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

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 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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DeSmogBlog

JULY 22, 2021

On July 14, the European Union (EU) announced a sweeping package of climate proposals that will help the continent cut greenhouse gas emissions by 55 percent by 2030, from a 1990 baseline. Our current fossil fuel economy has reached its limit,” European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said at a press conference. “We

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Business Green

MARCH 29, 2023

The new IPCC report shows more clearly than ever that we have to cut the excessive consumption of fossil fuels urgently," she said. The package is set to include a consultation to impose a new Sustainable Aviation Fuels mandate on airlines. Over 60 per cent of the oil used globally is for transport.

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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

MAY 27, 2020

The plan would see £904m invested in projects across Britain between 2021 and 2026 to prepare the gas grid for a switchover from using methane natural gas - a fossil fuel - to instead use zero carbon hydrogen and biomethane in support of the UK's 2050 net zero emissions target.

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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. The Green Deal will look to bolster the program and potentially include more sectors. "On

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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

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

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

JULY 6, 2021

The challenge for policymakers is to develop those alternatives fast, while supporting targeted use of biomass where it is most needed - in materials, aviation and for carbon removals - with a constant attention to ensuring supply of biomass is truly sustainable.".

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

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. These includes a floating solar park, short-term battery storage, "optimally-tuned turbines" and a green hydrogen storage facility, it said.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Hydrogen is increasingly seen as an important component of efforts to decarbonise the global energy system, providing a potential means of eradicating emissions from "difficult to decarbonise" sectors such as aviation, shipping, heating, and heavy industries such as cement manufacture.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Meanwhile, the huge clean tech buying signals from coalitions of large corporates focused on electric vehicles, green steel, renewables, green shipping, and sustainable aviation fuels, all point to how these markets could quickly reach tipping points that trigger the rapid adoption that obliterates fossil fuel demand.

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Business Green

AUGUST 13, 2020

One Nation Conservatives group of more than 100 MPs call for 2030 fossil fuel car ban, carbon tax and tree planting funding.

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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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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. “As million ($3.2 million ($3.2

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Business Green

MARCH 30, 2023

We need to end our reliance on imported fossil fuels as we transition to zero emission vehicles powered by homegrown green energy. However, Colin Walker, transport analyst at the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU), argued the government could have introduced a more ambitious package of measures.

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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. million to 5.3

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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. RES - SMARTStop.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 5, 2021

Lower carbon sources of fuel for aviation and shipping is critical to delivering on net zero targets for firms, argues WasteFuel CEO Trevor Neilson. The impacts of climbing onboard a plane for your annual summer holiday or tearing open the packaging on a shiny new iPhone, freshly shipped from China, are well known.

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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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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

OCTOBER 20, 2021

The various funding pledges look good on paper, but amount to a level of direct government investment that suggests the Prime Minister's promise of a post-Covid Rooseveltian stimulus package will go unfulfilled. The scandalous failure to plan for a collapse in fuel duty revenues continues.

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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.  And below we start the week off with a walk down memory lane of the year’s top CTVC headlines.

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Business Green

JUNE 25, 2020

Hopes will also be high that ministers and civil servants on Whitehall are now digesting the report's many recommendations ahead of the Treasury's hotly-anticipated economic stimulus package, which is expected to emerge early next month.

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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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Business Green

DECEMBER 3, 2020

But Lord Deben emphasised the NDC needed to be "more than just a number", as he urged the government to back up its new 2030 target with a wider set of climate commitments, including a net zero policy package and strategy with clear goals to decarbonise international aviation and shipping.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Fossil fuel companies, which have promoted hydrogen as a catch-all solution to climate change, rank among the top spenders and outnumber clients from every industry, including the renewable energy sector, the analysis shows. That is an extremely lucrative place for the fossil fuel industry to be,” she said. “If

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Farmers, retailers, and processors also drive greenhouse gas emissions by clearing trees, using fossil-fuel derived synthetic fertilisers and in packing transport, packaging and storage. percent contribution to global human-induced emissions is a higher share than aviation.

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Elemental Excelerator

APRIL 21, 2022

Companies also struggle with long approval and procurement windows and the need to compete with inefficient and outdated fossil fuel subsidies. For example: Dimensional Energy is engineering a sustainable aviation fuel called syngas using sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Annual Emissions Gap report from the UN Environment Programme warns that without ambitious green recovery packages the world remains on track for around 3C of warming. However, it remains unclear whether the world's largest economies will pursue credible green recovery packages that mobilise a significant uptick in clean tech deployment.

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Business Green

MAY 14, 2021

Unilever's net zero supply chain commitment, for example, will require weaning itself off fossil fuels as a source of ingredients for the formulations and packaging of its cleaning and laundry products. But getting to net zero in a supply chain will take more than nudges and new purchasing contracts. Bringing other buyers along.

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Climate Tech VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

   📦 RAIKU Packaging , a Tallinn, Estonia-based 100% compostable packaging solutions developer, raised $6M in Seed funding from private investors and Grant funding from the European Innovation Council.  The Notorious Hannah Ritchie finds that clean energy will require less mining than fossil fuels. 

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