Business Green

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Government argues coal mine would be compatible with net zero goals, but MPs across political spectrum condemn move as a 'backward step' for UK climate action. Opening a coalmine in the UK now is a serious mistake: economic, social, environmental, financial and political," he said.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

CBI, Make UK, Institute of Directors, the Federation of Small Businesses, and the British Chamber of Commerce call for joined-up approach to decarbonisation that manages impact on high carbon industries. It comes amid increasing calls for a much bigger focus from the government on smoothing the path to net zero for workers and businesses.

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Business Green

MARCH 16, 2021

Strategy to set out a number of new targets for the decarbonisation of industry, as government confirms details of nine projects to be awarded funding through Industrial Decarbonisation Challenge - but opposition warns plans lack necessary ambition.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 4, 2024

But federal records newly reviewed by DeSmog reveal that the group’s co-founder has personally donated to the Conservative Party of Canada, whose leader Pierre Poilievre is campaigning to abolish the country’s most prominent climate policy, a nationwide tax on carbon emissions, saying it brings “misery and suffering on the Canadian people.”

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

A think tank run by former Prime Minister Gordon Brown is calling on the UK government to convene a ‘COPUK' climate summit with a year that would rally politicians up and down the country behind a joined-up plan to reduce emissions. COPUK would allow us all to put party politics aside and work together for the good of our planet.

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Business Green

MARCH 16, 2021

Strategy to set out a number of new targets for the decarbonisation of industry, as government confirms details of nine projects to be awarded funding through Industrial Decarbonisation Challenge - but opposition warns plans lack necessary ambition.

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Business Green

JANUARY 28, 2021

Jess Ralston from the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU) sets out her expectations for the government's imminent Heat and Buildings Strategy. Next up in the government's long-awaited set of sectoral decarbonisation plans is climate-proofing our homes. Here's a quick run through of what we can expect.

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Business Green

MARCH 3, 2020

Yesterday's decision to let onshore renewables compete for clean power contracts shows the Prime Minister is willing to spend some of his political capital to get the net zero transition motoring. Is the government serious about the net zero transition? It has, somewhat belatedly, started to flesh out its COP26 strategy.

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Business Green

JUNE 14, 2022

Local government has a starring role to play in the mission to eliminate emissions across the UK's economy, writes the Environmental Industries Commission’s (EIC’s) Guto Davies. Many councils - from across the political spectrum - are already taking a leading role on decarbonisation and in driving a green recovery from the pandemic.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

CLG Europe brings together influential European businesses which share the aim of delivering climate neutrality through "progressive public policy". However, in joining the group Microsoft said it will step up its efforts to support the EU's goal "to become the world's first climate-neutral continent".

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Hydrogen Fuel News

OCTOBER 28, 2023

The term “clean hydrogen” doesn’t have a specific official definition, but on the whole, it tends to refer to H2 that is produced in a way that doesn’t generate carbon emissions. Of course, there is also the question of what to do with carbon that has been captured.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Ultimately, the challenge faced by California and Germany with high-level penetrations of renewables is one that many federal and local governments must grapple with as they pursue policies in an attempt to mitigate the most dangerous impacts of climate change. and even more so for the myriad targets that have been adopted globally.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 23, 2024

The people inside this conference, the execs from oil and gas, the political figures from the governments that work with these companies, they know exactly how bad what they’re doing is,” said Benjamin Hoffman, another member of the Sunrise Movement. They know they’re exacerbating the climate crisis. It’s not new.”

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Business Green

AUGUST 23, 2021

With the long-awaited Heat and Building Strategy imminent, could the government be set to lay the foundations for a green building revolution? Crucially, it also reported that the government has concluded it is only fair households that rely on fossil fuels should contribute to the cost of moving to new solutions.

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Business Green

JANUARY 6, 2022

New guide on how to ensure forest projects deliver promised benefits comes amidst soaring carbon offset prices and fresh calls for improved governance of natural capital projects. Political will and the financial commitments made there present a huge opportunity to deliver the enormous benefits of forests to address these challenges.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 3, 2023

Major sponsors of the congress include the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, and the Pathways Alliance, as well as the governments of Canada, Alberta, and Calgary. It describes itself as a “non-advocacy, non-political organization.”

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Fairsnape

JANUARY 22, 2020

Once again Great Thunberg has shaken our thinking on carbon with her speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos. With our focus on “net zero emissions” “low carbon economy” and “carbon neutrality” are we cheating and fiddling around with numbers? We don’t need a “low carbon economy.” Let’s be clear.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 26, 2022

That project’s greenhouse gas emissions could far eclipse any carbon reductions that Netflix promises in its “net-zero” plan. We believe that with your help we will bring Canada closer to becoming the best governed country in the world,” the annual report says of donors like Netflix. .

