Transform to Net Zero initiative launched Tuesday will see members of the coalition — which also include Danish shipping giant Maersk, Indian information technology company Wipro and Brazilian beauty company Natura & Co — collaborate on research, guidance and roadmaps to help businesses slash their carbon emissions in line with a 1.5

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Climate lobbying" in the report is defined as efforts "to delay, control or block policies to tackle climate change.". Policy & Politics. After all, the $41 million ExxonMobil spent on climate lobbying in 2019 ( according to InfluenceMap ) exceeds the entire $37 million annual operating budget ( 2019 ) of Greenpeace USA.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 20, 2021

The push to quickly transition carbon-intensive activities away from fossil fuels while meeting the world’s growing energy needs has put electricity producers and consumers squarely in the forefront of the emerging clean economy. Manufacturing is going electric, too, as companies ratchet up their net-zero-carbon goals. Joel Makower.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

From Brazil to Denmark and India to Turkey, nations around the world are strategizing to decarbonize.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 4, 2020

Victoria Mills, managing director at EDF, works at the intersection of sustainability, public policy and business. What we've realized — EDF and other NGOs — together is that it's time to raise the bar for leadership to include climate policy advocacy," says Mills.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

And three residential policies can promote economic development, improve health and reduce carbon emissions.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 31, 2020

Despite the temporary decline in greenhouse gas emissions, carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere hit an all-time high in May. A new blueprint from Ceres, the Blueprint for Responsible Policy Engagement on Climate Change , lays out a science-based action agenda for companies in the U.S. that comes down to two basic steps. .

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 8, 2024

Internal BP emails show that its UK executives were reassured by a controversial oil industry group that they could “shape [the] internal thinking” of a 2018 report on carbon taxes produced by the right-wing think tank Policy Exchange. The emails were among hundreds of documents released by a powerful committee of U.S.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 4, 2020

In the quest for carbon offsets, (almost) anything goes. What Joe Biden could do to cultivate carbon removal innovation (16:35) . Nonprofit Carbon180 has plenty of ideas for how the Department of Energy and the Department of Agriculture can collaborate to cultivate new economic opportunities centered on carbon removal.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 12, 2020

cities and counties transition to clean energy for their own operations and communities, many are finding that stakeholders and policies beyond their jurisdictions affect their ability to purchase clean energy. Influencing statewide energy policy. This can create challenges for meeting locally defined resolutions and commitments.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 23, 2022

The UK government’s business as usual housing strategy could consume all of England’s cumulative carbon budget consistent with 1.5°C New research led by the University of Kent’s Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology (DICE) models the future carbon emissions and impacts on nature generated by England’s current housing strategy.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Wood pellets were considered to be renewable energy because replanted forests could recapture carbon lost in the clear cutting and burning process. As more and more science came out about the industry… it became clear that this is not the green and carbon neutral energy it was made out to be,” Zucchino said.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Pollution, poverty and race collide in many other disadvantaged communities across California — and the country — and some argue that the state’s climate policies haven’t helped. In-state emissions were offset by purchasing cleaner power and carbon credits from other projects that reduced emissions elsewhere.).

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U.S. Green Technology

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Many people measure their carbon footprints and adopt emission-reduction techniques to fight climate change, and environmental engineers are following consumer trends by developing eco-friendly technologies. The post Green Government Policies Save Lives appeared first on U.S. One of the. Green Technology.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 14, 2025

Conservative leader and presumptive prime minister-in-waiting Pierre Poilievre hasnt articulated specific policies so much as rhyming slogans like axe the tax and spike the hike. In a post on X, Badenoch called Poilievre an impressive and thoughtful political figure Im pleased to have as a new friend and ally!

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Conservatives in more right-leaning countries are fighting climate change, too.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

A trade group for contested carbon capture with close ties to major oil and gas companies is sponsoring over a dozen events at the Conservative and Labour conferences over the next fortnight. But the role of carbon capture in the energy transition is hotly contested.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Project Termination Amid Financial and Policy Challenges South Koreas government has officially halted plans for a landmark 100MW hydrogen fuel cell power plant in Yeongam, South Jeolla Province. However, spiraling production costs and an overhauled policy landscape eroded its feasibility. KOMIPO) and Doosan Enerbility Co.,

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 12, 2020

So failure to address one issue is just going to exacerbate the risk of another," said Kristen Lang, senior director of the Ceres Company Network and lead author of the nonprofit’s latest set of suggested strategic, operational and policy change actions necessary for the corporate world to meet the warming-mitigation goals of the Paris Agreement.

