Business Green

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

The development of zero-emission and autonomous vehicle technologies present significant growth and employment opportunities for the UK, but policy-makers must be proactive in supporting the fledgling sector if the country is seize the economic and environmental gains on offer, an expert report published today warns.

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Business Green

JULY 26, 2021

The inclusion of floating wind in the UK's forthcoming Allocation Round 4 is likely to deliver a major boost to the fledgling technology, which allows developers to build farms in areas where water is deeper and wind yields greater. "Floating is probably where fixed bottom was 20 years ago, but it will go much faster up the learning curve."

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Business Green

AUGUST 25, 2020

The story for onshore wind and solar is similar. Meanwhile, a separate government-commissioned report published this week by consultancy Ricardo Energy & Environment offers both good news and bad news for the fledgling bioenergy CCS (BECCS) sector.

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Grist

MAY 31, 2020

This story was originally published by Undark and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Housed in a plain, two-story office building next door to Nain’s only hotel and restaurant, the center consists of two small labs, a kitchenette and common area, workstations, offices, and overnight accommodations.

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Business Green

MAY 7, 2021

Floating turbines, Amsterdam's ban on fossil fuel advertising, American fridges, and all the green business stories from around the world this week. France unveils plans for landmark floating offshore wind project.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Can the Conservative Party build an election-winning government under Rishi Sunak's fledgling leadership? It is the number one question being asked in Tory circles.

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Grist

APRIL 24, 2020

Years back, as an active surfer, she kept hearing stories of Imperial Beach residents suffering terrible maladies from swimming or surfing in polluted water: an ex-Navy SEAL who contracted a flesh-eating bacteria; a kid with an orbital eye-socket infection that threatened to pass into his brain. The campground remains shut down, too.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 4, 2020

From lab grown meat to oil industry write downs, BusinessGreen brings together the biggest green business stories from around the world this week. The move represents a major boost to the fledgling cultured meat industry, which has seen dozens firms emerge that are striving to commercialise lab-grown chicken, beef, and pork.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Credit: Modern Electrics/Hathi Trust While researching the economics of clean energy innovation , I came across a little-known story: that of Canadian inventor George Cove, one of the world’s first renewable energy entrepreneurs. Harnessing sunlight, 114 years ago. Other sources suggest that a former investor may have been behind it.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Higher elevations could see more snow, not less, and Alaska’s growing season is getting longer — a boon for a fledgling agricultural industry. Add freak storms, flooding, and erosion to the mix, and Alaska Native communities face nearly $5 billion in infrastructure damage over the next 50 years, the report says. There are a few bright spots.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

“Looking purely at the prices tells only part of the story,” said Tara Narayanan, a solar analyst at Bloomberg New Energy Finance. Others have joined in calling for incentives for more fledgling technologies like storage, which has also gotten legislative support.

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Business Green

JANUARY 5, 2024

Were Biden to win, the already transformative impact of the Inflation Reduction Act would be turbocharged and fledgling proposals for new green trade deals with the EU and others would likely advance. The best leaders recognise that fact and have stopped pretending simpler times are just around the corner.

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