Business Green

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Professor Peter Taylor and Alice Garvey from the University of Leeds set out the challenges and policy requirements for decarbonising heavy industry which they included in a recent report commissioned by the CCC. Here, lead authors of the report Professor Peter Taylor and Alice Garvey set out the main findings.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 29, 2020

.'s largest-ever solar project, received its government planning approvals this week. The developers say they will not seek any government subsidy and will not participate in the contracts for difference (CFD) auction next year. ” Government auction? Despite a reputation for gray skies, the U.K.

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Business Green

JULY 7, 2021

The government must ensure fairness underpins the transition to net zero, MPs on the BEIS Committee warn. The government has yet to respond as promised to the Assembly's recommendations, which were set out in a report to Parliament last autumn.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 6, 2020

The new ‘OxAria’ study started on 1st July, extending an existing collaboration which has enabled five low-cost air pollution sensors to be installed at city centre locations, generating real-time information on key air pollutants, including nitrogen oxides (NO, NO2), carbon monoxide (CO), ozone (O3) and particulate matter (PM1, PM2.5,

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Business Green

MARCH 22, 2021

BECCS proponents argue the technology can play a critical role in helping the UK reach net-zero, but a group of campaigners and academics are arguing the government should direct subsidies to more proven technologies. It also comes as the government designs its strategy on greenhouse gas removal technologies such as BECCS.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 12, 2021

The fiscal spending plans of major economies in the wake of the coronavirus crisis have fallen far short of ensuring the recovery from the crisis does not exacerbate ongoing climate and nature crises, with just one in every $40 committed by governments in the wake of the pandemic set to deliver a positive impact for the planet.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 6, 2023

Good Law Project is supporting the action being brought by the local council and campaign group, Protect Dunsfold, against the Government which gave the project the green light. National policy requires planning decisions to give great weight to “conserving and enhancing landscape and scenic beauty” in AONBs.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

A paper published yesterday in Nature Human Behaviour argues the government should introduce tax breaks for manufacturers who produce affordable versions of clean technologies. These engagement exercises could help pre-empt some of the "unintended negative impacts" of low-carbon technologies, they said.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Seasoned observers fear that growing calls for a bolder and more ambitious global policy framework are continuing to founder on the rocks of vested interests and short-term cost concerns. . It is a dynamic that has left environmental campaigners increasingly frustrated. .

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Business Green

OCTOBER 7, 2022

The United States is in a golden era for climate policy. The policy has been a long time coming, yet came to fruition quickly, responding to the urgency of the climate crisis and the opportunity to legislate before midterms. How the policy will unfold is impossible for me to imagine. Catch up fast: Recent climate legislation.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 20, 2021

The push to quickly transition carbon-intensive activities away from fossil fuels while meeting the world’s growing energy needs has put electricity producers and consumers squarely in the forefront of the emerging clean economy. Manufacturing is going electric, too, as companies ratchet up their net-zero-carbon goals. Joel Makower.

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Business Green

MAY 24, 2021

Fresh analysis warns plans for UK's largest BECCS facility in North Yorkshire could prove more expensive for billpayers than Hinkley Point C, but developer Drax rejects calculations and insists carbon capture technology is likely to prove a crucial component of the net zero transition.

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Business Green

MAY 5, 2020

A group of leading academics, campaigners, and executives have this week issued a renewed call for governments to accelerate efforts to scale up the deployment of Nature-Based Solutions capable of simultaneously reducing carbon emissions and restoring natural habitats.

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Business Green

APRIL 21, 2021

Environmental Audit Committee writes to government slamming decision to axe grant scheme and urging Ministers to deliver replacement. The EAC report had explicitly advised that the scheme should "not to be scrapped or quietly wound down" - a recommendation that was unceremoniously rejected by the government. "In

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Environmental Audit Committee Chair Philip Dunne talks to BusinessGreen about the need for 'a tax system fit for net zero Britain' and the right time to judge whether the government has delivered on its green recovery promises.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 2, 2021

Dr Rebecca Heaton will end her five-year tenure on the government advisory group’s mitigation committee eight months early and take up a position at renewable energy company Ovo, the board announced today. . The conflict of interest has long been glaring, but in recent years became blinding,” said Phil Macdonald of energy thinktank Ember.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

A coherent policy response that catalyses action to deliver emissions reductions across all sectors is required. To achieve this it will require an annual reduction in carbon intensity of 9.7%, according to the latest “Low Carbon Economy Index (LCEI)” produced by professional services firm PwC.

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Business Green

JULY 6, 2021

A current lack of policy and leadership. The fashion industry is on course to take-up 25 per cent of the world's carbon budget, yet despite this huge impact, the UK government is failing to tackle the negative impact of fashion. Only one policy contained any detail of cost or timeframes. Hubbub's Trewin Restorick.

