Business Green

MAY 22, 2022

Hospitals, schools, libraries, museums, and leisure centres awarded fresh funding to support efficiency upgrades and clean tech installations. to decarbonise the Grade II listed Nash Conservatory and Jodrell Laboratory. And Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew is to invest over £4.4m

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Business Green

JANUARY 30, 2022

Local Government Pension Scheme pool boasting combined assets of around £49bn also pledges to halve portfolio emissions by 2030. We look forward to playing our part as responsible corporate owners in driving the transition to a low carbon economy.". A version of this story originally appeared at Professional Pensions.

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Front And Centered

AUGUST 29, 2022

Making a Just Transition to a more regenerative economy—from one that relies on digging, dumping and burning coal, oil, and gas to one that is regenerative and sustainable for all—is in large part about navigating contradictions , according to the thought leaders at the Movement Generation collective. The IRA and a Just Transition.

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Terra Infirma

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

One of the things that really, really bugs me about Sustainability, whether in the business, political or personal spheres, is the belief that being able to list some green credentials is somehow virtuous. We need fundamental change to the way our society and economy works, not green bolt-ons.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 19, 2024

But as major American fast food brands, like KFC, expand into so-called “frontier markets,” taxpayer-funded development banks have made their global expansion possible by underwriting the factory farms that supply them with chicken, a DeSmog investigation has found. Al Jazeera claims to produce half the country’s restaurant-sold chicken.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 21, 2020

In a twist, offshore developers will be required to partner with a local port to help build any winning projects; New York is competing aggressively with New Jersey, Connecticut and other states to attract offshore wind jobs and manufacturing facilities. Andrew Cuomo said in a statement. offshore wind solicitations held so far.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 14, 2021

“What we are trying to do as a fund is define what climate change entrepreneurship needs to look like,” Karthik Chandrasekar, the founder of early stage cleantech venture capital firm Sangam, said in an interview at his office early last year. Above it all lies a blanket of yellowish smog.

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Business Green

JUNE 9, 2020

A green recovery plan that sets out how the West Midlands can reboot its economy from the coronavirus crisis while meeting its climate goals has been approved by local government. Local councillor Margaret Sherrey said: "This is fantastic news for our district.

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Business Green

MAY 15, 2022

The UK's nascent carbon capture and storage (CCS) sector received a dual boost yesterday, with the publication of a major new report detailing the economic benefits that should result from plans for a new low carbon power plant and the completion of a successful funding round for one of the leading companies in the emerging market.

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Greentown Labs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

ACCEL is an accelerator from Greentown Labs and Browning the Green Space (BGS) that’s dedicated to bolstering BIPOC-led startups as they develop critical climatetech solutions by offering access to funding, networking connections, resources, and opportunities that structural inequities put out of reach. megatons of carbon in the same period.

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Front And Centered

JANUARY 10, 2021

The people behind the innovative efforts are imagining a new economy – one that has a vision for sustainable, equitable, and healthy communities. The fellows will be joined by a cohort of New Economy learning peers who are also developing new economy projects. New Economy Learning Peers.

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Elemental Excelerator

OCTOBER 6, 2023

While the upside is obvious, navigating funding applications can be confusing. That’s why we teamed up with Climate Tech VC (CTVC) to unravel the complexities of accessing non-dilutive government funding in the U.S. Total funding: $1.2T Total funding: $1.2T

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The government have selected 37 innovative green technology companies to receive funding from this year's Energy Entrepreneur Fund A host of UK clean tech start ups are celebrating this week, after the government awarded £19m in funding through the latest round of its Energy Entrepreneurs Fund (EEF).

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The world’s hydropower developers want a seat at the green recovery funding table alongside other key decarbonization technologies such as wind, solar, batteries and green hydrogen. Hydropower is rarely listed.” The green stimulus packages are heavily focused on wind and solar. Two elephants in the room.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Green business groups and campaigners welcome the government's renewed focus on the net zero transition, but warn plan lacks long-term policies and sufficient funding in key areas. BusinessGreen rounds up all the reaction from across green economy. There isn't even a pledge to protect peatlands by banning burning.

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E2 Environmental Entrepreneurs

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

An expanded clean energy economy is necessary to achieve the goals outlined in the Colorado GHG Pollution Reduction Roadmap. There are five main sectors in the clean economy: energy efficiency, renewable energy, grid & storage, clean fuels and clean vehicles ( Clean Jobs America 2021 | E2). in 2018 and 2019.

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Business Green

MAY 22, 2022

Funding aims to help commercialise self-driving vehicles for use by delivery companies and public transport. of the funding has been ring-fenced to support a study to explore using self-driving vehicles as a means of public transport that could provide an alternative to mass transit systems. In addition, £1.5m

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Fund debuts collaboratively launched Paris-aligned investment benchmark. The Wiltshire Pension Fund has set a 2050 goal to reach net-zero investments, to meet the demands of its members. It said this approach has enabled the fund to reduce its carbon footprint without sacrificing any financial returns for its members.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Since the site was handed back to the Council in the summer, there has been much talk locally over the site’s future. A change.org petition calling for the area to be transformed into public greenspace secured almost 11,000 signatures and other polls have also supported calls for a new greenspace.

