Business Green

JUNE 29, 2022

It would be easy at this point to simply list the litany of policy failures and the paucity of political leadership documented by the CCC's almost satirically titled progress report. Of course, arguing all that is needed is 'political will' is something of a cop out.

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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

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Supporters of Heathrow expansion had argued increased aviation capacity would provide a major economic boost to the UK and that a third runway could operate within the UK's climate change obligations. That, in our view, is legally fatal to the [policy] in its present form. It is certainly far from the end of the matter, however.

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Clean Energy Trust

DECEMBER 6, 2021

The COP 26 climate conference took place! Corporate buying commitments are an area where a lot of opportunity exists in the absence of comprehensive climate policy. The First Movers Coalition is committing to buying volumes of climate friendly solutions in steel, trucking, shipping, and aviation. For example, $7.5

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

The UK must respond to the climate emergency with not just urgency but consistency in its net zero policies, argues WWF UK's Gareth Redmond-King. And then November will see Glasgow host the COP climate change summit, taking place five years on from the historic Paris Agreement.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Ministers are facing calls to include international aviation and shipping emissions in its national climate goals, as the government prepares to set out its plans for meeting climate targets in the mid-2030s in the coming months.

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Business Green

JULY 13, 2021

The leaked reports did not provide any indication of the provisions set out in the new plan to boost active travel and tackle emissions from the rail, aviation and maritime sectors. If we're going to put in the right investment for decarbonising transport, let's do it right and futureproof for the long-term.". per cent to 0.5

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Green business groups and campaigners welcome the government's renewed focus on the net zero transition, but warn plan lacks long-term policies and sufficient funding in key areas. More, ambitious policy may be needed to support jobs in sectors such as automotive and deliver a fair, green transition.

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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

JULY 19, 2022

The Net Zero Strategy (NZS) was released in autumn 2021, just ahead of the COP26 Climate Summit, and while it contained a raft of policies, targets, and plans designed to curb emissions commentators at the time highlighted how it failed to incorporate detailed modelling showing how much officials expected policies to reduce emissions.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Farming will be front and centre at this year’s COP. percent contribution to global human-induced emissions is a higher share than aviation. These companies are stepping up their game because the exposure they are facing is stepping up,” says Jennifer Jacquet, Professor of Environmental Science and Policy at the University of Miami. “It

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Business Green

JUNE 24, 2021

Every year since its inception the Climate Change Committee (CCC) offers its verdict on the UK's progress against its climate goals, providing an overview of the country's decarbonisation to date, its latest economic and emissions projections, and the state of the policy landscape. So the government is playing a pretty high stakes game here.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

There are (admittedly optimistic) reasons to think that if current plans are expanded and translated into near term policy measures the world could soon find itself on a 1.8C It is also worth noting that many of the NDCs do not capture the decarbonisation plans being pursued by corporates and other actors. trajectory. A visual guide.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

And in the run-up to COP26, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called on the UN bodies that regulate the aviation and shipping sectors to adopt "ambitious and credible targets that are truly consistent with the Paris Agreement", noting that current plans would track warming "way above 3C". If the recent COP kept 1.5

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Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2021

We have been discussing with the COP26 team over the last several months, because they've been looking at these figures, and attempting to say: 'What could you do at COP, in addition to country commitments, which could move the dial in the 2020s?'" This is where the ETC's six-pronged action plan comes in. "We

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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. Where does this rank in the halls of climate policy infamy? Michael Gove and Rishi Sunak are guilty of the worst climate policy decision of modern times. They deserve all the criticism heading their way.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The strategy referenced the decarbonisation of rail, but primarily focused on the role of electric vehicles and sustainable aviation fuels. Which is why HS1 Ltd, with support from Eurostar, hosted a landmark workshop at the World Climate Summit's official COP26 side event - The Investment COP. To achieve all of this, we need help.

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Business Green

JANUARY 19, 2021

To that end, the government yesterday unveiled a new 'Build Back Better' council made up of 30 business leaders covering a range of sectors, from energy and retail to hospitality, finance, and aviation with a view to helping shape the UK's coronavirus recovery plans. Where we are now there's still a way to go," he told MPs.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

But despite an interminable number of husting events and countless miles of column inches, the policy platform of the new administration remains remarkably opaque on a host of critical economic and environmental issues. Can the UK afford such a plan while also pushing through tax cuts?

