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Revealed: Media Blitz Against Heat Pumps Funded by Gas Lobby Group

DeSmogBlog

An energy trade association that represents and promotes gas boilers and manufacturers is behind a barrage of negative press attacking heat pumps, DeSmog has learned. The group has since lobbied to delay government plans to ramp up heat pump installation targets in a consultation that closed in June.

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Net Zero Strategy: Energy Systems Catapult calls for market incentives to be aligned with net zero agenda

Business Green

Research body argues government must fix 'uneven' decarbonisation policies that continue to drive customers towards high carbon activities. Sturge said any policy and market reforms enacted in the UK would be closely watched by other nations as the country gears up to host the crucial talks in Glasgow.

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Mapped: The Network of Powerful Agribusiness Groups Lobbying to Water Down the EU’s Sustainable Farming Targets

DeSmogBlog

To identify the powerful actors most actively lobbying against these key EU regulations and policies, DeSmog analysed corporate reports, lobbying records, official position papers, responses to public EU consultations, media events, and meetings held with various EU bodies over the past two years. Meet the Industry Trade Groups.

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CCC Sixth Carbon Budget advice: The green economy reacts

Business Green

The Climate Change Committee has just delivered its most detailed and ambitious work yet to the government, in what the advisory body's CEO Chris Stark this week called "one of the most important things we've ever published". With that in place, business, government and society stand ready to deliver.".

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Orwellian or essential? Oil and Gas Authority rebrands as North Sea Transition Authority ahead of latest licensing round

Business Green

Unveiling its new name this morning, the group said it was set to play a growing role in the UK's energy transition, through licensing and permitting carbon storage projects, monitoring the industry's emissions, testing the climate compatibility of new developments, and stewarding domestic production.

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'We urgently need to prepare': Green figures react to the CCC's climate risk warning

Business Green

Across the 1,500 pages of the climate advisory body's latest UK climate risk assessment - which it carries out every five years - it sets out in stark detail the challenge to build in resilience and adaptation into UK infrastructure, and just how far behind government policy currently is on these issues.

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'We need a real commitment to green growth': The green economy reacts to the Budget

Business Green

Instead, the government is trying to build a new coal mine which we now learn might not even work for British steel. If anything sums up this government's commitment to a green recovery and jobs of the future, it's building a coal mine we can't even use.". — Chris Stark (@ChiefExecCCC) March 3, 2021.