Business Green

JUNE 18, 2020

The analysis calculates that integrating clean energy goals into economic recovery and stimulus packages over the next three years could boost global economic growth by an average of 1.1 Birol acknowledged that policy makers were "having to make hugely consequential decisions in a very short space of time as they draw up stimulus packages".

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Business Green

JULY 14, 2020

The government must overhaul public procurement, fiscal and monetary policies to ensure a durable economic recovery that is aligned with the UK's climate goals, according to a comprehensive report published by the Aldersgate Group today.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

The IMO is working to finalise a short-term greenhouse gas (GHG) measure this year to support its 2030 goal of cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 40 per cent against 2008 levels. The maximum scenario investigated - with limits set at 60 per cent - would reduce emissions by about six per cent.

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Business Green

APRIL 3, 2020

This week, just days after a group of leading civil society and environment groups called on the government to fold "stringent conditions" into any forthcoming rescue package for aviation, the government today unveiled a multi-million bailout for buses today that makes no mention of climate. So far, not so good, however.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

The Bill would require the inclusion of emissions from the UK's share of international aviation and shipping in the country's existing 2050 net zero greenhouse gas target, as well as emissions linked to UK supply chains and consumption, none of which currently fall under the 2008 Climate Change Act.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

The Act also empowers the UK Government to fund hydrogen though a levy and to set strategic priorities in CCUS though a CCUS Strategy and Policy Statement. Great British Nuclear (GBN) : A public company, GBN is the delivery vehicle through which the UK Government will implement new nuclear projects and policy.

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Business Green

APRIL 29, 2020

If the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis is anything to go by, we are likely to soon see a sharp rebound in emissions as economics improve," he said. Black called on national leaders to stick to their promises to develop post-coronavirus stimulus packages that accelerate the clean energy transition. "If

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Business Green

JULY 19, 2022

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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Business Green

JUNE 29, 2020

The chancellor's stimulus package must include measures to replace lost jobs with green jobs, re-train workers so they can access these jobs and power the new green economy both Leeds and the UK need.".

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2021

TAN, however, argues that ministers had a legal duty under the Climate Change Act 2008’s statutory targets and the Paris Agreement to consider the strategy’s full impact on the environment and could not leave that assessment to the planning stage of individual road projects. The strategy doesn’t mention RIS2.

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Business Green

MAY 6, 2020

Backed by high and low carbon businesses alike, the Energy Transitions Commission has outlined seven key priorities for delivering credible, net zero-focused recovery packages. The support for green recovery packages has been vocal, wide-ranging, and not a little surprising.

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Business Green

APRIL 28, 2020

We've dealt with the financial crisis of 2008, supply issues, government policy u-turns, Minimum Import Pricing, and now we're proving our salt in the midst of a global pandemic. It's worth looking back to the last global crisis in 2008, after which fossil fuel generation took a substantial hit. Emerging from the current crisis.

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GreenBiz

MAY 12, 2020

By nature, cosmetics packaging is small and intricate, made up of many parts that are difficult to clean after use, resulting in the majority of this packaging going directly into landfills. The global packaging industry is set to reach over $1 trillion by 2021. But it doesn’t have to be like this.

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Business Green

MARCH 31, 2020

Dr Ben Caldecott argues the clamour for green strings to be attached to bailout packages could be misguided - could government take a long term stake in struggling companies instead and demand bolder climate strategies as a shareholder? For example, RBS was bailed out in October 2008 and the UK government is still the majority shareholder.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Last year, for example, Sephora became the first major cosmetics retailer to broadcast its policy on chemicals. The for-profit firm Scivera , launched in 2008 in Charlottesville, Virginia, offers a subscription database SciveraLENS, with color-coded grades for chemicals based on their inherent hazards. for an answer.".

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Business Green

APRIL 19, 2021

The rhetoric has been hugely welcome and has contrasted positively with the months and years following the financial crash of 2008, during which proposals for green stimulus packages struggled to secure meaningful traction and a wave of new fossil fuel investment locked in another decade of rising global emissions.

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Business Green

JULY 17, 2020

Setting out its draft recovery plan back in May, the EU Commission promised to place its Green Deal programme and 2050 net zero ambition at the heart of its €750bn investment package to get the economy moving again. Thousands of green projects are raring to go across Europe to help build resilient Covid-19 recovery, study suggests.

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Clean Energy Canada

MAY 29, 2020

Germany Chancellor Angela Merkel has indicated her government aims to implement a stimulus package that “ helps the economy’s move toward climate neutrality ,” saying “it will be all the more important that if we set up economic stimulus programmes, we must always keep a close eye on climate protection.”

