Business Green

JULY 15, 2022

Our political leaders bear a genuinely world historic responsibility to try and drive the development of a net zero emission economy in less than three decades and end the obliteration of nature. If no, are you concerned that changing the target could undermine planned investment in the electric vehicle supply chain?

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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? It's that simple.

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Business Green

JUNE 23, 2020

The report - titled Principles for a low-carbon, sustainable and net-zero aligned economic recovery post COVID-19 - suggests five key government interventions aimed at harnessing growing political, business, and consumer will to tackle the climate emergency, as well as a raft of specific policy recommendations.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 19, 2021

BusinessGreen rounds up the best of the reaction from the low carbon economy to the government's flagship roadmap for achieving net zero emissions by 2050. Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng said: "There is a global race to develop new green technology, kick-start new industries and attract private investment.

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Business Green

MARCH 3, 2021

All the reaction from green groups, businesses, political figures to Rishi Sunak's hugely important pandemic-recovery, pre-COP26 Budget announcement. Rebecca Newsom, head of politics at Greenpeace UK, said: "For all the talk of a green recovery, this Budget suggests the Chancellor has failed to clock the urgency of the climate emergency.

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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. LinkedIn | Personal website. million acres the 4.4

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Meanwhile, the advance of low carbon alternatives to the hydrocarbon-driven economy has been far too slow to meet that challenge. Tipping points are not just needed in technology. It's not just about technology, and it's not even just about how society interacts with technology - although that's crucial," Lenton explains.

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Business Green

JUNE 16, 2021

All the top reaction from leading figures across business, politics, academia, think tanks and green groups to the CCC's latest assessment of the UK's preparedness for climate change. Here, BusinessGreen rounds up all the top comments from business, politics, academia, think tanks and civil society.

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Business Green

JUNE 7, 2021

Last year the coronavirus crisis shook the industry to its core, with the sudden drop in fuel demand from planes, cars, and power plants sparking a price crash that briefly saw the cost of a barrel of oil fall into negative territory.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 7, 2022

UK Export Finance confirmed a £600m loan guarantee deal with Ford to help keep key parts of the auto giant's electric vehicle supply chain in the UK. The apparent outbreak of sanity at the heart of government following months of political turmoil received a warm, if cautious, welcome from green business group.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 28, 2021

In particular, the plan adopts a technology-neutral Clean Electricity Standard, which puts us on the path to achieving 100 percent carbon-free electricity by 2035. An important feature of this approach is that it is technology-neutral. The plan also encourages greener transportation with electric vehicles.

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Business Green

AUGUST 11, 2021

The combination of terrifyingly visible climate impacts and record weather extremes, alongside plummeting clean tech costs and the normalisation of renewables and electric vehicles, has seen environmental issues soar up the list of the public's priorities in countries all around the world.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Players in the carbon dioxide pipeline industry canceled major pipeline projects in recent weeks, marking an inauspicious start to President Biden’s ambitious plans to develop carbon capture infrastructure as a key emissions mitigation tool. Midwest to be injected and stored underground. Navigator’s $3.5

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Clean Energy Trust

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

January Cleantech Roundup: Corporations Claim Their Carbon | How Public Chargers Influence Electric Vehicle Adoption | Investor Climate Initiatives Clean Energy Trust’s cleantech roundup highlights interesting cleantech news and perspective, across industry, technology, policy, and investing. Their takeaways?

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Business Green

DECEMBER 14, 2020

With Hinkley Point C costs skyrocketing and timetables repeatedly slipping, at the same time as advances in wind, solar, and battery technologies continue to surpass all expectations, some had hoped the White Paper would mark the end to the UK government's long-running love affair with nuclear power.

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2023

The Committee's overarching conclusion is both clear as day and extremely pertinent at the current geopolitical juncture: a net zero energy system is technologically, financially, and politically achievable within the 2035 timeframe, but the government simply cannot afford to waste anymore time in building it.

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Business Green

JANUARY 5, 2021

Now, after four-and-a-half-years of political turmoil and wrangling over everything from parliamentary sovereignty to the legal small print of fisheries agreements, the UK and EU have a trade deal, averting the very real threat of an economically disastrous cliff-edge Brexit. Electric vehicles. Carbon pricing and energy.

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Business Green

MAY 12, 2020

Lending high-level economic and political credence to that growing public clamour for action, the work of Chris Stark and his small team at the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) in driving the issue up the agenda should not be forgotten. Suddenly, barely days into 2020, a new paradigm began to take shape.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 31, 2021

Energy powerhouses, Ernest Moniz and Lynn Good, talk politics, R&D, stakeholder engagement, transmission, EVs and a host of other topics around the future of energy in the US. Good also explained that in order to support the coming wave of electric vehicles, lots more infrastructure will need to be built.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 20, 2019

The development in renewable technologies has led to human development both way rural and urban. This mechanical power can be used for specific tasks (such as grinding grain or pumping water) in the turbines generator or can be convert this mechanical power into useful power like electricity.

