The Guardian: Energy

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The investments, of about £30bn a year from the taxpayer and £40bn to £50bn a year from the private sector, would result in savings to the average household of at least £1,000 a year, higher economic productivity, and a better quality of life in the future, the National Infrastructure Commission said.

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 18, 2024

The World Energy Council’s World Energy Trilemma 2024 report reveals changing ambitions and new challenges facing global energy systems. Energy security now encompasses the reliability of renewables, availability and accessibility or critical minerals, and resilience in the face of physical and cyber threats.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 2, 2021

By Shelley Robbins, Clean Energy Group. In those states, where clean energy is now gaining a stronger foothold, valuable lessons can be found. Actions by these states to change the direction of energy policy are a powerful confirmation that clean energy is a viable, cost-effective alternative to fossil fuels.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 3, 2023

Policy Exchange, one of Westminster’s most prominent think tanks, engaged in a high-level influencing campaign over the UK’s North Sea oil and gas policies while being funded by fossil fuel interests, DeSmog can reveal. The International Energy Agency has stated that new oil and gas exploration is incompatible with net zero.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Carbon pricing has always been a thorny political issue, but as Ministers weigh how to drive the next phase of the net zero transition some experts believe it has a critical role to play. It all started with such ambition.

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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

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. The ongoing conflict in Ukraine has produced shocks to the energy and economic system globally. °C pathway.

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Business Green

AUGUST 22, 2022

There are now just days to go until Britain's energy regulator officially confirms how much average domestic bills will rise for the autumn period, with concerns growing that the scale of the resulting fuel poverty and economic crisis could be genuinely unprecedented in its scope and intensity.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

When we think about innovation in renewable energy, it’s easy to assume that the materials and breakthroughs of human design hold the greatest potential to power the green revolution. This way of thinking about geothermal energy sounds like something from science fiction, and until recently it may as well have been.

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Business Green

MARCH 29, 2023

But a major problem remains: The government has not yet developed a detailed net zero investment plan for the UK. Their frustration with the government's failure to produce an its own Net Zero Investment Plan of its own is growing. A Net Zero Investment Plan would establish the investment needed to reach net zero in the UK.

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EDF + Business

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

He’s right: the impacts of climate change on businesses are hard to overstate. More disturbingly, recent studies show we may be significantly underestimating climate risk, which makes managing that risk difficult for businesses indeed. . Climate risk management requires climate policy. percent by the end of the century.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

When you’ve followed the evolving research of a leading clean energy expert and become a supporter of his vision for a global clean energy transition, it should come as no surprise that I was eager to crack open Mark Jacobson’s 2021 book release, 100% Clean, Renewable Energy and Storage for Everything. Jacobson’s Early Story.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

The solar industry met in Salt Lake City with a more sweeping and disciplined message than in some years past : Rally to extend the federal investment tax credit and buckle up for a decade of massive industry growth. The Solar Energy Industries Association industry group published a roadmap Monday to increase solar power to 20 percent of U.S.

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Business Green

MARCH 12, 2020

The coronavirus crisis gripping the global economy has forced clean energy analyst BloombergNEF (BNEF) to downgrade its expectations for the solar, battery, and electric vehicle (EV) markets, in one of the first signals that the escalating pandemic could undermine urgent efforts to combat climate change.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Pollution, poverty and race collide in many other disadvantaged communities across California — and the country — and some argue that the state’s climate policies haven’t helped. Anytime to you have that kind of pay-to-pollute scheme, the communities that already were being sacrificed — that becomes a business decision," Zucker says.

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Business Green

AUGUST 30, 2022

The price cap is set by Ofgem every three months and sets the maximum tariff that domestic energy suppliers can charge most households. The cause of the rise in wholesale energy costs is the price of gas. The cap applies to households on default or variable tariffs, covering about 80 per cent of homes.

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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. This morning sees the publication of the International Energy Agency's (IEA) influential Global Energy Review 2021 and it makes for sobering reading. Global carbon emissions are set to jump by 1.5

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

DECEMBER 15, 2020

While clean energy and cleantech investing has gained momentum over the last five years, 2020 was undoubtedly a landmark year for the industry, as investments on both a dollar and deal-count basis reached record levels globally. Vice President at Orion Energy Partners. Prior to joining Orion Energy, Ms.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

OCTOBER 9, 2023

This mechanism serves as a protective shield for the EU’s climate policies, preventing them from being undermined by production relocation to countries with less stringent environmental standards or by the substitution of EU products with more carbon-intensive imports.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Heading into fall, this batch of career updates from the worlds of sustainability and business is somewhat top-heavy. Amid myriad social, health and political crises, business sustainability is alive and well and living the Paris Agreement. Who's news. Stewart also launched and ran research and development at BSR.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 17, 2023

Not only do pesticides directly contribute to the climate crisis, but a changing climate is likely to intensify pressure from agricultural pests and decrease plant resiliency, resulting in greater pesticide usage and therefore further greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new report. Avoiding False Solutions.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 21, 2020

The series is supported by the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture at Columbia University, and is part of their POWER project. . South, where companies find ample forests, lax business regulations, and ports along the Atlantic coast. South to burn them overseas in its power plants.

