Business Green

MAY 19, 2021

Nuclear Industry Association (NIA), RenewableUK and Solar Energy UK team up to demand clearer, ambitious clean energy goals. However, today the UK's main clean energy trade bodies warned that an acceleration in clean power capacity deployment is required if emissions goals and rising demand for electricity is to be met.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 14, 2020

government’s long-awaited energy white paper is out with confirmation of fresh negotiations with EDF over a new nuclear power station and a drive to push up the price of carbon. is reinforcing its effort to establish itself as a climate leader. It will host the next round of the UN climate change negotiations in 2021.

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Planet Pulse

JANUARY 23, 2024

From climate-disrupting emissions to tropical deforestation, Planet is developing the tools to help organizations track impacts and opportunities across the value chain, and to translate this intelligence into robust strategies and practical platforms.

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AutoGrid

AUGUST 16, 2023

August 16, 2023, marks the first full year of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), and this milestone demands a health check. At its passage, the IRA was heralded as one of the most important pieces of legislation ever passed by any nation in the fight to combat climate change. Just how has the IRA been doing and what’s ahead?

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

The company, which has been in development over the past year, has stated its goal as addressing “two of the most critical problems affecting humankind – increasing energy demand and climate change”.

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2021

Labour leader promises climate change and the green economy will be central to Party's plans 'now and at the next election'. Tackling the climate emergency is the defining challenge of the next decade," he said. The climate emergency will be central to Labour's agenda both now and at the next election.".

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Business Green

DECEMBER 22, 2020

The Ten Point Plan looked to phase-out the sale of new petrol and diesel cars and vans by 2030 and I know that the electric vehicle charging infrastructure sector stands ready to meet demand should a supportive regulatory regime be put in place. And finally to the Energy White Paper.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 6, 2021

The Future Food Movement has found that the majority of people who work in the food sector want more training on how they can tackle climate change. The organisation last week published a white paper entitled Tomorrow's Talent: Skills for a Climate Smart Food System outlining the need to expand the food industry's green skills base.

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Business Green

JULY 16, 2021

"The strategy touches on many of the most critical sustainability challenges that the world is facing, including climate change, biodiversity loss and obesity," said Sophie Larence, senior ESI researcher at Rathbone Greenbank Investments. "It

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Business Green

MARCH 5, 2023

Writing exclusively for BusinessGreen , Rudd admitted the question of how to ramp up private sector finance for climate solutions to the level required to prevent runaway climate change was an area she was "increasingly concerned about." "The

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Smart Energy International

JULY 19, 2022

It seems everyone in the EU is doing something to fight climate change; a 2021 Eurobarometer survey showed that 96% of Europeans have taken at least one action to tackle climate change. No place like home: fighting climate change (and saving money) by electrifying America’s households. Griffith, S. &

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Business Green

JULY 28, 2020

The sector has seen a 45 per cent reduction in current demand and signs of a protracted downturn and slow recovery. The impact was swift and extensive and we most likely have not seen the full extent of it as customers will have built up their stock during the lockdown, which will depress future demand.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

As we stand a year away from the start of the COP26 Climate Summit, and five years on from the Paris Agreement, we believe there is an opportunity for the UK to demonstrate the right level of ambition to guide a green recovery and secure international momentum," they wrote.

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Business Green

AUGUST 24, 2020

Public awareness of climate change was at an all-time high, young people marched through the streets demanding that politicians act to safeguard their futures, and concern about the environment was recognised as one of the top five issues in December's General Election.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

Renewable energy is in demand like never before. Businesses of all sizes are prioritising carbon reduction and environmental responsibility, driven both by government targets and by demand from customers for more sustainable products and services. Growing demand for carbon-free energy. Building towards a carbon-free future.

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Business Green

JUNE 24, 2020

Covid-19 stimulus plan must prioritise green building upgrades, tree planting, fossil fuel taxes, and skills training, advises Committee on Climate Change. Responding to the CCC's report today, a government spokesperson said, "we agree with the Committee that tackling climate change should be at the heart of our economic recovery". "We

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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

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

As such, the review of the UK's oil and gas licensing regime announced today is aimed at helping to form a plan for the sector's future "in a way that is aligned with tackling climate change", the government said. But at the same time the stranded asset risks stalking the sector remain all too real.

