Business Green

MAY 7, 2021

Household appliance manufacturer Whirlpool Corporation has vowed to achieve net zero emissions across its plants and operations by 2030, arguing that tackling climate change is core to its brand mission to "improve life at home". Kitchen and laundry appliance company announces it will curb emissions generated by products for first time.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

If it finds there has been a serious failure to comply with environmental law, then further action is possible. The Government should work quickly to publish its package of targets, using this extra time to ensure they are as strong as possible. Read the complaint in full, and see list of signatories, here. Nature cannot wait.”.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 21, 2020

but a state law passed last year that requires 100 percent clean energy by 2045 should further boost that trend by encouraging development there. On Thursday, Amazon suggested it may be able to reach 100 percent renewable energy by 2025, which would outpace its goal to meet that target by 2030.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The European Commission has adopted two final pillars under its Fit for 55 legislative package, setting in place legally binding climate targets across sectors and prioritising the shift away from polluting vehicles as soon as possible. It is also agreed that Europe will aim to reach 45% of renewables in the EU energy mix by 2030.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

EU set to push for more stretching 2030 climate target. The European Commission is expected to push for a more ambitious 2030 climate target next Wednesday, raising the bar to cut emissions by "at least 55 per cent" from 1990 levels by the end of the decade, according to a draft document seen by the Financial Times.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

The order caps a lengthy and contentious battle over DTE’s long-range IRP, which it and Consumers were required to develop for the first time under Michigan’s comprehensive 2016 energy law. A PSC administrative law judge ruled in December that this was a violation of the 2016 state law that set up the IRP process.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Having been crowned the most polluting brand in the world for two years running by the Break Free from Plastic campaign in its global audit of plastic waste, the firm also last year revealed it produces three million tonnes of plastic packaging a year, or the equivalent of 200,000 bottles a minute.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 18, 2021

With new federal bills up for review and debate, and packaging being a bull’s eye, the status of packaging and recycling policy is in flux. Mars, maker of candies and food, has diverse packaging needs. We do not want to see this packaging released into nature.

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Business Green

JULY 22, 2020

As MEPs enter talks over EU Council's €1.8tr recovery package and budget deal, many key green questions remain. Of the overall €1.8tr package encompassing the recovery funding and the 2021-27 budget, EU leaders agreed that 30 per cent should be earmarked for the bloc's climate objectives and transition to net zero.

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Business Green

MARCH 29, 2023

The latest figures come as the UK was ranked the fifth most attractive European country for EV market potential in the latest Electric Vehicle Country Attractiveness Index from Cornwall Insight and law firm Shoosmiths.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The EPP is vociferously opposing two major pieces of legislation from the EU’s Green Deal, a historic package by the bloc to reduce its emissions in line with global climate targets. The first, the Nature Restoration Law, includes plans to restore 20 percent of degraded ecosystems in the EU. Credit: Ian Nixon and Brigitte Wear.

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Business Green

JANUARY 6, 2023

The Indian government wants to slash that by a fifth, which is in line with global aspirations to cut the cost of green hydrogen to around $1 per kilogram by 2030. Reuters notes that green hydrogen currently costs around 300-400 rupees per kilogram - or $3.60-4.80/kg kg - to produce in India.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 29, 2022

According to the EU Commission , “The objective of these dialogues is to offer invited stakeholders the possibility to exchange with DG ENER officials on the European Green Deal package”. In 2021 ten dialogues took place in ten different European countries.

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Smart Energy International

JUNE 10, 2022

As part of the Fit for 55 package, European parliamentarians have supported revision of CO2 emission performance standards for new vehicles. The new standards to cover passenger and light commercial vehicles propose emission reduction targets of 55% for passenger cars and 50% for vans for 2030 and 100% for 2035. Have you read?

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 11, 2019

New European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen unveiled Europe's Green Deal on Wednesday, a package of 50 far-reaching policy ideas that are still missing many key details, calling it a "man on the moon moment" for Europe. The current target for 2030 is a 40 percent emissions reduction, up from an original 27 percent.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 22, 2021

On July 14, the European Union (EU) announced a sweeping package of climate proposals that will help the continent cut greenhouse gas emissions by 55 percent by 2030, from a 1990 baseline. But only 36 percent of them supported the interim 55 percent emissions reduction target for 2030. More than half favored weaker targets.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 20, 2022

The European Commission is facing calls to introduce more ambitious measures to drive up recycling rates for drinks packaging, including glass, metal, and plastic bottles, or risk seeing decarbonisation and resource security efforts derailed. Figures suggest the savings could reduce emissions by 10 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent by 2030.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Under the Act, passed in 2019, most buildings over 25,000 square feet—roughly 50,000 residential and commercial properties across the city—must meet new energy efficiency and greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) reductions by 2024, and stricter limits in 2030. The goal: Reduce their emissions 40 percent by 2030, and 80 percent by 2050.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 26, 2020

