Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

A slew of initiatives designed to accelerate the electric vehicle (EVs) transition in emerging and developing markets has been launched this morning by the UK, as fresh figures have highlighted the transition away from polluting cars and trucks is occurring at drastically different rates around the world.

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Business Green

JUNE 12, 2020

The French government has confirmed a plan to pump €15bn into the European aerospace industry in a bid to save thousands of jobs and establish France as a hub for low carbon aviation technology. The packaged includes a mix of direct government investment, subsidies, loans, and loan guarantees.

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Business Green

MARCH 4, 2021

Package delivery giant and airline operator FedEx has announced it plans to achieve 'carbon neutrality' across its operations within the next 20 years through investments in electrification, sustainable fuels, energy efficiency, and carbon capture systems. FedEx CEO and chairman Frederick W.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The European Commission has adopted two final pillars under its Fit for 55 legislative package, setting in place legally binding climate targets across sectors and prioritising the shift away from polluting vehicles as soon as possible. The pillars include a revised Renewable Energy Directive and the REFuelEU Aviation Regulation.

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Business Green

JANUARY 6, 2023

Elon Musk's electric vehicle giant first confirmed its plans to build the factory in October 2022, stating that it would be used to package and ship battery-grade lithium hydroxide for its 4680 Tesla battery cells.

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Business Green

MAY 14, 2020

Prime Minister says commitment to net zero transition is 'undiminished' and tells MPs the aviation sector should look to curb CO2 emissions once flights resume, as pressure mounts on EU for green stimulus package. Aviation like every other sector must keep its carbon lower.".

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Embedded in the price you pay for goods are things such as vehicle maintenance, insurance, driver labor, warehouse labor, packaging labor, fuel energy, transport tolls, packaging disposal and, of course, profit margin. Profit is the whole reason a business exists in the first place.

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Business Green

MARCH 30, 2023

In addition, Ministers today launched the £381m Local Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (LEVI) fund alongside an additional £15m for the On-Street Residential Charging Scheme (ORCS). "As The wheels for the EV revolution are firmly in motion," said Fiona Howarth, CEO of Octopus Electric Vehicles.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

French government puts climate action at heart of €100bn stimulus package, as Germany successfully delivers first sovereign green bond. For example, a major rail upgrade and electric vehicle charging infrastructure programme is planned, while €6bn is earmarked to upgrade the efficiency of homes and public buildings.

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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

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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GreenBiz

APRIL 15, 2021

"Giving plastic trash new life" is what Wang and Yao are working to do with Novoloop, which transforms packaging waste into high-performance materials used in shoes, cars, homes and more. 43 — Aviation. ZeroAvia is bringing hydrogen-electric power to aviation to enable zero-emission air travel at scale.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The overall package is seen as the most significant legislative effort ever proposed to address climate change. Electric vehicles. An electric vehicle charging station (Flickr/Pat Gerber). Beginning in 2027, the credit will only apply to vehicles with final assembly in the U.S. Follow @EngelsAngle.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Electric vehicles get turbo-charged. The new plan sets an earlier 2030 target for the phase-out of sales of new internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles, up from a previous target of 2040. “Jet Zero” efforts to cut aviation sector emissions, as well as greener maritime emissions.

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Business Green

JUNE 28, 2020

The UK's post-crisis economic recovery package presents a major opportunity to accelerate investment on climate adaptation and cutting emissions to net zero," Jones and Dunne wrote. The EAC's inquiry will monitor the government's economic recovery packages and identify opportunities that can improve environmental safeguarding.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

More broadly, the Roadmap urges the government to accelerate efforts to develop and scale up renewables, electric vehicle charging infrastructure, green retrofits for buildings, hydrogen infrastructure, sustainable aviation fuels, and carbon capture, storage and utilisation (CCUS) technologies.

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EDF + Business

JULY 6, 2021

More specifically, that means supporting incentives and investments to accelerate the transition to clean energy and electric vehicles. Clean Transportation: Tax credits for zero-emission vehicle procurement and manufacturing. Investments in zero-emission vehicle manufacturing and charging infrastructure.

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Elemental Excelerator

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Elemental’s 12th cohort focuses on a range of societal challenges, including sustainable urbanization, building decarbonization, electric vehicle charging, last-mile logistics, recycling optimization and regenerative food production. of total GHG emissions, about as much as the entire aviation sector. Of the $12.5M

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 3, 2023

As part of the £41 million project package that will help our customers to adopt low carbon technologies, such as electric vehicles (EVs), heat pumps and solar panels, SSEN is also installing around 1,000 low voltage monitors at key points across our north and south distribution network areas. million ($3.2

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Elemental Excelerator

AUGUST 12, 2022

This is the largest climate funding package Congress has ever passed. airports can accommodate electrified aviation. This would have set clean electricity generation targets for all utilities in the U.S., Allison Wolff, CEO of Vibrant Planet. On the Fast Track, but Not All the Way There. CarbonCure ).