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Business Green

MAY 23, 2021

spending plan designed to accelerate the roll out of green technologies across the UK's energy-intensive industries, predicting the latest phase of its Green Industrial Revolution will help create up to 60,000 jobs. The new investment includes £60m to support the development of low carbon hydrogen projects in the UK, £37.5m

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Business Green

MARCH 16, 2021

The announcement of the policy package is part of a new Industrial Decarbonisation Strategy that will be published later today, the government revealed. He added that achieving the UK's net zero ambition and shorter term pledge to slash emissions by 68 per cent by 2030 against 1990 levels would require major transformation of its economy.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

In February 2021, German agribusiness giant BASF hosted a virtual wine tasting, a seemingly cozy affair swirling glasses of Portugal’s finest in front of a webcam debating the future of EU agricultural policies. Invited to the event was a small group of Members of the European Parliament (MEPs).

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The circumstances surrounding his termination are documented among thousands of pages of public records and internal company documents that provide a penetrating look into the multi-billion dollar stakes of negotiations between governments and state-sanctioned monopolies that are shaping the future of energy systems in Oregon and beyond.

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Grist

DECEMBER 15, 2021

This story is part of the series Getting to Zero: Decarbonizing Cascadia , which explores the path to low-carbon energy for British Columbia, Washington, and Oregon. And, in the United States, political gridlock chopped the heart out of Congress’ most ambitious clean energy plan. . Worried about the climate crisis?

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 17, 2020

Pacific Gas & Electric is on the verge of escaping from its 18-month bankruptcy , only to begin a years-long effort to prevent a repeat of the disasters that pushed it into insolvency in the first place. PG&E must keep up with the state’s ambitious clean energy, environmental and electrification goals.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 15, 2020

gigawatt Hinkley Point C nuclear power station in 2012, it proudly proclaimed that the arrangement proved new nuclear did not need direct subsidy. A 2014 study found that of a global sample of 180 nuclear power plants, 97 percent ended up over budget. Taking this approach would be a first for the energy sector and a first for RABs.

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Business Green

MARCH 16, 2021

The announcement of the policy package is part of a new Industrial Decarbonisation Strategy that will be published later today, the government revealed. He added that achieving the UK's net zero ambition and shorter term pledge to slash emissions by 68 per cent by 2030 against 1990 levels would require major transformation of its economy.

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Business Green

AUGUST 22, 2022

Consumer behaviour change must carry almost a third of the weight of delivering net zero - and there are plenty of policy options at the next PM's disposal, argues think tank Onward. However, the next Prime Minister is certainly not lacking for policy options. The challenge, it seems, is getting Truss and Sunak to take notice.

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Front And Centered

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

We require a Just Transition because the physics of climate are unforgiving, because it’s the right thing to do, and because it’s the only politically possible path toward what we really need. It requires that we use our public funds to invest in the people and communities that need the support the most. Of the $626.5

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

As we noted last year , solar energy technology continues its path to global dominance. Solar is now the least expensive source of electricity in two-thirds of the world. Solar and wind will provide around half of the world's electricity by 2050, according to Bloomberg's New Energy Outlook.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

First launched in 2007, the EPC regime for homes and buildings was designed to ensure UK compliance with an EU directive to reduce the amount of energy used by both commercial and domestic properties.

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Business Green

MARCH 28, 2023

That is the stark conclusion from the Climate Change Committee (CCC) today, which has once again laid bare the glaring failure of successive governments to prepare society - businesses, homes, infrastructure, resources, the natural world, and beyond - for the increasingly damaging impacts of the climate crisis.

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EDF + Business

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

US banks have the political and financial leverage needed to play a major role in averting disruptive climate damage to the world economy. But despite strong rhetorical support of the Paris Climate Agreement, the vast majority of America’s largest banks continue to invest in companies ill-prepared for a low-carbon future.

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Business Green

JUNE 29, 2020

There are nine sectors where financial players are critically exposed to biodiversity loss through their loans, investments and underwriting activities, according to the report. A recent investigation by ShareAction found that none of the world's 75 largest asset managers has a dedicated policy on biodiversity.

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