Business Green

JANUARY 18, 2022

In this challenging context, ambitious policy commitments and public funding to support the roll-out of new low carbon technologies may not, at first glance, look particularly attractive to some parts of government. The economic and social case for policy clarity has never been more important.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

We controlled for a long list of other factors, including the use of other policy instruments. Groups such as the Business Council of Australia that welcomed the abolition of the carbon price back in 2014 are calling for an effective climate policy with a price signal at its heart. Carbon Policy. Carbon pricing elsewhere.

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Business Green

MAY 6, 2020

BEIS released a suite of documents regarding 'clean heating' policy last Tuesday including most importantly details of what will follow on from the RHI. This policy consultation comes in advance of a long awaited energy White Paper and in advance of a heat and buildings framework expected to be released later this year.

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The Environmental Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2023

China China has 124 gW this year and has grown by 10 gW since 2014 and by 44 gW since 2013. The Indian government has been proactive in promoting wind energy through incentives, targets, and supportive policies, contributing to its rapid growth.

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The City Fix

JULY 12, 2022

China’s cars, buses, trucks, shipping and other transport generated 828 million tonnes of greenhouse gases in 2014. The world’s ability to overcome the climate change challenge hinges, in part, on what happens on China’s roads. That’s almost the equivalent of the EU. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Pollution, poverty and race collide in many other disadvantaged communities across California — and the country — and some argue that the state’s climate policies haven’t helped. In 2014, Quebec joined California’s market and several other states and countries have considered or adopted their own versions in recent years.)

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

As environment secretary between 2014 and 2016, Truss cut subsidies for solar farms, calling them “a blight on the landscape”, and claimed without evidence that they were harming food production. Truss’s position on climate policy has deep roots in the libertarian movement. But it will absolutely fuel the climate crisis,” she said.

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Energy Innovation

APRIL 27, 2020

The industrial sector was responsible for 33 percent of global anthropogenic emissions in 2014, and industrial emissions are only projected to rise – direct industrial emissions rose 65 percent from 1990 to 2014. This new research points the way to the smarter choice.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

A coherent policy response that catalyses action to deliver emissions reductions across all sectors is required. It was only in 2014 that the UK achieved the 9.7% A more coherent and more ambitious policy response is required across all sectors of the economy. required decarbonisation rate for net zero.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 6, 2020

And the problem has been getting worse: Direct industrial emissions rose by 65 percent from 1990 to 2014. The good news is that with the right policies in place, deep emissions reductions are possible within and across industrial sectors, the researchers say. Each policy fits together as [part of] this puzzle.”

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Terra Infirma

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

It is also where we are quite likely to get push back on Net Zero policies as those with a hefty investment in high carbon assets start to see that investment erode. This worries me – as I often ask – whose carbon footprint are you part of?

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 6, 2020

Since 2014 the e-waste categories increasing fastest in total weight terms: temperature exchange equipment (+7 per cent), large equipment (+5 per cent), lamps and small equipment (+4 per cent). Since 2014, the number of countries that have adopted a national e-waste policy, legislation or regulation in place has increased from 61 to 78.

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Charged

JULY 16, 2020

What a difference a few years (and some judicious government policy) makes. Back in 2014, the US was the center of the EV scene , and sales in Europe had yet to crack the one-percent mark. Now the Continent has left us behind. In June, the market share of plug-in vehicles exceeded 8% in all of the three largest European auto markets.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 3, 2023

Policy Exchange, one of Westminster’s most prominent think tanks, engaged in a high-level influencing campaign over the UK’s North Sea oil and gas policies while being funded by fossil fuel interests, DeSmog can reveal. Policy Exchange received $30,000 from the oil and gas supermajor ExxonMobil in 2017.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The UK’s main climate science denial group has been invited to give evidence to a parliamentary inquiry into the country’s energy transition and the cost of its net zero policies. Gas and nuclear have to be fast-tracked if there is any chance of publicly acceptable, long-term climate policies.”.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Over 100 universities across the UK , representing 65 percent of the higher education sector, have pledged to divest from the fossil fuel industry since 2014. In 2014, we pledged to divest our holdings in companies involved in the oil and gas sectors over a 10 year period, and have already achieved this.

