Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

At the country-level, the United States is the largest historic contributor to the climate crisis, having contributed about one quarter of all carbon dioxide emissions (the main driver of global warming) between 1750-2020. It’s past time to hold these companies and our decision makers accountable.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Two-thirds of the G20’s public finance for energy went to fossil fuels in 2019–2020. Subsidies to the sector had fallen to $147bn in 2020 as the impacts of travel restrictions due to COVID-19 weakened demand, but they rebounded in 2021, rising by 29% to $190bn. Oil drilling rigs off Invergordon, Scotland. By Catherine Early.

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Recent & Ongoing Campaigns EthicalConsumer calls for boycott of Amazon over company's tax avoidance Ethical Consumer | January 29, 2021 In 2020, Amazon announced that its key UK business paid just £14.46 million in tax in 2019 - a 3% increase from the previous year, despite pre-tax profits growing by more than 35%.

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Recent & Ongoing Campaigns EthicalConsumer calls for boycott of Amazon over company's tax avoidance Ethical Consumer | January 29, 2021 In 2020, Amazon announced that its key UK business paid just £14.46 million in tax in 2019 - a 3% increase from the previous year, despite pre-tax profits growing by more than 35%.

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HumanNature

MARCH 11, 2024

Sounding Green” has not only become politically correct, but also a possible finance-generating mechanism. Climate is a global issue and when complex political systems around the world are brought together, solutions cannot be straightforward. ” Energy Policy 140 (2020): 111428. Nature Clim Change 8, 161–165 (2018).

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 18, 2022

Photo credit: Copernicus Sentinel data (2019), processed by ESA, CC BY-SA 3.0 They found that the past seven years were the world’s warmest by a clear margin, with 2016 and 2020 the warmest on record. ppm from 2020, the scientists said. By Anders Lorenzen. Levels of CO2 in the atmosphere reached 414.3 Uphill battle.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 8, 2024

The Fight Against Monsanto's Roundup: The Politics of Pesticides by Mitchel Cohen (Skyhorse, January 2019). Manufacturing Business Technology | March 14, 2019 French activists have spray-painted the Paris headquarters of Bayer AG and plastered it with signs to protest its production of environment-damaging pesticides.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 19, 2022

The study also found that in 2019, customers without a water meter, who are concentrated in the city’s majority-Black and majority-Latino neighborhoods, paid an average of $500 more per year than metered customers. A Circle of Blue investigation in 2020 found that more than 1.5 million households in a dozen large U.S.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 31, 2024

The Fight Against Monsanto's Roundup: The Politics of Pesticides by Mitchel Cohen (Skyhorse, January 2019). Manufacturing Business Technology | March 14, 2019 French activists have spray-painted the Paris headquarters of Bayer AG and plastered it with signs to protest its production of environment-damaging pesticides.

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Edouard Stenger

JULY 11, 2023

Last month smashed through the previous temperature record for the month of June – which was in 2019 – by a substantial margin, Copernicus said. What lacks is the political leadership and courage. Unfortunately, political courage has never reelected anyone. Globally, June was just over 0.5C

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 2, 2024

The Fight Against Monsanto's Roundup: The Politics of Pesticides by Mitchel Cohen (Skyhorse, January 2019). Manufacturing Business Technology | March 14, 2019 French activists have spray-painted the Paris headquarters of Bayer AG and plastered it with signs to protest its production of environment-damaging pesticides.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

The Fight Against Monsanto's Roundup: The Politics of Pesticides by Mitchel Cohen (Skyhorse, January 2019). Manufacturing Business Technology | March 14, 2019 French activists have spray-painted the Paris headquarters of Bayer AG and plastered it with signs to protest its production of environment-damaging pesticides.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 16, 2022

These “mega-watersheds” have redrawn the map, helping cities and farms to grow large and productive, but also becoming political flashpoints with steep environmental costs. “It Just three years ago in 2019, when it was really wet in Northern California, we only diverted [from the Colorado River] in the neighborhood of 500,000 acre feet.”.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

In 2019 and 2020, I served as a member of a committee involved in the implementation of California’s Assembly Bill 617. I grew up and still live in the cities of Richmond and San Pablo in Northern California’s Bay Area, two working-class communities made up predominantly of people of color.

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The Fight Against Monsanto's Roundup: The Politics of Pesticides by Mitchel Cohen (Skyhorse, January 2019). Manufacturing Business Technology | March 14, 2019 French activists have spray-painted the Paris headquarters of Bayer AG and plastered it with signs to protest its production of environment-damaging pesticides.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 12, 2022

” Lobbying and financially supporting US politicians who block climate action In the 2019-2020 U.S. election cycle, RELX, Elsevier’s parent company, contributed thousands of dollars to the campaigns of political candidates who obstruct action on climate change.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 7, 2021

In 2019, that same company was in the news for purchasing water rights throughout the state and attempting to sell and lease them, prompting an ongoing legislative review of water marketing. The number of farms in Washington decreased by 7% between 2010 and 2019, according to a 2020 USDA report . Political drivers.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 3, 2024

USA: Thousands protest Nestlé's request to bottle a MILLION gallons of water every day from Florida springs as water flow reaches historic low Stacy Liberatore | Daily Mail | November 11, 2019 Nestlé has come under fire for its plans to bottle more than a million gallons of water a day from natural springs in Florida.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 3, 2024

