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. We'll be looking for the government to move from ambition to action in 2021, with new policies to make hitting the targets possible.".

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Clean Energy Canada

MAY 18, 2023

But the federal government isn’t yet taking full advantage of this opportunity, a new white paper finds. With climate and energy among the major topics to be discussed at the summit, eyes will be on each country’s policy actions and emissions performance.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Although crucial to net zero, uptake of digital technologies is being hamstrung by policy shortfalls, underinvestment, and skills shortages, Green Alliance warns. As such, the think tank is urging the government to explicitly link its digital and low carbon agendas.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 29, 2021

Delaying action until there is a carbon price, clearer risk projections or a systemwide standard is something governments are warning could quickly become unaffordable. And so, at this point, it’s hard to translate changes in climate & policy into econ & financial projections. Some have argued this is a reason for us to move slowly.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Long-sought move could help nudge consumers towards electric heat pumps and EVs by reducing cost of electricity bills. The change in policy would be gradually brought in over a decade, with the government currently expected to ban the sale of new gas boilers in homes by 2035, according to the newspaper.

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Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 12, 2023

Heavy industry represents one of Canada’s biggest sources of carbon. The chemicals and fertilizers sector – which produces many things we use every day including pharmaceuticals and food – emits almost as much carbon as steel and cement combined. There are a number of ways to cut the carbon from chemicals.

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Business Green

APRIL 21, 2021

The UK's world leading new carbon target for 2035 is worthy of celebration, but there are considerable caveats and growing fears about the government's 'magic decarbonisation tree'. Plenty of people said those first three carbon budgets were practically impossible and prohibitively expensive - they were wrong. What does that mean?

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Smart Energy International

JUNE 13, 2022

T 3 transformation, which encompasses digital transformation, energy transformation and net-zero carbon transformation, is a new model for propelling today’s campuses into the future through systematic reformation and innovation. The world is consuming increasingly more energy, which causes higher carbon emissions.

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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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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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Business Green

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

Government must deliver carbon cutting policies this year to stay on track for net zero and maintain role as climate leader at COP26, think tank warns. This policy tracker will test whether the government can stand up at the end of the year and say it is taking the necessary action and leading by example.

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2021

Cars, buses, trucks, scooters and even planes are going electric, and Britain needs an electricity grid able to cope with it, writes Onward's Ted Christie-Miller. To put this in perspective, emissions from electricity and manufacturing have plummeted by three-quarters (74 per cent) and three-fifths (56 per cent) in the same period.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Policy Exchange report explores how energy market reforms could save customers £50bn on bills by 2050 while supporting green manufacturing and offshore wind deployment.

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Business Green

AUGUST 30, 2020

That is the conclusion of independent research released today by Imperial College London and energy firm Drax, which saw experts assess the tumultuous impact of the coronavirus crisis on Britain's electricity system from April to June 2020, a period characterised by near historically low levels of demand for power.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

But BloombergNEF analysis highlights gaping holes where supportive policies are needed to spur widespread decarbonisation towards net zero. However, action from policy makers will be needed if these changes are to happen.".

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

GW of new long duration pumped hydro storage, with 90 GWh of storage, could save up to £690 million per year in energy system costs by 2050, as the UK transitions to a net-zero carbon emission system. A new study by independent researchers from Imperial College London has found that just 4.5

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

However, green businesses and environmental campaigners have repeatedly warned increased funding and clarity on a raft of climate policies are repeatedly required if the UK is to get on track to meet its emissions goals and deliver on Prime Minister Boris Johnson's promise to "build back better".

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Here, BusinessGreen rounds up all the policies, commitments, and investment pledges in the 10-point plan: 1. 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. Catalysing the hydrogen economy.

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Business Green

MARCH 8, 2020

The Treasury should set in stone a new fiscal rule for an annually-increasing carbon price in the UK, argues SSE chief executive Alistair Phillips-Davies. Ahead of COP26 in Glasgow I think it's imperative the Treasury installs a new fiscal rule: the need for an annually increasing carbon price.

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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

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 1, 2022

Could growing water stress prompt more companies to embrace water pricing policies? It's a strategy similar to the policy of setting internal carbon pricing to account for the "cost" of carbon emissions as part of a product or service. A seldom used approach. I always try to bring it back to the capital," he said.

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Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 12, 2023

TORONTO — Ekta Bibra, senior policy advisor at Clean Energy Canada, made the following statement in response to the U.S.’s s proposed new light duty vehicle standards : “With EV sales shattering records around the world, it’s clear we’re en route to a new electric age. The new proposed regulations from the U.S.

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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 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'. million heat pumps would have been sold by 2030, ahead of natural gas boilers being removed from sale entirely by 2033 at the latest.

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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

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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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 7, 2021

It will operate across the service area of Electricity North West (ENW) as well as on the national system operated by National Grid ESO, which will join ENW as a project partner, along with Schneider Electric, ENW’s advanced distribution management system (ADMS) provider. Urgency driving networks to act. The recent U.K.

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Business Green

JULY 2, 2020

The energy giant yesterday set out its top priorities for delivering net zero emissions by 2050, offering the stark assessment that the UK is "not on course to meet our fourth carbon budget commitments to decarbonise homes and transport emissions".

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 24, 2020

Lyft’s 100% EV strategy requires a policy blitz Katie Fehrenbacher Wed, 06/24/2020 – 02:00 ICYMI, ride-hailing biggie Lyft announced last week that it plans to electrify every single car offering services on its platform by 2030, including both those that Lyft owns and rents to drivers and ones that its drivers own.

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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. Green business groups warmly welcomed the move to accelerate the pace of UK decarbonisation over the coming decade.

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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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Business Green

JANUARY 26, 2022

In 2021, the UK government launched its Build Back Better policy introducing the concept of levelling up the country. million low carbon jobs by 2050. Creating these low carbon jobs could be the hope these northern towns need - but how? These enterprises are in the early stages of their low carbon journey. Partnership.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 6, 2020

Titled Making the UK a digital clean tech leader , the report outlines the ways in which smart energy, smart mobility, and smart buildings can slash energy use and carbon emissions across their respective sectors. The report also stresses that established digital technologies could deliver massive emissions savings if deployed at scale.

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Business Green

JANUARY 28, 2021

Addressing shortfalls in what remains the flagship national policy to insulate millions of homes will be top of the list. The recent Energy White Paper hints that plans for the rest of this cash will be forthcoming in the Heat and Buildings strategy, but a proper plan to carbon free homes will have eyes beyond this parliamentary term.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 16, 2020

But the technologies that can cost-effectively meet that need have so far attracted more attention from white paper authors than paying customers. I haven’t seen anything this big in nature that’s focused on long duration," said Jin Noh, senior policy manager at the California Energy Storage Alliance.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 5, 2020

The government claims delivering the new goals will produce enough renewable electricity to power every home in the country through offshore wind by 2030, meeting the average electricity needs of up to 14 million homes.

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