Business Green

MARCH 29, 2023

In addition, from 2035 a ban on the sale of new carbon-emitting vehicles will come into effect, but in a move that has angered environmental campaigners the rules will allow for the sale of internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles that make use of so-called e-fuels, which advocates maintain can be produced in a way that results in zero emissions.

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Business Green

JULY 22, 2020

As MEPs enter talks over EU Council's €1.8tr recovery package and budget deal, many key green questions remain. And most importantly, this is the right deal for Europe, right now.". Now, EU leaders must use the full potential of EU funds to boost climate action and exclude support to fossil fuels.". This is a strong deal.

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Business Green

JUNE 18, 2020

While many are hearing the need to align immediate spending packages with longer-term goals, the idea of a green recovery is being met with political opposition from many quarters. Investing in clean industrial innovation can help to renew Europe's industrial base and secure its future competitiveness. per cent, with an expected 8.7

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 22, 2021

On July 14, the European Union (EU) announced a sweeping package of climate proposals that will help the continent cut greenhouse gas emissions by 55 percent by 2030, from a 1990 baseline. Our current fossil fuel economy has reached its limit,” European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said at a press conference. “We

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Business Green

MAY 27, 2020

A sweeping €1.85tr stimulus strategy to rebuild Europe's economy from the wreckage of the coronavirus crisis has been unveiled by the European Commission today, promising a green infrastructure spending blitz to help put the continent on a path towards net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. This is Europe's moment," she said.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

They have legislated a carbon neutrality goal for 2050, adopted a long-term strategy and advanced the phase-out of coal by 2025 among other key indicators. The major priorities for Hungary’s climate and energy policies relate to energy security, reducing fossil fuel use and keeping energy prices affordable.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

In Europe, which had 1.3 For comparison, in the fossil fuel sectors women make up around 21 per cent of the workforce. Global Wind Energy Council chief executive Ben Backwell, meanwhile, urged policymakers to reconsider their support to the fossil fuel sector. Brazil also employed 1.16 As many as 5.5

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Business Green

JUNE 4, 2020

Raft of energy efficiency, green transport, and hydrogen programmes put at heart of €130bn stimulus package, as Bank of England confirms financial support for airlines. The German government has unveiled plans for a massive €130bn stimulus package that features at least €40bn climate-related spending.

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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2021

At Dow, as a leading materials company, we know we have a responsibility to take this challenge seriously and take urgent action - to become carbon neutral and stop plastic going to waste. To achieve our carbon reduction targets, incremental improvements are no longer enough. A radical redesign.

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Business Green

JANUARY 29, 2021

Spain has delivered the lowest prices ever seen for onshore wind in Europe," said Giles Dickson, CEO at trade body WindEurope, highlighting bids from onshore wind developers that ranged from €20/MWh to €28.89/MWh. The European wind industry continues to reduce costs through innovation, scale and learning effects.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The use of these chemicals also damages the environment in other ways; much of the fertilizer used in the world today is the product of methane gas, a fossil fuel, while the wide-scale use of pesticides has been linked to the damage of ecosystems and vital populations of pollinators.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 12, 2021

The government is reportedly poised to publish the long-awaited Heat and Buildings Strategy next week, with the crucial document expected to feature plans to ban the installation of gas boilers from 2035 and accelerate the roll out of heat pumps through a package of grants and energy bill reforms.

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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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Business Green

OCTOBER 20, 2022

As scrutiny of 'greenwashing' ramps up across Europe, the UK advertising watchdog has pledged to crackdown on misleading 'green' marketing and climate claims. So having clearer and standardised definitions for concepts such as carbon neutral and net zero - as well as around electric vehicles - would aid advertisers and consumers alike.

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Mr. Sustainability

MARCH 17, 2021

Summary - Saudi Arabia is building a $5 billion plant called Helios to make green fuel for export and decrease the country’s dependence on petrodollars. All of the zero-carbon fuel it produces will be shipped to international buyers in the form of ammonia. Carbon targets? million tons per year of green ammonia.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The company, an early partner with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, has positioned water and carbon emissions as equally critical in the climate crisis. Last year, Ecolab set a goal for net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, getting halfway there by 2030. Rosalind 'Roz' Brewer, COO and Group President, Starbucks. Company profile.

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Mr. Sustainability

MARCH 17, 2021

Summary - Saudi Arabia is building a $5 billion plant called Helios to make green fuel for export and decrease the country’s dependence on petrodollars. All of the zero-carbon fuel it produces will be shipped to international buyers in the form of ammonia. Carbon targets? million tons per year of green ammonia.

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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. Meanwhile, $86.1

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Business Green

JULY 14, 2021

Brussels launches major package of accelerated decarbonisation measures, including tax reforms, new clean energy targets, and carbon border tariffs. Europe was the first continent to declare to be climate neutral in 2050, and now we are the very first ones to put a concrete roadmap on the table.

