Business Green

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Anyone who remembers the start of 2020 will recall a time when there was to be a climate COP in the UK in November. So long ago was that pre-Covid time, that the COP would have finished by now. Healthy ecosystems have the capacity to capture greenhouse gas emissions from the atmosphere, helping us to fight climate change.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Green businesses, politicians, and environmental groups react to Court of Appeal's momentous ruling against a third Heathrow runway on climate change grounds. Heathrow has taken a lead in getting the UK aviation sector to commit to a plan to get to Net Zero emissions by 2050, in line with the Paris Accord.

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Clean Energy Trust

DECEMBER 6, 2021

So, it is not the major climate legislation that is in the potential reconciliation bill, but a sizable set of investments in its own right. The COP 26 climate conference took place! Paraphrasing, there was an insufficient amount of government action and commitment to address climate change, but things are happening.

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Business Green

MARCH 23, 2021

Proposals to cut taxes on domestic flights within the UK while potentially increasing the duty paid on long-haul international aviation have been unveiled by the government today, in a move it claimed would help better support the UK's climate and environmental commitments. Domestic aviation accounted for 1.4

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Business Green

JUNE 29, 2022

It makes you wonder if what is missing from the UK government's deeply flawed and badly underpowered pursuit of both its climate goals and levelling up agenda, is someone willing to take yesterday's 600 page tome from the Climate Change Committee (CCC) , drop it on a table with a satisfying thud, and declare "this is what we believe".

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Climate Tech VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Meanwhile, Michigan approves a bundle of clean energy bills, the UN irons out details for the "loss and damages" fund ahead of COP, and Flexport launches a book and claim model for SAFs.  Tech-enabled credits continue to constitute a big chunk of an anticipated $1T voluntary carbon market , and Oxy is on a development frenzy.

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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. This landmark ruling is a huge victory for climate justice and government transparency. 14 of the CCA 2008.".

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

The plan promised to deploy a combination of policy interventions and funding to accelerate the UK development of offshore wind, green hydrogen, nuclear power, electric vehicles, public and active transport, green aviation and shipping, energy efficiency, carbon capture and storage, natural carbon sinks, and clean tech innovation and green finance.

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Clean Energy Trust

JANUARY 28, 2022

Credit: Stripe eadership from corporations to be committed first customers for products that can decarbonize the economy Several announcements around COP 26 highlighted corporates who had made commitments to be early customers for new technology solutions, in order to help create market pull?—?this

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Coalition of green groups argue UK should set global precedent by including emissions generated by international travel in next carbon budget.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Here, BusinessGreen rounds up some of the reaction from across the green econmy: Labour's Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves said: "[The Chancellor] is failing to tackle another huge issue of the day - adapting to climate change. Adapting to climate change presents opportunities - more Jobs, lower bills and cleaner air.

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Business Green

JUNE 24, 2021

Government's climate agenda marred by uncertainty and delay which risks undermining COP26 and net zero transition, Climate Change Committee warns.

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Business Green

JUNE 24, 2021

In what is a crucial year for climate action in 2021, there CCC has today given the government much food - but little time - for thought - here are its top takeaways. Aviation emissions were down a whopping 60 per cent in 2020, shipping emissions down 24 per cent, and road transport emissions fell 18 per cent.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The climate crisis may have stayed near the top of the political and corporate agenda, net zero commitments have come thick and fast, and renewable and electric vehicle investment may have toppled records, but there is barely a country on the planet on track to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement. Lord Turner tells BusinessGreen. "In

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

The IMO's headline climate targets, introduced in 2018, fall far short of delivering the emissions reductions required to achieve global climate goals. 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.

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Business Green

JANUARY 19, 2021

As Professor Rebecca Willis, a leading opponent of the mine, observed on Twitter this afternoon: "the untold story of this mine is the absolute failure of govt (both central and local) to help the local area and community develop a vibrant, zero carbon economic strategy". Where we are now there's still a way to go," he told MPs. "But

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Truss hardly mentioned carbon capture and storage (CCS) on the campaign trail, but she will be under near immediate pressure to deliver coherent plans for how the UK's pipeline of hydrogen and CCS projects can be delivered.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 25, 2021

Ambitious partnerships on climate action are taking root and bearing fruit Dominic Waughray Mon, 01/25/2021 – 00:30 Buried beneath the dour daily headlines on COVID-19 infections, lockdowns and travel bans, the latest science about our planet released during 2020 makes for tough reading. This is getting uncomfortably close to the 1.5

