Business Green

DECEMBER 8, 2020

A range of innovative new policies and financial products are to be debuted over the next year in a bid to make it easier for households and businesses to deploy zero emission heating systems. They're also backed by recommendations for the fiscal and policy incentives required to support their roll-out.".

Carbon 97

Carbon Real Estate Policy Investment 97

Business Green

AUGUST 13, 2020

The PM must fulfill his pledge to 'invest massively in hydrogen' backed by a comprehensive H2 strategy, writes Energy Networks Association chief executive David Smith. This is the hydrogen moment. Currently the UK is leading the global hydrogen race. The UK needs to move fast to maintain its world-leading position.

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Hydrogen Investment Natural gas Methane 76

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.

Carbon 83

Carbon Climate change Government Politics 83

Business Green

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Dual boost for emerging hydrogen economy as key trade bodies launch new initiative and Hyundai and Ineos ink agreement to advance fuel cell technology development. To fully decarbonise energy in Europe we need renewable hydrogen," said Giles Dickson, CEO of WindEurope.

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Hydrogen Europe Energy Energy 93

Business Green

JUNE 15, 2021

National Grid's Antony Green sets out the company's wish list for the government's hotly-anticipated Hydrogen Strategy which is expected to emerge summer 2021. With expectations for 2021 as a milestone year for climate change as COP26 fast approaches, hydrogen is one of a few key areas government is exploring that could help achieve net zero.

Hydrogen 72

Hydrogen Business Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring 72

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.

Hydrogen 99

Hydrogen Government Electric vehicle Investment 99

Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2021

Cars and vans are on their way to carbon neutrality. As the batteries to make HGVs electric would be too big to stick on the side of a big truck, hydrogen has often been seen as a possible silver bullet for this huge contributor to emissions. This leads us on to another major system challenge: aviation.

Transportation 87

Transportation Hydrogen Electricity Scooters 87

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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Government Policy Hydrogen Carbon 58

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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Policy Carbon-neutral Hydrogen Government 66

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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Government Hydrogen Fossil fuels Carbon-neutral 88

Business Green

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Analysis published by Aurora Research notes that UK could become hydrogen leader but warns regulatory issues must be tackled in forthcoming hydrogen strategy.

Hydrogen 86

Hydrogen Europe Natural gas Demand 86

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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Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 99

Business Green

DECEMBER 14, 2020

After several delays spanning at least a year, the government has finally unveiled vision for a future net zero energy system - here are the eight things you need to know about the long-awaited Energy White Paper. To describe autumn 2020 as a busy period for green economy policy in the UK would be an understatement.

Building Energy Monitoring 84

Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 84

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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COP Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Carbon 59

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.

Hydrogen 73

Hydrogen Government Electric vehicle Investment 73

Clean Energy Canada

JUNE 5, 2023

In response, many of our G7 peers are pouring billions into cutting carbon from their heavy industries. As our G7 counterparts charge ahead on industrial decarbonization, Canada must also act ambitiously or risk falling to the back of the pack, according to a new Clean Energy Canada white paper.

Hydrogen 52

Hydrogen Carbon Government Investment 52

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.

Policy 59

Policy Carbon-negative Government Carbon 59

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.

Carbon 70

Carbon Government Policy Global warming 70

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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Government Policy Climate change Carbon 86

Business Green

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Creation of a new UK Seas Authority and appointment of a Minister for the North Sea among measures that could ensure efficient and environmentally responsible planning of clean energy technologies in area key to UK’s successful net zero transition, Policy Exchange argues. The North Sea is absolutely central to that whole mission.".

Government 90

Government Energy Energy Policy 90

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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Government Energy Energy Electric vehicle 74

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.

Policy 73

Policy Government Fossil fuels Politics 73

Business Green

OCTOBER 5, 2020

It follows Johnson's claim last week that he wanted the UK to be the "Saudi Arabia of wind power", as he promised to make a "big bet" on CCS, hydrogen, and wind power in a bid to "build back greener" from the Covid-19 crisis. Nevertheless, environmental groups broadly welcomed the latest green policy signals.

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Wind power Nuclear Power Government Packaging 85

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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Government Investment Packaging Hydrogen 101

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."

Carbon 85

Carbon Policy Government Investment 85

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.

Hydrogen 63

Hydrogen Investment Policy Demand 63

Business Green

OCTOBER 5, 2020

It follows Johnson's claim last week that he wanted the UK to be the "Saudi Arabia of wind power", as he promised to make a "big bet" on CCS, hydrogen and wind power in a bid to "build back greener" from the Covid-19 crisis. Nevertheless, environmental groups broadly welcomed the latest green policy support.

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Investment Wind power Packaging Hydrogen 52

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.

Fossil fuels 86

Fossil fuels Government Policy Carbon 86

Grist

MAY 18, 2021

The friends, all engineers by training, had designed a machine that could turn agricultural waste, like almond shells, into renewable hydrogen fuel. They’d even found a partner, the owner of a fueling station for hydrogen-powered cars, who wanted them to build a pilot plant at his facility. That’s where carbon removal comes in.

Climate change 127

Climate change Startups Building Energy Monitoring Carbon-negative 127

Business Green

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

The government is under growing pressure to unveil a host of long-awaited green policy plans and frameworks before the end of the year in order to help businesses mobilise a new wave of investment in net zero-compatible infrastructure.

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Government Policy Nuclear Power Investment 101

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.".

Transportation 80

Transportation Electricity Policy Fossil fuels 80

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

Britain's biggest business group urges government to fast track rollout of host of green technologies, including new CCUS, hydrogen, EV, and renewables projects. As COP26 chair and holder of the G7 presidency next year, the UK has a unique opportunity to prove itself a global climate leader post-Brexit," Fairbairn will say.

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Government Aviation Hydrogen Electric vehicle 46

Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

A new analysis highlights the increasing availability of low cost capital for net zero technology and infrastructure, but calls for a clearer policy framework to attract it. As a result, it urges the government to development a framework to make them more attractive to such sources of low cost capital.

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Policy Investment Government Hydrogen 72

Business Green

DECEMBER 15, 2020

The row over Sizewell led the headlines, but there is so much more to the Energy White Paper and its promise to deliver a decisive shift away from fossil fuels. Whisper it, but I'm not sure the inevitable reignition of the row over the UK's nuclear plans is the most important part of the long-awaited Energy White Paper.

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Fossil fuels Energy Energy Nuclear Power 78

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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Politics Government Policy Carbon 95

GreenTechMedia

MARCH 9, 2021

That will allow its devices to convert from using natural gas, which emits carbon dioxide when converted into energy, to fuels that are carbon-neutral such as biomethane or hydrogen as they become more widely available, without significant changes in how they’re designed or operated.

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Energy Energy Carbon-neutral Fossil fuels 130

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.

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Fossil fuels Climate change Organic Carbon 126