Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

A fair COP? The Glasgow COP is going to fail us,” writes Read. Societal collapse doesn’t seem to necessarily mean the end of everything, though, as in: the breakdown of law and order, and the sort of Hobbesian world depicted in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road. ” Apocalyptic scenarious are not new to Pacific islanders either.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

A fair COP? The Glasgow COP is going to fail us,” writes Read. Societal collapse doesn’t seem to necessarily mean the end of everything, though, as in: the breakdown of law and order, and the sort of Hobbesian world depicted in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road. ” Apocalyptic scenarious are not new to Pacific islanders either.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 27, 2024

The company, which didn’t respond to a detailed list of questions, has released a statement saying that it is “steadfast in our commitment to environmental performance and operational emissions reduction” and that one result of the new law is to “to silence Canadian businesses taking climate action.” CCS: ‘Integral’ or ‘Limited’?

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The 30×30 target is a leading international commitment that the UK spear-headed at COP-15.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 19, 2023

In Sri Lanka, for example, arcane land laws forbid farming other crops on land reserved for rice paddy. Loss and damage”, the question of how the most polluting countries can help developing countries respond to a climate breakdown they did not cause, is now a central plank of annual COP negotiations.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Olszynski, chair in energy, resources and sustainability at the University of Calgary’s Faculty of Law, doesn’t buy the premier’s take. It’s hard to square that with her public messaging for the past couple of weeks that they suspected Minister Guilbeault would announce something during COP,” said Olszynski in an interview with DeSmog.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 7, 2024

Most famously, the governor of Florida kept battling one of the world’s most beloved brands, Disney, over the company’s position on state laws targeting the LGBTQ+ community. Some in the investment community even pushed back on anti-ESG laws — partly because, as one analysis concluded, those state laws could cost taxpayers $708 million.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

The UN Conference of the Parties (COP) climate summits convene world leaders and delegates and draws significant media attention. The question after that is for the UN and other stakeholders to determine if we need stricter rules for who is in the room and around the table at these COPs,” he said.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

So much for the “African COP.” Public relations for this year’s COP is in fact being conducted by Hill+Knowlton, the PR firm notorious for inventing the “tobacco playbook,” which the fossil fuel industry then adopted to discredit the science regarding the harms of burning fossil fuels. It’s yet again a festival of polluters.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

The prospective UK economic losses match the current combined annual funding for the police, fire service, prisons, and law courts, with the main economic costs stemming from the loss of natural coastal protection services leading to flooding and erosion, alongside the accelerated decline of global fish stocks harming the fishing industry.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

For example, a raft of UK supermarkets and retailers have threatened to boycott products from Brazil over a law proposed in Brazil's parliament that environmental campaigners claim could legalise further destruction of the rainforest, and would therefore not be covered by the UK government's currently proposed rule.

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Business Green

AUGUST 20, 2021

This Rebellion will be about creating irresistible forces which change the social reality summits like COP takes place in," XR said. "We They do not have the right to cause serious disruption to London's communities and prevent them going about their lawful business.".

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Every policy, law, regulation, study, analysis, proposal or action that has the climate crisis in mind is built on the basis of those two figures: 1.5 Even so, it was a major breakthrough as the first COP to mention the temperature goals we are all familiar with today. For the first time at a COP , a target of 1.5

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Business Green

DECEMBER 2, 2021

But the CCC today said that, in order to capitalise on its role as COP President over the next year, the UK needed to strengthen its domestic net zero policies, as well as ramping up its diplomatic and trade efforts to spur more climate ambition on the world stage. of warming by the end of the century.

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Business Green

MARCH 8, 2020

In 2020, after setting in law a target to decarbonise its economy over the next 30 years, and ahead of hosting a meeting of global governments to discuss increasing climate ambition around the world, the UK, more urgently than ever before, needs to set out how it will deliver what is required in the face of a climate emergency.".

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

This so-called ‘Glasgow declaration on sustainable bioenergy’ is not an official COP document,” Sally Clark, from biomass campaign group Biofuelwatch, told DeSmog. “It The company has now converted four of its six plants to biomass, which is categorised as a renewable energy under UK law.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 17, 2022

So, it’s not like these neighborhood cops just doing a patrol and checking in,” Eugene Kung, a staff attorney with West Coast Environmental Law, told DeSmog. “In In short, the clans that oppose Coastal GasLink say that both Indigenous and Canadian law are on their side.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Compared to the States, these issues are amplified by the UK's higher population density - as noted by Kwasi Kwarteng in recent days - and landowners have less involvement because our mineral laws give the government the rights over gas exploration. On track to net zero.

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Business Green

MAY 27, 2020

Formalising these aspirations into law could help you see how your employer is taking action, how your pension manager is deciding where they invest your money and how the UK is rewarding winners and challenging others.

