Business Green

JUNE 23, 2020

The UK should direct policy and investment towards synthetic, low carbon jet fuels as part of its green recovery package, argues author and energy expert Chris Goodall. To maintain a safe climate for human habitation, scientists say the world must abandon the use of fossil fuels by 2050 or before.

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Business Green

AUGUST 31, 2021

warming scenario is on track to be exhausted by the end of this decade after pandemic recovery packages largely failed to put the world on a more sustainable development pathway. Many of the pandemic recovery packages have largely focused on protecting, rather than transforming, existing industries," he said. "A

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Business Green

JULY 22, 2020

As MEPs enter talks over EU Council's €1.8tr recovery package and budget deal, many key green questions remain. Of the overall €1.8tr package encompassing the recovery funding and the 2021-27 budget, EU leaders agreed that 30 per cent should be earmarked for the bloc's climate objectives and transition to net zero.

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Business Green

JULY 15, 2021

The EU's new 'Fit for 55' decarbonisation package is far from perfect, but it is still an historic step forward for global climate action. Bigger still is the EU's Fit for 55 policy package , which it is no exaggeration to describe as a blueprint for decarbonising a continent. This is a big deal. MindTheGap between words and action.

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Business Green

AUGUST 31, 2021

warming scenario is on track to be exhausted by the end of this decade after pandemic recovery packages largely failed to put the world on a more sustainable development pathway. Many of the pandemic recovery packages have largely focused on protecting, rather than transforming, existing industries," he said. "A

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Green jet fuels company Velocys has raised £25m from institutional investors in a "significantly oversubscribed" founding round, the company announced yesterday. Following the successful fund raise, the company said it was on track to deliver positive cash flow by 2024.

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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 6, 2021

The good news is that clean electrification and hydrogen often provide a cheaper solution. It also argues that in order to curb demand for biomass, clean power, hydrogen, and smart grid infrastructure must be rapidly scaled up worldwide. But the ETC's report warns that not all forms of biomass are environmentally or climate friendly.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 11, 2019

New European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen unveiled Europe's Green Deal on Wednesday, a package of 50 far-reaching policy ideas that are still missing many key details, calling it a "man on the moon moment" for Europe. A dedicated offshore wind plan, also to come in 2020.

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Business Green

MARCH 31, 2023

Yesterday's 'Green Day' package offered the good, the bad, and the ugly of the UK's climate policy programme It was way back in 2010 that the outgoing Labour Treasury Minister Liam Byrne wrote his infamous letter declaring that "I'm afraid there is no money". There was no new thinking on how to cope with dwindling fuel duty receipts.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

These includes a floating solar park, short-term battery storage, "optimally-tuned turbines" and a green hydrogen storage facility, it said. The move comes less than two months after Amazon powered past Google to become the world's largest corporate buyer of renewable power, after securing a huge 3.4GW package of PPAs last December.

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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

OCTOBER 20, 2021

The crucial proposals to revive the UK's nuclear pipeline, tackle industrial emissions, and build a hydrogen industry are still light on details. There is not enough new thinking on how to tackle the worsening net zero skills shortage or elegantly extricate the UK from its reliance on fossil fuels and enable a just transition.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 29, 2023

The number of companies and organizations lobbying the federal government on issues related to hydrogen increased nearly tenfold since President Joe Biden took office — from about two dozen at the end of 2020 to more than 200 this year, according to an OpenSecrets analysis of lobbying disclosures.

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Business Green

JULY 8, 2021

Green Packaging Project of the Year. Greener Packaging. Riverford Organic Farmers - Box Zero and Packaging Pledge. Seedlip - Mushroom Packaging. Switch Packaging Specialists. ZeroAvia - Hydrogen-Electric Powertrain for Aviation. PensionBee - Fossil Fuel Free Plan Campaign.

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Business Green

MARCH 30, 2023

However, today's announcements, while including a host of measures impacting renewables, nuclear, carbon capture, hydrogen, and energy efficiency, extend far beyond energy, stretching into green finance, electric vehicles, carbon border adjustment mechanisms, and nature markets.

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Business Green

APRIL 19, 2021

The rhetoric has been hugely welcome and has contrasted positively with the months and years following the financial crash of 2008, during which proposals for green stimulus packages struggled to secure meaningful traction and a wave of new fossil fuel investment locked in another decade of rising global emissions.

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 18, 2023

In news this week, COP28 wraps up with a landmark agreement on transitioning away from fossil fuels, DOE announces a new office focused on AI, and over 2M Teslas were recalled.  for grid enhancements and $7B for hydrogen fuel hubs. 🏦 The Loans Program Office kept busy.

