Business Green

JULY 15, 2021

The plan is not perfect - there is nothing in it that couldn't have been announced several years ago and the approach to decarbonising aviation in particular is built on the wing and a prayer of techno-optimism. It is an energy policy, a trade policy, a nature policy, a buildings policy, a transport policy, and, above all, a growth policy.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Nigel Farage ’s Reform party received £135,000 this year from donors linked to climate science denial and fossil fuels, DeSmog can reveal. Reform UK , formerly the Brexit Party, is a vocal critic of climate action, and last year called for a referendum on the UK’s net zero policies. billion invested in fossil fuels.

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Business Green

JUNE 24, 2021

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.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Can the global aviation industry ever truly operate without fossil fuels and shift to zero emissions fuels and technologies? The discussion - which touches on the challenges, opportunities, investment and policies associated with green aviation - is available to watch again in full above.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 27, 2021

Reduce fossil fuel use. Fisheries should implement a strict policy requiring all netting, lines and other onboard waste to be collected and disposed of properly. At the same time, fisheries can also implement their own policies such as annual catch limits. Reduce Fossil Fuel Use. Use lead-free fishing gear.

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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

APRIL 19, 2021

Political and business leaders have certainly talked a good game in the wake of the coronavirus crisis. Three major new reports raise alarm that for all the talk of a green recovery on the national and international stage net zero transition plans remain badly underpowered.

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Business Green

JANUARY 5, 2023

From clean energy and nature investments to phasing down fossil fuels, We Mean Business Coalition's Maria Mendiluce offers her take on what corporate climate leadership should look like over the coming year. However, it was a missed opportunity to be bolder and propose to phase out all fossil fuels.

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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 current target for 2030 is a 40 percent emissions reduction, up from an original 27 percent.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Climate targets were under threat from all sides with climate science deniers, politicians and media platforms exploiting the war in Ukraine and ensuing energy crisis to demand an increase in fossil fuel extraction. North Sea Gas Profits Going Direct to the Kremlin. Anti-Net Zero’ MP Hires Aides Linked to Climate Denial Group.

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Charged

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

The market would allow competition among electricity, biofuels and hydrogen as green transport fuels. The plan also includes a 2% e-fuels mandate for aviation, to be met by 2030. The term e-fuel , or electrofuel , refers to hydrogen and other synthetic fuels such as butanol and biodiesel.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 25, 2021

The analysis apparently finds that: Just 12 industries – which include aviation, agriculture, steel, manufacturing and construction – make up 62% of all UK carbon emissions. These industries are likely to be politically harder to decarbonise too.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 6, 2021

The findings raise concerns over a systemic conflict of interest at a time when the international financial sector is under increasing pressure to stop funding fossil fuels. Banks are increasingly saying they will decarbonise by 2050, yet a large number continue to finance fossil fuels, the primary source of carbon emissions.

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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". That is not to say there is not good news here.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

The report released Friday underscores the role that transportation in emerging economies will play in future oil demand, and how quickly falling battery costs and increasingly aggressive decarbonization policies are accelerating the shift from fossil-fueled to electric vehicles. How likely is China’s electrification?

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Business Green

AUGUST 3, 2021

Late last week, Britain's biggest boiler manufacturers joined together to announce a promise to homeowners who make the switch to hydrogen-ready appliances that doing so will cost them no more than purchasing pure-fossil fuel gas equivalents.

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Business Green

JULY 23, 2021

There's a focus in climate policy circles on how to do the hard stuff. How to decarbonise aviation and shipping. How to maintain public and political support while all this is done. They need to throw everything possible at destroying fossil fuel demand. How to build zero carbon industrial clusters.

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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 The fossil fuel problem is being named. trajectory. How has Cop26 bent the curve on the climate crisis? A visual guide. Ashley_J_Kirk ? ? pablo_gutierrez

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Business Green

AUGUST 10, 2022

The febrile situation has also left a vacuum for net zero sceptics to fill with claims that green policies are to blame for the country's cost of living woes. So what we don't want to do is design policy that creates a backlash.". Opposition will form if the transition is not seen to be fair," he tells BusinessGreen. "And

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Grist

JANUARY 31, 2024

But support for specific policies is somewhat of a different story. “I think that these bans have turned out to be a very useful and salient rallying cry that the fossil fuel industry has been able to use to mobilize the public,” he said.

