Business Green

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Members of the commission, which was assembled by the Zero Carbon Campaign, have been drawn from political, scientific, academic and climate policy backgrounds. The policy recommendations will be delivered to the government in a white paper due for publication in April 2020, the Zero Carbon Campaign said.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 1, 2021

They discussed Clean Energy Action’s white paper on utility accountability and how we can equitably transition to a clean energy future for a recent episode of ILSR’s Building Local Power podcast, republished here for Local Energy Rules. She has been volunteering in support of carbon-free, local energy for 20 years.

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Fossil fuels Climate change Policy Energy 131

Business Green

JULY 1, 2022

Could growing water stress prompt more companies to embrace water pricing policies? That makes it difficult for companies to fully evaluate and account for the business risk of supplies drying up as a result of climate change. Industry often pays a hugely subsidised cost for water.".

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Planet Pulse

JANUARY 23, 2024

From climate-disrupting emissions to tropical deforestation, Planet is developing the tools to help organizations track impacts and opportunities across the value chain, and to translate this intelligence into robust strategies and practical platforms.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Plans for 'comprehensive' policy document that sets out pathway to net zero emission economy confirmed in government's formal response to CCC's latest progress report. But in its 156-page response to the CCC's 'bumper' progress report , the government yesterday confirmed a raft of new deacrbonisation strategies are on the way.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 22, 2020

The government's overarching ambition is welcome, but we now need a detailed policy agenda to make net zero a reality, writes the REA's Dr Nina Skorupska?. Here at the REA we are well used to a flurry of new policy being announced just before the end of the year, but this advent has been a real bumper few weeks.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Good Law Project and Ecotricity CEO Dale Vince threaten court action unless government reviews airports planning policy before the final approval process for third runway begins. Heathrow is already one the busiest airports in the world and one of the largest emitters of carbon dioxide in the country, campaigners argue.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Prime Minister announces new target to cut emissions 68 per cent against 1990 levels by 2030, confirming a major tightening of carbon goals as part of UK's pre-COP26 submission to the Paris Agreement.

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Business Green

APRIL 14, 2020

Committee on Climate Change plans to shortly offer advice to ministers on building an economic recovery consistent with the UK's 2050 net zero target. The CCC's advice on Sixth Carbon Budget, covering 2033-37 period, had been due for publication in September, but will now appear in December 2020.

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Business Green

JUNE 14, 2021

Electricity supplier has urged government to establish stricter decarbonisation policies that can put UK on track to meeting climate goals. In a white paper published this morning, E.ON In a white paper published this morning, E.ON

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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 8, 2020

This investment programme is going to breathe life into the UK economy - it's as much an economic policy as a climate policy, particularly over the next 10 years as we recover from the pandemic'. We're going to need to achieve a faster pace of emissions reduction over the next 30 years than we achieved in the last 30."

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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2021

Ministers have vowed to establish the "world's first net zero industry" and confirmed plans to cut carbon emissions generated from these carbon intensive sector by two-thirds by 2035 and 90 per cent by mid-century against a 2018 baseline. These are transformational goals and delivering on them would be an historic achievement.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Ahead of tomorrow's Net Zero Festival, Toby Hill explores how carbon offset standards are evolving in a bid to assure clients and campaigners that promised carbon savings can be delivered. To find out more about the role of carbon offsets in the net zero transition, sign up now for a free pass to tomorrow's Net Zero Festival.

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Business Green

MAY 6, 2020

BEIS released a suite of documents regarding 'clean heating' policy last Tuesday including most importantly details of what will follow on from the RHI. This policy consultation comes in advance of a long awaited energy White Paper and in advance of a heat and buildings framework expected to be released later this year.

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Business Green

MARCH 17, 2021

The overarching ambition of the Industrial Decarbonisation Strategy is to slash greenhouse gas emissions from UK industry by two-thirds within 15 years, as part of plans to develop the "world's first" low carbon industrial sector that creates and supports up to 80,000 jobs by 2050.

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AutoGrid

AUGUST 16, 2023

At its passage, the IRA was heralded as one of the most important pieces of legislation ever passed by any nation in the fight to combat climate change. Progress to Date All told, the IRA earmarks $369 billion to respond to climate change and increase the nation’s energy security. first appeared on AutoGrid.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Into this scenario came the government's recent white paper for "levelling-up" the UK's regions - an effort to ensure that it makes "good business sense for the private sector to invest in areas that have for too long felt left behind", according to the Prime Minister's foreword. Wanted: low-carbon steel. Missed opportunities.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 24, 2020

Lyft's 100% EV strategy requires a policy blitz. So essentially Lyft has to act as a catalyst — using policy, economic and industry tools — to spur the broader transportation ecosystem to more rapidly adopt zero-emission vehicles. Lyft is committed to using the most powerful tool we have to fight climate change: policy influence.