The final coal deal, approved by Germany's parliament last month, will see all of the country's capacity closed by 2038, with more than half of it shut down by 2030. There are also compensation packages for workers in mines and power plants who lose their job as a result of the coal exit laws.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 27, 2020

When Murphy won and took office, he signed sweeping clean energy legislation in May 2018 that turned his goals into law. Murphy's campaign platform, and the law, included something quite radical at the time: the goal of 600 megawatts of energy storage by 2021 and 2,000 megawatts by 2030. percent closer to the finish line.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

As an intermediary step towards zero emissions, the new CO2 standards will also require average emissions of new cars to come down by 55% by 2030, and new vans by 50% by 2030. It is no wonder that this file is the first one in the entire Fit for 55 package where Member States and the European Parliament have come to a final deal.”.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 1, 2022

While countries have agreed to adding shipping to the EU ETS, the details of the legislation will need to be endorsed by member states before being passed into law. Smaller vessels would be exempt from the legislation, which is to apply on all ships above 5,000 gross tonnes.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 8, 2023

McDonald’s is at the forefront of a campaign against new laws to reduce packaging waste in the EU, in what has been described by some insiders as the largest-scale lobbying effort they have ever witnessed in the European Parliament. The call follows mounting pressure from industry over the past year.

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Energy Innovation

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

EPS users can design policy packages that achieve net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions across the economy and pinpoint which policies are most effective at reducing emissions while creating economic and health benefits. Only existing state laws and regulations as of January 2023 are included in the model.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Plans to lift ban on fracking and curtain legacy EU environmental laws and regulations announced today risk backlash from some of the government's own MPs. But Business Secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg argued revoking EU law was a necessity now the UK has left the trading bloc.

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Energy Innovation

JUNE 16, 2022

This modeling showed the state is off track for its 2030 and 2045 climate goals, and must triple its historic emissions reduction pace. Under the state’s landmark AB 32 climate law, CARB is required to evaluate the state’s progress toward its goals and make recommendations every five years.

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Front And Centered

AUGUST 29, 2022

Overall, climate and environmental justice advocates count somewhere between $17 billion and $44 billion generally heading in the right direction for frontline communities out of a $369 billion energy and environment spending package. Gaping Gaps.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

What can we expect on the way to 2030? More battery and inverter packages from the same brand. In turn, inverter companies packaging third-party batteries will eventually make way for savvy battery companies who can package the whole system. Here are 10 predictions. All-in-one systems will be the new normal.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 8, 2020

On Tuesday, Ofgem revealed a total investment package of at least £40 billion ($53.3 The new investment package is part of Ofgem's second Revenue = Incentives + Innovation + Outputs framework (RIIO-2), set to be implemented in April 2021, which will guide transmission network investments from 2021-2026. Last month the U.K.

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Business Green

MARCH 23, 2023

The authors anticipate the upcoming Fit for 55 package in particular is set to trigger several new cases. The authors predicted the package could enable litigation multiple fronts.

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Business Green

JUNE 29, 2022

Agnès Pannier-Runacher, French Minister for the energy transition - who led the negotiations - hailed the agreement on the Fit for 55 package as "a crucial step in attaining our climate objectives".

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Business Green

MARCH 29, 2023

The regulation, which will come into force in 20 days' time, strengthens the interim 2030 emissions reduction target automakers in the EU have to meet, as well as enshrines the 2035 phase-out date into law. Keep up to date with all the latest green business news by signing up to the free Daily and Weekly BusinessGreen Newsletters.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

. £100 billion of private investment: A breakdown The Act seeks to implement the British Energy Security Strategy (BESS) that will unlock £100 billion of private investment in the energy sector and create 480,000 jobs by 2030.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 3, 2022

The John Lewis Partnership has committed to ensuring the soy, palm oil, cocoa, beef, leather, timber, and man-made cellulosic materials in its own-brand products do not cause deforestation, as part of a new package of measures announced this morning designed to help nature and reduce carbon emissions.

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Business Green

MAY 18, 2021

Defra unveils sweeping package of biodiversity and habitat policies, designed to halt species decline and trigger £500m tree planting programme. We will be amending the Environment Bill to require an additional legally binding target for species for 2030, aiming to halt the decline of nature," Eustice said.

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Business Green

JULY 21, 2022

Defra confirms new legal duty to be placed on water companies to reduce nutrient pollution by 2030, as it looks to ease planning barriers for new housing projects. But Tony Juniper, chair at Natural England, said the new package of measures represented "significant steps forward" in the push to improve water quality across the UK.

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Business Green

APRIL 21, 2020

A further five European nations are working to complete coal power phase outs by 2030, including Greece, the Netherlands, Finland, Hungary, and Denmark. The German government has also announced plans to exit coal by 2038 with the target and accompanying compensation packages set to be incorporated in a new coal exit law.

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