AGreenLiving

JANUARY 7, 2020

Despite myriad efforts, the aviation industry unlikely to succeed in reducing its emissions given the current hurdles. The rest is here: Why aviation needs to address its emissions problem now. In fact, the case is quite the opposite.

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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

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

He announced new policies to increase grants for heat pumps, ramp up spending on green research and skills, and tackle grid connection delays for clean energy projects. It is not wholly bad and most of the individual policy changes are defensible, up to a point. The first thing to note was that there was some good news in there.

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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

JUNE 29, 2022

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 The main thing stopping it happening at the pace and scale required is short termist, outdated, economic thinking, and a lack of political nerve.

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Business Green

JUNE 23, 2020

With supportive investment and policy signals H2-powered flight could emerge as a major player for short-medium journeys within 10-15 years, study estimates. Hydrogen propulsion has significant, so far underestimated potential to reduce the climate impact of aviation and contribute to decarbonisation objectives," the report states. "To

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 19, 2020

Some green groups welcome International Civil Aviation Organization’s decision to exclude ‘questionable’ carbon credits from the industry’s Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation. Continued here: UN aviation body ditches older carbon credits from offsetting scheme.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 10, 2024

Elections in the EU and the US have our industry waiting with bated breath to see the next guard of political agendas take the scene and usher in policy updates – all at a critical time as 2025 and 2030 deadlines for our planet approach. The timing of Wood Mackenzie’s analysis is apt.

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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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Business Green

MARCH 3, 2023

. - by James Murray ( @James_BG ) 'The net zero clock is ticking': Mission Zero Coalition launched to step up calls for UK green policy progress Chris Skidmore MP builds on Net Zero Review with new initiative aimed at rallying all UK political parties to place net zero at heart of next General Election. -

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 7, 2021

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. He also reiterated his concerns over COP26, claiming its hosting by Glasgow “will illustrate what political failure looks like”. “[T]he

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

“Jet Zero” efforts to cut aviation sector emissions, as well as greener maritime emissions. Plan welcomed, but stakeholders want more policy details soon. The direction of travel in the ten-point plan has been broadly welcomed but for many, policy details are now required. will meet its net-zero emissions ambitions.”

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

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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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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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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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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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Proposed Climate and Ecological Emergency Bill would see international aviation, shipping, and consumption fall within the UK's 2050 net zero target, while putting climate assemblies on a formal standing. The government is also unlikely to back the Bill in its current form given parts of the proposed legislation remain controversial.

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Grist

JANUARY 31, 2024

But support for specific policies is somewhat of a different story. Mark Kerrison / Getty Images When it comes to flying, many companies are working to develop sustainable aviation fuels and even electric aircraft — but these technologies aren’t yet commercially available.

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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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Business Green

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

In other areas, such as domestic heating, aviation, and agriculture we are effectively subsidising pollution. Defra has rightly proposed a fundamental shift in this subsidy system now we have left the European Union's Common Agricultural Policy. Figure 1: Effective carbon prices and emissions in the UK by sector.

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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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GreenTechMedia

JULY 27, 2020

’s aviation sector puffs out in an average year. is at something of a clean-energy policy crossroads. The government is mulling the addition of solar and onshore wind to the CFD program, having blocked them from the 2017 and 2019 rounds on largely political grounds. That’s more CO2 than the U.K.’s

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

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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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. It's a really significant issue,” he added.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

It may have taken five years, but the investment and policy signals lit by the Paris Agreement are now being noticed everywhere. Had then Transport Secretary Chris Grayling received better legal advice or displayed better political judgement we would be in a very different place.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

I think there’s an increasing recognition that policy measures and action targeted at production itself is going to be needed to get the kind of decline rates that we’re thinking about here,” said Steve Pye, one of the study’s authors, during a press call on Tuesday. degrees C before settling back down to 1.5

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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. When it comes to cutting emissions and rebuilding the economy after Covid, the prime minister really can have his cake and eat it," argued Chris Venables, head of politics at Green Alliance.

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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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Terra Infirma

JULY 15, 2019

Huhne’s political career soon after ended in ignominy over a speeding ticket, so I don’t know what happened as a direct result, but the Government has started measuring imported emissions , even if it wasn’t included in national targets. He told me it was a good point, and he’d consider it.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 3, 2024

Of the 64 total board members at Omnicom Group , WPP , Interpublic Group (IPG), Publicis Groupe , Dentsu and Havas , 32 have significant experience in carbon-heavy sectors such as fossil fuels, fossil fuel financing, plastics, utilities, and aviation. Twenty-two are still serving in roles at such companies.

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Business Green

APRIL 6, 2020

Key architect of the 2008 Climate Change Act returns to frontline politics, as Sir Keir Starmer unveils Labour's new front bench team. We must also return to climate change as the unavoidable long-term issue of our time, including with a recovery based on providing economic justice through a Green New Deal.".

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Business Green

JULY 13, 2021

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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Charged

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

The plan also includes a 2% e-fuels mandate for aviation, to be met by 2030. Jekaterina Boening, Senior Policy Manager at Transport & Environment , said, “The VDA is living in a fantasy world and has just been called out by its biggest member.

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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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Sustainability Consulting

MARCH 11, 2021

Aviation Plots a Sustainable Course Aviation is a hard to- abate sector, that isn’t easy to decarbonize through redesign or electrification. Regardless, pressure has been on aviation to join other sectors in dramatically cutting greenhouse gas emissions. In 2016, the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), a U.N.

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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. The climate crisis is worsening and the welcome focus on long term goals can not distract from the need to act right now. This is understandable.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 17, 2021

Robertsbridge works with companies across the globe to help them adapt to the shifting policy and regulatory frameworks that are resulting from the climate crisis. We have built a firm of advisers on a foundation of unique data modelling of the political economy, that can find new advantage for businesses.

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