USA: Thousands protest Nestlé's request to bottle a MILLION gallons of water every day from Florida springs as water flow reaches historic low Stacy Liberatore | Daily Mail | November 11, 2019 Nestlé has come under fire for its plans to bottle more than a million gallons of water a day from natural springs in Florida.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Recent & Ongoing Campaigns Greenpeace stage ‘socially distanced protest’ at BP AGM Allister Thomas | Energy Voice | May 27, 2020 Greenpeace is staging a “socially distanced protest” outside BP’s London headquarters as the energy giant is due to begin its annual general meeting. They were joined by members from they Chicago Teachers Union.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 1, 2024

Shell campaign IndustriALL Global Union | May 22, 2020 IndustriALL is calling on Shell to engage with unions on a global level in a campaign to limit precarious work, improve health and safety, and ensure that Shell applies the same high-level standards at its operations everywhere, including suppliers.

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Environmental Europe

JULY 1, 2020

It has agreed to address climate change under the Paris Agreement , and put forward increasingly ambitious policy targets for 2020, 2030 and 2050. The EU’s 2020 Renewable Energy Directive (2009/28/EC) requires that the Member States must collectively achieve 20% of their energy consumption from renewables by 2020.

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Despite being in the same political party that created it, the UK’s new prime minister, Liz Truss, is in the process of completely changing the country’s energy policy. The new license offering which will run until June next year is the first since 2019-2020 after it was put on hold due to a climate compatibility check.

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CEQA Developments

AUGUST 26, 2022

A 10-page article by Holland & Knight’s Jennifer Hernandez, published this month by the Center for Jobs & the Economy/California Business Roundtable, documents that CEQA litigation targeted nearly 50,000 housing units – approximately half the state’s total annual housing production – in 2020 alone. Please contact Arthur F.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 26, 2024

Shell campaign IndustriALL Global Union | May 22, 2020 IndustriALL is calling on Shell to engage with unions on a global level in a campaign to limit precarious work, improve health and safety, and ensure that Shell applies the same high-level standards at its operations everywhere, including suppliers.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 25, 2024

Shell campaign IndustriALL Global Union | May 22, 2020 IndustriALL is calling on Shell to engage with unions on a global level in a campaign to limit precarious work, improve health and safety, and ensure that Shell applies the same high-level standards at its operations everywhere, including suppliers.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 13, 2023

The fund was set up in 2009 as part of Brazil’s national climate policy plan and became inoperative in 2019 when President Bolsonaro stopped preparing annual plans and disbursing resources to support the mitigation projects. The decision was made in a lawsuit filed by four political parties (PSB et al. Brazil) is also noteworthy.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

Shell campaign IndustriALL Global Union | May 22, 2020 IndustriALL is calling on Shell to engage with unions on a global level in a campaign to limit precarious work, improve health and safety, and ensure that Shell applies the same high-level standards at its operations everywhere, including suppliers.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

Recent & Ongoing Campaigns Spanish unions announce strike at Repsol IndustriALL Global Union | December 1, 2020 The joint union committee announced strike action from December 9 to 12 and from December 21 to January 9, 2021, after the company refused to negotiate. Campaigning against oil exploration near the Canary islands.

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A Greener Life

MARCH 7, 2024

According to a 2019 report by the Motion Picture Association, there were 1.4 A new study by Good Energy and the USC Norman Lear Center , which analyzed 37,453 TV and film scripts produced in the US between 2016 and 2020, found that only 2.8% They can influence our emotions, opinions, values, and actions.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The 2020 Maine Fishermen’s Forum was the last conference I and many others attended before the pandemic shutdown. A simple statement that masks just how complicated the issues are: mixing politics, economics, livelihoods, fisheries and endangered species in the ocean body that is the Gulf of Maine.

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Washington Nature

JUNE 8, 2021

Climate legislation in Olympia has been sensitive to economic and political changes in the past. In the 2019-2020 legislative session, House Bill 2528 recognizing the carbon benefits of the forest industry was passed. House Bill 2311 to update greenhouse gas limits also passed in 2020. So what passed?

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Shell campaign IndustriALL Global Union | May 22, 2020 IndustriALL is calling on Shell to engage with unions on a global level in a campaign to limit precarious work, improve health and safety, and ensure that Shell applies the same high-level standards at its operations everywhere, including suppliers.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Shell campaign IndustriALL Global Union | May 22, 2020 IndustriALL is calling on Shell to engage with unions on a global level in a campaign to limit precarious work, improve health and safety, and ensure that Shell applies the same high-level standards at its operations everywhere, including suppliers.

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Shell campaign IndustriALL Global Union | May 22, 2020 IndustriALL is calling on Shell to engage with unions on a global level in a campaign to limit precarious work, improve health and safety, and ensure that Shell applies the same high-level standards at its operations everywhere, including suppliers.

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Physics World

DECEMBER 11, 2021

His latest book takes the reader through the current literature on the origins of science denial and the motivations of deniers, both political and personal. What becomes clear to him is that their beliefs are deeply rooted in their identity and sense of belonging – making them much harder to shift.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 18, 2023

It’s something that I have felt very strongly about for a long time”, was his sombre view about the current state of climate politics. And this is very much a personal view, I’m not speaking on behalf of World Athletics.

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