GreenBiz

MARCH 22, 2021

Aviation is plotting a sustainable course. It wasn’t just that the economy was in a holding pattern. And it begs the question: Can sustainable aviation finally get off the ground? Joel Makower. Mon, 03/22/2021 - 00:05. This article originally appeared in the State of Green Business 2021. You can download the entire report here.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 7, 2020

The finance should be predominantly met from the private sector with the Treasury pump-priming £5bn via a Net Zero Development Bank.[1]. In total, over 3 million jobs are expected to be in demand or created as part of a shift to a green economy across a range of sectors. 100 billion green investment.

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Resilience Climate change Construction Investment 200

Business Green

JULY 18, 2022

As demand for fossil-fuel free heating grows, policymakers and industry need to work together to prep the installation workforce for a major roll out of electric heat pumps, writes Panasonic's Enrique Vilamitjana. This, of course, is coupled with a rise in consciousness of the most efficient ways to use energy.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Climate Change Committee writes to the Treasury to explain how 'many small changes can make a meaningful contribution to reducing energy demand'. Building emissions have stagnated over the past decade, in large part due to under-investment in energy efficiency," the letter states. "A A decade ago 2.3

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 15, 2021

Call for powers and resources to shape local energy markets, decarbonise transport, and tackle emissions from homes and offices. Call for powers and resources to shape local energy markets, decarbonise transport, and tackle emissions from homes and offices. license ). Full list in Editors’ Notes).

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The report assesses the credibility, depth, and quality of the pensions’ climate policies, and is intended to raise awareness of the crucial role pension funds play in addressing interrelated environmental and economic issues. Failing to have a credible and ambitious climate plan is a recipe for underperformance in the years to come.”

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Business Green

APRIL 1, 2022

A string of policy reforms, tax tweaks, and grant schemes designed to support the green economy have come into effect in the UK this month, all of which could play a sizeable role in accelerating the development of a greener economy.

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Plastics Policy Packaging Government 77

Mosaic

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

$858 Billion in Inflation Reduction Act Benefits Are Available Over Decade to Help Purchase EVs, and Install Heat Pumps, Induction Stoves and Other Clean Efficient Machines. economy through residential electrification alone, creating 1.4 economy through residential electrification alone, creating 1.4

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Business Green

MAY 28, 2021

Construction Leadership Council explains how a 20 year programme for transforming UK housing stock could deliver on the UK's net zero goals, improve health outcomes, and boost the economy.

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Business Green

MAY 18, 2020

Industry reaping huge rewards from investing in energy saving measures but more government support needed, Make UK warns. Research undertaken by trade body Make UK and energy giant E.ON

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Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Energy 82

Business Green

OCTOBER 18, 2021

The government has this evening announced long-awaited plans to drive down emissions from buildings and catalyse the market for clean heat technologies, predicting heat pumps will soon be cost competitive with conventional boilers.

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Business Green

JUNE 29, 2022

It makes you wonder if what is missing from the UK government's deeply flawed and badly underpowered pursuit of both its climate goals and levelling up agenda, is someone willing to take yesterday's 600 page tome from the Climate Change Committee (CCC) , drop it on a table with a satisfying thud, and declare "this is what we believe".

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 3, 2021

Policymakers have long focused on creating energy-efficient buildings that reduce the need for heating and air conditioning or generate renewable energy on site. But the energy used for operating buildings is only part of the story. says William Gillett, EASAC’s Energy Programme Director.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 21, 2022

A major heat pump installation trial led by Energy Systems Catapult assessed barriers to adoption across England and Scotland - and the results are now in. The mass rollout of electric-powered heat pumps across the UK is widely seen as critical to helping wean the country off its reliance on fossil fuels for heating.

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Business Green

MARCH 30, 2023

Prior media reports suggested the government had intended to badge all of its announcements under the banner of 'Green Day', but instead it appears to have gone with the name 'Powering Up Britain', evidently keen to place as much focus as possible on energy security issues.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Contributed by Hans Maghon, Head of Energy Storage at Siemens Energy. Understanding the different methods of energy storage allows us to glimpse the shape of our future energy system. Batteries are making headway in power generation. But soon, that’s going to be a thing of the past. Let’s first focus on batteries.

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Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Batteries Hydrogen 83

Envirotec Magazine

JULY 5, 2021

Transport planning, waste management, economic regeneration, land use planning and regulation of energy efficiency standards are all managed by local government. The coalition believes that the Net Zero Strategy must include a clear commitment to a mutually agreed central framework.

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Business Green

MARCH 3, 2022

Sanctions against Russian goods, oligarchs, and services have multiplied in the week since the Kremlin launched its unprovoked attack on Ukraine, but questions have remained as to when and if the economic response to the invasion will be extended to cover the fossil fuel exports that bankroll much of Russia's economy.

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Europe Fossil fuels Natural gas Government 69

Better Ventures

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

We need to shift to clean energy and electrify everything to run on that clean energy, fast! Yet only 6% of our economy runs on electricity today, and most of that electricity is generated from fossil fuels. Yet only 6% of our economy runs on electricity today, and most of that electricity is generated from fossil fuels.