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Business Green

MARCH 19, 2021

BP confirmed the project will be developed in stages, with an initial 500MW of capacity expected to come online by 2027 and additional capacity expected over the years that follow as demand for hydrogen gathers pace, BP said.

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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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Business Green

JUNE 24, 2020

Ahead of the publication of the Committee on Climate Change's annual progress report on the UK's decarbonisation efforts tomorrow, the Nuclear Industry Association (NIA) today published a major new report warning the UK's net zero goal is "at risk" without a new wave of nuclear development.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The UK's oil and gas industry watchdog has the first time set an obligation for the sector to contribute to the nation's 2050 net zero emissions target, in a revised strategy submitted to Parliament yesterday aimed at driving as clean and efficient production as possible "as long as this demand exists".

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 14, 2022

That is, much of the benefits of sustainability in business come from how a brand is perceived by investors, customers, and employees, as we explain: 87% of American consumers support brands that advocate for the issues they care about, with 76% of such consumers expecting companies to take action against climate change.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

However, it is equally important over the longer term to avoid any repeat of the current crisis by expanding our own sources of clean domestic power as well as reducing demand - and subsequent carbon emissions. Many of these changes are welcome and necessary and will enable private investment to flow into the UK.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

A lack of coordinated policies, constant changes of direction, and a failure to build up delivery capability have left the UK "well off track" to meet its overarching emissions target, the leading think tank argues in its new report Net Zero: How the government can meet its climate change target.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Fuel efficiency may have improved across the board, but the make-up of the UK fleet has also been changing, with the two category winners in recent years the diametrically opposed SUVs and their cleaner cousins in the form of EVs and small hybrids.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

And as concern over climate change and dietary health mounts, that trend is set to continue. These companies are investing in vegan offerings because of growing demand that has created an increasingly lucrative market for plant-based diets.

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Business Green

JUNE 30, 2020

All I can say is that if so, then that is how it is meant to sound and to be, because that is what the times demand. The UK leads the world "in the long term solutions to climate change, in wind, solar, hydrogen, CCS nuclear", Johnson said, and is now committed to leading the world in zero emission aviation through its new 'Jet Zero Council'.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 3, 2020

We need a fully flexible, decentralised grid network in order to most efficiently reach net zero and ensure a system which can react nimbly to changing patterns of weather and demand. This is a critical year for our planet, and for the UK companies seeking to deliver a sustainable future.

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Business Green

JUNE 25, 2020

The Committee on Climate Change has today set out its detailed green recovery recommendations – here is BusinessGreen's need-to-know guide. This wasn't quite the year that we ordered," noted Committee on Climate Change CEO, Chris Stark, yesterday. But it still has a huge to-do list ahead.

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Energy Innovation

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

A full list of AGCI’s quarterly research updates covering recent climate change research on clean energy pathways is available online at [link]. These original images were produced by the author’s prompt: “People learning how to solve climate change with solar, wind, and batteries.”. Source: Rolnick et al.

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Business Green

JULY 1, 2022

That makes it difficult for companies to fully evaluate and account for the business risk of supplies drying up as a result of climate change. Water-stressed regions around the globe are grappling with the realities of climate change's effects on water availability. That's not to suggest climate change is easy.

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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2021

The government acknowledged that as the decade continues "further support" will be needed, pointing to the £1bn CCS infrastructure fund and £240m net zero hydrogen fund set out in the recent Energy White Paper. Industrial decarbonisation is set to feature in UK trade and diplomacy.

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Green Market Oracle

MAY 14, 2020

Whether as a defense against global pandemics or as part of a wider climate strategy companies are exploring ways of improving their supply chain resilience. Now more than ever companies need to increase their efforts to build more resilience into their supply chains so that they can quickly respond to changing demands and disruptions.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Home energy efficiency upgrades have stalled since 2012, according to the UK's Committee on Climate Change (CCC) , while last year actually saw a record number of domestic gas boiler sales, with 1.67 million units installed in British homes, a rise of 1.8 per cent from 2018, UKERC said.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 8, 2020

That is the conclusion of a "world first" analysis unveiled by the government's independent climate advisory body today, which for the first time provides a detailed vision for driving down greenhouse gas emissions to net zero right across one of the world's largest industrialised economies.

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Business Green

APRIL 22, 2020

The world currently finds itself battling a major public health and economic crisis as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, yet - as the green economy knows only too well - it also faces a race against time to avoid a crisis of far greater and longer-lasting proportions in the form of accelerating climate change.

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