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'Pace of delivery must be relentless': CBI issues net zero warning to government

Business Green

Business lobby group chief Tony Danker ramps up rhetoric demanding government deliver raft of missing net zero policy on heating, hydrogen and transport. These various targets have been supported by number of policies and investments, such as support for new electric vehicle charging infrastructure and new zero carbon home standards.

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Next Prime Minister to face legal requirement to beef up Net Zero Strategy

Business Green

As such, he ruled the government had failed to meet its obligations under Climate Change Act 2008 (CCA) and ordered Ministers to update the plan and present it to Parliament by April 2023. 14 of the CCA 2008.". The Net Zero Strategy remains government policy and has not been quashed," a spokesperson said.

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Behind the scenes at the IMO's latest meeting: Are governments all at sea with their first post-COP26 climate test?

Business Green

They call on countries to deliver a 40 per cent reduction in the carbon intensity of shipping by 2030 and halve the sector's absolute emissions by 2050, compared to a 2008 baseline. If the recent COP kept 1.5 But in the meantime, we're still working on policies. So, do you have policies that are matching that ambition?

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Sustainable Business Went Mainstream in 2021

Andrew Winston

Reports vary on the percentage of those companies that re-started donations to insurrectionists (some say only 23% have kept the policy ). The gap between science and policy is an opportunity, and a responsibility, for business to take a bigger role. Concern about plastics and packaging, for example, was a huge issue in 2019.

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'We are witnessing the impacts of a disorderly transition': CCC boss Chris Stark on net zero in the wake of Covid-19

Business Green

Encouragingly, word from the EU Commission suggests it remains steadfast in its 2050 net zero ambitions and that combatting climate change should feature strongly in economic recovery packages. The legwork on diplomacy for COP is the piece that needs to ride alongside the domestic efforts to cut emissions," Stark explains.

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CCC urges government to craft climate-resilient Covid-19 recovery plans

Business Green

Letter to the Prime Minister by government climate advisers adds further weight to cross-sector calls for coronavirus stimulus packages to eschew carbon-intensive practices in favour of low-carbon, climate-resilient industries and projects.

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The climate theory of everything

Business Green

The 'long 90s' of idealism, hedonism, and relative peace is on its death bed, where it will remain until the financial crash of 2008 administers the final rights. Applying a climate lens improves every policy and instils greater optimism and better returns in every project. Everyone is rightly worried about what comes next.