Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Also on the radar is the launch of AI software company Rhizome, a climate resilience planning platform for the power grid. The move was initially announced in a 2021 announcement of the company splitting into three public companies focused on energy, aviation and healthcare. ICYMI: AI software company raises $2.5m

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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 28, 2020

In a letter sent to Chancellor Rishi Sunak today, committee chairs Darren Jones and Philip Dunne argued that a net zero aligned economy recovery could establish the UK as a climate leader ahead of its presidency of the G7 and COP26 climate conference in 2021, while stimulating the economy, generating jobs, and improving public health and wellbeing.

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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 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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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 26, 2021

Sustainable aviation fuels. Change is also happening in the skies above. When summarising the Committee on Climate Change’s (CCC) 2020 progress report, Chairman Lord Deben stated that “The UK is facing its biggest economic shock for a generation. Meanwhile, the global crisis of climate change is accelerating.

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Business Green

JULY 24, 2020

A report published today by UK-based consultancy Vivid Economics warns many governments are neglecting to consider the broader sustainability and resilience impacts of company bailouts and stimulus packages offered to the agriculture, industry, transport, energy and manufacturing waste sectors.

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Business Green

JANUARY 27, 2021

New partnerships will aim to drive progress across seven carbon-intensive industries, including shipping, aviation, and steel. It is vital that businesses go net zero, as part of our fight against climate change," said Sharma. These sectoral breakthroughs will allow us to go further and faster in our race to zero emissions.".

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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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GreenBiz

JUNE 29, 2020

In a way, we are seeing this crisis as an illustration of how expensive the failure to build resiliency can ultimately prove. As we are learning, in climate change as in pandemics, the costs of a global crisis are bound to vastly exceed those of its prevention. The time is now to flatten the climate change curve.

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2023

Endorsed by governments over the weekend, the report's 'summary for policymakers' cover text is a critical resource for business leaders and investors looking to bolster near-term resilience and boost long-term profitability amidst an ever-worsening climate crisis. Delivering on the Paris Agreement's goal of 1.5C

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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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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

percent contribution to global human-induced emissions is a higher share than aviation. The Brazilian meat giant, which is under pressure for its outsized climate and environmental impacts, was recently ordered to retract net zero claims by a U.S. Karina Gonçalves David, an organic farmer from Brazil, at the UN climate talks in Dubai.

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Business Green

JUNE 29, 2022

This makes it a critical sector for the UK's net zero ambitions: if it reduces its own emissions enough, it can provide a way to offset emissions from other sectors that are difficult to decarbonise, like aviation or some types of heavy industry. Jo Furtado is senior climate change specialist at WWF.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Leaders have released a four-point “food and agriculture” agenda that calls for governments and industry to work together to find new solutions to climate change–driven food insecurity. percent contribution to global human-induced emissions is a higher share than aviation. Farming will be front and centre at this year’s COP.

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Business Green

APRIL 16, 2020

Instead, today's agenda is determined by the fact I have something significant to speak to you about in relation to Shell and its plans to respond to climate change. *. Being a world-class investment case means being financially robust and resilient. Well, when it comes to climate change, society's attitude is shifting fast.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Groups such as WWF have previously shown that acknowledging these "hidden emissions" shines a whole new light on the effectiveness of the UK's efforts to tackle climate change. We can't expect them to tackle the climate emergency if we won't ensure they earn a decent income.

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Business Green

JUNE 14, 2021

Prices on other carbon markets have also risen over the past year, although by smaller increments, demonstrating the significant resilience global ETS markets have demonstrated in the face of the economic disruption wrought by the pandemic, IETA said.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

As with the last summit, the risk continues to be that greenwashing leaves governments with “a vision that tinkers around the edges,”rather than a transformative one that creates food systems that are resilient and restore ecosystems,” as Shefali Sharma, director of the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP), warned at COP27.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Centreing climate resilience and adaptation. This crop diversity will allow us to address complex food systems challenges and protect production from climate change stressors.". It can also automate key processes. According to Moses, these two improvements make the farms more scalable, economical and sustainable.

