Business Green

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Clean transport advocates point out £30bn price tag for railway electrification is in the same ball park as budget for road building. Meanwhile Louise Haigh MP, Shadow Transport Secretary, claimed the government had "no plan to deliver a rail network fit for this century" in reaction to the news.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 20, 2020

With two turbines, the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind pilot is tiny; and with a price tag of $300 million, it’s very expensive for a generation facility of its size. Virginia’s recently passed Clean Economy Act , which requires more than 5 gigawatts of offshore wind by the mid-2030s, strengthened the case for that future.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The plates will feature a green tag or 'flash' on the left hand side of the plate to make it easy to identify zero emission models. Only fully zero emission electric and fuel cell cars will be eligible for the green plates, with hybrids and plug in hybrids deemed ineligible.

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EDF + Business

JULY 10, 2020

As coronavirus shut down the economy, some regions saw a drop in air pollution. Getting a finished product from the factory to your door, has costs beyond the price tag. The economy is slowly bouncing back in some areas. Air pollution costs the global economy $225 billion dollars every year in lost labor income.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 7, 2020

California officials expect that the state needs 1 gigawatt of new long-duration energy storage by 2026 to advance its clean-energy transition. But it’s another thing to formalize this need in electrical planning for the largest state economy. Getting long-duration storage built by 2026 requires starting the process posthaste.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

They've argued against net zero goals on the grounds no other countries have them, only to watch 90 per cent of the global economy adopt such targets. In contrast, the net zero agenda is not some magic salve for all the UK's woes, but it does at least speak to the needs of a 21st century economy and the concerns of the public.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Barely a week now seems to go by now without another major automotive or energy firm significantly scaling up its targets for electric vehicle or clean energy production in the 2020s. The great EV armament has begun. To deliver its new targets, Nissan said it would need to hire 3,000 more staff. global warming trajectory.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Barely a week now seems to go by now without another major automotive or energy firm significantly scaling up its targets for electric vehicle or clean energy production in the 2020s. The great EV armament has begun. To deliver its new targets, Nissan said it would need to hire 3,000 more staff. global warming trajectory.

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Global warming Batteries Automotive Technology 40

Business Green

AUGUST 26, 2022

The impact of droughts, storms, and rising sea levels on economies and institutions that are in no way prepared for the ensuing fall out following decades of under investment and worsening inequality was always going to unleash a new era of instability. At the grand historic level, it was always likely to be this way.

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The Environmental Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has broachedumpteen pervasive challenges on multiple fronts- health, environment and economy. Although the economy is restoring to an extent but an exponential escalation in the biomedical waste generation has posed severe persisting health hazards and environmental threats.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Sharing the findings on Twitter , BNEF's head of sustainable materials Julia Attwood described the estimated $278bn price tag for decarbonising a sector responsible for some seven per cent of global emissions was a "bargain". The steel industry cannot afford to wait for the 2040s to start its transition," she warned.

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Clean Energy Canada

JUNE 26, 2020

To help find ways to overcome them, Clean Energy Canada went right to the source — we asked transit agencies across the country what barriers they see ahead and what solutions are needed. As battery costs continue to fall and electric buses are produced on a larger scale, their price tags will become increasingly competitive.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Liz Truss has promised to transform the UK into an "aspiration nation" characterised by tax cuts, regulatory reform, and business-led growth and investments in her first speech as Prime Minister, as she touted boosting the economy, tackling the worsening energy crisis and supporting the NHS as the top three priorities for her new government.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Labour's Party Conference kicked off yesterday, with the new tag line 'A Fairer, Greener Future' on prominent display, and the opening policy announcement coming in the form of a commitment to deliver a net zero emissions power system by 2030, a full five years earlier than the government's current 2035 target date.

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Business Green

AUGUST 16, 2021

The spectacular decline in renewable energy technology costs over the last decade has established the sector as the linchpin of the country's decarbonisation drive, offering a potential template for how government and industry can work together to scale green technologies that can decarbonise the economy.

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Business Green

JUNE 10, 2021

In fact, the reverse is true, and often by a large margin: globally, government subsidies for fossil fuels are tagged at more than $440bn per year, according to IEA (International Energy Agency) estimates. It may seem paradoxical, but renewables only see a fractional 20 per cent of the subsidies paid to the energy sector.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

It is is not an advocacy post, it's a corporate post about jobs in the green economy, so it was frustrating it was being flagged as a social issue, when you are talking about the facts of climate change," Fidler argued. And yet, simply mentioning climate change appears to have resulted in the advert being flagged as contentious. "It

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Mr. Sustainability

MARCH 17, 2021

The task of turning a patch of desert the size of Belgium into a metropolis powered by renewable energy falls to Peter Terium, the former chief executive officer of RWE AG , Germany’s biggest utility, and clean-energy spinoff Innogy SE. Peter Terium, who is Dutch, joined Neom in 2018 to design its energy, water and food networks.

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Hydrogen Carbon-neutral Pollution Real Estate 148

Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Estimates suggest the company’s clean-up costs alone were ~$90 billion. The European Commission is set to introduce rules that will police green marketing on consumer-protection grounds, as part of its 2020 Circular Economy Action Plan. BP’s 2010 Deepwater Horizon Disaster illustrates this point. Is this really tomorrow’s solution?