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Eco-Business

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Speaking at the COP27 climate talks in Egypt, Laura Clarke, chief executive of activist environmental law firm ClientEarth, said more needed to be done to 'go after plastics', which are Big Oil's 'plan B'.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2021

However, setting out the government's revised position on Tuesday, Environment Secretary George Eustice explained that the new clause would enshrine an expectation set out in a policy document by the water industry regulator Ofwat earlier this year into law.

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Business Green

JULY 15, 2020

Earlier this year, Danone became the first listed company to become an ‘entreprise à mission', a new type of corporation created by a 2019 French law. The pioneering governance structure will see the food giant officially entrench environmental, social, and societal objectives into its bylaws, alongside more typical profit goals.

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Energy and Cleantech Council

JANUARY 12, 2022

Each year since 1995, with the exception of 2020, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change ( UNFCCC ) has hosted a Conference of Parties (COP), where members of the UNFCCC negotiate issues relating to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and other matters relating to climate change. UNFCCC began convening COPs in 1995.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JUNE 17, 2022

Conditions 5 and 6 require engagement with environmental justice communities and federally recognized and non-federally recognized Native American tribes on all elements of the lessees’ project development processes, including a workforce plan, survey plan, SAP, and COPs.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Fossil fuels are everywhere at this COP except in the decisions being negotiated by governments,” Nikki Reisch, the director of climate and energy at the Center for International Environmental Law, wrote to DeSmog from Glasgow.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 1, 2021

The government can help support businesses to make decisions that positively impact society through changing company law. Policymakers should use the momentum from COP to ensure business does better so that future generations don't end up paying our bill. Joanna Allen is CEO at Graze.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 5, 2022

A few months later, corporate giants also spoke out against state laws meant to restrict voting. The COP26 meeting in Glasgow ended the same as every COP: there was clearly progress in what countries committed to, but given the scale of a crisis that the UN Secretary General called “ code red for humanity ,” it was woefully inadequate.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 8, 2022

It has helped many other countries develop their own climate laws and net zero strategies based on the UK's pioneering model. There are plenty more, a fair few of which are not fit to print. I've been writing about the UK climate policy landscape for 15 years and I genuinely can't recall a reaction like it.

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Business Green

MAY 10, 2022

Moreover, the Department for Transport plans to bring forward new laws that "safely enable self-driving and remotely operated vehicles and vessels", a sector it predicts could be worth £41.7bn to the UK economy by 2035, while also creating 38,000 new jobs. Glasgow's legacy is focused on delivery," it states.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 17, 2021

The UK is COP President for another year, with the job of building on the legacy of the Glasgow climate conference," she said. Unearthed accused farmers of taking advantage of loopholes in anti-deforestation laws introduced in the state in 2018 to continue to clear rainforest so as to expand ranches in the region.

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Clean Energy Trust

DECEMBER 6, 2021

The bipartisan infrastructure bill was signed into law. The COP 26 climate conference took place! Infrastructure Month! Here’s a summary from Canary Media. Here’s another summary from the AP. For example, $7.5 billion or so to electrify their entire bus fleet). How do people feel about the outcomes?

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Business Green

JANUARY 15, 2023

I think a lot of the feedback that you hear from any of the COPs is we're not doing enough and we're not doing it fast enough. And I do believe that summits like COP help to crystallize our efforts toward a more balanced relationship with the natural world. Has COP changed your perspective on what Schneider could do?

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Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Those markets can be either regulated (reflecting laws requiring companies to secure credits in proportion to their emissions) or voluntary (where buyers choose to acquire credits generated by carbon-reducing activities). Conference of the Parties (COP). Carbon sequestration. Energy transition.

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2021

After all, Carney - who also serves as the UN's Special Envoy for Climate Action and Finance - has made clear that he envisages the crucial UN climate summit in Glasgow as a "net zero COP" for financial firms, where he is expected to spearhead a new cross-sectoral finance initiative. We wanted to help unblock that process.".

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

And if traders are going for zero illegal deforestation instead of zero gross deforestation (including legal and illegal), then the roadmap isn't more than just reiterating national laws. In my eyes, that certainly doesn't merit a big COP announcement. The roadmap's definitions also bring up a geography question.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 27, 2023

I’ve definitely copped a lot of criticism for it [working with Shell],” he said, yet adding that Shell offered him, “a younger person”, the opportunity to “feel represented” and “build more trust” in their so-called “nature based solutions”. million views.

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Business Green

JUNE 24, 2021

That is the urgent warning from the government's independent climate advisory body, the Climate Change Committee (CCC), which today offered a withering assessment of Westminster's progress against its net zero agenda since the landmark target was passed into law almost exactly two years' ago.

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