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Department for Transport revs up automotive transportation plans and unveils new EV charge point concept, as governments prepare wave of new initiatives to tackle auto, aviation, and shipping emissions. Similarly, new initiatives are to be launched to tackle aviation and shipping emissions.

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Business Green

APRIL 20, 2021

Crucially, the new target is expected to include emissions from international aviation and shipping, according to the FT, marking a major victory for the CCC and environmental campaign groups, which have long argued the UK's share of international aviation and shipping emissions should be included in national carbon accounts.

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EDF + Business

JANUARY 25, 2024

ICYMI – Treasury and the IRS released guidance for: 30C Alternative Fuel Vehicle Refueling Property Credit. SEC Climate-Related Financial Disclosure FERC Transmission Planning and Cost Allocation EPA New and Existing Power Plants ICYMI – Things We’re Tracking: Electric Truck Deployments by U.S. Check out EDF’s blog for more on 30C.

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Business Green

MAY 6, 2020

Backed by high and low carbon businesses alike, the Energy Transitions Commission has outlined seven key priorities for delivering credible, net zero-focused recovery packages. The support for green recovery packages has been vocal, wide-ranging, and not a little surprising.

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Business Green

MAY 29, 2020

Magnix and AeroTEC successfully complete first electric US test flight. The fledgling zero emission aviation sector took another step forward this week, with the successful completion of the first test flight undertake by an ell-electric Cessna light aircraft. Eco-bonus' Italian recovery package promises solar panel rebate.

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Business Green

MAY 5, 2020

The University of Oxford study, published today, assesses a host of potential Covid-19 recovery packages and concludes there is significant potential for a strong alignment between economic growth and accelerating the push towards net zero emissions if governments utilise the many green stimulus tools at their disposal.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

And Shapps acknowledged the UK needed to respond to the multi-billion dollar package of green subsidies launched by the US last year, indicating that a complaint to the World Trade Organisation had not been ruled out while also revealing that ministers are holding cross-government talks on how best to attract green investment to the UK.

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Business Green

MARCH 12, 2020

Headline green pledges included sizeable support for electric vehicles, carbon capture and storage, flood defences, and nature-based climate solutions, as well as green tax changes for the energy sector and red diesel fuel. How the government marries any aviation tax reform with the need to decarbonise remains a critical question.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The government confirmed a new package of 18 deals worth £9.7bn, which are set to ramp up investment in a host of clean infrastructure projects, including offshore wind, hydrogen development, carbon capture and storage (CCS), and green homes. "The

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Business Green

MARCH 29, 2023

The move was broadly welcomed by business groups, but critics were quick to note that the package contained little in the way of new funding commitments and deferred policy decisions in a number of key areas.

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Business Green

JUNE 14, 2020

Tanya Steele, chief executive at WWF, urged the government to deliver on Ministerial promises - made repeatedly over the past few weeks ­- that the imminent stimulus package will feature a raft of green measures. "We

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Business Green

JUNE 4, 2020

This is why leaders across hard-hit sectors, including aviation, shipping and rail giant Rolls-Royce, fashion retailer H&M and food, drink and hospitality company Diageo, are placing new plans for net zero emissions at the core of their Covid-19 recovery efforts. Prime example: Rolls-Royce. Some lawmakers are responding.

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Business Green

JUNE 30, 2020

The speech was inevitably overshadowed by the news Leicester has already been forced back into lockdown and undermined by the realisation the trailed £5bn package amounted to little more than a compendium of previously announced programmes that are an order of magnitude smaller than the template supposedly provided by FDR's New Deal.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

The support the transition the government announced £1.3bn to accelerate the rollout of electric vehicle charge points in homes, streets, and on motorways in England and a further £582m in extra grants to subsidise the cost of zero or ultra-low emission vehicles. Promoting greener modes of transport.

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Charged

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Desmond: It’s been ten years, and obviously we were a little bit crazy making a solar electric vehicle charging product ten years ago. There were only about four EVs (not just four models—I mean four vehicles) on the road at the time, but I was convinced that electrification of transportation would take place.

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Climate Tech VC

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

  In deals this week $145m for lithium extraction, $52m for methane emissions detection, and $40m for sustainable aviation fuel.   ⚡ Velocys , an Oxford, UK-based Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAFs) developer, raised $40m in Growth funding from Carbon Direct, GenZero, Kibo Ventures, and Lightrock.

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Business Green

AUGUST 13, 2020

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has repeatedly promised to "build back greener" from the pandemic, announcing £2bn of support for green homes , as well as funding for tree planting, cycling infrastructure , green aviation R&D, industrial decarbonisation projects, and Direct Air Capture CO2 mitigation technology development in recent weeks.

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