Business Green

JULY 24, 2020

Governments worldwide are largely failing to heed calls from the United Nations, green groups, leading economists and energy experts to gear the estimated $11.8tr-worth of Covid-19 support packages unveiled in recent months towards supporting the environment and net zero transition, according to new analysis.

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Business Green

MAY 7, 2021

Elsewhere in France, the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution (ACPR) banking authority this week published the results of a stress test of the projected consequences of climate change for its finance system. First domestic route in Denmark to use sustainable aviation fuel.

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Elemental Excelerator

AUGUST 12, 2022

It’s not often that we have a chance to savor a history-making win on the climate change front. The $370B in climate provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act — the biggest climate bill ever passed — provides such a moment. This is the largest climate funding package Congress has ever passed.

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Clean Energy Canada

JULY 14, 2020

From the head of the International Energy Agency who said recently that “governments have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to reboot their economies… while accelerating the shift to a more resilient and cleaner energy future.” To House Democrats in the U.S. After the 2008 recession, the Obama-era U.S. Cost effectiveness of stimulus.

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Business Green

JUNE 4, 2020

But they understand that this is the time to rebuild a healthy economy that is more resilient to future shocks, be it from pandemics, floods, or wildfires. The aviation industry has been hit hard by the pandemic, with flights grounded. Businesses, investors and cities are leading this shift in spite of the recent losses.

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Business Green

JUNE 4, 2020

Raft of energy efficiency, green transport, and hydrogen programmes put at heart of €130bn stimulus package, as Bank of England confirms financial support for airlines. The German government has unveiled plans for a massive €130bn stimulus package that features at least €40bn climate-related spending.

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Business Green

MAY 5, 2020

Climate-friendly stimulus policies to reboot economies in the wake of the coronavirus crisis offer a far better mechanism for boosting jobs and growth, compared to unconditional bailouts for high carbon industries, a major new analysis by a group of leading economists has found.

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Business Green

JUNE 14, 2020

In a letter sent to Boris Johnson today, more than 50 UK charities warn that preventing the worst impacts of climate change is contingent on a green recovery to the coronavirus crisis. Steele estimated that a green recovery could support "at least 210,000 jobs" and generate £90bn a year for the UK economy.

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Elemental Excelerator

OCTOBER 17, 2023

This year, record heat and climate-fueled disasters have devastated our communities. Investors and innovators are taking note, and are pouring in to address climate change. of total GHG emissions, about as much as the entire aviation sector. The why: Palm oil is responsible for 1.4%

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Business Green

JUNE 25, 2020

The Committee on Climate Change has today set out its detailed green recovery recommendations – here is BusinessGreen's need-to-know guide. This wasn't quite the year that we ordered," noted Committee on Climate Change CEO, Chris Stark, yesterday. The big question now is whether the government will accept the need to act.

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Business Green

AUGUST 6, 2021

President Joe Biden yesterday unveiled a sweeping package of measures to accelerate the development of the US electric vehicle (EV) market, as he declared "the future of the auto industry is electric. Then we're going to talk about that support to the UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow.". There's no turning back".

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Business Green

MAY 19, 2020

The study, which was published this afternoon in the journal Nature Climate Change , calculates that daily emissions fell by 17 million tonnes of carbon dioxide during the peak of the confinement measures in early April when compared to mean daily levels seen in 2019.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Farmers, retailers, and processors also drive greenhouse gas emissions by clearing trees, using fossil-fuel derived synthetic fertilisers and in packing transport, packaging and storage. percent contribution to global human-induced emissions is a higher share than aviation. Meat isn’t the only industry under the spotlight.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

We are all well aware the ongoing need for extra caution, cooperation and resilience in the face of this global crisis. But it's vital we don't lose sight of long-term climate and energy challenges and the vital sustainability targets that must solve them. There is still a long way to go, but progress so far has been steady.

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Business Green

AUGUST 13, 2020

Writing in the foreword to the paper, Jerome Mayhew MP said the government had an "opportunity to reboot our economy and create jobs, by accelerating the rollout of clean and resilient infrastructure and stimulating low carbon industries across the UK". "As

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R-Squared Energy

AUGUST 18, 2022

The bill has been championed as a “climate change bill”, but it also allocates hundreds of billions of dollars over the next decade to several programs designed to reduce inflation. 5 billion in grants to support fire resilient forests, forest conservation, and urban tree planting.

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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

MARCH 12, 2020

Aviation tax reform - the Budget confirms plans, first trailed in the wake of troubles surrounding airline Flybe, to undertake a review of Air Passenger Duty (APD) and consult on aviation tax reform in spring 2020. How the government marries any aviation tax reform with the need to decarbonise remains a critical question.

