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'Sensible incentives' and 'plumbing reforms': Leading figures mull pathway from Covid-19 crisis to net zero economy

Business Green

For one, Nick Charter, professor of behavioural science at Warwick Business School, suggests the government introduced a 'carbon pound' tagged to all goods and services that would alert consumers to the environmental impact of their purchases and activities. We all know how to budget with money," Charter explained. "So,

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Electric vehicle sales accelerated through 2020 - but cost remains a roadblock, RAC analysis finds

Business Green

The report also outlines other strategies beyond lower prices that could entice drivers towards buying a pure electric model. Similarly, many respondents expressed a desire for the range of EVs to improve before they would make the switch to pure battery models.

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#Solar100’s Brad Bauer: The Captain James T. Kirk of Solar Finance

GreenTechMedia

Brad Bauer: I started out working at a law firm in Boston then tagged along with my then-girlfriend, now wife, when she finished school and started practicing in San Francisco. And saying Cypress was a pure greenfield developer is a bit of a misnomer. Lesson number two: Even a great culture needs a strategy. What happened?

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How to build a green hydrogen refinery for the maritime industry in Rotterdam

Mr. Sustainability

Given a lifetime of 10 years for an electrolyzer, a price tag of €632 per kW and a production of 0.5 This is purely the operational cost to produce the fuel, the initial investment costs for the electrolyzers could be in the billions of euros. How much would the fuel cost? So what does this mean?

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On the Future of our Food

Mr. Sustainability

The project was funded by Sergei Brin, one of the founders of Google, and came with a price tag of 250.000 euros for a single burger. The strategy these companies adhere to, is to create a high-yielding crop that is resistant to a very specific weed killer that they have a monopoly on. Are micro-organisms tasty? It depends.

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'Fifteen years of anaemic growth cannot be repeated': The green economy reacts to the government's Growth Plan

Business Green

Boosting the ECO scheme could well end up being cost neutral on Treasury with insulation cutting gas demand and so the overall price tag of the bailout. This strategy is not particularly conservative; last decade, the Tories were all about fiscal discipline. The new Chancellor is borrowing big, basically.