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Business Green

JANUARY 18, 2022

In this challenging context, ambitious policy commitments and public funding to support the roll-out of new low carbon technologies may not, at first glance, look particularly attractive to some parts of government. 2022 must be a year of greater collaboration across Westminster and with local government.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Yanting Zhou, principal economist at Wood Mackenzie said: “China’s Covid policy is one of the biggest uncertainties impacting its economy and energy demand. As the year progresses, global economies are expected to increase re-opening of economies resulting in an increase in export demand for China. in 2021 to 5.4% Have you read?

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Business Green

JUNE 30, 2020

Update provided alongside Prime Minister's speech on economic recovery, confirms plans for up to £100m of carbon capture innovation funding. In addition to the new support for DAC technology, the government said it "will continue to set out further measures as part of its green agenda in the run up to COP26 in November 2021".

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 2, 2023

New Electoral Commission records released today show that the bulk of the fossil-fuel linked funds came from Christopher Harborne, who donated £500,000 in the final quarter of 2022 – the joint-largest donation registered by the party during this period. Adi also provides engineering services to the aerospace and automotive industries.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Since the 1970s, one sector of the UK economy which has particularly benefited from government support is finance. The UK finance sector has grown to be the largest of any in the G7 relative to the rest of the national economy. But no money will flow from the government's own clean steel fund, announced in 2019, until 2023.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 25, 2023

For the last several months, one of the nation’s largest pipeline operators has gone from one local government meeting on the Navajo Nation to another, outlining plans for what could end up being the country’s longest hydrogen pipeline. Chapter houses are a form of local Navajo government similar to city councils.) “I

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Business Green

JULY 17, 2020

Following six months of analysis involving a short list of 40 potential locations, the former RAF base at Bro Tathan has been chosen for the gigafactory due to its close proximity to South Wales' industrial base, skilled workforce, and potential customers, according to Britishvolt.

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Andrew Winston

MAY 4, 2022

With the rush of money into ESG investment funds — more than $1 trillion in the last two years — it’s easy to think everyone clearly sees the business value of sustainability. Just Capital, for example has created a list of companies prioritizing stakeholders (not just shareholders) that they call the Just 100.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

Britain's energy networks are seeking shovel-ready projects and initiatives that can help decarbonise the electricity grid, offering a total pot of up to £300m in funding support as part of a green recovery drive announced today in partnership with Ofgem and the government.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

The pilot is one of three battery projects sponsored by the University of Minnesota’s Institute on the Environment and paid for by a $550,000 grant from the Minnesota Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund. Red Lake Nation and the University of Minnesota Morris will also install battery storage systems using money from the trust fund.

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R-Squared Energy

JANUARY 12, 2021

Then TransAlta Renewables listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange in August 2013, and Pattern Energy Group listed simultaneously on the NASDAQ and Toronto Stock Exchange the next month. Traditional bonds will not generally specify exactly how the funds are to be used, but green bonds offer much more transparency on the use of the funds.

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Business Green

JUNE 21, 2020

Environmental coalition Wildlife and Countryside Link has today presented a list of 330 "ready-to-go" nature recovery projects to the Treasury as contenders for financial support, arguing that the package could create around 10,000 jobs within months.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

New funding available for new clean technologies, such as solar powered electric fences and chemical-free disinfection systems. The government has launched a new £27m funding pot to help farmers boost productivity and curb emissions in support of the farming sector's pledge to deliver net zero emissions by 2040.

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2023

At the same time, the Review does not shy away from proposing significant reforms, calling for an overhaul of governance structures both in Whitehall and locally, a major revamp of tax policy, and big changes to planning and infrastructure policies. Huge amounts of food for thought, then, for the UK's burgeoning net zero economy.

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Business Green

JUNE 21, 2020

Environmental coalition Wildlife and Countryside Link has today presented a list of 330 "ready-to-go" nature recovery projects to the Treasury as contenders for financial support, arguing that package could create around 10,000 jobs within months.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

But aside from the free-market approach to government finances, Kwarteng's 'Growth Plan' - initially conceived as a mini-Budget in response to the worsening cost-of-living crisis - also includes a flurry of crucial announcements and policy tweaks for the green economy. Latest phase of £50m industrial fuel switching funding scheme.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

But net zero economies will be built on the foundation of decarbonised small and medium sized companies (SME). Clearly, there is more work to be done to communicate the impact of the climate emergency sufficiently well to all parts of the economy. It may well be that customers will be the best conduit for influencing SMEs in this area.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 6, 2022

We then list the financial support your business can receive from operating in the New York district, to help you create sustainable business operations. In the next section of this article, we explore the different types of business support provided by New York City at the local level. The results are in! Click here to learn more.

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