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Why and how to visit the Scientific Laboratory Show and Conference 2022

Envirotec Magazine

She has advised world leaders, governments, multilateral agencies and civil society organisations on climate change, environmental policy and development assistance. Sir Martyn is a global leader in the field of green chemistry with a specific interest in the applications of supercritical fluids.

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How a program in Washington state is bringing climate change into the classroom

Grist

The result was ClimeTime, which funds projects and events that connect public school teachers with environmental organizations in their communities, as well as teacher trainings like the one outside Olympia. A spotter keeps an eye on a wildfire near Omak, Washington, in August 2015.

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Ed’s note: Energy poverty in our own backyard

Smart Energy International

It brings together academics, policymakers and various experts in the field of energy poverty for a series of seminars, workshops and discussions. The drivers are manifold and deeply structural – they span, at least, across various policies, whether economic, social, employment, energy, climate, taxation, welfare, housing, or health”.

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How Oil Giant Exxon Bought Influence Over the Swedish Moderate Party

DeSmogBlog

Instead, ExxonMobil and other oil companies paid hundreds of millions to Atlas as the organization was working to cast doubt on climate science. Atlas funneled money to the network’s more than 500 member organizations around the world for advocacy, lobbying, and political influence.

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A Growing Wave of Litigation Spurs Climate Action

DeSmogBlog

In France, three non-governmental organizations sued the oil company Total over alleged “inadequate” environmental and human rights assessments of its oil project in Uganda and Tanzania. These are just a handful of the hundreds of cases of climate litigation that have arisen worldwide over the past few years. Pushing for Prevention.

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#Greentown10: A Look at Greentown’s Biggest Annual Event Throughout the Years

Greentown Labs

The first-ever Greentown Labs Climatetech Summit introduced what we see as the four pillars of climate action—technology, finance, policy, and justice—and featured programming on each, alongside extra opportunities to network with our startups, including our first investor speed networking. In 2020, we took DEMO Day to the next level.

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American PR Firm Edelman Enabled Oil Baron Al Jaber’s Ascension to Lead COP28 Climate Conference

DeSmogBlog

As a key plank of its strategy, Edelman organized an influence drive in tandem with U.S. While it was working to burnish the UEA’s green credentials, the PR giant was also creating public relations campaigns on behalf of fossil fuel organizations to slow climate legislation, such as the 2009 cap-and-trade bill in the United States.