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Business Green

MARCH 29, 2023

The government is expected to launch a consultation on the proposals, which broadly mirror plans already being pursued by the EU in a bid to create a 'level playing field' for the bloc's carbon intensive industries.

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Business Green

MAY 10, 2021

Business group representing some of Europe's biggest brands argues that policies and market incentives are urgently needed to drive demand for green steel, cement, and chemicals. The EU is one of the biggest single markets in the world and a world leader in clean and efficient technology," said Eliot Whittington, CLG Europe's director.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

However, campaigners also remain concerned that the new government has so far shown little appetite for curbing fossil fuel development in support of new targets, which critics maintain are still insufficiently ambitious. As Europe is rocked by the gas crisis, solar energy brings some much-needed relief.

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 18, 2022

Helping EU countries lower energy prices and become carbon neutral by 2050 requires a more supportive ‘demand’ response, writes Simon Bushell, founder and CEO of Sympower. Such emission targets will be crucial if Europe hopes to become the world’s first climate-neutral continent by 2050. Maintaining security and supply.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Two of Europe's top engineering giants have this week moved forward with plans to accelerate the roll out hydrogen fuelled trains, with projects advancing in both Germany and Italy. We need to bring our fossil fuel consumption down to zero. Only then can DB be climate-neutral by 2050. within our administration's term?for

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Business Green

MAY 7, 2021

Floating turbines, Amsterdam's ban on fossil fuel advertising, American fridges, and all the green business stories from around the world this week. The SAF will be used in blended form, however, the company said that in its neat form the SAF could reduce CO2 lifecycle emissions by up to 80 per cent compared to fossil jet fuels. "So

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Mr. Sustainability

APRIL 18, 2021

The end goal is to create circular fuel for the maritime industry in Rotterdam. This might be the quickest and cheapest way for you to become carbon neutral, without retrofitting your vessels at all. Why focus on creating sustainable marine fuels? Of course it is very hard to compete with a fossil fuel feedstock.

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2021

The vice-president of sustainability at CCEP, the largest Coca-Cola bottler in the world, spills the details on how the firm intends to achieve net zero packaging, manufacturing, shipping, and ingredients within 20 years. Europe is kind of the epicentre of what's going on climate change," he says. "If

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Mr. Sustainability

APRIL 18, 2021

Rotterdam refineries are among the biggest polluters in Europe Rotterdam has the dubious title of being the absolute leader in the throughput and storage of crude oil in northwest Europe. Why focus on creating sustainable marine fuels? > At Mr. Sustainability however, we are not interested in replacing all fuels.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

. “REPowerEU is the EU Commission’s answer to the war in Ukraine” Wörsdörfer added, however, that it is also about “accelerating the ambitious goals of the Green Deal and Fit for 55 and about decreasing our dependency on fossil fuels even faster.” And the third: “The green energy transition.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

The huge support package could cost up to £150bn, or potentially even more depending on the volatile global gas market, and taxpayers are set to foot the bill for at least two years. Beyond the headline support package, major energy market changes are being planned too.

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Business Green

MARCH 28, 2023

As such he is expected to retain the SNP's plans to deliver net zero emissions by 2045, engineer a 'just transition' away from fossil fuels, and become one of the first countries in the world to fund climate 'loss and damage' projects in developing economies. But we are not neutral about where things are built.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

The company, an early partner with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, has positioned water and carbon emissions as equally critical in the climate crisis. Last year, Ecolab set a goal for net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, getting halfway there by 2030. No doubt those conversations will be at play in Starbucks’ 50th year.

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Clean Energy Trust

MARCH 11, 2020

Carbon neutral by 2050 is the go-to metric (to align with IPCC report goals). Dominion and BP made 2050 pledges; Consumers Energy in Michigan took a big step by committing to carbon neutrality by 2040, moving itself to the front of the pack in this space. (It

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Dubbed the 'Growth Plan' , the package of around 30 measures builds on Prime Minister Liz Truss's vision for a low tax and low regulation approach in the hope of driving economic growth and staving off warnings of a looming recession. Energy package costs £60bn for just 6m.

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Business Green

APRIL 28, 2020

There are reasons to be optimistic about zero-carbon air travel, but governments must carefully consider the lasting impacts of today's decisions, argues Cavin Wilson of Frontier Economics. The skies above Europe are noticeably empty. There are reasons to be optimistic about the transition to a zero-carbon air transport sector.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 14, 2020

One of the most eye-catching new commitments was Argentina's President Alberto Fernandez pledging to significantly strengthen his country's 2030 emissions target and set a new goal for carbon neutrality by 2050. Barbados' Mia Mottley committed to making the country fossil-fuel free and carbon neutral by 2030. "By

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Report: China carbon emissions fall eight per cent. The new analysis was published by Carbon Brief and is based on official figures and commercial data. It remains unclear if China's emissions have now peaked or whether the latest stimulus package from the government could lead to a rebound in emissions.

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