Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

As the latest round of United Nations climate change negotiations draws to an end in Egypt this weekend, you could be forgiven for feeling pessimistic. Countries' emissions targets have hardly changed since a year ago. So, is the cause of international cooperation on climate change hopeless? Far from it.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 6, 2024

As the energy transition continues at pace, one core component in 2023 gained renewed attention as a crucial element – electric vehicles. Specifically in the UK, a change in political leadership could accelerate EV sales growth. Both energy security and climate change considerations favor EVs.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 2, 2020

The race to mainstream electric vehicles by 2030 Katie Fehrenbacher Wed, 12/02/2020 – 00:30 The world’s leading companies and policymakers are coalescing around setting targets for adopting zero-emission vehicles around a 2030 time frame. Increasing concern over the climate crisis is also driving accelerated goals.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

OCTOBER 17, 2023

As the world grapples with the urgent need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and combat climate change, sustainable energy engineering has taken center stage.  Reliance on fossil fuels contributes to greenhouse gas emissions and climate change. Insufficient support for electric vehicle adoption.

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Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 19, 2024

s clean energy sector could grow six per cent a year out to 2050, if our political leaders seize the opportunity. Heat pumps, electric vehicles, energy efficiency upgrades and even small installs like smart thermostats can save British Columbians money, all while reducing emissions. families to make ends meet. Finally, B.C.

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Business Green

MARCH 12, 2020

The coronavirus crisis gripping the global economy has forced clean energy analyst BloombergNEF (BNEF) to downgrade its expectations for the solar, battery, and electric vehicle (EV) markets, in one of the first signals that the escalating pandemic could undermine urgent efforts to combat climate change.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 26, 2019

In states around the country, oil-backed groups are fighting utility electric vehicle plans. Their strategy is reminiscent of the lobbying campaign against California's auto regulations in the 1990s, which set electric vehicle adoption back by a couple decades. Support for this podcast is brought to you by Sungrow.

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Clean Energy Canada

OCTOBER 25, 2020

“While voters surely found many reasons to re-elect this government, an important pillar of its first term in power was the CleanBC plan to re-establish the province as a national climate leader while strengthening the economy. British Columbians expect their political leaders to build on the important work that has already begun.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

The urgency of now is underscored by the climate crisis and the need for climate justice. . Businesses continue to lead on climate in the absence of U.S. political will. of how the climate crisis affects people. Educate and build awareness about climate justice. When they are left behind, everyone’s harmed.

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Canadians will spend less money on energy than they do today as we transition from fossil fuels to clean energy, but big challenges remain: the way energy will be consumed and paid for will change, and certain families may find the whole process difficult without help.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Akielly Hu, Grist’s news and politics fellow, discussed the growing popularity of degrowth with Kohei Saito — a Marxist author whose 2020 degrowth manifesto quickly turned into a bestseller in Japan and beyond. In your free time, you play sports, spend time with loved ones, garden, and engage with local politics.

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Business Green

MARCH 12, 2020

The coronavirus crisis gripping the global economy has forced clean energy analyst BloombergNEF (BNEF) to downgrade its expectations for the solar, battery, and electric vehicle (EV) markets, in one of the first signals that the escalating pandemic could undermine urgent efforts to combat climate change.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

The UK is the latest country whose government environmental groups have sued for failing to take sufficient action on climate change. Most modelled pathways for meeting the Paris Agreement's goal of averting dangerous climate change involve scaling up carbon removal. So what does a good net zero strategy look like?

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

New YouGov survey reveals over half of Brits think climate change is 'the biggest risk to the Earth's future' and are taking steps to curb emissions. But only nine per cent intend to fly less and just three per cent said they were considering switching to an electric vehicle.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 24, 2019

This next decade is crucial for the transition away from gasoline, and electric vehicle makers and climate-minded politicians are not going far enough. Read the original: It will take more than EV promises from car companies to limit climate change damage.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The government's mooted policy changes will damage, but not derail the net zero transition - but Sunak's political cynicism threatens to burn down something precious I must admit, I didn't think they would do it. Even the Climate Change Committee said the 2030 target was pretty ambitious, arguing that a 2032 date could still work.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 24, 2019

This next decade is crucial for the transition away from gasoline, and electric vehicle makers and climate-minded politicians are not going far enough. Read more here: It will take more than EV promises from car companies to limit climate change damage.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

This internationally agreed goal is intended to prevent the worst impacts of catastrophic climate change, including increased frequency of flooding and droughts, that could be both economically and environmentally catastrophic. The UK’s climate targets are also popular with the electorate.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 19, 2021

We already have the tools and the technology we need to tackle climate change," said Rebecca Williams, director of COP26 at the GWEC. What we don't have yet is the unprecedented political will we need to make this happen.".

