Business Green

JANUARY 15, 2021

Major report makes the case for new carbon tax on imported goods and goods, as the Environment Secretary reveals the UK's climate targets could eventually cover carbon embodied in imported goods.

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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

AUGUST 30, 2020

As a result, the carbon intensity of the grid averaged just 153g of CO2 per kilowatt hour (g/kWh) over the three month period, the lowest level on record, the experts said. The political aspiration is for a low carbon future but politicians have no credible way of delivering it," he said.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 15, 2021

Such systems also imply an ideal combination of political framework regulations (such as extended producer responsibility, deposit return schemes, and so on) and technical processes for waste handling. They maximize captures of high quality, high carbon-intensity material while reducing litter.

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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. There's no vaccine against climate change.

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Business Green

JANUARY 28, 2021

It could also be accompanied by action on skilling up, with the government's Green Jobs Taskforce set to report soon, and building on the recent Skills for Jobs White Paper to tool up a generation of engineers, assessors and technicians. But grants are not the only way of incentivising home upgrades.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 23, 2023

An oil and gas company run by a leading Conservative Party donor has been awarded licences to explore carbon dioxide storage under the North Sea, sparking accusations that the government is putting the interests of “its friends in the oil and gas business” ahead of the public interest.

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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

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Every car, van, replacement boiler, and the entire electricity grid must be zero carbon by the early 2030s, it said, and the economy as a whole must prepare to deliver deep decarbonisation at a pace that until recently had been expected to take an additional 15 years. He added such an approach was "really essential to meet the Paris goal".

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Business Green

JANUARY 28, 2022

But whilst the government has invested significantly in other solutions to tackling carbon emissions from food - for example food waste and agriculture - it has yet to do so in this sector. There is also more to this industry than the climate and potential health benefits. This is a particularly opportune time to make these commitments.

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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

OCTOBER 5, 2022

With the political situation moving so quickly, what may happen next is far from certain. The ghosts of the former planning white papers and the Chesham and Amersham by-election loom large and may come back to haunt the government. Simon McWhirter is director of communications, policy and places at UKGBC.

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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. be setting out ambitious plans in the run up to COP26 with sectoral strategies, including a Transport Decarbonisation Plan, Energy White Paper and an English Tree Strategy," it said.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

However, the authors warn the UK's seas are increasingly crowded and that an uncoordinated approach to the current offshore wind farm boom could hurt the potential for hydrogen and carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies in the region in the future. To achieve that, we'll need a strategic approach in an increasingly crowded space.

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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. But the Prime Minister this evening insisted that the plan would be at the heart of his ambitious economic recovery plans for the country.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Green Alliance's latest analysis of the UK green infrastructure investment gap highlights how the government is both failing to deliver low carbon investment at the scale required to put the economy on a trajectory to net zero and continuing to approve high carbon infrastructure that undermines efforts to meet the target.

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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. offshore wind.

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Business Green

MAY 18, 2021

Political and business leaders are prioritising action on nature like never before, but can this sudden uptick in engagement be translated into tangible progress? Nature is having something of a moment. We are at last, talking about these issues. The challenge now is to turn the current zeitgeist into something tangible.

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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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AutoGrid

MARCH 30, 2022

Thanks to data and modeling provided by Guidehouse Insights, the apparent answer “yes” in two of the largest states often viewed as being on opposite ends of the political spectrum. Deploying VPPs that aggregate clean DER assets during these peak hours would minimize carbon emissions, but how would these two resources compare economically?

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Business Green

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The revised strategy "reflects the ongoing global energy transition", with obligations for operators to limit reliance on imports, boost efficiency of production, and harness their skills and infrastructure to support hydrogen production and carbon capture and storage projects, the Oil & Gas Authority (OGA) said.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

The UK should end sales of fossil fuel cars within 15 years, rapidly scale up wind and solar power capacity, curb growth in air passenger numbers, use carbon labelling on consumer products, and encourage people to eat less meat and dairy in order to achieve its 2050 net zero emissions goal. It's a real step forward to have this new insight.".

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 26, 2023

The meat industry is increasingly viewed as a sector where greenhouse gas emissions cuts can and should be made, just like the fossil fuel industry Livestock accounts for a third of total global emissions of methane, a potent gas that traps heat about 80 times more effectively than carbon dioxide but breaks up more quickly in the atmosphere.

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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

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Instead, the freeze has seen the cost of motoring fall sharply compared to other forms of transport, leading to more congestion, air pollution, and carbon emissions. However, an increase in fuel duty would still present a significant political challenge.

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Business Green

AUGUST 6, 2020

There are few issues more political in the rawest, most tangible sense than the question of who gets to build what, where. The white paper reiterates the government's support for its imminent Future Homes Standard, which is meant to ensure all new homes are 'zero emission ready' - i.e. gas boiler- and cooker-free - from 2025.

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Business Green

MARCH 1, 2021

We have limited time to move from a system where around 80 per cent of our primary energy supply comes from fossil fuels, to one where low-carbon technologies dominate. Reaching the UK's target of net zero emissions by 2050 will require a complete transformation of the energy system.

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Business Green

JUNE 24, 2020

We believe that the actions we need to take to achieve our zero emissions target can help to deliver a stronger, cleaner, more sustainable and more resilient economy after this pandemic - and already there are over 460,000 UK jobs in low-carbon businesses and their supply chains," they added.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

The government responded by stressing that the 10 point plan is to be followed by a host of key policy moves in the coming months, such as the Energy White Paper, which are expected to unleash a wave of new low carbon investment.

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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 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

OCTOBER 6, 2020

The government today confirmed that a new 10 point green recovery plan is imminent, but for now at least long-awaited net zero policy measures, including the energy white paper and national infrastructure strategy, remain stuck in the pipeline. As things currently stand, the UK is on track to miss all its targets.

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Smart Energy International

JULY 19, 2022

Research done in the US found that 42% of energy-related carbon emissions came from household machines, including cars. Ignoring the “human factor” has caused some well-designed ‘behavioural change’ political campaigns to fail, say public policy analysts. Technical White Paper [link] (Rewiring America, 2020).

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

On emissions trading, the clock is ticking but still businesses wait in vain for clarity on a UK carbon pricing regime. This means a clear strategy to upgrade the UK's infrastructure and publishing the Energy White Paper.". They're throwing a combined £63bn towards carbon-cutting stimulus measures.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 24, 2020

Lyft Director of Sustainability Sam Arons pointed to Lyft’s policy work in Colorado during the Political Climate podcast last week. In the same vein, Lyft also has been advocating for more states to adopt laws such as California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS). Arons said Lyft was able to work with Colorado Gov.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

The increased funding for carbon capture and hydrogen infrastructure, as well as the promise of more R&D support for green aviation and shipping, demonstrates the government is serious about tackling hard to abate emissions and creating new Zero Carbon Clusters.

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Business Green

MAY 12, 2020

Lending high-level economic and political credence to that growing public clamour for action, the work of Chris Stark and his small team at the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) in driving the issue up the agenda should not be forgotten. Suddenly, barely days into 2020, a new paradigm began to take shape. That's the biggest risk.".

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