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The Guardian: Energy

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Just 20 turbines have been approved since 2014 as a result. Since 2015, it has been almost impossible to erect wind turbines in England because the planning system was changed so even one objection from a local resident could derail an entire project – an incredibly stringent interpretation of community consent. Continue reading.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

As a think tank, the Agency studies the challenges of building a climate-neutral society and supports the German government in achieving its energy and climate policy objectives.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Others have attacked climate policies and blamed high energy bills on renewable power. These climate-wrecking policies won’t help our efforts to tackle the cost of living scandal and the energy crisis, they’ll totally undermine them. In the book he said climate policies would “push up electricity bills”, according to the Guardian.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 28, 2022

In 1990 he founded the Science and Environment Policy Project (SEPP) that expounded these views. In 2014 DeSmog revealed that Singer received $5,000 a month from US right-wing think tank the Heartland Institute , which has taken donations from oil interests including ExxonMobil and the Koch family. “The

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 8, 2022

But the parliamentary register of interests shows that Baker received £5,000 from Neil Record , a Tory Party donor and chairman of both the climate science-denying Global Warming Policy Forum and the Institute of Economic Affairs think tank, which has received funding from oil giant BP, and has a record of opposing government climate policies.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

The research points out that in 2014, 40% of new residential projects in England was on land that had already been developed, and that this proportion has dropped to 20% in 2018 with economies of scale, technical complexities and additional costs and uncertainties, all contributing factors.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

North Carolina is among the few states that have seen significant solar development tied to the federal Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act, which incentivizes energy production by requiring utilities to buy from “qualifying facilities” developed by third parties.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 6, 2020

billion in 2014. Sunrun said it could cut redundant costs by consolidating business divisions such as accounting and policy, and reducing similar spending on technology, among other areas. California-based solar installer Sunrun plans to acquire competitor Vivint Solar for $3.2 billion, the companies announced Monday night.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Cast your mind back to 2014. 2014 was also the year of peak frack - the year that Westminster went mad for fracking and all it could bring to the UK energy system. Well, with a whopping 392 mentions last year, hydrogen received more Parliamentary attention in 2020 than fracking in 2014. A different time.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

These clean power sales have surged in the past decade: According to data collected and published annually by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, they doubled from 2010 to 2014 and doubled again from 2014 to 2019. Sara (Shiyuan) Dong is a graduate intern with the NREL Market and Policy Team.

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 13, 2022

Have you read: Hitless failover is key to the electrification of everything UK policy paper doubles down on vehicle electrification. Since 2014, BlocPower has completed energy projects in more than 1,200 buildings in 26 cities, it said. Sign up to our newsletter and stay informed. million residential and commercial customers.

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

In the period between 2014 and 2016 China canceled many coal plants and installed scrubbers on 80 percent of existing plants to reduce sulfur dioxide, nitrous oxide and other hazardous emissions. A BloombergNEF report found that of the 385,000 electric buses in the world in 2017, almost all of them were in China.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

“The functions we’re talking about here in terms of power control systems and scheduling — they tie into microgrids and other things utilities are grappling with,” said Sky Stanfield, an attorney representing the Interstate Renewable Energy Council, an industry group active in interconnection policy.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

billion from 2014 to 2019 in ISO-New England. Anne Hoskins served on the Maryland Public Service Commission and is the chief policy officer at Sunrun. It’s clear the needs of the electric grid are evolving to a more distributed energy future. Local solar saved New England residents $1.1

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Between 2010 and 2014 McGrail led Siemens plans to develop and invest in offshore wind turbine manufacturing in the UK, securing the world-class offshore wind turbine blade factory and port facility in Hull, negotiating with the UK government and overseeing one of the company's most significant factory investments in its recent history.

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The Environmental Blog

JULY 18, 2019

The key findings on climate change have claimed it to be the biggest peril to the present generation and the future generations with the last three decades being successively warmer at the Earth’s surface (IPCC “climate change 2014”). Springer, 2014. Climate Change 2014: Synthesis Report Summary For Policy Makers.

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Green Living Guy

OCTOBER 24, 2020

Meanwhile it was Posted by PuraKai Clothing on Wed, Jan 22, 2014. Meanwhile the song remains the same! Talk about plastics and toxins in the ocean today. The blue whale is the largest creäture to ever roam the earth. They can weigh up to an astounding 330,000 pounds. That is as.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 28, 2023

The New Allies The list of NZSG allies released today includes individuals associated with the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), the UK’s principal climate science denial group, which has extensive ties with the parliamentary caucus. NZWG’s policy demands track those of NZW, and Mackinlay has helped promote NZW reports.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Susan Kennedy, the veteran of California politics and energy policy who founded the company in 2014, handed off the CEO role last week after five years at the helm. AMS, the commercial energy storage pioneer turned software company , has changed its leadership. Lingering development. Deployments are about two-thirds complete.

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Charged

JUNE 10, 2020

Since 2014, owing to the mass production of Li-ion batteries and the popularity of ternary cathode materials (composed of nickel, cobalt, manganese or aluminum) in portable electronics and EVs, the consumption of nickel sulfate has markedly increased as requirements for Li-ion batteries have grown.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 27, 2022

Billionaire Australian hedge fund manager Michael Hintze, one of the few known funders of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), is set to receive a peerage, according to a Sunday Times report over the weekend. His £5 million donation in 2014 to London’s Natural History Museum led to its central gallery being renamed “Hintze Hall”.

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