GreenBiz

APRIL 9, 2021

When millions lost power during Texas’ deadly energy crisis in February, former governor Rick Perry expressed this sentiment of rugged individualism — even if it came at the expense of grid resilience. . Texans would be without electricity for longer than three days to keep the federal government out of their business," Perry said. .

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Clean Energy Canada

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

The EU is investing nearly a third of its historic stimulus package toward exactly this end. Federal and provincial investments to bring electric vehicle manufacturing to Ontario this week may have saved thousands of local jobs, as Ford Motor Co. Op-ed | “Ottawa wants more electric vehicle manufacturing in Canada.

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Business Green

JUNE 3, 2020

As new study suggests net zero transition could create over 350,000 new jobs and deliver £90bn in economic benefits, Rishi Sunak is said to be preparing a green jobs package that promises to go beyond previous manifesto promises. through a clean, resilient recovery that delivers for both people and planet".

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Business Green

OCTOBER 18, 2020

In the latest addition to the library of studies that has underscored the benefits of a 'green recovery' to the coronavirus pandemic, economists have today published a new research detailing how stimulus packages that invest in low carbon technologies and infrastructure will generate more income, jobs, and GDP than traditional recovery measures.

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Business Green

JUNE 28, 2020

In a letter sent to Chancellor Rishi Sunak today, committee chairs Darren Jones and Philip Dunne argued that a net zero aligned economy recovery could establish the UK as a climate leader ahead of its presidency of the G7 and COP26 climate conference in 2021, while stimulating the economy, generating jobs, and improving public health and wellbeing.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Episode 239: Wildfires and resilience, California’s car ban Heather Clancy Fri, 10/02/2020 – 02:00 Week in Review Stories discussed this week (5:15). GreenBiz analyst Sarah Golden speaks with state senator Jeff Golden (her father) about the climate change influence and what’s next for improving resilience.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Episode 239: Wildfires and resilience, California’s car ban Heather Clancy Fri, 10/02/2020 – 02:00 Week in Review Stories discussed this week (5:15). GreenBiz analyst Sarah Golden speaks with state senator Jeff Golden (her father) about the climate change influence and what’s next for improving resilience.

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Business Green

MAY 28, 2020

Prime Minister gives strongest commitment yet to green recovery as he calls for 'fairer, greener and more resilient' global economy. The UK will take this forward by hosting the UN climate change conference in Glasgow next year.". "We The UK will take this forward by hosting the UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow" ?? ?? ??

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Business Green

JULY 24, 2020

Governments worldwide are largely failing to heed calls from the United Nations, green groups, leading economists and energy experts to gear the estimated $11.8tr-worth of Covid-19 support packages unveiled in recent months towards supporting the environment and net zero transition, according to new analysis.

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Elemental Excelerator

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Elemental’s 12th cohort focuses on a range of societal challenges, including sustainable urbanization, building decarbonization, electric vehicle charging, last-mile logistics, recycling optimization and regenerative food production. This year, record heat and climate-fueled disasters have devastated our communities. Of the $12.5M

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Clean Energy Canada

MAY 28, 2020

When asked how the pandemic affected their thoughts on the climate change issue, an equal number said that they were more convinced than ever that a change towards a cleaner economy was possible as said these ideas should come behind concerns with the economy and health. The growing interest in electric vehicles is notable.

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GreenBiz

MAY 17, 2021

As the North American program manager for the Climate Group’s EV100 program, Badalian works to get large companies to commit to 100 percent electric mobility by 2030, then helps them replace global fleets with electric vehicles, deploy charging stations and affect government policy. LinkedIn | Twitter.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 14, 2021

“What we are trying to do as a fund is define what climate change entrepreneurship needs to look like,” Karthik Chandrasekar, the founder of early stage cleantech venture capital firm Sangam, said in an interview at his office early last year. In 2020, Climate Collective partnered with the U.S.-based

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Business Green

JUNE 1, 2020

We are therefore writing to ask that the economic recovery plans you are developing align with the UK's wider goals and deliver a clean, just recovery, that creates quality employment and builds a more sustainable, inclusive and resilient UK economy for the future. Stephanie Pfeifer, CEO, Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change.

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Elemental Excelerator

AUGUST 12, 2022

It’s not often that we have a chance to savor a history-making win on the climate change front. The $370B in climate provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act — the biggest climate bill ever passed — provides such a moment. This is the largest climate funding package Congress has ever passed.

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Business Green

JUNE 4, 2020

Raft of energy efficiency, green transport, and hydrogen programmes put at heart of €130bn stimulus package, as Bank of England confirms financial support for airlines. The German government has unveiled plans for a massive €130bn stimulus package that features at least €40bn climate-related spending.

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The City Fix

APRIL 1, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic is already affecting the lives of hundreds of thousands of Americans, and it’s poised to get worse before it gets better. Our primary concern is for the health and welfare of all those affected. The COVID-19 outbreak’s. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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Business Green

APRIL 21, 2020

Antonio Guterres argues leaders must act decisively to deal with both the coronavirus and climate crisis - just hours after President Trump vows to bail out the US oil industry. Climate disruption is approaching a point of no return," Guterres will warned in a hard-hitting address timed to coincide with Earth Day.

