Business Green

JUNE 24, 2020

Covid-19 stimulus plan must prioritise green building upgrades, tree planting, fossil fuel taxes, and skills training, advises Committee on Climate Change. There is rich evidence of the many, many straightforward benefits to the economy if we do that - if we use climate investments as the basis of that recovery.".

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Business Green

MARCH 30, 2021

At the end of last year, the Energy White Paper was released. While the REA, of course, welcomed the lofty ambitions of the government, we made it clear that net zero could not be achieved by aspiration alone - you had to have the detailed policy with robust and wide-ranging support packages too. million kg of CO2 every year.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

As such, the Roadmap urges the government to publish the long-awaited Energy White Paper, so as to explain how a net zero energy system can be delivered, and release the promised National Infrastructure Strategy, which has now been delayed several times.

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Business Green

JUNE 25, 2020

The Committee on Climate Change has today set out its detailed green recovery recommendations – here is BusinessGreen's need-to-know guide. This wasn't quite the year that we ordered," noted Committee on Climate Change CEO, Chris Stark, yesterday. But it still has a huge to-do list ahead.

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Business Green

JUNE 24, 2020

The nuclear sector has become the latest industry to wade into the debate about the government's imminent green recovery package, arguing that it has a critical role to play in delivering on the UK's net zero emission target.

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Business Green

JUNE 30, 2020

The speech was inevitably overshadowed by the news Leicester has already been forced back into lockdown and undermined by the realisation the trailed £5bn package amounted to little more than a compendium of previously announced programmes that are an order of magnitude smaller than the template supposedly provided by FDR's New Deal.

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Business Green

MARCH 11, 2020

There can be no lasting prosperity for our people, if we do not protect our planet," he said, arguing that environmental action would form a key plank of the government's "Plan for Prosperity", helping to "create the high skill, high wage, low carbon jobs of the future [and develop] completely new industries in our regions and nations".

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Business Green

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Without a clear and ambitious government plan zero carbon home heating by 2050 remains a pipe dream, a new analysis from the UK Energy Research Centre warns. million units installed in British homes, a rise of 1.8 per cent from 2018, UKERC said. Moreover, many of these upgrades were not carried out to net zero standards.

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Business Green

JULY 8, 2020

We hope that the forthcoming Budget, White Paper and National Infrastructure Plan will provide further momentum'. We hope that the forthcoming Budget, White Paper and National Infrastructure Plan will provide further momentum so we can go further and faster in decarbonising our economy.".

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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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Business Green

DECEMBER 4, 2020

The implications that flow from the upgrading of the UK's 2030 carbon target are hard to underestimate - the economy is about to change for the better. The change in timing may have been modest - the full report on the CCC's recommendations for the sixth carbon budget is expected next week - but it was still significant.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Writing on Twitter, Bhutan's Sonam Phuntsho Wangdi, chair of the Least Developed Countries (LDC) Group at the UN climate negotiations, warned that at "a time when LDCs need support more than ever, ODA funding cuts take us in the wrong direction". Delivering the Prime Minister's 10 Point Plan for climate change.".

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Government Investment Climate change Carbon 59

Business Green

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Big corporations must pivot to reduce their carbon footprints in the next 10, 20 or 30 years, she explained, "so we decided to come with a different approach and build a company from inception at zero.". Aleph Farms launched in 2017. With its robotics and massive greenhouses, Iron Ox has a bigger operational footprint than other farms.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Further details forming a trailed 10-point plan for a green industrial revolution are expected to be laid out in November, with reports indicating hydrogen, carbon capture and storage, small modular nuclear reactors, electric vehicles, and green synthetic fuels are likely to feature heavily. Without the damage to the environment.".

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Wind power Government Hydrogen Electric vehicle 57

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Think tank Green Alliance today provided a broad overview of the current state of UK climate policy, with the publication of its latest report on progress against the country's short term carbon budgets and long term net zero goals. The world is moving very clearly in one direction - away from carbon and toward net zero.

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Business Green

AUGUST 25, 2021

We need a technology-neutral package," he insists. Something that focuses on all zero carbon technologies. and in meeting our legal obligation of reaching net zero carbon emissions by 2050. In the Energy White Paper, we committed to driving sustained growth in solar energy across the next decade to 2030.?".