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

The global peak in oil consumption may already be past us, according to a new report from Carbon Tracker — and China and India's rapid transition to low carbon transport is the reason why. Credit: Carbon Tracker). The situation in India is a little more complicated, Carbon Tracker's Bond noted.

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The City Fix

APRIL 6, 2023

The momentum towards low-carbon and sustainable transport is growing globally, but the sector still lags behind many others and each country faces a unique path to travel. Political landscapes, regulations, industry interests, market set-ups, financial resources and social considerations all.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Global body calls on governments to establish 'credible and irreversible' climate policies that drive 25 per cent cut in emissions by 2030. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned that the cost of climate inaction will dwarf the economic hit of a managed transition to a lower carbon economy over the next eight years.

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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? If not sooner.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

government last year. billion tonnes of planet-warming emissions into the atmosphere, leading international climate researchers to deem Montney the world’s sixth-largest “carbon bomb.” Another west coast facility, Cedar LNG, received environmental approval from the B.C. border that contains as much as 449 trillion cubic feet of gas.

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Business Green

JULY 20, 2021

Should this pace of growth persist, we will fall short of the wind capacity required for carbon neutrality by 2050 by 43 per cent, and effectively be condemned to fail in our collective climate goals," the letter states. However, we need to act fast and with the collective force of government, investors, industry and communities.".

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Clean Energy Canada

MAY 29, 2020

Around the world, governments are listening. On May 27, the European Commission proposed a €750-billion (C$114-billion) recovery fund to steer the continent toward carbon neutrality by 2050. As some COVID restrictions begin to ease, leaders are mapping out their plans for economic recovery. Other countries.

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Grist

JANUARY 24, 2020

That means more transparency in things like food labeling — the carbon footprint of a banana, say — as well as corporate and political transparency. Voters need to know if their politicians are bankrolled by fossil fuels, and corporations need to disclose their carbon assets. The next two can be achieved in 5 to 10 years.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 3, 2019

degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, reach carbon neutrality by 2050 and cut greenhouse gas emissions by 45 per cent from 2010 levels, by 2030. The key missing ingredient is a lack of political will he said: “Political will to put a price on carbon. degrees “is still within reach.”

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Wood pellets were considered to be renewable energy because replanted forests could recapture carbon lost in the clear cutting and burning process. As more and more science came out about the industry… it became clear that this is not the green and carbon neutral energy it was made out to be,” Zucchino said.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Latest evidence of support for onshore renewables development comes as government faces further splits over controversial coal mine planning decision. The results come as the government weighs how to respond to a growing backbench rebellion over the currently planning rules, which effectively block new onshore wind projects in England.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2022

After months of protracted and often bitter wrangling, Ireland’s coalition government yesterday published emissions budgets for each part of the economy, in a bid to meet its ambitious climate goals. After the painful financial crash of 2008/9, the political atmosphere in Ireland ahead of the lifting of quotas was febrile.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 16, 2023

This story is part of a DeSmog series on the influence wielded by the gas lobby in Europe BERLIN, Germany — Germany’s push to achieve climate neutrality by 2045 could, by some projections , soon turn the vast network of natural gas pipelines powering the country’s homes and industry into one of Europe’s biggest stranded assets.

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Clean Energy Canada

DECEMBER 6, 2021

and Morocco, with concrete economic strategies to reach carbon neutrality by 2050 while increasing employment and investment. products low-carbon. products low-carbon. s government must have good data to drive evidence-based decision-making to know which programs to fund and for how long. And in doing so, B.C.

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Mr. Sustainability

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Funding decision granted and first contracts signed for the Northern Lights project Summary - Following a historic vote in parliament on December 15th 2020, the Norwegian Government announced its funding decision for the ‘Northern Lights’ CO2 transport and storage project. Site preparation for the Northern Lights project started on 4 January.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

are collaborating on a net zero industrial cluster that they believe will establish a template for any country seeking a carbon-neutral economy. But concrete proposals on how the country could get there are few and far between, with Brexit and (yet) another ele ction dominating the political ag en da. Earlier this year, the U.K.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

An area of seagrass and rock on the seabed, Mediterranean sea, France: “Blue carbon” ecosystems could prevent approximately 1 gigatonne of CO2e from entering the atmosphere by 2050, says the report. Ocean-based climate action can play a much bigger role in shrinking the world’s carbon footprint than was previously thought.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 12, 2021

The paper comes ahead of this November’s United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, Scotland and amid proliferating pledges from polluting corporations and governments to achieve what they claim is carbon neutrality — increasingly via dubious offsets — by some distant date, often the year 2050. Secretary-General.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Thousands of companies have hitched themselves to the carbon-neutral bandwagon, from fossil fuel producers like BP and Shell, to other household names including United Airlines, Dell, Burger King, and Vodafone. These actors are increasingly turning to voluntary carbon markets (VCMs) to offset their emissions.

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