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Business Green

JUNE 21, 2020

Conservationists have urged the government to make nature restoration a key pillar of its forthcoming economic recovery package, claiming it could create thousands of jobs across the country while tackling biodiversity loss and the climate crisis. It remains to be seen what will be included in the government's recovery package.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Projects authorized for funding under the bill include renewable power, building efficiency, grid infrastructure, industrial decarbonization, clean transportation, reforestation and climate-resilient infrastructure. It could also direct much-needed investment in economically and environmentally disadvantaged communities.

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Business Green

JUNE 21, 2020

Conservationists have urged the government to make nature restoration a key pillar of its forthcoming economic recovery package, claiming it could create thousands of jobs across the country while tackling biodiversity loss and the climate crisis. It remains to be seen what will be included in the government's recovery package.

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Business Green

MAY 5, 2020

Climate-friendly stimulus policies to reboot economies in the wake of the coronavirus crisis offer a far better mechanism for boosting jobs and growth, compared to unconditional bailouts for high carbon industries, a major new analysis by a group of leading economists has found.

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Business Green

AUGUST 3, 2020

One of the most important is our commitment to tackling climate change. We have worked together to drive climate action across the international community. And at this critical moment in the fight against climate change, we want to build on this collaboration. We have shared ambition, expertise and innovation.

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Business Green

JUNE 30, 2020

The government should draw up a strategy to achieve net zero emission land-use across England by 2045, implement net zero standards for new buildings, and embark on a major nature and forest restoration drive in order to hit climate targets, leading countryside charity CPRE has urged.

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E2 Environmental Entrepreneurs

JULY 20, 2020

In March, it passed trillions of dollars in relief packages that respond forcefully to the immediate economic and public health crises we face. That package helped send clean energy jobs soaring, from a few hundred thousand to the 3 million-plus we have today, including more than 32,000 in Iowa alone at the start of the year, according to E2.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

He highlighted how the Act, which passed last autumn after lengthy negotiations, was helping to bolster US climate resilience by delivering "new electric grids able to weather the next major storm [and] roads and water systems to withstand the next big flood".

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Business Green

JUNE 14, 2020

In a letter sent to Boris Johnson today, more than 50 UK charities warn that preventing the worst impacts of climate change is contingent on a green recovery to the coronavirus crisis. Steele estimated that a green recovery could support "at least 210,000 jobs" and generate £90bn a year for the UK economy.

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Business Green

JULY 17, 2020

Thousands of green projects are raring to go across Europe to help build resilient Covid-19 recovery, study suggests. Setting out its draft recovery plan back in May, the EU Commission promised to place its Green Deal programme and 2050 net zero ambition at the heart of its €750bn investment package to get the economy moving again.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern wasted little time raising the stakes in her nation’s fight against climate change after handily winning re-election in October. Drawing on that mandate, Ardern declared a "climate emergency" and set the wheels in motion for New Zealand’s public sector to become carbon neutral by 2025.

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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. The big question now is whether the government will accept the need to act.

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Sustainability Consulting

JULY 8, 2020

As countries begin to form post-pandemic recovery plans, many are considering it an opportunity to tackle climate change. This study complements a previous University of Oxford working paper, Will COVID-19 fiscal recovery packages accelerate or retard progress on climate change? Scale up EV manufacturing ?

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Joe Biden last night pledged to immediately return the US to the Paris Agreement on climate change, as the US election entered its final straight with the Democrats confident they are closing in on victory in what remains an agonisingly tight race. Today, the Trump Administration officially left the Paris Climate Agreement," he wrote.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Investing in the low carbon economy is a good investment that will supply jobs, cut costs and reduce pollution all while combating climate change. By investing in a more sustainable economy we can address a wide range of issues including the increasingly imminent threat of climate change We have seen the return of 7.9

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Business Green

JUNE 1, 2020

More than 200 leading UK companies, investors, and organisations have jointly called for a green coronavirus recovery plan in an open letter today which urges the government to build "a more inclusive, stronger and more resilient" path towards building a net zero emission economy in the wake of the impending recession.

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Business Green

APRIL 20, 2020

In its most comprehensive assessment of the global energy transition to date, the International Renewable Energy Association (IRENA) today set out a compelling case for ensuring post-Covid-19 economic stimulus packages align with long-term climate and sustainable development objectives.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 2, 2020

Senate will consider a bipartisan energy package this week that could be this year’s best legislative hope to increase federal funding for a number of energy technologies, from solar, wind and batteries, to more efficient fossil fuel-fired power and carbon capture. The American Energy Innovation Act, introduced Thursday by Sens.

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Business Green

JUNE 29, 2020

Moreover, speaking over the weekend Home Secretary Priti Patel hinted plans for a further increase in road-building investment were being actively considered as part of the government's imminent economic stimulus package.

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