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Prime Minister marks start of year-long countdown to Glasgow Summit with call for world leaders to put forward 'ambitious commitments to help eradicate our contributions to climate change'. He said that while there is still a year to go to the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, there was "no time to waste".

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Waste Waste Climate change Government 78

Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

… It was Thatcher who introduced the Wildlife & Countryside Act, Environmental Protection Act, Montreal Protocol, and was the first global leader to call for urgent action on Climate Change.". carbon capture/storage. offshore wind. the power system. nuclear - including small modular reactors. green financing.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

that focus on some of the more visible, day-to-day sustainability and environmental problems like waste, pollution and carbon emissions. Companies need to be informed as new policies are enacted across the globe and ensure their practices abide by these changes. Energy Use and Carbon Emissions. Similarly, the U.S.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

However, while last week we saw the PM's 10-point green plan, today there was very little from the Chancellor on net-zero and climate change. On emissions trading, the clock is ticking but still businesses wait in vain for clarity on a UK carbon pricing regime. But ambition must be matched by action on the ground.

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Government Investment Climate change Packaging 81

Business Green

APRIL 20, 2021

As reported last night, the government has formally accepted the recommendations of the Climate Change Committee (CCC) and confirmed the Sixth Carbon Budget that runs from 2033 to 2037 will require a 78 per cent cut in carbon emissions compared to 1990 levels by 2035.

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Government Aviation Policy Carbon 56

Business Green

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

But responses to a consultation on financing infrastructure published yesterday highlight electric vehicle (EV) charging, energy infrastructure such as carbon capture and storage and small modular nuclear reactors, and digital infrastructure such as fibre optic broadband and data centres, as top priorities for financing in the coming years.

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Policy Government Investment Climate change 83

Business Green

JULY 9, 2020

The trailed £3bn energy efficiency package was hugely welcome, even if questions remain over precisely how it will be administered and what will happen when the single year Budget is exhausted. But then once again the accompanying policy measures singularly failed to match the rhetoric.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

It was launched in September as part of the government's coronavirus recovery package, with Ministers claiming the £3bn funding pot would help reduce carbon emissions, slash energy bills, and create tens of thousands of jobs. This will give the reassurance needed to the building industry to invest in the scheme," he said.

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Government Hydrogen Investment Carbon 73

Business Green

MAY 12, 2020

Committee on Climate Change CEO discusses infrastructure, airline bailouts, COP26 and making the best of a bad situation. Climate change and our collective response has once again - albeit understandably this time - found itself playing second fiddle to a more immediate crisis, the full ramifications of which remain far from clear.

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Business Green

MARCH 11, 2020

Today, just weeks after his promotion to the second most powerful job in the country, the Chancellor Rishi Sunak unveiled the government's Budget for the coming year and beyond, outlining a multi-billion pound package of spending across the green economy, as well as new tax measures covering the energy sector, plastic packaging, and red diesel fuel.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

The plea for governments and businesses to treat the climate crisis as a crisis does not necessarily mean they should green light every clean tech project or pull forward every net zero target date, but it does mean climate change should inform and shape every decision. That is what properly responding to a crisis entails.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Insisting there were no politicians she could currently vote for, Thunberg argued that world leaders must begin to treat climate change as a genuine emergency and highlighted the contrast with the urgent response to the coronavirus crisis. "As The 2020s are a key decade for action on climate change," he said.

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Business Green

JULY 26, 2021

The NRLA therefore urged the government to launch a new support scheme to help landlords deliver much needed green upgrades to their properties, arguing the high cost of retrofit works such as insulation and low carbon heating remains a major barrier to action in the sector.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

The Case For Green Certification White Paper Get your copy of Green Business Bureau’s in-depth look at the opportunities, benefits, market trends and business case available to greener businesses. You can use this protocol alongside carbon footprint calculating software such as Green Business Bureau’s partner, Aclymate.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

The Climate Change Committee urged the government late last year to "get our house in order" by delivering an ambitious programme in 2020 to decarbonise the economy, noting once again that the country was badly off track to meet its medium term carbon targets, let alone its more ambitious net zero goal.

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