Business Green

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Detailed plans for decarbonising energy supply, accelerating the roll out of electric vehicle charge points, and connecting hard to reach areas with high capacity broadband, should also be delivered as soon as possible, according to the report.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

However, the firm said it would still "keep the lines of communication open with government" regarding future options at both sites, raising the prospect that the plans could be revived if the government's long awaited Energy White Paper helps address the financing challenges that continue to dog proposals for new nuclear projects in the UK.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

However, investors will also be hoping that the imminent Energy White Paper accelerates the timetable for the clean power contract auctions that will determine the pace of new development. Here, BusinessGreen rounds up all the policies, commitments, and investment pledges in the 10-point plan: 1. Catalysing the hydrogen economy.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 5, 2020

The Prime Minister will use his Conservative Party conference speech tomorrow to trail a hotly-anticipated 10-point plan for a "green industrial revolution" - full details of which are set to be unveiled later this year - as well as announcing a major package of support for offshore wind.

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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

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Business Green

JULY 29, 2021

The government harbours hopes that, as well as delivering low carbon power to the grid to serve UK homes, HTGRs may also be able to help provide electricity for green hydrogen that could then potentially be used to help decarbonise a raft of other processes across transport and home heating. and exciting advanced?nuclear

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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 23, 2020

Reports from CBI, EnergyUK, ECIU, and ScottishPower all hammer home calls for ambitious green recovery package. The government has been inundated with calls from green trade bodies, campaigners and academics for it to deliver a green stimulus package in recent weeks. The consensus keeps building.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

The government has been accused of coming up short with its much-vaunted green recovery plan, as further details on its £12bn low carbon investment package were released yesterday that suggested the new measures would only deliver around half of the CO2 cuts required to hit UK climate targets over the coming decade.

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Business Green

JUNE 30, 2020

Prime Minister to reaffirm tree-planting plans as part of £5bn 'New Deal' style recovery package, but green campaigners fear 'false start' as key funding announcements still yet to be confirmed. There is very little announced today which will do anything to accelerate the transition to a zero carbon economy.

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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

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Series of reports and policy documents published by the Department for Transport this week seek to advance 'future of transport' programme and spur new wave of low carbon transport innovation. The latter solutions provide low-carbon alternatives to transport by car that could cut down on delivery times and air pollution, it explained.

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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. Electrical systems could provide a significant share of future heat supply," it states.

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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

JUNE 25, 2020

At 196 pages, the report is a wide-ranging, highly detailed, and genuinely compelling analysis of the myriad challenges and opportunities that face the UK as it seeks to deliver a green recovery, meet near-term carbon targets, and set the UK on track for a net zero transition over the next three decades.

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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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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

AUGUST 25, 2021

From delivering less than one per cent of Britain's then-tiny renewables capacity in 2010, solar is now a major plank of Britain's electricity system, providing a third of the grid's electricity supplies on several occasions in 2020. We need a technology-neutral package," he insists.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Sunak again indicated how a mix of high and low carbon projects could be supported by the funding, including new bypassed, railway station upgrades, and traffic reduction measures.

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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

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

In recent months Johnson has similarly signalled his support for an acceleration in offshore wind development, investment in new green hydrogen infrastructure, carbon capture technology clusters, electric vehicle charging networks, new nuclear technologies and expanded tree-planting programmes. carbon capture/storage.

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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. The organization’s latest paper discusses how sustainability goals can be fostered through competition thus refuting the outdated belief that good business and environmentalism cannot coincide.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

It is expected to include a raft of new funding and policy proposals designed to accelerate progress in a host of areas, such as clean energy deployment, energy efficiency upgrades, hydrogen production, carbon capture and storage development, and the switch to electric vehicles.

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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

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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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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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

MAY 12, 2020

Meanwhile, public polling suggests bailing out high carbon companies without attaching carbon reduction targets would be an unpopular move. Encouragingly, word from the EU Commission suggests it remains steadfast in its 2050 net zero ambitions and that combatting climate change should feature strongly in economic recovery packages.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Instead, it looks to have opted for a package of loan guarantees for energy suppliers and targeted support for fuel poor households. The oil and gas industry has warned that a windfall tax could jeopardise its ability to fund new offshore wind, hydrogen, and carbon capture projects, which is a legitimate concern.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

In at least 18 of the world's biggest economies, support for industries and projects with considerable negative environmental impacts have dominated recovery packages, the analysis suggests. per cent - around £1.1bn - of China's recovery package has been designated for green projects.

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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

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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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