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Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Just a week after the government finally unleashed its Net Zero Strategy , Heat and Buildings Strategy and the Treasury's Net Zero Review, replete with a flurry of fresh policy and investment, it was now the turn of the Chancellor, Rishi Sunak, to set out the government's spending plans for the next year and beyond.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 12, 2021

“We are calling on Scottish Ministers to take urgent action to ban bottom-towed fishing gear in all of Scotland’s Marine Protected Areas and reinstate the 3 nautical mile inshore trawl and dredge ban,” said Melissa Moore, head of UK policy at Oceana. “As Scotland needs to step up and protect its rich and diverse marine life.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

For all the evidence the Paris Agreement has catalysed an era-defining array of clean tech innovations and a remarkable shift in public opinion, there have been baseless arguments that the entire COP process is an exercise in futility. There are many different ways to gauge the success or otherwise of a COP.

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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

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Green business groups and campaigners welcome higher 2030 emissions reduction goal, but call for ambitious policy and funding to put the UK on a net zero pathway as soon as possible. We now need the policies in place to achieve this target, if we're going to lead and inspire the whole world to meet the ambition of the Paris Agreement.".

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Melissa Moore, Head of UK Policy at Oceana in Europe, said: “We need an immediate ban on trawling and dredging in all offshore Marine Protected Areas as well as the inshore zone. 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

JANUARY 30, 2023

Despite the marked increase in government ambitions, CO2 emissions have increased in every year since the Paris COP in 2015 (bar 2020)," it continues. Based on current trends and policies somewhere between 2.5C Progress on grid upgrades, energy efficiency, hydrogen, CCS, and green aviation, shipping, and industry remains far too slow.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Nick Molho, executive director of the Aldersgate Group, said: "Today's report from the IPCC makes it crystal clear that adapting to the impacts of climate change cannot be an afterthought and must be a priority across all areas of government policy.

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Business Green

MAY 12, 2020

Stark, too, is clear that state support for aviation and shipping should come with green strings attached. "I But there is clearly now an opportunity to ensure green aviation R&D efforts and negative emissions programmes scale up much sooner.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Helen Clarkson: I love a bit of COP. I'm not a financier, but it's clear that they have committed money and it hasn't gone where it needs to go, What is businesses role at the COP, and is it pulling its weight in Glasgow? That kind of interplay of 'don't be scared, make ambitious policies, we are here' is really important.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 2, 2021

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change — the folks who organize the annual COP events — defines “climate-related risks” as those: …created by a range of hazards. Policy & Politics. Today, it is part of many companies’ toolkit as they seek to understand the impacts of climate change on their business and society.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Ana Musat, head of policy at the Aldersgate Group, expressed hope that COP26 can rally players from around the world to work to transform sectors that had long resisted decarbonisation due to technological or cost barriers. Its stated aim is to collectively slash methane emissions across all sectors by 30 per cent between 2020 and 2030.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 2, 2021

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change — the folks who organize the annual COP events — defines “climate-related risks” as those: …created by a range of hazards. Today, it is part of many companies’ toolkit as they seek to understand the impacts of climate change on their business and society.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

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. Applying a climate lens improves every policy and instils greater optimism and better returns in every project.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 20, 2021

"We still have a huge gap," between the promises made by the almost 200 countries who signed up to the Paris Agreement and national targets and policies, explains Niklas Höhne, founding partner of the New Climate Institute in Germany. above pre-industrial times by 2100 based on existing policies. Pull together'.

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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.". In my view, this is not a reason to celebrate because emissions reduction should be the result of right energy policies.".

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Business Green

APRIL 28, 2020

It is not our intention to leave our national target level as it is - rather, we will aim for aspiring figures in the NDC, reflecting further ambitious emissions reduction efforts," he said, noting that a review of the country's "export policy" for coal-fired power plants would be undertaken this summer.

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CleanTechnica

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

The International Aviation Climate Ambition Coalition launched at the COP26 climate change summit in Glasgow.

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