Business Green

MARCH 10, 2021

For the vast majority of countries, recovery spending has been relatively low and not particularly green, according to the report, with any benefits from the greener elements contained in stimulus packages often undermined by concurrent fossil fuel and consumer focused spending programmes. per cent is likely to increase net air pollution.

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The Environmental Blog

JULY 14, 2020

The state of our environment today is due to the broadening issues arising from loss of biodiversity, inappropriate means of disposing of waste , overpopulation, the depletion of natural resources, and increased deforestation. It’s the source of the food, water, air, and other relevant conditions that sustain life on earth.

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Business Green

MAY 29, 2020

Eco-bonus' Italian recovery package promises solar panel rebate. French auto rescue package promises EV surge. New Zealand steps up plans to create 11,000 biodiversity jobs.

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Energy Innovation

JULY 14, 2020

And yet, opportunities exist through climate-friendly recovery packages to not only stimulate economies, but also reduce emissions while promoting social and environmental co-benefits. They point to the EU’s $1 trillion, 10-year Green New Deal as an example of a climate-friendly, politically right-sized recovery package. Hepburn et al.

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Business Green

MAY 23, 2021

Tony Danker, the CBI's director-general, argued now was the time for the UK to "seize the moment" in the wake of the Covid-19 crisis and ahead of the critical COP15 and COP26 UN summits on biodiversity and climate change, respectively.

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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

MAY 22, 2020

European Commission unveils sweeping biodiversity strategy, plus all the top green business news from around the world this week. EU Commission unveils strategy to 'fix broken relationship with nature'.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

The Crossing is part of a package of more than 50 schemes that make up the government's £27bn road development programme, which has attracted significant opposition from campaigners and was unsuccessfully challenged last year in the High Court, on the grounds the UK's climate objectives had not been taken into account in the plans.

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Climate Tech VC

JANUARY 5, 2024

This was mainly driven by a handful of large Series C deals from capital-intensive verticals such as Transportation and Energy, including Verkor ($905m), Hithium ($621m), and Electric Hydrogen ($380m). Energy had the most movement, specifically in Hydrogen and Energy Storage. The average drop across everything was 30%. 2 to to no.1.

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GreenTech Gazette

AUGUST 21, 2020

But which are the companies putting the effort in, and which are simply making a few strategic changes to their packaging? They have invested heavily in the production of fuel-efficient vehicles with a strong focus on developing a vehicle powered by a hydrogen fuel cell- the Honda Clarity. Image by Geralt via Pixabay. EcoLogic Studio.

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Business Green

JUNE 30, 2020

The speech was inevitably overshadowed by the news Leicester has already been forced back into lockdown and undermined by the realisation the trailed £5bn package amounted to little more than a compendium of previously announced programmes that are an order of magnitude smaller than the template supposedly provided by FDR's New Deal.

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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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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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Business Green

OCTOBER 15, 2020

In the latest addition to its 'green recovery' package, the European Commission yesterday unveiled a flurry of crucial green strategies, targets, and policies, ranging from new green building and renewable energy programmes, to tighter rules governing chemical use and methane emissions.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Due to the environmental harms associated with the use of these agrochemicals, the EU has made limiting their use a key plank among the measures included in its “Green Deal” — a historic package by the bloc to reduce its emissions in line with global climate targets.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 4, 2021

North Sea wind installations could produce enough clean electricity and hydrogen to replace the coal-fired smokestacks. The Arctic sea ice, a driver of climate stability and biodiversity on this planet, might be preserved for future generations. Imagine if industrial complexes on six continents followed the Port’s lead.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 12, 2021

.” For the vast majority of countries, recovery spending has been relatively low and not particularly green, according to the report, with any benefits from the greener elements contained in stimulus packages often undermined by concurrent fossil fuel and consumer-focused spending program. billion on hydrogen. Meanwhile, $86.1

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Business Green

MARCH 12, 2020

First year allowances for zero emission goods vehicles and natural gas and hydrogen refuelling equipment is also being extended from April 2021. To support smaller businesses with the new tax, a minimum threshold of 10 tonnes of plastic packaging has been set. Digital waste tracking - A £7.2m

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

MPs are urging the government to use the upcoming Budget to usher in a major transformation of the tax system to align the UK's spending plans with its net zero and biodiversity commitments, warning time is running short to deliver on its promise of a green economic recovery from the coronavirus crisis.

