Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2023

I am grateful to Chris Skidmore - the man who signed our climate commitments into law - for his detailed report today, which offers a range of ideas and innovations for us to consider as we work to grasp the opportunities from green growth.". Falling costs of solar, storage, heat pumps and electric vehicles are all outpacing predictions.

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Business Green

JUNE 29, 2023

Highly Commended: Anthesis & Microsoft - Stretch Wrap Alternative Project Highly Commended: Meryl Fabrics - 100% Recyclable Fabrics Green Building Project of the Year Grosvenor - Holbein Gardens The judges were impressed by Grosvenor's latest office redevelopment project, which promises to slash embodied carbon while delivering an all-electric (..)

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

In 2014, the electrical engineer and MBA became the first woman to lead a U.S. As electric vehicles drive toward the mainstream, General Motors has come full circle as well. It mass-produced the first electric car in the 1990s, then literally crushed most of them in 2003. One in five is Black.

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Business Green

MAY 10, 2021

Pollsters and political leaders may be fixated on the post-Brexit political realignment that has seen the 'red wall' turn blue while opposition parties start to nibble at the 'blue doughnut' in the south and suburbs, but are we also starting to see evidence of a green realignment that could yet inform the pace and shape of the net zero transition?

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Politics Government Policy Climate change 79

Business Green

AUGUST 17, 2022

Meanwhile, green groups also voiced concerns over both candidates' apparent desire to cut back on remaining legislation originally derived from the EU, which the RSPB today warned could lead to a backsliding on protections for biodiversity and habitats. That's the future of the UK," the PM said.

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Policy Climate change Energy Energy 69

Business Green

JANUARY 31, 2020

The UK will also still be bound by EU law and fall under the jurisdiction of the EU Court of Justice, albeit now without any say on those laws are developed and enforced, with British MEPs and judges having left Brussels and Luxembourg respectively this week. At the same time the chances of a big political row are considerable.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Meanwhile, there are also growing political pressures. As a new report today from environmental law NGO ClientEarth made clear, for every listed company engaging with climate risks there are many more with their head in the sand. In financial markets, too, confidence in low carbon assets has become more pronounced.

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Investment Climate change COP Fossil fuels 95

Business Green

MARCH 11, 2020

"We are particularly encouraged by today's announcements on five-year funding settlements for city leaders to invest in local transport improvements, and by the additional investment in electric vehicle charging points, both of which are in line with our National Infrastructure Assessment recommendations. "We

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Grist

MARCH 17, 2023

A category of metals that play an essential role in technologies ranging from smartphones to wind turbines to electric vehicle motors, rare earths are currently mined only at a single site in the United States. Geological Survey, or USGS, announced the discovery of rocks that are rich in rare earth elements near Pennington Mountain.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

In 2014, the electrical engineer and MBA became the first woman to lead a U.S. As electric vehicles drive toward the mainstream, General Motors has come full circle as well. It mass-produced the first electric car in the 1990s, then literally crushed most of them in 2003. .” One in five is Black.

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Sustainability Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 28

Business Green

DECEMBER 29, 2022

That's par for the course — an exciting advancement here, political or economic pushback there. With good reason: The climate and biodiversity crises, combined with the social and economic equity crises, are providing momentum and incentives for staying the course. It's not just on-road vehicles.

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Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Biodiversity 36

DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Braverman’s Head of Communications David Scullion is deputy political editor of The Critic magazine, which regularly publishes articles attacking climate action by Craig Mackinlay , a Conservative backbencher who runs the NZSG with Baker. Robert Buckland – Wales Secretary.

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Climate change Fossil fuels Government Policy 91

GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

Over the past year, many professional services organizations that previously had little to say publicly about their climate change strategy — from law firms to management consultants to ad agencies — found themselves under closer scrutiny not just for their own footprint but for supporting some of the biggest climate deniers around.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 22, 2020

She’s an advocate of " Absolute Sustainability, " a Quantis philosophy that challenges businesses to take planetary boundaries into account not just for carbon emissions but also for biodiversity, land use, freshwater consumption, the phosphorus cycle and the nitrogen cycle. . Elsa Wenze. Sarah Reed, 27. LinkedIn | Twitter.

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Sustainability Carbon-neutral Waste Waste 109

Grist

MARCH 12, 2021

He knew that lithium is a key metal used in batteries for electric vehicles and the power grid, and he knew the United States is going to need a lot of it to transition off fossil fuels. By 2030, that figure could rise to over 300,000 metric tons, driven largely by a booming electric vehicle market. In 2020, the U.S.

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Lithium Electricity Law Fossil fuels 141

Andrew Winston

JANUARY 11, 2019

The year 2018 brought extreme change — in weather and environmental ecosystems, in political winds and power, and in the expectations of business. Brown also signed aggressive new laws committing to carbon-free electricity statewide by 2045 and requiring solar on all new homes. So even if U.S.

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Andrew Winston

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The big stories of 2023 included the “anti-ESG” movement’s silencing effect on many companies; the explosion of clean tech; new reporting laws that are pressuring companies to measure and do more; and most oddly, the annual global climate meeting held in the United Arab Emirates, a petro-state. So, what will 2024 look like?

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