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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Hydrogen Fuel News

JUNE 26, 2024

The new law will provide developers with tax rebates as high as 40 percent on project costs Canada has just passed a major clean hydrogen investment tax credit (formerly known as the C-69 bill), which will provide H2 developers with tax rebates as big as 40 percent off their project costs when they develop within the country.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

In an article published on 9 November in Nature Reviews Earth and Environment , Professor Steve Fletcher, Director of the Global Plastics Policy Centre at the University of Portsmouth, sets out his reasoning for the ambitious target. There are nearly 200 nations committed to the development of the Treaty.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 2, 2020

But a significant minority of investors remains wary of shifting regulations, according to research in May from Ashurst, an international law firm. Australian government policy has been similarly inconsistent. Businesses worldwide are getting behind the move to cleaner energy systems.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 17, 2020

And that anything businesspeople might do otherwise would be part of "the socialist view that political mechanisms, not market mechanisms, are the appropriate way to determine the allocation of scarce resources to alternative uses.". To the extent that the statement gave political cover to CEOs that had been reticent to jump in, great.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 23, 2021

Over the past several decades, public health and environmental concerns have made controlling smog a top national policy goal in China and enforcement an increasingly critical issue for companies to navigate. More than a decade ago, national policies laid the groundwork for reducing air emissions in China. Policy & Politics.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Yet in response to a Freedom of Information request to see any assessments, evidence or policy papers detailing progress towards the 30×30 target, Defra could provide nothing. It is vital that all political parties commit to a rapid programme of investment and expansion for important wildlife habitats and protected sites.”

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 12, 2023

On June 29, Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont signed a law to prohibit the state’s investor-owned utilities from charging customers for lobbying expenses and other efforts to sway political outcomes. State utilities have also actively opposed climate policies including expanding local renewable energy programs and rooftop solar.

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Impact Alpha

AUGUST 13, 2020

The disproportionate harms to Black Americans wrought by COVID and those wrought by police brutality are symptoms of the same disease: racism hardwired into our political, economic, social and cultural systems. The post How Babcock Foundation is investing its endowment with a focus on racial justice appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 6, 2021

Consider a recent global survey conducted by the Institute for Policy Integrity at New York University School of Law, focused on climate change risks and their related costs. But political action starts with public demand (at least in theory), so it’s an encouraging sign. Economists, for example. The corporate view.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 24, 2024

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. Pearson has claimed that green policies will cause “life as we know it” to “[return] to the pre-industrial age”.

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The Guardian: Energy

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Chris Skidmore is a former energy minister Last week’s announcement that the government would delay key net-zero targets came as a surprise to anyone who has followed the policy. The existing targets were fair and well considered, and enjoyed wide political support. It is now China.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 5, 2020

corporate and securities laws. The policy proposals revolve around a core concept: creating a legal structure that encourages the creation of "guardrails," investor-sanctioned limits on corporate behavior that exploits vulnerable communities or common resources. Policy & Politics. Shareholder Activism. Sponsored Article.

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Energy Central

DECEMBER 16, 2024

America has long considered Europe an exemplar and leader in cultural and political thought. We’ve frequently cited European laws, policies and viewpoints as guidance for how the United States should change or behave on multiple issues.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 4, 2020

But subsidiary utility Commonwealth Edison’s involvement in a bribery scandal has complicated this and other key policy efforts in its home state. “These new policies and oversight will ensure this will not happen again.” “We have taken robust actions to address these [issues]," Crane said.

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Business Green

JUNE 14, 2021

A Swiss law that would have taxed polluters for their emissions and used the revenue to offer public healthcare rebates and fund climate solutions was narrowly defeated in a national referendum over the weekend in what has been dubbed a cautionary tale for policymakers around the world looking to implement carbon pricing policies.

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The Guardian: Energy

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Advocates say territory government choice to only consult directly with fossil fuel companies before walking away from emissions laws is ‘bitterly disappointing’ Get our morning and afternoon news emails , free app or daily news podcast Northern Territory community members say they feel “betrayed” and unheard after revelations the Fyles government (..)

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 11, 2024

Hintze, a Conservative peer and hedge fund manager, was one of the early funders of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) , founded by the late Conservative chancellor Nigel Lawson. Steve has never discussed environmental policy with him. Steve is fully committed to the government’s net zero aims.”

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The Guardian: Energy

MAY 27, 2024

The Coalition has no climate policy. Not for things that will happen – let’s not get ahead of ourselves – but for questions that could be addressed if the country is to treat the climate and extinction crises as seriously as our leaders claim they do.

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Business Green

MARCH 10, 2022

The passage of the Bill into law will mean that all the devolved nations of the UK now have their own dedicated climate legislation in place, alongside the overarching target set through the UK-wide Climate Change Act. "The Friends of the Earth can finally welcome a climate law for Northern Ireland," the group said.

