ESG Today

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

President Biden announced more than $6 billion in investments aimed at strengthening climate resilience in the U.S., targeting areas including the electric grid infrastructure, reducing flood risk, advancing drought resistance, and advancing community-level clean energy deployment and climate justice efforts.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 13, 2023

General sustainability definitions Climate risk Two types of climate risks exist, transition risks and physical risks. According to the EPA , transition risks are related to the transition to a lower-carbon economy, while physical risks are associated to the physical impacts of climate change.

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ESG Today

JULY 1, 2022

In 2015, under the Obama administration, the EPA implemented the Clean Power Plan to regulate limits for CO2 emissions from coal and natural gas power plants, using its authority under the Clean Air Act, which allowed the agency to take actions to address air pollution problems. Biden added: “I will take action.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 23, 2023

The Clean Shipping Act would direct the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to set increasingly stringent carbon intensity standards for shipping fuel by 2040, in line with the goals of the Paris Agreement. Encouragingly, governments are also demonstrating a willingness to work together.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Climate action honors that legacy — because climate change is as stark an inequality issue as it gets and requires every bit as much doggedness to address. Climate action honors that legacy — because climate change is as stark an inequality issue as it gets and requires every bit as much doggedness to address.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 1, 2022

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report from Working Group III points to the need for “deep reductions” in GHG emissions beyond CO2, flagging methane in particular. The proposal also requires Member States to establish mitigation plans for abandoned coal mines and inactive oil and fossil gas wells.

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Sustainability Update

OCTOBER 30, 2021

is fully “back” in climate change matters with the nation rejoining the Paris Agreement and embracing and promising to surpass the COP temperature-limiting goals. As we write this, President Joseph Biden and VP Kamala Harris are leading a global leader virtual summit on climate change issues. TOP STORIES.

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Sustainability Update

JANUARY 17, 2025

While many trends in climate change and sustainability action are worrying, the good news is that governments around the world continue to move regulations forward in ways that could have positive impacts across ESG topics and issues. The outgoing Biden Administration announced the U.S. And the U.S.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 11, 2021

I was equally thrilled to see the new President appoint former EPA administrator Gina McCarthy and Ali Zaidi to the top two climate advisory positions in his administration. In Mr. Biden’s own words, climate change will have the urgency of a “day one” issue. Long-established U.S.

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ESG Today

JULY 17, 2023

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and totaling $20 billion, aimed at financing climate and clean energy projects at the community and small business level. According to the EPA, at least 40% of the funds from the program will be dedicated to low-income and disadvantaged communities.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 22, 2024

On Wednesday, the US Environment Protection Agency (EPA) unveiled new pollution standards that will require EVs to make up 35-56% of new car and truck sales by 2032, with plug-in hybrids accounting for 13-36%. Gear shift – Joe Biden famously characterises himself as a “ car guy ”.

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Sustainability Update

OCTOBER 31, 2021

This was the 21st meeting of the global assemblage focused on climate change challenges. The Promise of Paris was the coming together of the world’s sovereign states – the family of nations — to address once more what for many if not all of the states is an existential threat: climate change.

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Sustainability Update

OCTOBER 30, 2021

We could describe the enthusiastic presentations and panel discussions over the two days by global participants a kumbaya gathering to refresh and update the 2015 Paris Agreement (or Accord) moments as the world leaders then set out ambitious goals to limit global warming. The measures sovereign governments (large and small!)

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 30, 2025

Trumps track record to date is clear, from weakening environmental protections to pulling the United States out of the Paris Agreement on climate change. Less direct but perhaps more consequential was Trumps stance on climate change particularly his decision to withdraw the United States from the Paris Agreement.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 17, 2022

This could be seen as chickens coming home to roost given the country has historically been one of the biggest contributors to climate change. billion metric tonnes of CO2 equivalent in 2020 alone, said the US Environment Protection Agency (EPA). It produced 5.99 To put this into context, the world produced 34.81

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Richard Matthews

JANUARY 4, 2022

Environmental successes are easily overlooked in a world ravaged by climate change, biodiversity loss, an ongoing global pandemic and attacks against democracy. The dystopian legacy of the former president is becoming increasingly clear to all but the willfully ignorant as is his politicization of climate change and COVID.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

The post Trump and the Business of Climate Change appeared first on ESG Investor. On a per-company basis, the average totals US$3.1

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Katie Zakrzewski was a climate denier until the age of 18. The podcast host and communications professional grew up in a conservative Catholic household in North Little Rock, Arkansas, believing climate change was a “big government excuse to justify taxing people.”

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

From the potential rollback of climate policies, to fears of a hostile environment for sustainable investing, to threats of the US leaving the Paris Agreement once more – speculation has been rife. Let’s not sugarcoat things: the outcome of the 2024 US presidential election represents a setback for climate action.

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Sustainable Round Table

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The IRA taxes the wealthiest corporate interests and saves on drug benefit-related waste to be able to fund needed Medicare and ACA health benefits, as well as Paris Agreement-aligned climate action, while still enabling it to reduce the deficit by more than $270 billion. . states to be more ambitious in their climate strategy.

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Chris Hall

JULY 26, 2024

Project 2025 wants to politicise agencies like the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Securities and Exchange Commission,” Danielle Fugere, President and Chief Counsel of As You Sow, told ESG Investor. “If The EPA has been a seminal element of US climate policy. Project 2025 aims to continue that work.

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CleanTechnica

APRIL 17, 2021

By Dave Cooke, Senior vehicles analyst, Clean Vehicles Program The White House is getting ready to release the next round of targets for its commitment under the Paris Agreement. Courtesy of Union Of Concerned Scientists. We are calling for at least a 50% reduction in global warming emissions by 2030, compared to 2005.

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