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Business Green

MAY 24, 2021

Government confirms £30m of new investment in a range of projects designed to enhance natural carbon sinks. Alongside the NetZeroPlus project the government and the UK Research and Innovation agency today announced new funding for projects exploring how to use peat, rock chips, and charcoal to expand natural carbon sinks.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Drax has come in for renewed scrutiny over the environmental sustainability of its supply chain, with a major investigation having found evidence of carbon-rich primary forests in western Canada being felled to supply wood pellet feedstock for Britain's biggest power station in North Yorkshire.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

It plans to add carbon capture and storage to the biomass plants, taking them to a negative-emissions status. “[Thursday’s] announcement is part of Drax renewing its focus on renewables and pioneering bioenergy with carbon capture and storage technology (BECCS),” the company representative said in an email.

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Business Green

MARCH 28, 2022

Government greenhouse gas targets offer heavy emitters "a free pass" that could undermine efforts to cut emissions from industrial sites and accelerate the roll out of carbon capture and hydrogen technologies, according to the Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) of MPs.

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Business Green

AUGUST 30, 2022

Yet while many have started to rapidly address their direct emissions, it's become clear that many targets will be missed unless more is done to tackle indirect supply chains emissions - where commonly 80 per cent of a firm's carbon footprint resides. Then there's policy shocks. All these impacts will affect large firms first.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Chris Winward, chief commercial officer at the specialist energy from waste funder, said the updated manifesto reviewed the industry’s progress from social, economic and environmental perspectives, and shared insight on the effect of government policy changes and Covid-19. “As

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Business Green

OCTOBER 4, 2021

The Prime Minister is expected to hit back at the handful of critics of the government's net zero plans on his own benches and argue that rapidly increasing the UK's reliance on domestic renewable power sources will help protect consumers against fluctuations in global gas prices, which have sent bills soaring in recent months.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 25, 2020

government’s official climate change advisory body is calling for fast-tracking investment in early-stage hydrogen infrastructure, as well as prioritizing carbon capture and storage and EV charging infrastructure, as immediate responses to the coronavirus outbreak. The steps that the U.K. ’s final energy demand by 2050.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

million tonnes of carbon dioxide in 2020, including 13.2 million from burning biomass, according to environmental law charity ClientEarth – is sponsoring an event called “How Can the UK Build a Zero Carbon, Lower Cost Energy Future?” Drax – which emitted 19.4 at the Labour conference in Brighton on Monday.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Firm announces new wood pellet production and sales targets as it confirms intention to build global fleet of bioenergy and carbon capture and storage plants. Green groups have repeatedly urged governments around the world to strip biomass of subsidies and its 'renewable' status.

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Business Green

JULY 6, 2022

The government has presented further details of its plan for scaling up direct air capture, CCUS, and BECCS technologies in the coming decade. The estimates come in the government's response to a host of recommendations from the National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) last year on the role for carbon removals in the net zero transition.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

However, it is crucial that as we move from internal combustion engines to electric vehicles, we do not not risk disturbing our planet’s largest carbon sinks by giving the destructive deep-sea mining industry the green light and opening up a new frontier of industrial extraction, writes campaign organisation the Deep Sea Conservation Coalition.

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Business Green

JULY 29, 2021

In financial results posted today, Drax Group claimed it was now one of Europe's "lowest carbon utilities", following the sale of its power plant's gas assets to VPI last February and the end of commercial coal generation at the site in March.

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Business Green

JULY 13, 2021

Detailed and joined-up policies, behaviour change, 'whole system' infrastructure investment, and holistic energy market reform are all critical to achieving net zero emissions, report warns. Both of these scenarios would meet the UK's Sixth Carbon Budget.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Research body argues government must fix 'uneven' decarbonisation policies that continue to drive customers towards high carbon activities. Stable and enduring policies that cover all key emitting economic sectors and reward investment and innovation in reducing emissions will be needed," he said.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

KPMG report predicts governments set to take a 'multi-faceted approach' to pricing carbon that could prove difficult for businesses to navigate. The global reach of carbon pricing and tax regimes is likely to be extended in the coming years, creating a complex tax landscape that could prove challenging for some businesses to navigate.

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Business Green

MARCH 11, 2020

Whilst Brexit will undoubtedly remain a dominant theme in 2020, the new government will need to press on with delivering progress on the climate change and environmental agenda. However, for policy to be effective in getting to net zero emissions, it is important to be clear what we mean by innovation.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Analysis of the government’s latest transparency data shows ministers at the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) held 130 one-on-one meetings with energy producers between July 22 2019 and March 18 2021, of which nearly half (63) were with producers of high carbon energy. Drax Access.

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