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Business Green

JUNE 8, 2021

Pressure is mounting on the government to launch an ambitious policy package to support the decarbonisation of UK's housing stock, particularly in the wake of its much-criticised decision to axe the Green Homes Grant scheme earlier this year.

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Front And Centered

APRIL 14, 2020

This bill would have required that all transportation packages be evaluated through community-centered criteria that embraces equity, environmental justice, accessibility, safety, health, economic vitality, and other key values. Here are important policies that we tracked and helped shape or opposed this legislative session.

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Business Green

JUNE 8, 2021

Pressure is mounting on the government to launch an ambitious policy package to support the decarbonisation of UK's housing stock, particularly in the wake of its much-criticised decision to axe the Green Homes Grant scheme earlier this year.

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Business Green

APRIL 29, 2020

The difficult part is delivering the policies that can make the world's largest and fastest industrial revolution actually happen. In the wake of the 2008 financial crash talk of Green New Deals and climate stimulus packages was largely confined to academic seminar rooms and environmental NGO away days.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

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. But in the meantime, we're still working on policies. So, do you have policies that are matching that ambition?

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Business Green

JUNE 28, 2020

SUVs, which are less fuel efficient than other cars due to heavy builds and large engines, accounted for 38 per cent of new cars sold in Europe in 2019, up from almost a third the year prior and from just seven per cent in 2008. That way carmakers will bring the zero-emissions cars they have developed to the forecourt quicker.".

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Rules aimed at preventing companies from importing products into the UK that are linked to illegal deforestation are to be added to the Environment Bill, as part of a package of measures to boost the resilience, traceability, and sustainability of corporate supply chains confirmed by the government today.

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Business Green

JUNE 3, 2020

In 2008 the digital telecoms giant became one of the first companies in the world to adopt a science-based emissions reduction target in line with keeping temperature increases below 2C, which it achieved four years early in 2016. BT has long been a corporate leader on climate action.

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Business Green

APRIL 23, 2020

Today, a coalition of major European green groups fronted by Transport & Environment threw their hat into the increasingly crowded ring, with an appeal for lawmakers to align the European Investment Bank's (EIB's) lending policies with the objectives of the European Green Deal, the bloc's blueprint for reaching net-zero by mid-century.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 5, 2022

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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Business Green

JULY 23, 2020

They might have the government working against them with policies, which still is the case in many places," Polman said. Polman noted that governments around the world are trying to put rescue packages in place that could help with the "greening" of society. They might not have the skill. They might not have the capabilities.

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Business Green

APRIL 7, 2020

The upshot of the government's 2008 bailouts for the banking sector were that the banks stayed in good shape whilst the rest suffered years of austerity, impoverishing social care and our national health system," Evans said.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Between 2008 and 2019, the average amount of meat eaten each day per person in the UK fell from just under 104g to a little more than 86g, according to the UK National Diet and Nutrition Survey. It is a complex puzzle requiring a sweeping set of policies, strategies, and collaboration across business and government to put together.

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EDF + Business

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The European Union and its Member States have been frontrunners in establishing ambitious climate policy. Decarbonizing packaging Since the 1950s, the world has produced over 9 billion tons (bt) of plastics. Of these plastics, around 36% are used in packaging. of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions. billion.

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Business Green

MARCH 7, 2021

It comes just days after UK Chancellor Rishi Sunak released a Budget promising to mobilise a wave of green investment through a National Infrastructure Bank, only to face criticism from green groups, political opponents, and economists for failing to deliver a green stimulus package to match that being pursued by other leading G7 economies.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 22, 2020

They might have the government working against them with policies, which still is the case in many places,” Polman said. Polman noted that governments around the world are trying to put rescue packages in place that could help with the “greening” of society. They might not have the skill. But that’s not enough.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

. “We need companies to make commitments that are specific to how they are addressing their supply chains,” says Jessye Waxman, shareholder advocate with Green Century Capital Management, which has so far engaged dozens of businesses encouraging them to improve their “no deforestation” policies and practices.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

OCTOBER 17, 2018

LCPI finds that one third of reductions, approximately 10 million tCO2e, should be expected from current trends and existing policies plus the price-elasticity effect of the fee if I-1631 is enacted. The measure would rely on a robust investment program to achieve the remaining 20 million tCO2e. the fee) and targeted investments.

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Business Green

JUNE 10, 2021

You do not need a particularly long memory to recall how the world reacted to the financial crisis of 2008. The policy was dubbed austerity, but for many it would be better labelled a lost decade. Michael Holder speaks to Regenerate's Ed Boyd about the growing interest a new form of capitalism. The result?

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