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Business Energy Monitoring Sustainability Plastics Building Energy Monitoring 148

Business Green

JANUARY 11, 2023

How can these emerging clean technologies be deplayed fast enough and in sufficient quantities to actually bend the global emissions curve downwards? Not bad for an industry that was still widely regarded as 'hard to abate' just a few years ago.

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Business Green

MAY 18, 2020

An essay collection published late last week by centre right think tank Bright Blue and professional services firm WSP argued the government should prioritise market-based reforms over vast public spending programmes as it works toward delivering on its net zero goal in the wake of the coronavirus crisis that has devastated the economy.

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Policy Government Packaging Transportation 73

Business Green

APRIL 25, 2022

And, as a recent controversial ruling from the ASA that rejected complaints over a Land Rover ad that depicted an SUV driving through a forest under the tag line 'life is so much better without restrictions' demonstrated, it remains hugely difficult for activists to prove to the satsifaction of watchdogs that ads are environmentally irresponsible.

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Fossil fuels Pollution Carbon Health 46

Mr. Sustainability

MARCH 17, 2021

The task of turning a patch of desert the size of Belgium into a metropolis powered by renewable energy falls to Peter Terium, the former chief executive officer of RWE AG , Germany’s biggest utility, and clean-energy spinoff Innogy SE. Peter Terium, who is Dutch, joined Neom in 2018 to design its energy, water and food networks.

Hydrogen 78

Hydrogen Carbon-neutral Pollution Real Estate 78

Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Estimates suggest the company’s clean-up costs alone were ~$90 billion. The European Commission is set to introduce rules that will police green marketing on consumer-protection grounds, as part of its 2020 Circular Economy Action Plan. BP’s 2010 Deepwater Horizon Disaster illustrates this point. Is this really tomorrow’s solution?

Business Energy Monitoring 78

Business Energy Monitoring Sustainability Plastics Building Energy Monitoring 78

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. But if the Chancellor's serious about tackling the issue then it can only be the start.

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Fossil fuels Government Investment Energy 36

Hydrogen Fuel News

MARCH 11, 2024

This trend is helping to build momentum in an area previously seeing slow growth Geothermal energy has promise for helping the United States to meet its net-zero targets, as is the case in a number of other economies. Lowering the cost of geothermal energy well drilling Drilling geothermal energy wells comes with a hefty price tag.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 18, 2020

Last year, Sephora launched Clean at Sephora , a label that originally screened for 13 ingredients considered “unclean” but in July was expanded to over 50 substances, including butylated hydroxyanisole (BHA), sulfates, mercury, talc, aluminum salts and lead.

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Business Green

AUGUST 25, 2021

It is strange the government not latching onto this as it is one of the most effective routes for them to reach their [clean energy] targets.". They are thinking about getting an electric vehicle in the next couple years and the idea of charging your own vehicle [with electricity generated on site] is a very attractive one.".

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Business Green

MAY 24, 2021

Dishing out more funding for Drax's proposed BECCS operation would be a "poor use of public funds", it argues, in light of the low cost and sigificant emissions reductions offered by more mature clean energy technologies such as wind and solar farms.

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Carbon-negative Government Carbon Technology 61

Hydrogen Fuel News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

As clean energy prices keep falling due to the incentives in place for greenhouse gas emission reductions, producing H2 using methods powered by renewable energy is becoming increasingly affordable. The cost of renewable H2 is mainly dependent on the price of clean energy and the capital for building a production plant.

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Hydrogen Natural gas Methane Transportation 98

Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 23, 2024

The trials which include city-wide returnable takeaway packaging; electronic tagging of reusable alternatives and doorstep packaging collections, involved over 100 food and drink businesses. The impact and learnings from six reuse projects, funded by over £1.4

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Business Green

JANUARY 20, 2023

New projects with big price tags are looking for long-duration energy storage solutions In the summer of 2021, a flurry of R&D money was flying into new long-duration energy storage technologies. The clean hydrogen will then power a fuel cell to create on-demand energy. The deployments are meaningful.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

And she is plotting a major shake-up of the government's Contracts for Difference clean power subsidy scheme, that would essentially move all renewable and nuclear generators onto new 10-15 year CfDs at fixed prices below current soaring rates, in a move aimed at lowering their existing price contracts in order to cut bills.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Liz Truss has unveiled her highly-anticipated plan to cushion homes and businesses against soaring energy costs this winter and beyond, with the new Prime Minister today announcing a freeze on bills from next month alongside moves to lift the ban on fracking, pay for green levies through taxation, and deliver a major revamp of clean power contracts.

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Energy Energy Fossil fuels Packaging 68

Business Green

DECEMBER 14, 2020

To describe autumn 2020 as a busy period for green economy policy in the UK would be an understatement. Previous unconfirmed reports have estimated a price tag for the Sizewell project of between £16-20bn. Clean heating and greener homes are a top priority. There are currently around 1.7

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

The most recent IPCC report , published on Monday 28th February 2022, paints the bleakest picture yet regarding the impacts of climate change risk on ecosystems, wildlife, human health, society, and our economy. For inhabitants in this town, the electricity they receive is mostly clean.

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Mr. Sustainability

APRIL 18, 2021

We can re-use most of the existing equipment directly in a circular economy by means of existing chemical processes. Given a lifetime of 10 years for an electrolyzer, a price tag of €632 per kW and a production of 0.5 Cleaning Rotterdam, we can do this! Loosely translated it means “no more talking, cleaning”.

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