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Business Green

JUNE 6, 2021

Business regulation and tax policy could be subject to a 'future generations law' to assesses its impact on young people if a new 'Youth Manifesto' is enacted. and meaningfully engaged by decision-makers across politics and business.?If Manifesto by young people signals demand for climate action from business. encouraged?and

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 2, 2024

Speakers at the meeting included the hardline Dutch organisation Farmers’ Defence Force (FDF), which hit out at EU environmental and trade policy. An event on the MCC Brussels website appears to corroborate this, inviting farmers to attend a protest on January 24 against “the EU’s overzealous green policies” followed by networking drinks.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 8, 2022

I've been writing about the UK climate policy landscape for 15 years and I genuinely can't recall a reaction like it. It is in no way limited to political opponents and environmental activists whose jobs inherently require a degree of performative hostility towards government ministers. This time there is none of that.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Key players in California energy politics. Successes that have inspired women to get involved in politics. Why you ignore policy at your peril! Mary Hughes , a longtime political strategist, is president of Hughes & Co., a strategic communications and political consulting firm in Palo Alto. REGISTER. ?

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 16, 2024

Onward’s meetings in 2023 included two with ministers from the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ), which is responsible for the government’s climate policies. Sunak’s deputy chief of staff Will Tanner , who leads on policy, is the co-founder and former director of Onward.

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The Guardian: Energy

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

We must join them If Labour wants an energy transition in which working people don’t foot the bill, it has to address fossil fuel companies’ secret weapon against national climate laws: the energy charter treaty (ECT).

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

MAY 1, 2019

Job Description: The Center for Biological Diversity seeks a full-time Clean Transportation Advocate/ Staff Attorney in our Climate Law Institute to join our bold and progressive campaign to advance the urgently needed transition away from fossil fuel vehicles to zero emissions transportation in California and around the country.

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Front And Centered

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Elections are a critical component of our work to move what’s politically possible towards what we really need: a Just Transition. The Climate Commitment Act (CCA) was a landmark policy. It also made law out of the climate investment framework we co-created in I-1631 and put real money behind it.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

MAY 1, 2019

Job Description: The Center for Biological Diversity seeks a full-time Clean Transportation Advocate/ Staff Attorney in our Climate Law Institute to join our bold and progressive campaign to advance the urgently needed transition away from fossil fuel vehicles to zero emissions transportation in California and around the country.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 26, 2024

As revealed by The Mirror and Good Law Project in the former’s print edition, Lilley controls a series of companies that own 12,000 hectares of farmland in the Stavropol region of Russia, in the south west of the country, used to produce cereals and oilseeds. Farage also has a history of denying climate science and attacking green policies.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2023

Rishi Sunak has confirmed that a fossil fuel-funded think tank helped to draft his government’s laws targeting climate protests. Speaking at Policy Exchange’s summer party on Wednesday (28 June), the prime minister boasted that the think tank’s work “helped us draft” the government’s crackdown on protests, according to Politico.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The Guardian and the Good Law Project also revealed today that EnQuest Heather, a subsidiary of EnQuest, had been awarded a new oil and gas licence. Jolyon Maugham, executive director of the Good Law Project told DeSmog that: “The Electoral Commission records these contributions as donations to the Conservative Party.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 17, 2025

The shift to EVs will save Canadian households money, said Thomas Green, senior climate policy adviser with the David Suzuki Foundation. Instead of following Norways successful lead and adapting an aggressive EV policy, Energy Futures Penner instead advocated consumer choice and hydrogen alternatives.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Abbott announced he was “pleased” to join the board of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), which had “consistently injected a note of realism into the climate debate”. As prime minister of Australia from 2013 to 2015, Abbott’s centre-right Liberal Party was widely seen as hostile to climate policy.

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Charged

AUGUST 22, 2019

Obviously, such plans have opponents, and they aren’t likely to become law without political battles. However, as CityLab puts it, the popular opposition to the repeal of the ban indicates that there is “widespread support for green urban policies even when the political pendulum swings right.”.

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Energy Central

MAY 12, 2022

The development of scientifically sound, economically sensible, and politically feasible climate-change policies would seem to be a case in point. Such an approach is well illustrated by the thinking of Jonathan Wiener, the William and Thomas Perkins Professor of Law at Duke Law School, who.

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Business Green

JUNE 24, 2021

The government is failing to back up its climate commitments with credible action, with almost all its green policy efforts marred by uncertainty, delay, and a insufficient engagement with the public about the scale of changes ahead, and time rapidly running out for Ministers to get the UK's net zero agenda on track.

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