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Low Impact

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Over five weeks we’re publishing a range of Stay Grounded factsheets about various kinds of techno-greenwashing provided by the aviation industry. Alternative jet fuels or so-called “Sustainable Aviation Fuels” (SAF) are liquid hydrocarbon fuels that can be used with existing aircraft in place of kerosene produced from fossil fuels.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2022

And yet, so complete is their disconnect from the real world that these zombie arguments continue to stumble across the political landscape desperately looking for an issue, any issue, to attack. per cent gain, almost entirely as a result of higher fossil fuel prices. Soaring energy bills? Blame net zero. Net zero's fault.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Secondly, the report calls on policy makers to create the right policy and investment environment by removing fossil fuel subsidies and increasing carbon pricing to incentive decarbonisation in areas where the economics for clean technologies and solutions are less favourable.

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Business Green

MARCH 26, 2021

million new green jobs over the coming decade while adding a £330bn boost to the economy, but major policy challenges remain if the government is to engineer a smooth and fair transition for workers in high carbon industries. Setting the UK on a net zero pathway could create up to 1.7 The need to move to net zero is a must," she said.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2023

In the summer of 2022, faced with a very real opportunity to confront the fossil fuel industry, potentially forcing the facility to halt oil train shipments entirely, the city instead chose to strike a compromise that allows the oil facility to continue to operate. You’re in the driver’s seat. Out in 5 yrs.

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Business Green

JUNE 28, 2022

What's more, since that crucial UN summit seven months ago, geopolitical landscape has been transformed by the worsening cost of living crisis further exacerbated by Russia's invasion of Ukraine, which has sent energy costs soaring and given a renewed impetus to fossil fuel cheerleaders.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 20, 2021

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. The scandalous failure to plan for a collapse in fuel duty revenues continues.

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Business Green

JULY 27, 2021

Will well-intentioned critiques of demonstrably inadequate net zero strategies catalyse more ambitious decarbonisation plans or will they inadvertently undermine a trend that has helped successfully push climate issues up the corporate and political agenda? Putting net zero targets onto statute books has real legal and institutional value.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 9, 2020

The projections mark a significant shift from five years ago when there were was almost no green competition to fossil fuels at all, while even today there are only cost competitive solutions in the energy sector, covering a quarter of global emissions, according to the new findings.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Civil servants then dutifully run off to try and find anything on the statute book that is genuinely outdated or counter productive, only to return several months later having found next to nothing that can be cut without serious economic, environmental, and/or legal consequences, as well as likely political uproar.

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2023

The findings of his Review may do little to convince the net zero sceptics in his own party, but if they take the time to read it they might find themselves pleasantly surprised by how reasonable its 129 recommendations are - and how economically, politically, and socially rational to boot. G overnance.

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Business Green

APRIL 22, 2020

What does the coronavirus crisis mean for delivering net zero policy and a successful COP26? As such, it remains to be seen how many of the anticipated net zero policies and strategies will now be delayed and by how long. Now the top priority is saving thousands of lives and tackling the worst economic crash since the Second World War.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Businesses and investors were left bemused and frustrated at the lack of near-term action as gas prices spiked, Putin threatened a full shutdown of fossil fuel exports, and European governments rushed to deliver sweeping energy efficiency programmes.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

The new season of British politics returned with a bang this weekend, channelling the same chaotic energy that has made the last few years such compelling, dramatic, watch through your fingers, viewing. I've been saying for years that climate policy is trade policy, so let's focus on the issues, not the personalities," he wrote.

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Business Green

MARCH 10, 2021

In a major new report, launched today as the Treasury prepares to publish a number of consultations relating to tax policy later this month, the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) has set out its vision for how the government could align the tax system with its 2050 net zero ambition.

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Business Green

MAY 25, 2022

HVCs are responsible for up to two per cent of global emissions, equivalent to aviation, and double that associated with the aluminum industry. The alternative for the petrochemical sector, meanwhile, is likely to be one of stranded assets, falling demand, and mounting political and public pressure.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The climate crisis may have stayed near the top of the political and corporate agenda, net zero commitments have come thick and fast, and renewable and electric vehicle investment may have toppled records, but there is barely a country on the planet on track to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement.

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