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'Green Day': Boulevard of Deferred Dreams

Business Green

Yesterday's sweeping package of 'Green Day' announcements is hamstrung throughout by the Treasury's refusal to shift the spending envelope by one iota and Hunt's bizarre insistence that he cannot deliver a bolder response to the US Inflation Reduction Act and EU Net Zero Industry Act until the autumn.

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Revealed: Media Blitz Against Heat Pumps Funded by Gas Lobby Group

DeSmogBlog

An energy trade association that represents and promotes gas boilers and manufacturers is behind a barrage of negative press attacking heat pumps, DeSmog has learned. This wording, along with other phrases, has since been altered to read “spark conversations” following a request for comment on this article from DeSmog.

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How energy efficiency can upgrade Canada for the future

Clean Energy Canada

They may not make many headlines, but policies that help Canadians and businesses waste less energy are a win-win. Put simply, improving energy efficiency achieves all of the above. Clean Energy Canada is a think tank at Simon Fraser University focusing on the clean energy transition and the right measures to accelerate it.

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How India’s Renewable Energy Sector Survived and Thrived in a Turbulent 2020

GreenTechMedia

This is the first article in a series. And India’s clean energy transition went on pause. Looking back, however, 2020 proved to be a decisive year for clean energy in India. Cheap renewables were favored on the grid last year, which caused coal use to fall as energy demand plummeted amid the economic slowdown.

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Industrial decarbonization picks up steam

GreenBiz

Industrial decarbonization picks up steam. This article originally appeared in the State of Green Business 2021. The industrial sector is the backbone of the economy, producing the materials that build everything from cities to phones. Companies are also pushing for industrial decarbonization outside their four walls.

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Net Zero Strategy: We have a plan

Business Green

The government's new strategy is high risk and financially underpowered, but it still represents a massive boost for the green economy and may yet deliver on its enormous promise. How's the glass looking? Energy efficiency - that most obvious of co-benefit-generating investments - remains badly underfunded. Half empty?

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Big business must lead the way as part of a post Covid-19 green recovery

Business Green

As the world looks to recover from the current health and economic crises caused by Covid-19, we have an opportunity to accelerate the transition to a modern, clean and healthy energy system. Over the last decade, our energy efficiency programmes have saved almost £300m, allowing us to re-invest those savings elsewhere.