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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

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

But at the same time the sector accounts for around four per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions and its emissions trajectory is aligned with a catastrophic 4C of global warming by 2100 unless radical action is taken to wean it off its fossil fuel dependence and shift towards more sustainable, circular business models, the report warns.

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Grist

MAY 18, 2021

The friends, all engineers by training, had designed a machine that could turn agricultural waste, like almond shells, into renewable hydrogen fuel. They’d even found a partner, the owner of a fueling station for hydrogen-powered cars, who wanted them to build a pilot plant at his facility.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 3, 2020

It would more than likely mean large numbers of gas boilers would have to be removed from homes and replaced by hydrogen-ready boilers, heat pumps or district heating over the next decade, while steel, cement, and other manufacturing industries would face huge pressure to switch to greener fuel sources.

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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? Whither energy efficiency and energy saving?

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 28, 2020

GreenBiz readers got excited about climate change solutions that ranged from the new, from the emerging potential of hydrogen as an energy source to changes in plastics manufacturing, to the ancient, such as planting trees. In the $500 billion-per-year cosmetics space, small-scale packaging leads to large-scale single-use plastic waste.

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Mr. Sustainability

APRIL 18, 2021

Summary - Over 20% of all Dutch emissions are coming from the Port of Rotterdam, of which the production of grey hydrogen from fossil feedstock is one of the main culprits. This article explores what is needed to build such a green hydrogen refinery. Waterstof - Hydrogen in Rotterdam. Download Hydrogen Cost Tool.

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Mr. Sustainability

APRIL 18, 2021

Summary - Over 20% of all Dutch emissions are coming from the Port of Rotterdam, of which the production of grey hydrogen from fossil feedstock is one of the main culprits. This explores what is needed to build a green hydrogen refinery. About 400,000 metric tonnes of grey hydrogen is used each year in Rotterdam.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Ahead of the Prime Minister's promised new green recovery package, a new report from the business advocacy group outlines a raft of near-term policy interventions that could put the UK on track to reaching net zero emissions. The gap between the government's net zero rhetoric and its policy agenda remains.

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Business Green

JULY 13, 2022

As Chancellor Sunak was blamed for blocking proposals to ramp up spending on energy efficiency programmes, failing to do enough to fast track renewables and clean infrastructure deployment, diluting proposals for a green post-Covid stimulus package, cutting aviation taxes, and rarely, if ever, making the case for the net zero transition.

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Business Green

MARCH 29, 2023

The UK version is likely to initially target energy-intensive products such as iron and steel, cement, aluminium and fertilisers, as well as hydrogen. The Financial Times reported that the package is likely to feature dozens of new announcements and consultations running to almost 1,000 pages.

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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.

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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. Boosting shared solar installations through the 10-year extension of the 30% Investment Tax Credit, which is now technology neutral and covers energy storage, clean hydrogen, and more. CarbonCure ). Nth Cycle ).

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Business Green

MARCH 30, 2023

When UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres calls for a ‘quantum leap in ambition' to tackle the ever-worsening climate emergency, we needed a bold and visionary package to meet the scale of the climate emergency we face - yet the Government barely moves an inch.

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Business Green

JUNE 29, 2023

"With a new department dedicated to delivering net zero and energy security, we are driving economic growth, creating jobs, bringing down energy bills, and reducing our dependence on imported fossil fuels." The hugely detailed and widely shared criticisms of the government's underpowered climate policies are simply ignored.

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2022

Delivering on global climate goals will involve deep reductions in fossil fuel use, driven by the widespread electrification of industries and an electricity system powered overwhelmingly by low carbon or zero carbon power by 2030, the report notes. is now lower than it was in 2018. Energy system transformation. Stranded assets.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The Green Deal fiasco and Boris Johnson's repeated failure to deliver on his promise of a 'Rooseveltian' green stimulus package represented huge-missed opportunities. Moreover, they are rapidly accelerating the roll out of low and zero emission production processes based on renewable power or hydrogen. And now this. The list is short.

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Business Green

JANUARY 23, 2023

However, with the government languishing in the polls, the economy once again teetering on the brink of recession, and Ministers having singularly failed to deliver the 'Rooseveltian' post-Covid green recovery package that Boris Johnson once promised, the UK's recent green economic performance is being subjected to a damning reappraisal.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

For example, it will be virtually impossible to remove all CO2 emissions from vital industries such as aviation or agriculture. BECCS replaces the fossil fuels used in processes such as power generation with biomass grown in sustainable forests. How Drax is helping. Beyond BECCS.

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