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Recent net zero Articles

2Mar, 2024

New York is Coming for Your Cheeseburger with Greenwashing Case

By |Saturday, March 2nd, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |

This blog may sound like a broken record as we have time and again warned about the risks of a business claiming that they will be “net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2040” or the like. For readers who may not have heeded our warnings ...

27Jan, 2024

National Definition for a Zero Emissions Building

By |Saturday, January 27th, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

You can provide feedback on the draft national definition for a Zero Emissions Building. The White House Office of Domestic Climate Policy, through the U.S. Department of Energy, is seeking “to create a standardized, verifiable basis for defining a zero emissions building.” A broadly accepted common ...

29Oct, 2023

Net Zero, Carbon Offsets and more Now Require Disclosures

By |Sunday, October 29th, 2023|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

California has just enacted the Voluntary Carbon Market Disclosures Act which requires the disclosure of specified information about net zero claims, carbon offsets, and more by businesses, including by an untold number of companies located beyond the Golden State’s borders. Businesses need to immediately pay ...

1Oct, 2023

White House to Define Zero Emission Building

By |Sunday, October 1st, 2023|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: , , , , , , |

Last Thursday, White House National Climate Adviser Ali Zaidi announced that the federal government will define what is a “zero emission” building. The announcement was made at the U.S. Green Building Council's annual Greenbuild conference and expo in Washington DC, in a live on stage ...

8Jan, 2023

First State to Authorize Use of the 2021 IgCC

By |Sunday, January 8th, 2023|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

Maryland is on the cusp of being the first state in the country to authorize use of the new 2021 edition of the International Green Construction Code for public and private building. Many see this cutting edge enactment as crucial to making possible the State’s ...

1Jan, 2023

Reducing GHG Aiming for Net Zero will be the Environmental Issue of 2023

By |Sunday, January 1st, 2023|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

Business owners increasingly understand the need to mitigate climate risk and many companies with forethought are already seizing upon the multi-trillion dollar economic opportunity that accompanies the economy’s transition to Net Zero. Disclosing greenhouse gas emissions and reducing GHG aiming for Net Zero is not ...

25Dec, 2022

Top 10 ESG Blog Posts of 2022

By |Sunday, December 25th, 2022|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: , , , , , , |

As we look back in this ‘year in review’ at our most read blog posts in 2022, at a time when many have emerged from 2 years of permacrisis to the highs of a future where ESG opportunities are accelerating. This blog is a microcosm ...

26Nov, 2022

Net Zero Pledge Standards for Business released at COP27

By |Saturday, November 26th, 2022|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: , , , , , |

Much has been written in the media about the just concluded UN Climate Conference (COP27) in Sharm el-Sheikh, most of it focusing on the agreement to agree on reparations or more correctly stated, on providing “loss and damage” funding in the future for vulnerable countries ...

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