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.

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Business Green

JULY 22, 2020

If the UK wants to be a global climate leader and finance hub at COP26, a carbon charge should be a core part of its climate strategy, argues Green Finance Institute CEO Rhian-Mari Thomas. The Zero Carbon Commission will publish its final white paper at the end of the summer. The interim findings can be found here.

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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

JANUARY 29, 2021

On the anniversary of its pledge to become a 'carbon negative' company, Microsoft has provided a snapshot of its decarbonisation progress to date, revealing it curbed its absolute emissions by six per cent last year while purchasing 1.3 million metric tonnes of carbon removal credits through its first offset tender process.

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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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Hydrogen Government Electric vehicle Investment 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.

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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

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

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

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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Hydrogen Government Electric vehicle Investment 75

GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 7, 2021

The QUEST project was awarded £8 million by Ofgem’s Network Innovation Competition. energy white paper , the first step in the development of overarching new energy policy, claimed that the country’s power sector would be “overwhelmingly decarbonized” by the 2030s. The recent U.K.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Reports yesterday suggested the PM has been forced to delay several times a major speech touting a new policy and investment package for the green economy due to the disruption wrought by Covid-19. Nevertheless, environmental groups broadly welcomed the latest green policy signals.

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Business Green

JULY 11, 2022

This joint research centre will bring together world-leading scientists and innovators in decarbonisation and climate repair to develop new technology and solutions to the climate emergency. There is greater urgency than ever before to tackle global pollution, of which CO2 is one of the biggest sources," said Ryan.

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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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Transportation Electricity Policy Fossil fuels 80

Business Green

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The government's new Net Zero Strategy may have had notably little to say about the need to curb agricultural emissions and calls for a shift towards a lower carbon diet, but that has not stopped the private sector's efforts to lead the way in encouraging more people to embrace a more plant-based diet.

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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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AutoGrid

OCTOBER 18, 2023

But cutting-edge digital technologies that leverage artificial intelligence (AI) and enable these prosumers to become part of virtual power plants are ushering in innovative approaches to grid reliability and reshaping the Indian energy landscape. The stakes are particularly high because India is the world’s third largest energy consumer.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Reports yesterday suggested the PM has been forced to delay several times a major speech touting a new policy and investment package for the green economy due to the disruption wrought by Covid-19. Nevertheless, environmental groups broadly welcomed the latest green policy support.

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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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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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Business Green

JUNE 15, 2021

At the end of last year, the government announced ambitions to generate 5GW of low carbon hydrogen production capacity by 2030 in its 'Ten Point Plan for a Green Industrial Revolution', while hydrogen was also highlighted as a key net zero technology in the Energy White Paper which emerged several weeks later.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 9, 2021

One of the key innovations is Mainspring’s use of “air springs” and an “air-bearing system” as cushions of air that hold the magnet-equipped oscillators in place within the structure that captures their back-and-forth motion to generate electricity. Low-emissions, fuel-flexible, dispatchable on-site power.

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AutoGrid

AUGUST 16, 2023

When fully implemented, the legislation could reduce carbon and other greenhouse gas emissions by 41% by 2030, according to researchers at Princeton University. Download White Paper The post IRA Turns 1: Forget Crawl, Let’s Run! To date, the IRA has already had a major impact on green infrastructure.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

It aims to build a "high-level and interdisciplinary network of innovators, entrepreneurs, and corporate leaders from the rapidly growing renewable hydrogen community, including industrial off-takers". Green hydrogen is the buzz word of Europe's energy policy but who are the entrepreneurs and doers that are driving this technology?"

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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.

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Business Green

JANUARY 12, 2021

Signed by UCL climate scientists, WWF, and executives from Arup, UPS, and members of the Aldersgate Group of businesses, the letter notes how more than 230 Covid vaccines are now in development, demonstrating "an unprecedented pace" of innovation in response to the coronavirus crisis.

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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

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Over two thirds of respondents said they expect to next year undertake increased activities to "support the net zero carbon emissions reduction target" compared to 2019. Often lost travel time has disappeared, together with the stress and carbon emissions of the morning commute. It has not led to a collapse in productivity.

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Energy Innovation

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Energy Innovation partners with the independent nonprofit Aspen Global Change Institute (AGCI) to provide climate and energy research updates. The value of learning, in one sense, has long been incorporated into studies of innovation. Bioenergy and carbon capture and sequestration were explicitly constrained. C target.

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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

AUGUST 13, 2020

With just 30years to deliver, it's high time to put in place the policies, processes and investment needed to cut our emissions and start our journey in earnest to net zero. We have world-leading expertise as a result of academic research and industry innovation and trials - many of which have been led by the country's gas network companies.

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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. Research done in the US found that 42% of energy-related carbon emissions came from household machines, including cars.

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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. The past decade has been dominated by expert discussions, but now we urgently need to switch to delivery if we are to stand a chance of fully decarbonising our homes by 2050.".

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Business Green

JUNE 24, 2020

As well as investing directly in shovel-ready green projects, policies mooted in the report include raising taxes on fossil fuels, phasing out new petrol and diesel car sales by 2032, and adding 'green strings' such as green product development goals and climate risk assessment requirements to any company bailouts.

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Business Green

JUNE 23, 2020

"Worldwide there is growing recognition of the moral imperative to ramp-up efforts to tackle the climate crisis," said Matthew Fell, CBI chief UK policy director. Third, the report reiterates previous calls for the government to deliver a series of key policy decisions that have been stuck in the pipeline for months.

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Business Green

JANUARY 25, 2021

Which is why we must ensure that the energy system is designed to provide the very best for consumers and allows energy companies to keep innovating as we build back greener.". "This would help bring forward green economic growth, accelerate our journey towards net zero and save consumers money on their energy bills.".

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

It is not every day that you find that the UK's biggest business group, most influential trade union bosses, seasoned policy experts, and protestors blocking motorway junctions are in broad agreement. It made for damning reading.

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