DeSmogBlog

JULY 26, 2023

This net zero scepticism has quickly entered the upper echelons of Westminster politics, with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak saying that policies to achieve the UK’s legally binding climate targets shouldn’t “hassle” households and should be “proportionate and pragmatic”.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The government's mooted policy changes will damage, but not derail the net zero transition - but Sunak's political cynicism threatens to burn down something precious I must admit, I didn't think they would do it. On the policy front, it is worth looking at the detail of what is being proposed. How wrong was I?

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Clean Energy Canada

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

CALGARY — Alberta Ecotrust Foundation , Calgary Climate Hub and Clean Energy Canada announced today that a recent poll shows 63 percent of Calgarians believe Calgary’s future as a vibrant city is at risk if we do not become a leader in addressing climate change.

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EDF + Business

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

With corporate political spending and lobbying under increasing scrutiny and a new administration advancing financially material, government-wide climate action, financial institutions have good reason to reassess their climate lobbying. They must actively support the public policies needed to achieve net zero emissions by 2050.

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EDF + Business

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Sean Hackett EDF+Business Senior Manager, Energy Transition By Sean Hackett With the dire need to slash greenhouse gas and methane emissions from the global oil and gas sector, more and more investors are advocating for stronger climate policies that accelerate the energy transition and mitigate risks.

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Charged

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

In November 2022, Volvo sold its stake in Aurobay —a joint venture company that represented the last of its combustion engine assets—and ceased to invest in ICE research and development. It is high time for industry and political leaders to be strong and decisive, and deliver meaningful policies and actions to fight climate change.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Shadow business secretary Ed Miliband has labelled Rishi Sunak a “climate delayer” after the UK chancellor said almost nothing about climate change in his speech at the Conservative Party conference today. The post UK Chancellor Criticised for ‘Silence’ on Climate Change in Party Conference Speech appeared first on DeSmog.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

If Exxon had back then used its vast political and financial power to aggressively push for a national carbon tax to be adopted in major economies around the world, global emissions might have already peaked by now. This is exactly what would be needed in order for a global economic power like Canada to do its part to halt climate change.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 4, 2024

The firm is owned by Terence Mordaunt , a director and former chair of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), the UK’s leading climate science denial group. Mordaunt himself told openDemocracy in 2019 that “no one has proved yet that CO2 is the culprit” of climate change.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2024

A new campaign is calling on MPs to break the fossil fuel sector’s “chokehold” on politics in a critical election year. Lawmakers returning to work today (Monday) were greeted with smoke flares and a demand to “Stop Polluting Politics” from a banner hung off London’s Westminster Bridge.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 10, 2024

The findings in Top risks forecast: Bottom lines for business in 2024 and beyond attempt to shine a light on the multifaceted, complex challenges facing companies looking to grow internationally at a time of increasing divergence on regulation, conflict, technological advancement and political uncertainty. percent impact on global GDP.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 24, 2020

The most engaged financial institutions — those investing more than $500 million annually in renewable energy — responded with the highest level of conviction for the sector’s attractiveness and long-term health. private-sector investment in renewable energy and enabling grid technologies by 2030.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 20, 2024

Benny Peiser , the director of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), claimed at an event on 11 June that “if you have a net zero target then you have to basically control everything in the whole economy: what you eat, what you drive, where you go on holiday”.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The appointment comes as senior Conservative Party figures continue to embrace anti-climate politics. Last year was the first on record to see consistent global warming of 1.5C, according to the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service. DeSmog has previously revealed that the Conservative Party received £3.5

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Business Green

MAY 29, 2022

UK and US researchers have run the numbers on the huge costs of runaway climate change – and the myriad benefits of achieving net zero emissions. How much could climate change impacts cost the UK economy, and how much will it cost the UK to decarbonise and avoid the worst of these impacts? per cent by 2050 rising to 7.4

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 19, 2024

Conservative Party leadership hopeful Kemi Badenoch received £10,000 towards her campaign from the chair of a climate science denial group, DeSmog can reveal. Based in 55 Tufton Street , Westminster, the GWPF is the UK’s leading climate science denial group. Record has given money to both the IEA and the GWPF.

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Business Green

JUNE 20, 2021

Businesses of all types have potential exposure to litigation for climate change-related harm - it is critical they understand this rapidly evolving landscape, argue White & Case's Mark Clarke and Gwen Wackwitz. In recent years, the number and scope of climate change-related actions has increased dramatically.

