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'Private jets must be consigned to history': Greenpeace reveals private jet emissions quadrupled during last year's Davos Summit

Business Green

The report was released on the eve of the WEF's annual Davis Summit, which kicks off next week and is again expected to see hundreds of business and political leaders jet into the Swiss resort. Most notably, the French government is pursuing plans to ban commercial domestic flights where the rail network provides a viable alternative.

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EPRI, Shell, the City of Houston, Greentown Labs, and NYU Urban Future Lab Announce Startup Participants for the Low-Carbon Hydrogen Accelerator

Greentown Labs

This six-month, highly structured accelerator program offers startup participants collaboration and engagement opportunities with EPRI, its member utilities, and Shell on technology validation, feasibility studies, paid pilot demonstrations, and other development and commercial partnerships. Somerville, Mass.

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The key to scaling greenhouse gas removals? Robust monitoring, reporting and verification

Business Green

The role and risks of monitoring, reporting and verification Monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV) frameworks are increasingly seen as a GGR ‘market shaper', in other words a targeted intervention that addresses a market failure, thus removing a scaling obstacle.

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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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December 2021 Cleantech Roundup: Year in Review

Clean Energy Trust

Also worth mentioning on the corporate front is the purchases and support for Sustainable Aviation Fuel from airlines, particularly United Airlines. Tangible research, development, and demonstration support for new energy technology was also included in the infrastructure bill.

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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.