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Thousands of the world's leading climate scientists, after over three years of work, today delivered yet another landmark report on the state of the climate and ecological emergency the world now faces. Today's IPCC report is an atlas of human suffering and a damning indictment of failed climate leadership.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 3, 2020

The Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, said: "We have proven we can reduce our emissions and create hundreds of thousands of jobs in the process - uniting businesses, academics, NGOs and local communities in a common goal to go further and faster to tackle climate change. This is important progress but not sufficient.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 21, 2021

We need to protect our marine habitats and in return many will also help protect us from climate change by sequestering and storing carbon.”?. carbon back?into into the water column as the global aviation industry sends into the atmosphere annually, and that UK waters are the 4th largest global carbon emitter from 3.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 8, 2022

I've been writing about the UK climate policy landscape for 15 years and I genuinely can't recall a reaction like it. Perhaps angriest of all was the Climate Change Committee, which pulled no punches in its assessment of a "very bad decision - supporting a technology of the past, with a very poor prospectus for new UK jobs".

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Business Green

MAY 12, 2020

Committee on Climate Change CEO discusses infrastructure, airline bailouts, COP26 and making the best of a bad situation. Climate change and our collective response has once again - albeit understandably this time - found itself playing second fiddle to a more immediate crisis, the full ramifications of which remain far from clear.

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Business Green

JUNE 29, 2023

The CCC's annual report is scathing on the lack of policy progress over the past year - the UK cannot afford another 12 months of inaction No aspect of the Climate Change Committee's (CCC) absolutely damning assessment of the UK's decarbonisation efforts over the past year is as dispiriting as the government's response to it.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

The "mood music" in the room where it happens is said to be considerably more upbeat than is typical for the closing days of a COP Summit. More ambitious proposals on climate finance would quickly unlock progress on multiple other fronts - finance is the "solvent", as the Prime Minister declared yesterday afternoon.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 2, 2021

Over the past few years, the term "climate risk" has risen to the fore , taking up residency inside the world's biggest banks and investors. Today, it is part of many companies’ toolkit as they seek to understand the impacts of climate change on their business and society. That’s huge, in and of itself. The implications?

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Business Green

JUNE 4, 2021

Over the past few years, the term "climate risk" has risen to the fore , taking up residency inside the world's biggest banks and investors. Today, it is part of many companies' toolkit as they seek to understand the impacts of climate change on their business and society. created by a range of hazards. The implications?

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Business Green

OCTOBER 29, 2021

At the same time, negotiating teams will be wrangling with outstanding technical issues in the Paris Agreement rule book around carbon markets, transparency, common timeframes, loss and damage, and climate finance. trajectory. The UK has got some domestic objectives, but we need joint action to tackle emissions from this sector.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 2, 2021

Shell and the new era of climate risk Joel Makower Wed, 06/02/2021 – 02:11 Over the past few years, the term “climate risk” has risen to the fore , taking up residency inside the world’s biggest banks and investors. That’s huge, in and of itself. Flashing red lights The implications?

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EDF + Business

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Interest in carbon markets is currently booming and with increased activity comes increased attention and, of course, familiar criticism. A high-integrity carbon market can help companies and countries increase their ambition on the pathway to net zero by mid century. Kelley Kizzier, VP, Global Climate, EDF. While the U.S.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Climate change then becomes the economy's way of overcompensating for its rampant insecurity. Clean technologies are changing the energy and automotive industries beyond recognition; the global innovation pipeline suggests aviation, buildings, shipping, steel, and agricultural industries will soon follow their lead.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 20, 2021

The hope is that such strategies, combined with real world efforts to phase out coal power and internal combustion engine cars, ramp up climate finance for developing nations, and expand natural carbon sinks, would curb emissions sufficiently so that updated targets submitted in another five years' time bring the 1.5C

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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2020

Given this is an evolving situation we are keeping the situation under careful review and are in frequent contact with the UN, Chile (as current COP president) and other partners.". This is the reason I am telling them that we can use the current situation to step up our ambition to tackle climate change.".

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Business Green

APRIL 28, 2020

The UK government has today called for Covid-19 recovery plans to bolster the fight against climate change, with Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab telling global leaders at a major climate summit that it is "duty of every responsible government" to reboot economies along climate-resilient lines.

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