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This is the future climate hawks want to see

Business Green

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. The main thing stopping it happening at the pace and scale required is short termist, outdated, economic thinking, and a lack of political nerve.

Politics 101
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'Repeated failures': Climate advisors slam UK's net zero policy 'vacuum'

Business Green

The government is failing to back up its climate commitments with credible action, with almost all its green policy efforts marred by uncertainty, delay, and a insufficient engagement with the public about the scale of changes ahead, and time rapidly running out for Ministers to get the UK's net zero agenda on track.

Policy 58
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Election of Union Leader Who Called for COP26 to be Ditched ‘Not Ideal’, Say Campaigners

DeSmogBlog

GMB is the third largest union in the UK, with some 620,000 members covering work across a range of industry sectors, including oil and gas, aviation and manufacturing, as well as the public sector. The best thing government could do for Glasgow is to ditch hosting the COP and instead invest the money in dealing with the state of the city.”.

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Heathrow expansion decision ruled illegal: The green economy reacts

Business Green

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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Heathrow expansion ruled illegal: The green economy reacts

Business Green

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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Government revs up Transport Decarbonisation Plan with proposed diesel truck ban, but will it go far enough?

Business Green

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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December 2021 Cleantech Roundup: Year in Review

Clean Energy Trust

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