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Elemental Excelerator

APRIL 21, 2022

For example: Dimensional Energy is engineering a sustainable aviation fuel called syngas using sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water. Lesson #3: Government funding can be catalytic for climate tech companies. Lesson #5: Governments need climate tech startups just as much as startups need government.

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Business Green

JUNE 24, 2021

BusinessGreen rounds up all the reaction to the CCC's climate assessment from green businesses, think tanks, politicians and NGOs. Ed Miliband MP, Labour's Shadow Business Secretary : "This report lays bare for all to see the yawning chasm between government climate rhetoric and the greenwashing reality.

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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. We need to look at the plan.

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Business Green

JULY 9, 2020

The trailed £3bn energy efficiency package was hugely welcome, even if questions remain over precisely how it will be administered and what will happen when the single year Budget is exhausted. But then once again the accompanying policy measures singularly failed to match the rhetoric.

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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2020

Currently, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change has postponed all meetings scheduled before the end of April as a result of the pandemic, but the key pre-COP "intersessional" meeting in June in Bonn is currently scheduled to proceed, albeit with the UN monitoring developments closely.

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Business Green

MAY 18, 2020

But several major new reports in recent days have stressed that longer-term policy stability, incentive programmes, and reforms crafted and enacted by the UK government over the coming weeks and months could prove just as important - if not more important - to the country reaching its 2050 climate goal that the much-debated stimulus packages.

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Climate Tech VC

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

In either case, this wasn’t on our bingo card… In the news, the British government passed new reforms to speed up interconnection, Colombia launched a $1B biodiversity fund, the US released $6B in funding for climate resiliency, and the US and China made modest progress on methane reduction at APEC. 

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Business Green

JUNE 23, 2021

BusinessGreen rounds up all the reaction to the CCC's climate assessment from green businesses, think tanks, politicians and NGOs. Ed Miliband MP, Labour's Shadow Business Secretary : "This report lays bare for all to see the yawning chasm between government climate rhetoric and the greenwashing reality.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Guterres was uncompromising in his warning that "we are still not going in the right direction" and rightly branded the move by G20 nations to spend more that 50 per cent of their covid stimulus packages on polluting business as usual projects as "unacceptable". degrees, and protect people and nature from the effects of climate change?

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 30, 2020

Climate change is the most significant global threat we face today. Momentum is building as businesses and governments transform their organizations to be more efficient and resilient. Attendees are invited to bring their own challenges, questions and ideas to these free-form conversations.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

What's in the energy support package, and who is going to pay for it? A sweeping support package has been promised, potentially worth up to £100bn, but what will be in it and why were these proposals such a closely guarded secret throughout the leadership campaign?

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Business Green

AUGUST 8, 2022

But overall the Senate's Climate Hawks have mounted a genuinely successful rear-guard action in defence of the Bill and protected many of its core emissions-reducing elements. As President Biden observed, the IRA "makes the largest investment ever in combatting the existential crisis of climate change". per gallon. per gallon.

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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

In an overview of country climate pledges for 2030 submitted as part of their NDCs, the UN last month warned that global emissions are currently on track to rise 16 per cent by 2030, from 2010 levels. For Mabey, Glasgow is the most crucial UN meeting on climate change since Paris. Global carbon emissions fell by a record 5.8

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Mr. Sustainability

JUNE 27, 2020

Aligning economic stimulus and policy packages with climate goals is crucial for a long-term viable and healthy economy. Aviation soon became a business. Nations saw rapid industrial and economic growth, accelerated consumer demand, and introduced significantly new changes in lifestyle and culture.

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Business Green

APRIL 28, 2020

Obama's quiet flexing of diplomatic muscles coupled with China's desire to avert a trade-damaging new Cold War had delivered a nuclear deal in Iran, the world's first universal climate change pact, and a broadly effective containment of the world's increasingly isolated authoritarian strongmen. How are businesses supporting SDG 17?

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Business Green

MARCH 30, 2023

Sam Hall, director of the Conservative Environment Network, said: "Today's announcements reinforce the environmental, economic, and political imperatives for this Conservative government to lead the way on tackling climate change. Our attention should instead be on the opportunities squandered by the Government today.

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Business Green

MARCH 15, 2023

But players across the green economy were quick to point out the government's package of policies and tax changes was notably bereft of focus on three other critical 'E's that are planks of a prosperous economy: environment, energy, and efficiency. billion every year. "It

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