Terra Infirma

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

I sometimes think about this when following the political discourse on tackling climate change. But climate change isn’t a race against other countries – it’s not like a bike race where a competitor can break away from the peloton, establish an unassailable lead, then soft pedal over the line, arms aloft.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 21, 2020

Only public policy can deliver the speed and scale of emissions reductions needed to limit the worst impacts of climate change.

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Forbes Green Tech

MARCH 15, 2020

The contrast between the rapid response to Coronavirus and policy waffling on climate change reveals (a) how citizens think of risk and how this shapes their willingness to incur costs for the collective good; (b) that politicians respect science when its recommendations serve their political ends.

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Grist

JANUARY 30, 2024

In the early 2000s, as climate denialism was infecting political institutions around the world like a malevolent plague, an Australian epidemiologist named Anthony McMichael took on a peculiar and morbid scientific question: How many people were being killed by climate change? The world has changed a great deal since.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

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

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 24, 2021

Biodiversity loss and dangerous Climate Change potentiate each other in their disastrous consequences. But the scientists also see opportunities: conserving, managing and restoring ecosystems for example can mitigate climate change and enable adaptation to its impacts while also enhancing biodiversity.

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Andrew Winston

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

They have developed an excellent framework on how companies should think about their political influence. Most companies rely on a dated model of engagement on policy with governments and civil society, compartmentalizing their political influence activities into an organizational silo, just as they used to do with their supply chains. (By

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 25, 2020

Sports have always been political to some degree. But these days, athletes, teams and entire sporting organizations are choosing to get off the sidelines and take a more active role in public policy. Recommended reading: CNN : Climate change is threatening winter sports' very existence. Do It for the Beer.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Almost half of UK boards spent zero hours discussing climate change this year. A third of UK boards feel little or no responsibility for climate change. These findings highlight that significant change is needed. A marked change in outlook is needed.”. Nordic boards lead the way on climate change.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 3, 2022

Climate change has worsened global inequality, with poorer countries less able to withstand and adapt to climate change’s effects. But new research suggests the reverse is also true: Not only is climate change contributing to greater inequality, but inequality is also fueling climate change.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The new research adds to the urgency of conversations about climate change, just weeks before leaders all over the world are expected to travel to Dubai to meet for the United Nation’s annual climate change conference, COP28. Hansen was the first to sound the alarm on climate change in 1988 in testimony to Congress.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Americans are open to new climate change policies as long as they offer environmental, social and economic benefits. According to the two, many Americans are willing to embrace positive climate change policies regardless of political affiliation. This is according to social scientists Janet K.

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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. trade associations from 2008 to 2018.

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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.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Philip Box of the UK Green Building Council discusses the fallout from the latest changes in Westminster. The PM has already begun spending his Christmas political capital at a rate of knots, clearly hoping he can get the controversy out of the way early (a tactic that Mr Cameron would say can have mixed results).

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 19, 2022

Your answer could say a lot about your views on climate change, explains Genevieve Guenther. But a growing concern about the climate crisis caused her to switch gears — and her research — to climate communication. How did you go from being an English professor to a climate activist?

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Grist

AUGUST 9, 2022

In one sense, the climate change link seems obvious. But the connection between climate change and drought is not as straightforward as it seems. One problem with linking drought and climate change is that there is little agreement on what drought actually is. “No degrees Celsius (2.2 degrees Celsius (2.2

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Energy Central

JUNE 7, 2023

It’s a marker of today’s politics that. Had Congress and the White House failed to act in time, the US would have had deadbeat debtor attached to its name, and most of the world would have gone into recession.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

A Hungarian “climate institute” attending COP29 is an offshoot of an Orbán-backed think tank funded by the state oil and gas company. Nine delegates from the Climate Policy Institute (CPI) were down to attend the United Nations climate summit, now in its second week in Baku, Azerbaijan.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Funders and directors of the UK’s leading climate science denial group have donated more than £7 million to the Conservative Party over the past two decades, DeSmog can reveal. million to right-wing political parties in just over two decades, including £7.2 million to the Conservatives, and £230,000 to Nigel Farage ’s Reform UK.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Robert Jenrick’s pledge to repeal the UK’s landmark climate change law has won him the backing of some of the country’s most notorious climate science deniers. Opinion polls show that the overwhelming majority of the public want a quick end to the UK’s contribution to climate change.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 15, 2021

An influential think tank with close ties to MPs has hired a head of policy who called the government’s climate policies “socialist” and likened proposed green legislation to a “Soviet Five Year Plan”. Political Affiliations. It was one of at least ten IEA events at the party conference. ” ‘Five Year Plan’.

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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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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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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Health CLIMATE IMPACTS Disposable City: Miami’s Future on the Shores of Climate Catastrophe by Mario Alejandro Ariza, 2020 A deeply reported personal investigation by a Miami journalist examines the present and future effects of climate change in the Magic City -- a watery harbinger for coastal cities worldwide.

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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

JULY 2, 2021

Lawyers representing Grande-Synthe argued that the government was legally bound by the target, as well as its duties under the Paris Agreement, the European Convention on Human Rights, and French environmental law more broadly, and said current policies were not sufficient to meet them.

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Low Impact

AUGUST 8, 2021

There’s a question we often hear: “why don’t you start a political party?” Political parties write their manifestos, that members of the public read (OK, that part is pure fantasy). Governments can only implement a narrow range of policies – and even then, only policies that don’t challenge corporate profits or power.

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Charged

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

“We’re fully focused on creating a broad portfolio of premium, fully electric cars that deliver on everything our customers expect from a Volvo—and are a key part of our response to climate change.” We’re committed to doing our part and encourage our peers as well as political leaders around the globe to do theirs.”

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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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Business Green

MAY 5, 2022

Lawyer and activist Farhana Yamin considers XR’s cultural, political, and business impact three years after it drove London to a standstill in 2019. The world is in a fractious state - geopolitically, economically, and climatically.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

Clean tech and energy companies are calling on the social media giant to review its climate advertising policies, noting the current state of play undermines their campaigns. Facebook needs to put its advertising policies where its mouth is. Facebook recently acknowledged this in a post.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The petition stated that “increasing fuel duty is economic and political suicide and will not save the planet”. The party is gaining in the polls, and Farage has said that he wants to replace the Conservatives as the leading right-wing movement in British politics. It’s a no-brainer for the chancellor to break the cycle.”

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The Guardian: Energy

AUGUST 29, 2024

Campaigners hail Labour’s ‘proactive approach’ after series of policy U-turns under Conservatives UK politics live – latest updates Business live – latest updates The UK government is considering making further commitments on cutting greenhouse gas emissions, likely to be announced at the UN climate summit this year.

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Business Green

JANUARY 22, 2021

The theory goes that in order to rapidly deploy clean energy, you need three elements: technology; policy; and finance. The only missing piece, before this week, has been policy. He's integrating climate experts across all departments in "the largest team ever assembled inside the White House to tackle global warming.".

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Terra Infirma

OCTOBER 14, 2024

On Friday, we were using Climate Interactive’s En-ROADS model which allows you to play with global carbon policies to see how you can limit average climate emissions. As we look at press reports from around the world, the waters of climate change are almost literally lapping around our ankles.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 24, 2024

The UK’s most prominent climate science denial group has seen its income drop to the lowest level since 2016, DeSmog can reveal. The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) filed its latest accounts on 18 January, showing an income of £280,000 for the year ending 30 September 2023, a drop of £110,000 from the previous year.

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