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Green Business Bureau

JUNE 30, 2023

Climate change threatens not only the planet, but the very survival of the human species. Political, market, and infrastructural barriers remain, dragging progress toward a clean economy — but your business has the power to mitigate these constraints. We’ve all heard the scenario over and over again.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 6, 2024

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage is at odds with his own constituents over the issue of climate change, according to new polling. Clacton voters are even more concerned about climate change than the national average, with 65 percent of people across the UK saying they are worried about the issue.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 13, 2022

The new Forest 500 report , published today by environmental group Global Canopy, assessed 350 top companies and 150 financial institutions that fund them, finding that a third of companies have no policies in place at all to ensure their products are not driving deforestation. Of the 150 financial institutions providing over $5.5

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

With a heated party conference season just over, a whirlwind of policy announcements from both the government and the Opposition, and a General Election on the horizon, now is the time for us all to pause, take stock and try to rebuild agreement. Let's invest in ourselves to make it happen. But that was perhaps always the easy part.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

But the need to inject reliability into fiscal and policy-based environmental decision making is not confined to carbon pricing alone; we need long lasting environmental policy across the board if we are to deliver on our 2050 net zero commitment. But climate targets alone, even if they are enshrined in law, won't get us to net zero.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 25, 2024

percent swing against him in the general election, and served as secretary of state for immigration under former prime minister Rishi Sunak – has attacked what he calls “net zero zealotry”, and has labelled the UK’s net zero target “dangerous fantasy green politics unmoored from reality”. The MP for Newark – who saw a 23.9

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Energy Innovation

JULY 14, 2020

Energy Innovation partners with the independent nonprofit Aspen Global Change Institute (AGCI) to provide climate and energy research updates. In a May 2020 paper in the Oxford Review of Economic Policy, a team of economists led by Cameron Hepburn led a survey to assess the most climate-friendly recovery policies.

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Charged

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

In UK politics, climate change policies cut across party lines. This translated to a wide range of pro-EV policies, and the results can be plainly seen in London, which has become one of the world’s most charged cities. Boris Johnson’s Tory government set an official goal of reaching “net zero” emissions by 2030.

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Clean Energy Canada

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The Government of Canada will continue to invest in our workers and industry to help bring us into the economy of the future.”. Not only does this make good economic sense, but it is also a political win-win. Second, Buy Clean rewards industries for carbon-cutting investments and improves competitiveness for Canada’s exports.

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Business Green

JUNE 4, 2024

The UK is not the US, the Conservative Party could prove more resilient to takeover than the GOP, and the British Parliamentary system has a long history of successfully marginalising figures from the extremes of the political spectrum. What specific net zero policies would you scrap? Energy efficiency funding for fuel poor households?

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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. Policy Exchange, the CLC, and BP have been approached for comment.

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Energy Innovation

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The research synopsis below comes from AGCI Program Director Emily Jack-Scott and a full list of AGCI’s updates covering recent climate change and clean energy pathways research is available online at [link]. Among the projections: climate impacts worsen nearly 60 percent of infectious diseases. Source: Mora et al.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 27, 2024

Lowe, who shares Reform’s views on net zero, has previously claimed that there is a “cult of climate change” promoting unscientific theories about rising temperatures and their effects. The cult of climate change marches on with no definitive evidence to support or deny the factual accuracy of their assertions. “The

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Hydrogen Fuel News

OCTOBER 17, 2023

As the world grapples with the urgent need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and combat climate change, sustainable energy engineering has taken center stage.  Reliance on fossil fuels contributes to greenhouse gas emissions and climate change. Invest in grid modernization for increased reliability and resilience.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Ed Miliband has been handed the newly created role of Shadow Secretary of State for Climate Change and Net Zero in Labour's frontbench team, passing his previous business brief on to Jonathan Reynolds, as the party seeks to laser-in on the government's post-COP26 green agenda. — Ed Miliband (@Ed_Miliband) November 29, 2021.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Investors in foreign development projects have “weaponized” a system of secretive tribunals, delaying progress on climate change and other environmental crises and having “enormous impacts on human rights,” according to a new report by a United Nations expert. Boyd is calling on states to reform or leave these treaties.

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Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 19, 2024

is well down the path of implementing one of North America’s strongest climate plans. s clean energy sector could grow six per cent a year out to 2050, if our political leaders seize the opportunity. A focus on specific sectors with major opportunities, followed by an alignment of policies and incentives to land these deals.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

We need more political love for geothermal energy […] and we need more people, because it’s going to grow, it’s booming,” Ms Brommer said. The electric grid today is changing dramatically and we are in the middle of a revolution that we can hardly see,” pointed out Gad Shoshan, International Sales and Marketing Director at Ormat.

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EDF + Business

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

As BlackRock Chairman Larry Fink writes in his latest letter to CEOs , “Climate change has become a defining factor in companies’ long-term prospects.” He’s right: the impacts of climate change on businesses are hard to overstate. According to the federal reserve, climate-related events have already cost the U.S.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

It is great to see influential voices from all sides of politics recognising that urgent and sustained change is needed. It is also encouraging to see how the Foundations essay does not contest that the UK must respond to the climate crisis and has not choice but to rapidly decarbonise.

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