Clean Energy Trust

OCTOBER 6, 2020

What’s Up with All These Special Purpose Acquisition Company Transactions, and What Does It Mean for Electric Vehicles? In July, we talked about how numerous electric vehicle companies were going public this year ?—?frequently So, does that mean all of the electric vehicle companies going public this year are frauds?

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Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 2, 2024

TORONTO — Rachel Doran, vice president of policy and strategy at Clean Energy Canada, made the following statement in response to Manitoba’s 2024 budget : “Manitoba’s Budget 2024 rightfully recognizes the opportunities for households and businesses in a cleaner, more sustainable economy. “It million allocated for rebates) $6.4

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 22, 2024

Although prevailing wisdom holds that time is running out, BloombergNEF’s New Energy Outlook 2024 seemingly shows how the world could still achieve the major goal of the Paris Agreement – holding global warming to well below 2°C and avoiding the worst impacts of climate change – and what it would take to get there. is buildings).

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The government's mooted policy changes will damage, but not derail the net zero transition - but Sunak's political cynicism threatens to burn down something precious I must admit, I didn't think they would do it. On the policy front, it is worth looking at the detail of what is being proposed. How wrong was I?

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Grist

MARCH 6, 2021

The racial and social disparities exposed by the September fire are emblematic of a broader picture: Communities of color, low-income people, and other marginalized groups are disproportionately impacted by the effects of climate change, according to community activists across Cascadia. But can they? And one of the most polluted.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

A new 5-gigawatt “low-carbon” hydrogen target for 2030 has been revealed, along with an ambition to heat an entire town with hydrogen by the end of the decade. Electric vehicles get turbo-charged. Carbon capture target to capture 10 megatons of carbon dioxide by 2030.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Green Alliance warns that major decarbonisation policy gaps must be filled next year if government is to achieve its bold 2030 carbon reduction target. The UK has set some great targets during 2020 about its intention to tackle climate change," she said. "As

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Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 1, 2022

VICTORIA — Mark Zacharias, special advisor at Clean Energy Canada, made the following statement in response to the scheduled April 1 federal carbon price increase from $40 to $50 per tonne of emissions: . Under the federal government’s carbon price, most Canadians receive more money back than they pay. KEY FACTS.

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Business Green

JUNE 12, 2024

The sense of continuity Sunak was particularly apparent in the sections on climate change, energy, and the environment , where there was a notable paucity of new policy proposals, investment, or ideas. It is a policy platform that should help boost green investment, but is still clearly unfit for purpose.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

A group of Conservative backbenchers have teamed up to champion a series of net zero policy interventions spanning the full breadth of the green economy, in bid to encourage the government to deliver a fresh wave of ambitious climate policy measures in the run up to the critical COP26 climate summit in November.

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Clean Energy Canada

JULY 15, 2021

has the highest uptake of electric vehicles in North America, and in the Vancouver region, EV adoption is even higher. The difference is that Vancouver benefits from a trifecta of EV policy solutions at the federal, provincial, and municipal government levels. per cent in Toronto and 3.5 per cent across the country.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Evaluating regulations, subsidies, pricing mechanisms, and hybrid policies. Abstract: There is a growing recognition among businesses, policymakers, and the general public regarding the economic and societal risks of climate change. In its simplest form, a carbon tax or fee reduces emissions due to the elasticity effect.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Kevin Richardson, Chief Executive, CILT(UK), said: “Transport accounts for 28% of UK carbon emissions and, despite the downturn caused by the coronavirus pandemic, transport emissions will grow with recovery unless action is taken. Setting carbon budgets for the transport sector. Mandating the use of sustainable fuel.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 5, 2023

A new briefing from the Climate Change Committee (published on 24 May) calls for more decisive efforts to tailor the government’s skills and jobs strategy to ensure the majority of workers are not left behind by the transition to net zero. A hands-off approach to the Net Zero workforce from Government will not work.”

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 12, 2024

Cox is running to be London Mayor in May for Nigel Farage’s right-wing party Reform UK, which calls for the UK’s net zero policies to be “scrapped”, and is funded by climate science deniers and fossil fuel interests. Cox has publicly denied climate science. The party is polling around ten percent.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 10, 2021

Kyoto Protocol agreed to use as a benchmark for their efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and 2050, the year many countries set as their target for carbon net zero. … while a lot has changed, not much has changed. The halfway mark has now passed between 1990, the year that countries who signed the U.N.

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Energy Innovation

JUNE 16, 2022

This week, Energy Innovation released new rese arch evaluating California’s climate progress and identifying a policy pathway that would reaffirm California as a climate leader. This modeling showed the state is off track for its 2030 and 2045 climate goals, and must triple its historic emissions reduction pace.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Eight years ago, the field of carbon removal amounted to a handful of academic lab projects and a few fledgling companies working on a novel concept: sucking carbon out of the atmosphere. A lot has changed since then. Scientists have become more outspoken about the need for carbon removal. Last year, a major U.N.