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Cooling Electricity HVAC Fossil fuels 52

Business Green

JULY 19, 2022

The latest edition of National Grid ESO's Future Energy Scenarios report was released this week, setting out the energy system operator's detailed vision for how the net zero transition could accelerate. The final two scenarios explored in the report are designed to compare and contrast different approaches to reaching net zero.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 19, 2024

With its unparalleled purchasing power and exacting demands, fast food has long shaped agricultural systems in the United States, Europe, and China. A sixth company has benefited from IFC advisory services but has not received financing. A sixth company has benefited from IFC advisory services but has not received financing.

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Africa Agriculture Health Investment 92

Business Green

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

The Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) today released an update on the scheme's progress, following confirmation in the recent Heat and Building Strategy that a further £1.425bn of funding is to be made available through the scheme over the next three years.

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Business Green

MARCH 7, 2023

That is the headline conclusion from a new YouGov survey of 2,000 adults commissioned by the Warm This Winter coalition of fuel poverty and environmental charities, which found 54 per cent of Brits want to see an acceleration in the UK's clean energy transition.

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Fossil fuels Energy Energy Government 79

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Plans announced for new CCS-enabled low carbon hydrogen plant at Scottish site, as government confirms plans for next phase of £220m Industrial Energy Transformation Fund. It has also outlined plans to include higher levels of recycled content in its polymer product portfolio as part of an effort to contribute to a more circular economy.

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Hydrogen Carbon Investment Government 82

Business Green

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

New analysis of 20 largest emitting economies underscores how world is off track to meet Paris Agreement goals. Governments have an important role to play in achieving climate change goals but the private sector's behaviour will be critical," said Paul Jackson, global head of asset allocation research at Invesco.

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Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Government 67

Business Green

JUNE 23, 2020

First up, the CBI today became the latest influential business group to call on the government to "build back better" and make climate action a top priority in its recovery plans. The government has been inundated with calls from green trade bodies, campaigners and academics for it to deliver a green stimulus package in recent weeks.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Titled Local Edge: An Inquiry Into Climate Politics and The Economics of Recovery , the report argues that there is an urgent need to deliver emission reduction solutions at a local level in three crucial areas: heat energy and buildings; food, land use, and nature; and transport and air quality.

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Government Fossil fuels Transportation Carbon 69

Business Green

AUGUST 17, 2021

After numerous delays, the government today published its hotly-anticipated Hydrogen Strategy - the UK's first - which offers a glimpse of its vision for scaling the nascent energy source into a major net zero-enabling sector in its own right.

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Business Green

MARCH 23, 2022

BusinessGreen rounds up all the reaction from the green economy to the Chancellor Rishi Sunak's mini-budget. These measures will help make domestic energy efficiency and clean energy projects more attractive and help lower consumer bills.

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Fossil fuels Government Investment Energy 36

Business Green

DECEMBER 8, 2020

They are the homes and offices of the future that promise to keep occupants cool in the summer, warm in the winter, and healthy in mind and body all year round, while also providing a critical component of the zero emission energy system that should emerge over the next decade. And it needn't be a distant vision of the future, either.

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Construction Policy Investment Innovation 90

Business Green

MARCH 18, 2022

Analysis from E3G finds energy efficiency and clean heat are quickest way to shore up UK energy security, as Chancellor calls on National Infrastructure Bank to ramp up net zero investment. But today, E3G has warned that future oil and gas licensing rounds would have little effect on boosting energy security in the UK.

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Energy Energy Fossil fuels Government 40

Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2022

Soaring energy bills? It is a political movement that has taken 'never apologise, never explain' through to its nihilistic end game, where nothing matters and even less makes sense. Blame net zero. Boris Johnson's downfall? Net zero's fault. A decade of flat-lining productivity and anaemic wage growth?

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Business Green

JULY 8, 2022

Office for Budget Responsibility estimates sustained high fossil fuel prices could make the comparative costs of net zero over a third cheaper. However, it also stressed that failing to decarbonise the economy would prove far more expensive in the long run and could lead to public debt spiralling.

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AutoGrid

JULY 5, 2023

What’s driving the deployment of utility-scale energy storage assets? We will focus on the opportunities for “utility-scale” or “grid-scale” energy storage in this blog. Grid-Scale Batteries Grid-scale energy storage systems include batteries, flywheels, pumped hydro, and compressed air energy storage.

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Solar Energy Monitor Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 63

Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2023

Huge amounts of food for thought, then, for the UK's burgeoning net zero economy. Huge amounts of food for thought, then, for the UK's burgeoning net zero economy. It is a far from unsurprising message from Skidmore, who having signed the 2050 target into law, has long been a staunch advocate for an ambitious net zero agenda.

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Business Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring 46

Business Green

JUNE 25, 2021

Securitisation of homes with top energy ratings could create 'virtuous cycle of green lending' and compensate for weak energy policy framework, new study claims.

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Business Green

JANUARY 7, 2022

BusinessGreen offers a five point guide for how progressive companies can shield themselves from volatile energy markets while still moving closer to their net zero goals. The company would be facing £20m of added electricity costs in 2022, he said, and had little choice but to pass on the costs.

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