Business Green

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Unsurprisingly, the results of a survey of 344 small businesses across 40 countries published today has identified a lack of a finance as a "major hurdle" to decarbonisation within the small business community. Launched in 2020, the SME Climate Hub now counts 5,200 committed signatories.

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Business Green

AUGUST 16, 2021

Power sector decarbonisation is frequently characterised as the low hanging fruit of the UK's net zero transition. But a report from Aurora Energy Research today cautions that the latter phases of power sector decarbonisation could well be set to diverge from the aforementioned narrative.

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Business Green

MAY 29, 2022

How much could climate change impacts cost the UK economy, and how much will it cost the UK to decarbonise and avoid the worst of these impacts? Such findings underscore the very global nature of the climate crisis, and how the UK economy stands to suffer significantly unless all countries decarbonise their economies over the coming decades.

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Business Green

JANUARY 21, 2021

Supply chain decarbonisation is possible at relatively low cost to consumers, World Economic Forum and Boston Consulting Group research suggests. Setting ambitious net zero targets for company's core business is one thing, but achieving deep decarbonisation across the entire supply chain is quite another.

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Business Green

JULY 27, 2021

However, economists and green groups raised concerns that delaying the decarbonisation of home heating - widely seen as one of the most challenging tasks in the UK's net zero transition - risks piling further costs on the transition further down the line, as well as undermining climate targets.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 6, 2021

The steel sector could be ready to shed its ‘hard to abate' moniker, with yet another fresh study strongly indicating the decarbonisation of the emissions-intensive industry may be not only possible, but also far cheaper than previously assumed. This transition will cause both great disruption, and great opportunity.".

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Business Green

OCTOBER 23, 2020

The average price tag on an electric vehicle (EV) could shoot up by £2,800 in the UK in the event of a 'no-deal' Brexit, with resulting tariffs imposed on battery imports likely to effectively cancel out consumer savings from the government's plug-in car grants scheme, Britain's car industry has warned.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 25, 2022

But while a national rollout of heat pumps is widely seen as critical to meeting the UK's net zero targets while also helping to reduce exposure to expensive fossil fuels, their price tag and costs of installation continue to render them out of reach of many cash-strapped households.

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Business Green

JULY 7, 2021

The Office for Budgetary Responsibility has offered some of the most detailed estimates to date on the costs and savings that would result from decarbonising the UK economy by 2050. The majority of the cost to the state is likely to come from decarbonising buildings, which the OBR estimates will cost £164bn over three decades.

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Business Green

AUGUST 25, 2021

In an exclusive interview with BusinessGreen , he draws on a different analogy for the solar sector in the 2020s as the decarbonisation of transport, energy, and buildings gathers pace and corporate and institutional net zero targets abound. "We I think you can over-focus on decarbonisation of heat."

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2023

With attempts to deny the seriousness of the climate crisis and discredit the feasibility of clean technologies overwhelmed by observable reality those opposed to climate action have increasingly turned to questioning the cost of decarbonisation. Moreover, this price tag is for capital investments, not costs.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Whether the production of hydrogen is economically viable is also a matter of debate, with some experts suggesting electrification of transit and transport is a more optimal route to decarbonisation than investment in hydrogen. billion (CAD) price tag by 2030 to fund the project. Pathways estimates a $16.5

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

It is much harder to spin the idea you can solve a gas price crisis by increasing your reliance on gas, that you can decarbonise while polluting more. 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

JANUARY 11, 2023

Despite substantial and increasing demand for green materials and products, many supply-side players are still failing to respond at the pace required to meet that burgeoning demand, eroding hopes that economy-wide decarbonisation can be delivered at the pace needed to deliver on the goals of the Paris Agreement.

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Business Green

MAY 18, 2020

A new essay collection from Bright Blue argues that net zero will not require vast amounts of public spending, due to the momentum delivered to date on decarbonisation in the UK. Net zero 'an immense task'.

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Clean Energy Canada

AUGUST 8, 2023

The effects of the climate crisis could cost Canadians some $700 per year by 2025—a price tag that is expected to double or triple by 2050. G7 countries all committed in 2022 to achieve “predominantly decarbonised electricity sectors by 2035.” Already, provinces with the cleanest grids typically pay the least for electricity.

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Business Green

JUNE 24, 2021

Every year since its inception the Climate Change Committee (CCC) offers its verdict on the UK's progress against its climate goals, providing an overview of the country's decarbonisation to date, its latest economic and emissions projections, and the state of the policy landscape. Yes there are costs to net zero," Stark said this week.

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Business Green

APRIL 25, 2022

We may still need fossil fuels, just as we have a need for certain drugs, weapons, and unhealthy foods, but should a society that is committed to decarbonising be advertising them? If high carbon products are regarded as dangerous and socially undesirable, why should they be advertised?

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Business Green

MAY 24, 2021

High price tags are sometimes necessary for innovative green technologies, but with biomass, there's a real risk that the UK doesn't get what it's paying for," Ember's COO and lead UK analyst Phil MacDonald warned.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Truss' speech make any direct mention of net zero, renewable energy nor the environment, despite her having promised in recent weeks to "double down" on decarbonisation efforts in 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

MARCH 23, 2022

The cut in VAT for retrofitting homes is welcome, it will boost the industry and make action to decarbonise homes more affordable. We have an opportunity to decarbonise the British energy industry, whilst also securing supply. But today's statement does not give us the broader decarbonisation roll out we so desperately need.

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Business Green

JANUARY 23, 2022

The heat pump rollout has to date been held back in part by their high price tag, with a typical heat pump estimated to cost between £10,000 to £20,000, depending on the size of the home, the quality of its insulation and the amount of work required to upgrade to a more efficient system.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Previous unconfirmed reports have estimated a price tag for the Sizewell project of between £16-20bn. There are few new commitments on decarbonising the UK's heating supplies and buildings in the Energy White Paper, with much of the core ambitions already announced in the Ten Point Plan last month.

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Business Green

AUGUST 11, 2021

It comes amid growing frustration over the government's net zero agenda, with a raft of key green policy strategies on hydrogen, home heating, taxation, and more still yet to be published, leaving investors and businesses in the dark over key components of the decarbonisation pathway.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

The huge price-tag for this unprecedented intervention lays bare the cost of our reliance on volatile and expensive gas. Avinav Nigam, co-founder at residential investment platform IMMO, said: "With a price tag of £130bn, today's measures to help consumers and businesses deal with sky high energy prices have come at an important time.

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Business Green

AUGUST 11, 2021

It comes amid growing frustration over the government's net zero agenda, with a raft of key green policy strategies on hydrogen, home heating, taxation and more still yet to be published, leaving investors and businesses in the dark over decarbonisation pathway ahead.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

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. The ban on onshore wind - which around eight in 10 people support - has been a major anomaly in British energy policy given it's both cheap and popular with the public.

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