Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Further details forming a trailed 10-point plan for a green industrial revolution are expected to be laid out in November, with reports indicating hydrogen, carbon capture and storage, small modular nuclear reactors, electric vehicles, and green synthetic fuels are likely to feature heavily.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Writing on Twitter, Bhutan's Sonam Phuntsho Wangdi, chair of the Least Developed Countries (LDC) Group at the UN climate negotiations, warned that at "a time when LDCs need support more than ever, ODA funding cuts take us in the wrong direction". Delivering the Prime Minister's 10 Point Plan for climate change.".

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

But the report also highlights how repeated delays to crucial climate policy decisions and relatively modest levels of support from the Treasury are fuelling fears that the UK will not be able to go into the crucial COP26 Climate Summit with a sufficiently ambitious domestic net zero strategy. But it needs government action.".

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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

AUGUST 25, 2021

We need a technology-neutral package," he insists. The government has said it wants to leave the exact breakdown of the UK's renewable energy mix to the market, but Hewett accuses the government of "cherry picking" its approach, given its decision to set headline targets for offshore wind and low carbon hydrogen production.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Prime Minister marks start of year-long countdown to Glasgow Summit with call for world leaders to put forward 'ambitious commitments to help eradicate our contributions to climate change'. He said that while there is still a year to go to the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, there was "no time to waste".

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

In August 2020, the government's official advisory body the Committee on Climate Change said the ban should be brought forwards to "at least 2032" , while a growing number of corporates, including oil majors BP and Shell, have signalled they would support a 2030 date.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

However, while last week we saw the PM's 10-point green plan, today there was very little from the Chancellor on net-zero and climate change. This means a clear strategy to upgrade the UK's infrastructure and publishing the Energy White Paper.". But ambition must be matched by action on the ground.

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Business Green

JULY 9, 2020

The trailed £3bn energy efficiency package was hugely welcome, even if questions remain over precisely how it will be administered and what will happen when the single year Budget is exhausted. But then once again the accompanying policy measures singularly failed to match the rhetoric.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

The scheme offers grants worth up to £5,000 - rising to £10,000 for low income households - against the cost of approved energy efficiency measures such as insulation, heat pumps, and hydrogen-ready boilers.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

… It was Thatcher who introduced the Wildlife & Countryside Act, Environmental Protection Act, Montreal Protocol, and was the first global leader to call for urgent action on Climate Change.". Separate reports suggested an update on government plans to support a new battery gigafactory in the UK could also feature.

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Carbon Government Packaging Climate change 72

Business Green

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

In total, it is expected to lop off around £4bn from the UK's overseas aid funding, some of which would have gone towards helping tackle climate change abroad. Greenpeace UK's head of politics Rebecca Newsom argued it would "sour the UK's diplomatic relationships in the run-up to the crucial Glasgow climate conference next year".

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

The plea for governments and businesses to treat the climate crisis as a crisis does not necessarily mean they should green light every clean tech project or pull forward every net zero target date, but it does mean climate change should inform and shape every decision. That is what properly responding to a crisis entails.

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Government Policy Climate change Investment 36

Business Green

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Insisting there were no politicians she could currently vote for, Thunberg argued that world leaders must begin to treat climate change as a genuine emergency and highlighted the contrast with the urgent response to the coronavirus crisis. "As The 2020s are a key decade for action on climate change," he said.

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Business Green

JULY 26, 2021

The Chancellor needs to develop a financial support package that works for landlords and tenants," said Ben Beadle, chief executive of the National Residential Landlords Association. This should especially be targeted at the hardest to treat properties where the cost of work will be prohibitive for landlords.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

The Climate Change Committee urged the government late last year to "get our house in order" by delivering an ambitious programme in 2020 to decarbonise the economy, noting once again that the country was badly off track to meet its medium term carbon targets, let alone its more ambitious net zero goal.

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