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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. million acres the 4.4

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 14, 2022

The SCREAM project will incorporate magnets from sources such as old loudspeakers and electric vehicles. are an essential material in a range of modern technologies, from electronic motors and audio speakers to the electric drive units (EDUs) that power the latest electric vehicles.

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Clean Energy Trust

MARCH 11, 2020

Clean Energy Trust’s cleantech roundup highlights interesting cleantech news and perspective, across industry, technology, policy, and investing Top Topics Large oil and gas and utility companies are making net-zero pledges , as they look to get ahead of consumer and regulatory trends.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 7, 2022

It is, not to put too fine a point on it, a terrible political slogan. However, the biggest problem with Liz Truss' growth plan is to be found not in its ham-fisted political positioning, but in the fundamental inconsistency between the government's ideological impulses and its stated goals. Growth, growth, and growth'.

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Business Green

JUNE 25, 2020

A year on from the UK's net zero target being adopted in law coinciding with the start of one of the most eventful 12 months in modern political history, the influential Committee on Climate Change today published its annual review of the UK's progress against its climate goals.

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Business Green

APRIL 30, 2021

While still daunted by the epic and tragic scale of the climate crisis, this community has been buoyed by the way in which their work has already helped deliver both plummeting clean technology costs and a decoupling of greenhouse gas emissions and global GDP.

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2022

But as clean energy technologies have continued their inexorable march worldwide and public clamour for action to address the climate crisis has grown, such considerations have increasingly been forced up the agenda for economists, policymakers, and business leaders.

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Business Green

APRIL 21, 2020

Negative prices are genuinely unprecedented and they provide a glaring signal as to quite how bad the economic crisis is fast becoming. As such, it is important not to overstate what happened yesterday as US oil futures briefly went negative, sparking further price slumps around the world. In fairness, this time is different.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 30, 2020

It will specifically explore systemic solutions to the climate crisis focusing on clean energy, electrified, transportation, the circular economy, carbon removal and sustainable food systems. Protein is being sourced from an increasingly long list of plants, synthesized from carbon dioxide sucked from the air, and extracted from insects.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

This is not the time nor the issue for scoring party political points. Third, assembly members gave strong support for businesses to make low carbon products that use less energy and materials.". Broadly, members wanted the UK to quickly stop selling the most polluting vehicles on the roads - e.g

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Business Green

MAY 27, 2022

Other factors included Tesla's lack of published details about its low-carbon strategy or business conduct codes. True, Tesla and other electric vehicle manufacturers aren't without challenges, Andrew Poreda, senior ESG research analyst at Austin-based Sage Advisory Services, pointed out in an email.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

MARCH 23, 2020

During the short 60 day session, the Washington State Legislature made critical strides to reboot a conversation on the value of comprehensive carbon policy. Cap & Invest is a system that combines the best aspects of market-based carbon pricing while generating resources to be smartly invested in community needs.

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Business Green

JANUARY 30, 2020

Ask most investors, fund managers, and bankers whether they have heard of Carbon Tracker, and you're likely to be met with a blank face. Under Mark Campanale's leadership, Carbon Tracker was the think tank which took the theory of a 'carbon bubble' into the mainstream. Carbon Tracker has not been working in isolation, of course.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

MARCH 23, 2020

During the short 60 day session, the Washington State Legislature made critical strides to reboot a conversation on the value of comprehensive carbon policy. Cap & Invest is a system that combines the best aspects of market-based carbon pricing while generating resources to be smartly invested in community needs.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Since September alone, China has pledged to reach carbon neutrality by 2060, and Japan, South Korea, South Africa, and Canada have also set their sights on net zero by 2050. This sense of optimism is further amplified by the economic and technological trends underpinning the new wave of net zero targets. It is hugely encouraging news.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 29, 2022

That's par for the course — an exciting advancement here, political or economic pushback there. Overall, it was more positives than negatives. Despite the bold commitments many have made to invest in climate technologies and green business growth, most banks continue to underwrite the fossil-fuel industry.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 6, 2023

A UK government agency has provided billions of pounds worth of financial support to the high-carbon aviation sector since the Paris climate agreement was adopted in 2015, DeSmog analysis shows. Airlines already benefit from paying no duty on their fuel, and most of the emissions from flying attract no carbon costs.

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