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Clean Energy Canada

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

VICTORIA —Mark Zacharias, executive director at Clean Energy Canada, made the following statement in response to the announcement by Premier David Eby about changes to the provincial consumer carbon price: “B.C. was a leader in putting carbon pricing in place in 2008. It’s worth noting that yesterday’s announcement from the B.C.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

A recent study has found it is currently “not feasible” for the global livestock industry to sequester enough carbon to cancel out its planet-warming emissions — and that policy efforts geared toward that goal may be deeply misguided. 135 gigatons is roughly equal to all the carbon lost due to agriculture over the past 12,000 years.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Industry trade associations in the United States that work on climate and energy issues spent more than $3 billion over 10 years on political activities, according to a new study that sheds light on trade associations’ role in influencing policies and obstructing climate action. billion on climate-related political activities.

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GreenBiz

JULY 13, 2020

Just a couple of months into 2020, the world was amid significant discussion about the core purpose of businesses, led by BlackRock CEO Larry Fink calling for corporate America to take control of its carbon footprint and major companies, including Microsoft and Delta , making ambitious zero-carbon pledges. Financial risk factors.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 22, 2024

The United States-based oil major’s willingness to publicly throw down the gauntlet to policy-makers underscores the stakes for the fossil fuel industry as the EU fleshes out its plans to slash carbon emissions, ahead of June’s European parliament elections. million tonnes of greenhouse gases during the same period.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

The Role of Government Incentives Government policies are crucial in driving the hydrogen economy forward. The California Air Resources Board’s (CARB) anticipated update to the Low-Carbon Fuel Standard includes a heavy-duty hydrogen refueling infrastructure credit, which could significantly boost the sector.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) found multiple Safe Drinking Water Act violations at the nation’s first carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) storage project, PoliticoPro’s E&E News reported today. The company started injecting carbon in Illinois at the end of April 2017, making the site a little over seven years old.

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GreenBiz

MAY 29, 2020

The call for a more resilient, circular and low-carbon economic model has garnered support from a growing number of businesses and governments over the past few years, and appears today more relevant than ever. Policy & Politics. Fri, 05/29/2020 - 01:00. Circular Economy. Risk & Resilience. Supply Chain. Resilience.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The carbon removal company Spiritus estimated that her journey of roughly 5,500 miles produced about 40 tons of carbon dioxide — about what is generated by charging nearly 5 million cell phones. Its approach involves drawing carbon directly from the air and burying it, but others sink it in the ocean.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

That it did so is, in itself, remarkable, given the political climes. Among them: “The United States should establish a price on carbon.”. Policy & Politics. Last week, a subcommittee of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) issued a report addressing climate risks to the U.S. financial system.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

OCTOBER 28, 2023

The term “clean hydrogen” doesn’t have a specific official definition, but on the whole, it tends to refer to H2 that is produced in a way that doesn’t generate carbon emissions. Of course, there is also the question of what to do with carbon that has been captured.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 19, 2021

The Commentary illustrates the multiple crises interactions: replacing tropical forests with agriculture reduces biodiversity at the same time as releasing stored carbon, reducing carbon uptake in the land and increasing emissions of other greenhouse gases (GHGs). Taking an off-road from the path to Earth’s destruction.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 15, 2023

His Majesty the King alleges Canada’s policies and actions that perpetuate fossil fuels and worsen the climate crisis amount to violations of youths’ fundamental rights under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. to cumulative carbon emissions from new oil and gas projects through 2050.

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Clean Energy Canada

MARCH 28, 2024

As a recent open letter signed by over 250 Canadian economists made clear, ‘the most vocal opponents of carbon pricing are not offering alternative policies to reduce emissions and meet our climate goals. “As And they certainly aren’t offering any alternatives that would reduce emissions at the same low cost as carbon pricing.’ “The

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Grist

MARCH 10, 2021

Most pipelines that snake around the United States carry carbon that was buried underground for millions of years and then dug up, destined to be burned in a combustion engine or furnace or boiler and emitted into the atmosphere. But a new pipeline that could soon wind through Iowa, Minnesota, and the Dakotas promises to do the opposite.

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Clean Energy Canada

MARCH 14, 2024

When the Prime Minister uttered those words amid a passionate, seven-minute defence of the carbon price this week, he must have known he had just written his own headline. Canada’s price on pollution is an effective, elegantly designed climate policy that maximizes emissions reductions while minimizing potential downsides.

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The Guardian: Energy

MARCH 2, 2025

Bold pledges to fund climate projects now appear under threat, exposing deeper fiscal constraints and policy dilemmas within the government In October, the prime minister, chancellor and energy secretary pledged billions to kickstart the UKs first carbon capture projects one of the biggest green spending promises of the parliament.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Lisa Jackson, vice president of environment, policy and social initiatives at Apple , reflects on the intersection of racial inequity and climate strategy; how it's shaping the company's circular economy strategy. Policy & Politics. The top 25 most sustainable fleets. VERGE 20 mainstage highlights (16:55) . Contributors.

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