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Bob Ward, policy and communications director at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, said the editors of The Telegraph had “lost their minds when it comes to climate change”. Both newspapers [The Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] are campaigning against climate policies,” Ward told DeSmog.

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Energy and Cleantech Council

JUNE 16, 2021

The post TCI Update: Final Model Rule Addresses EJ, but Political Will May Be Lacking first appeared on Energy & Climate Counsel. TCI will be an effective regional structure for making those investments, and it makes sense for New York to act in concert with other states in the region.

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Energy Innovation

JANUARY 31, 2024

After another year of climate extremes, it’s little surprise that abnormal weather and climate change are a central focus of the summit. Structural change through policies and governance is necessary to solve the climate crisis at the speed and scale required. Examples of key choices within each are represented.”

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The City Fix

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

This year is a critical moment for climate action. The mounting impacts of climate change, from floods and droughts to hurricanes and heat waves, are taking a major toll on human lives and economies globally — particularly in vulnerable developing nations.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 20, 2020

Tesla Closes Its Factories in California and New York : As calls for people to stay home grew increasingly urgent, Tesla announced plans to close two plants making electric vehicles and products for the solar and energy storage markets. This week's podcast episode of Political Climate takes a look. Will other U.S.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Back when BusinessGreen launched we wrote about electric vehicles that were glorified golf buggies and distant dreams that renewables might one day account for 20 per cent of the grid. Now electric vehicles are transforming the global auto market and clean power dominates the energy market.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

While the advert will no doubt seem enticing to BusinessGreen readers, the final wording of the post came as a disappointment to the digital marketing specialist behind the campaign, who had hoped to entice young people to the event with the more punchy appeal to "discover your role in the fight against climate change".

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Business Green

APRIL 6, 2020

Key architect of the 2008 Climate Change Act returns to frontline politics, as Sir Keir Starmer unveils Labour's new front bench team. As such, Miliband was instrumental in passing the 2008 Climate Change Act, which set UK decarbonisation targets into law and established the Committee on Climate Change (CCC).

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

It claims that the development of electric vehicles could cost 114,000 jobs, yet quoted a study that said the electric car market could support 246,000 jobs by 2040. The address and surrounding area is home to a number of pro-Brexit, opaquely funded, free market think tanks that are critical of regulation and climate action.

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Business Green

JUNE 29, 2022

It makes you wonder if what is missing from the UK government's deeply flawed and badly underpowered pursuit of both its climate goals and levelling up agenda, is someone willing to take yesterday's 600 page tome from the Climate Change Committee (CCC) , drop it on a table with a satisfying thud, and declare "this is what we believe".

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

May said the UK has “confounded the pessimists” by taking action on climate change while growing the economy. May went on to say government action on climate change is popular, including among voters in the “Red Wall” seats the Conservatives won from Labour in 2019. A Unifying Issue’. Chequered Record.

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Business Green

JULY 23, 2021

Indeed, John Kerry, the US Climate Change Envoy, spoke at Kew Gardens this week to make that very point. Glasgow isn't a ribbon cutting event, it requires real political muscle. Let's not forget that a significant portion of our aid has been used to tackle the causes of climate change, as well as its effects.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Pointing to recent polling evidence, including in so-called 'Red Wall' seats, she said climate change and nature loss are a major concern for all voters, arguing that "there is no constituency in this country for trashing the environment". We have shown that climate action can go hand-in-hand with economic growth," May said.

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Mosaic

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

adults of all ages, geographic locations, genders, income levels and political affiliations about job interest in alternative energy and related fields. They asked a cohort of more than 5,000 U.S. We are seeing a wide range of applicants at Mosaic, from highly qualified engineering talent to trade industry veterans,” Parish said.

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Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 15, 2021

This means that, also for the first time ever, every major party in Canada is taking climate change seriously. We hope that political disagreements going forward can now focus on how we do better, rather than on doing less. While the policy is not as ambitious as existing versions in B.C.,

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The City Fix

APRIL 6, 2023

Political landscapes, regulations, industry interests, market set-ups, financial resources and social considerations all. The momentum towards low-carbon and sustainable transport is growing globally, but the sector still lags behind many others and each country faces a unique path to travel.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Uber pledges to ensure all its drivers have fully electric vehicles in Europe, the US, and Canada by 2030, and across the rest of the world by 2040. It plans to expand its Uber Green programme to more than 65 cities globally, enabling users to specifically request a hybrid or electric vehicle for an extra US$1.

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Charged

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

In UK politics, climate change policies cut across party lines. Andy Palmer, who has been the CEO of Aston Martin and the COO of Nissan, told The Independent that abandoning the 2030 ban would be a “significant step back for the UK’s global leadership in fighting climate change.”

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