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Business Green

MARCH 30, 2021

As the Non-Domestic Renewable Heat incentive comes to an end, there is no comparable scheme to replace it, leaving a huge gap in heat decarbonisation policy gap, explains REA chief executive Dr Nina Skorupska. At the end of last year, the Energy White Paper was released. million kg of CO2 every year.

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Government Policy Climate change Carbon 74

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. Responding to the CCC's report today, a government spokesperson said, "we agree with the Committee that tackling climate change should be at the heart of our economic recovery". "We

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Smart Energy International

JULY 19, 2022

Taking the ‘human factor’ into consideration when designing and implementing energy policy is crucial to achieving energy transition goals, writes Dr Rosa Garcia-Verdugo. Changes in people’s buying habits need to be consistent to speed up the green transition, say experts.

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Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 98

Business Green

AUGUST 24, 2020

Public awareness of climate change was at an all-time high, young people marched through the streets demanding that politicians act to safeguard their futures, and concern about the environment was recognised as one of the top five issues in December's General Election.

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Business Green

JUNE 25, 2021

Securitisation of homes with top energy ratings could create 'virtuous cycle of green lending' and compensate for weak energy policy framework, new study claims. Shields emphasised that the approach should deliver returns for lenders while also helping to decarbonise and insulate the UK's leaky and carbon-intensive housing stock.

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Energy and Cleantech Council

MARCH 11, 2020

This week, the Massachusetts Attorney General’s office released a white paper documenting the results of a symposium convened last fall to discuss how electric markets should be organized to manage the transition to a “low / no-carbon future.” And that’s economy-wide carbon pricing.).

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Darren Woods, the CEO of Exxon, celebrates the potential of carbon capture to dramatically reduce global emissions. According to Saudi Aramco’s podcast, the fossil fuel industry is innovating new climate solutions, and BP’s podcast proclaims more of the same. It’s implicitly calling for a new consensus.”

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Carbon capture, hydrogen, nuclear, EVs, and renewables all set to benefit from £12bn government stimulus plan, but critics warn funding falls well short of the level required to trigger a green recovery.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

The government has set its sights on delivering two million green skilled jobs across the UK by 2030, as it today launched a new Taskforce to chart a long-term plan to fill the growing green skills gap and support workers in high carbon industries as the economy shifts towards a net zero footing.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 5, 2022

The full details on planning arrangements are yet to be announced, however, references so far have been made to ‘removing burdensome EU environmental requirements', alongside ‘relaxing' key national and local policy requirements. Simon McWhirter is director of communications, policy and places at UKGBC.

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Business Green

JULY 28, 2020

Covid-19 has hit manufacturing hard, but with government policy support there is now a big opportunity to accelerate decarbonisation, argues Make UK's Frank Aaskov. As electricity demand slowly recovers to pre-Covid-19 levels, we must take the opportunity to accelerate deployment of low-carbon generation.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Five leading plant-based food brands and organisations team up to launch new group designed to encourage a switch to more climate-friendly diets. The UK's Climate Change Committee has called on the government to implement policies that work towards a 20 per cent shift away from meat and dairy in the next decade.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Business has a central role to play in making a successful transition to a low carbon economy," he said. Our global leadership on climate change can open up new large and attractive sectors in the world economy in which British businesses will be well placed to succeed.".

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Modelled on the UK's so-called greenbelt policy for contolling urban growth and protecting countryside land, the proposal for a nationwide 'wildbelt' would create a nature recovery network of protected green spaces in towns, cities and rural communities, according to the charity.

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2021

Cars and vans are on their way to carbon neutrality. This idea, which was put forward by the Centre for Sustainable Road Freight in the summer, would be low carbon but would also allow timetabling of transport to increase efficiency. This leads us on to another major system challenge: aviation.

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Business Green

MAY 22, 2020

A new analysis by the ECIU notes that extended lockdown into the winter months could exacerbate fuel poverty in the UK and calls on the government to implement vast energy efficiency programmes for homes that will lower heating bills while reducing carbon, spurring jobs and levelling regional inequalites.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

It is close to five years to the day since the now defunct Energy and Climate Change Select Committee released its report detailing how policy uncertainty was hindering the low carbon transition. Does this annual circus risk killing effective carbon prices in other sectors before they even start?

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

The Prime Minister's much heralded action plan to reach Britain's goal of net zero carbon emissions by 2050 looks set to arrive on Wednesday. But to find out how many of them will actually turn into decisions, we will have to wait until the even longer-heralded Energy White Paper appears - hopefully - later this month.

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