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Hydrogen: UN urges policymakers to beware fossil fuel 'vested' interests

Business Green

UN backs green hydrogen as it publishes seven principles designed to guide policymakers and business leaders approach to scaling the low carbon fuel. energy sector pathway". Fossil-based hydrogen must turn to credible, independent lifecycle emissions monitoring and regulation to meet a "high burden of proof" for inclusion in 1.5C

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The Net Zero Review: Everything businesses need to know

Business Green

This new Office should take ownership of delivering the net zero agenda with oversight from both the Cabinet Office and the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), working closely with devolved governments, the National Audit Office, and the Climate Change Committee (CCC), among other agencies.

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UN-Approved ‘Green’ Investors Funding UK Airport Expansion Bids

DeSmogBlog

The news follows criticism from the government’s own climate advisers that the country’s recently-announced net zero strategy excludes measures to tackle aviation growth, an increasing source of emissions. The PRI was working with investors to make the aviation sector “less carbon?intensive, intensive, through?investment

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Social license to advertise: Should there be stricter rules for advertising high carbon goods?

Business Green

Qatar Airways' may have promised fans it would help them 'fly greener', while VW chose to showcase its new electric vehicles, but as ever carbon intensive and plastic-touting industries were highly visible. The Land Rover ad featured on 12th June 2021 in the Guardian magazine.

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The war to electrify: America can do it

GreenBiz

Remember how the nation mobilized seemingly overnight for the Allied Powers 80 years ago? Same size homes, same size cars, the same American Dreams, just without the pollution and with much higher efficiency. homes have a gas meter, feeding water heaters, cooking appliances and so on. "So CO2 emissions. Next is the demand side.

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The Net Zero Strategy: All the top announcements at a glance

Business Green

Critics, meanwhile, have been quick to point out that the plan is thin on details around how the government intends to scale up energy efficiency improvements, boost green skills, decarbonise heavy industry, and encourage people to embrace lower carbon diets. make polluters pay the most through fair carbon pricing. The power sector.

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A fat load of good? Sourcing feedstocks for aviation biofuels looks not-so-simple

Envirotec Magazine

Are fats and oils the key to the aviation fuels of the future? Envirotec writes Many are betting on sustainable aviation fuels (SAF) as the pathway to meeting ambitious net zero targets in the sector, with 2040 and 2050 being oft-cited deadlines. Biodiesel production in the laboratory. What is SAF?

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