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Clean Energy Canada

DECEMBER 19, 2023

OTTAWA — Joanna Kyriazis, director of public affairs at Clean Energy Canada, made the following statement in response to the federal government’s final electric vehicle availability standard : “With record numbers of Canadians choosing an EV over a gas car in recent months, it’s clear that they want electric vehicles.

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Business Green

AUGUST 18, 2022

The Oxford English Dictionary's Patricia Stewart charts how language related to the environment, climate change, and sustainabiliy is changing to reflect global new realities and concerns. Therefore, it can be used as a tool to understand the evolution of society and the challenges it faces at a given time.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Carbon tax could generate £75bn by 2030 that could be investing into Covid-19 recovery efforts, emerging green technologies, and cushioning against any rise in household bills, campaign group argues.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 6, 2024

As the energy transition continues at pace, one core component in 2023 gained renewed attention as a crucial element – electric vehicles. Government policy supportive of EVs provides tailwinds in many markets too. Specifically in the UK, a change in political leadership could accelerate EV sales growth.

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Business Green

AUGUST 20, 2020

As the UK builds back "better, greener and fairer" we believe the government should act to ensure previous mistakes are not repeated in the roll out of electric vehicles (EVs) and deliver what the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) calls a 'universal service expectation'. Go green by going Dutch.

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Elemental Excelerator

APRIL 21, 2022

In our work deploying first-of-their-kind projects with climate tech entrepreneurs, we hear again and again that policy barriers present constant challenges, regardless of the industry in which they operate. That’s why we launched the Policy Lab on Earth Day in 2021. Here are five key insights.

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Business Green

MAY 7, 2021

With G7 and COP26 fast approaching, Environmental Audit Committee chair Philip Dunne argues the government must adopt a solutions-driven approach to environmental policy. Now is the time for effective government policy interventions to deliver these commitments to protect our environment.

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E2 Environmental Entrepreneurs

JUNE 1, 2019

Policy Wins in Colorado set a roadmap for a carbon-free future and stronger Colorado economy May was a historic month for Colorado’s clean energy economy and environment. Jared Polis unveiled his bold plan for the state to get 100% of its electricity from renewable sources by 2040.

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Energy Innovation

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

By Olivia Ashmoore This week, Energy Innovation Policy & Technology LLC® and RMI published 48 state Energy Policy Simulator (EPS) models. The free, open-source, peer-reviewed, and nonpartisan EPS model empowers users to analyze the effects of hundreds of climate policies. climate goals. climate goals.

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Business Green

JANUARY 18, 2022

In this challenging context, ambitious policy commitments and public funding to support the roll-out of new low carbon technologies may not, at first glance, look particularly attractive to some parts of government. The economic and social case for policy clarity has never been more important.

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Business Green

JULY 2, 2021

The Times reports consumers could see their petrol and gas bills 'soar' under scheme, but energy sector players point to risks of inaction and argue wider policy push can help minimise costs for consumers. Rates would be fixed, but could change over the time, it adds. The proposals could also conflate a number of different measures.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Strong, clear climate policies across power, transport and heavy industry, would help to support businesses to achieve climate goals, argues Volvo Car's. As we approach the fifth anniversary of the signing of the Paris Agreement, I've been reflecting on the climate action journey that Volvo Cars has been on since 2015.

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Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 15, 2021

This means that, also for the first time ever, every major party in Canada is taking climate change seriously. We were pleasantly surprised to see the Conservative climate plan has its own version of a carbon price and acknowledges the economic efficiency of the policy. s Low Carbon Fuel Standard.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

MAY 30, 2024

From electric passenger ferry construction for Anacortes to electric vehicle chargers in Washtucna, the Climate Commitment Act is revitalizing infrastructure and creating new job opportunities for all Washingtonians, both east and west.”

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Business Green

JUNE 5, 2024

Of course we are going to tackle climate change and get to net zero," he said. He has adopted this rhetorical gambit while making only a handful of policy changes that will have a negligible impact on costs for households that have spent years being rocked by soaring energy and food bills and flat-lining wages.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 24, 2021

The first, biggest step to slowing climate change is switching electricity generation from coal and gas to wind and sun. Once this largest source of carbon emissions is greened up, the second-largest, transportation, can tap renewable energy via electric vehicles.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

The UK is the latest country whose government environmental groups have sued for failing to take sufficient action on climate change. Because global temperature change is determined by cumulative emissions, the pace at which we reduce emissions is important. Most options for removing carbon are biological, such as tree planting.

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Business Green

AUGUST 13, 2020

One Nation Conservatives group of more than 100 MPs call for 2030 fossil fuel car ban, carbon tax and tree planting funding.

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Elemental Excelerator

APRIL 21, 2023

Elemental Excelerator, a nonprofit investor driving climate technology for social change, announced today the expansion of its climate coaching team to encompass experts in project and carbon finance, policy and equity and access. “Participating in the Elemental program has been transformational for us. .

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