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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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Elemental Excelerator

APRIL 21, 2022

For example: Dimensional Energy is engineering a sustainable aviation fuel called syngas using sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water. Lesson #5: Governments need climate tech startups just as much as startups need government. In order to accomplish that goal, climate startups and the public sector policy makers need each other.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 10, 2021

The government went one step further and in April, set the world’s most ambitious climate change target into law: to reduce emissions by 78% by 2035 compared to 1990 levels. … while a lot has changed, not much has changed. Crucially, Siemens on its own journey to net zero is regularly auditing its own portfolio.

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Clean Energy Trust

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Here’s a chart for what it means for the utilities sector from Accenture: While the bill is only indirectly related to climate and energy, there are still many relevant provisions. This includes about $50 billion for resilience, $7.5 This is one way in which this wave of climate tech is different from cleantech 1.0?

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Business Green

JUNE 28, 2022

All the top reaction from green businesses, politicians, experts and campaigners to the Climate Change Committee's first assessment of progress on the government's Net Zero Strategy. The Glasgow Climate Pact has focused the eyes of the world on bolstering action, including getting 190 countries to agree to phasing out coal.".

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Business Green

MARCH 7, 2022

And building on the outcomes of COP26, the upcoming Middle East and North America Climate Week will help regional stakeholders identify actionable climate change opportunities. How climate risk plays out on a local level. Expo 2020 focuses on creating sustainable links between food, agriculture, and livelihoods.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 6, 2021

Directors were found to have a wide range of experience in high carbon sectors, including in polluting energy, aviation, mining, manufacturing, and banks and investment companies known to support the fossil fuel industry. Regional variations. In the U.S. and Canada, 17 percent and 24 percent of directors respectively had such connections.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

"Not only do Boards of UK companies have a responsibility to report their impact on the environment and the risks of climate change to their business, but investors expect them to operate sustainably," he said in a statement, adding that similar responsibilities extend to those auditors who independently approve annual reports.

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Business Green

JUNE 4, 2020

Specifically, the plan promises €7bn for new hydrogen projects, €2bn for green auto innovations, €2.5bn for EV charging infrastructure, €2.5bn for public transport improvements, €1bn each for green aviation and shipping programmes, €2bn for green building upgrades, and €700m for improved forest management.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Indeed, a combination of biofuels and hydrogen will be important in the decarbonisation of maritime and aviation, another welcome point in the plan, and something I also see a focus for in my role as a member of the Jet Zero Council. This is a critical year for our planet, and for the UK companies seeking to deliver a sustainable future.

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Business Green

JUNE 28, 2022

The UK needs to pay closer attention to the emissions generated by goods imported from abroad if it wants to maintain its reputation as a climate leader, writes Green Alliance's Roz Bulleid. Politicians in this country often refer to the UK as a climate leader and, for many reasons, they're right.

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Business Green

MARCH 3, 2022

Ending our oil addiction is not just a moral imperative to address climate change, it is crucial to ending this war.". The coalition is also demanding that the country of origin for oil products be made clear at petrol stations to ensure consumers do not inadvertently fund the Putin regime and its war on Ukraine.

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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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Business Green

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Time and again the Net Zero Scrutiny Group and its allies in the press have argued in recent weeks that the government should somehow go slower in pursuit of net zero, ditch 'green policies', and generally re-think its approach to climate change. And that climate change is still one of the gravest threats humanity has ever faced.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 9, 2020

And even in hard-to-abate sectors such as heavy industry, agriculture, shipping and aviation, the report sees increasingly competitive low carbon solutions are emerging in the decade. Wise policy makers and investors will aim for the opportunities, jobs, and resilience that can be delivered only through a net-zero economy.

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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. We need a rapid re-set to bring policy and action in line with the risks we face.".

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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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