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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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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 18, 2023

for grid enhancements and $7B for hydrogen fuel hubs.    ⚡ Solhyd , a Leuven, Belgium-based hydrogen production from solar energy developer, raised €6M ( $7M) in Seed funding.   Since the IRA passed, 265 clean energy and manufacturing projects worth $100B+ have been announced.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

On top of that, she will also take control of the UK's net zero and biodiversity agendas as Europe struggles with an energy crisis largely spurred by the Russia's invasion of Ukraine and countries around the world gear up for the crucial COP27 and COP15 UN summits this autumn.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The Brazilian company, listed on the New York Stock Exchange one year ago, sells beauty and biodiversity as intertwined. Other circular approaches include making vanilla flavoring from discarded rice husks and reusing hydrogen peroxide for paper production. Most of Mattel’s paper-based packaging is Forest Stewardship Council-certified.

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Business Green

APRIL 5, 2022

The research follows a a stark OECD report in February which underscored how plastic pollution has impacted almost every corner of the planet's oceans and land, with knock-on impacts on food systems, water resources, human health, and biodiversity given only a fraction of plastics produced each year are recycled or reused.

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Business Green

JULY 21, 2022

But an official update on Defra's performance over the past decade, released this week, points to the continued decline in biodiversity, the flatlining waste and recycling rates, and the growing concerns over water pollution, all of which were evident under Truss' watch.

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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

MAY 15, 2020

The workers will help protect and restore indigenous biodiversity and habitat, help with revegetation of private and public conservation land and undertake riparian planting.". Australia debuts hydrogen investment plan.

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Business Green

JULY 9, 2020

The trailed £3bn energy efficiency package was hugely welcome, even if questions remain over precisely how it will be administered and what will happen when the single year Budget is exhausted. But then once again the accompanying policy measures singularly failed to match the rhetoric.

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Business Green

MARCH 12, 2020

The Action Plan also aims to restrict single-use products and packaging, halt shipments of waste outside the EU, ban the destruction of unsold durable goods, provide consumers with more reliable information on the sustainability of products and packaging, and offer stronger 'right to repair' rules.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

In recent months Johnson has similarly signalled his support for an acceleration in offshore wind development, investment in new green hydrogen infrastructure, carbon capture technology clusters, electric vehicle charging networks, new nuclear technologies and expanded tree-planting programmes. offshore wind. the power system.

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Business Green

JUNE 5, 2020

Alstom and Snam agree plan to deploy Italian hydrogen trains. Engineering giant Alstom and energy infrastructure specialist Snam this week signed a five-year agreement to develop hydrogen trains in Italy. We believe in hydrogen," said Michele Viale, managing director of Alstom Italy and Switzerland. Credit: Alstom. "We

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

He could have created far more jobs, with a better short-term return on investment and higher long-term savings, by a comprehensive green approach, including a net zero test and assessing this whole package against the UK's climate and nature goals. "He million people in the second quarter of next year, bold action is needed.

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2022

Buildings: The report claims the emissions-intensive buildings sector can achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions if policy packages that promote sufficiency, efficiency, and renewable energy measures are effectively implemented and barriers to decarbonisation are removed. Economy-wide' policy packages. Stranded assets.

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AGreenLiving

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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Business Green

JUNE 29, 2023

Highly Commended: Elbow Beach Capital Small Business of the Year Frugalpac In one of the most competitive categories, Frugalpac won over the judges with its ambitious plans to decarbonise food and drink packaging, its impressive range of recyclable, low carbon, paper-based cups and bottles, and its fast-expanding client base.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

While France and Canada have taken steps to add green conditionality into support packages and loans given to companies struggling in the wake of the pandemic, the practice has not been officially adopted by the UK government. All bailouts for business should also be conditional on plans and action to align with netzero and 1.5C

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

There was little unveiled yesterday aimed at boosting the circular economy or tackling the nature and biodiversity crises, for example, prompting Wildlife and Countryside Link CEO Dr Richard Benwell to warn that "unless significant and sustained investment is made in nature, climate and environment targets will remain out of reach and on ice".

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