Business Green

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Modelled on the UK's so-called greenbelt policy for contolling urban growth and protecting countryside land, the proposal for a nationwide 'wildbelt' would create a nature recovery network of protected green spaces in towns, cities and rural communities, according to the charity.

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Business Green

MARCH 30, 2021

As the Non-Domestic Renewable Heat incentive comes to an end, there is no comparable scheme to replace it, leaving a huge gap in heat decarbonisation policy gap, explains REA chief executive Dr Nina Skorupska. At the end of last year, the Energy White Paper was released.

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Business Green

MARCH 12, 2021

Last week, the fast-casual restaurant chain Chipotle Mexican Grill announced a new policy that ties executive compensation in part to environmental, social and governance (ESG) metrics. Chipotle is the latest company to spice up its executive pay packages to include social and environmental goals. In practice - well, it's hard to tell.

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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. Net zero policy progress has been sluggish. He isn't wrong.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) has urged the government to get on with fast-tracking the UK's push towards net zero emissions, amid rising frustration from business over the absence of detailed decarbonisation plans and ongoing delays to key green policy measures.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

However, the firm said it would still "keep the lines of communication open with government" regarding future options at both sites, raising the prospect that the plans could be revived if the government's long awaited Energy White Paper helps address the financing challenges that continue to dog proposals for new nuclear projects in the UK.

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Business Green

JUNE 30, 2020

The speech was inevitably overshadowed by the news Leicester has already been forced back into lockdown and undermined by the realisation the trailed £5bn package amounted to little more than a compendium of previously announced programmes that are an order of magnitude smaller than the template supposedly provided by FDR's New Deal.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

MAY 1, 2019

The Climate Law Institute wages innovative legal and grassroots campaigns to protect people, wildlife and ecosystems from climate change and the dirty and dangerous fossil fuel industry. Meet with government officials and staff on clean transportation policies, and grow and maintain those relationships. Travel required.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

MAY 1, 2019

The Climate Law Institute wages innovative legal and grassroots campaigns to protect people, wildlife and ecosystems from climate change and the dirty and dangerous fossil fuel industry. Meet with government officials and staff on clean transportation policies, and grow and maintain those relationships. Travel required.

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Law Fossil fuels Transportation Policy 40

Business Green

JUNE 24, 2020

The nuclear sector has become the latest industry to wade into the debate about the government's imminent green recovery package, arguing that it has a critical role to play in delivering on the UK's net zero emission target. The intervention comes at a critical time for the UK's nuclear industry.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 9, 2021

Joel Makower Tue, 03/09/2021 – 02:11 Last week, the fast-casual restaurant chain Chipotle Mexican Grill announced a new policy that ties executive compensation in part to environmental, social and governance (ESG) metrics. Chipotle is the latest company to spice up its executive pay packages to include social and environmental goals.

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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 For its part, the government has announced some major green building policies this summer, despite the disruption caused by Covid-19.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

It is not every day that you find that the UK's biggest business group, most influential trade union bosses, seasoned policy experts, and protestors blocking motorway junctions are in broad agreement. It made for damning reading. The analysis we've published today shows how much the Prime Minister and Chancellor have yet to do.

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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 investments, policies, and priorities that should flow from that target will reshape the UK economy for the better. The plan is starting to come together.

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Business Green

MARCH 11, 2020

Chancellor Rishi Sunak has today sought to beef up its net zero transition plans in the face of the escalating coronavirus crisis, unveiling a raft of new green spending plans and policy moves designed to deliver on the government's promise "to be the first in history to leave our natural environment in a better state than we found it".

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Business Green

JULY 8, 2020

We hope that the forthcoming Budget, White Paper and National Infrastructure Plan will provide further momentum'. We hope that the forthcoming Budget, White Paper and National Infrastructure Plan will provide further momentum so we can go further and faster in decarbonising our economy.".

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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

OCTOBER 6, 2020

The long-awaited Energy White Paper setting out the government's road map to net zero power and heating is also thought to be imminent. Ambition is important but it's useless without a proper plan and package of proposals to deliver it," he said. "To

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Business Green

AUGUST 25, 2021

Roughly 160MW of solar is expected to be installed on public sector buildings alone in 2021 through the government's Public Sector Decarbonisation Scheme, and the industry is now keenly anticipating details of other grants and incentives designed to catalyse the decarbonisation of the UK's homes expected in new policy documents this autumn.

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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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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Companies need to be informed as new policies are enacted across the globe and ensure their practices abide by these changes. s exit from the European Union, the coronavirus pandemic and social and economic hardship – all of which have led to or are pushing for new policies. New regulations are emerging across the U.S.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

BusinessGreen rounds up the top green headlines from government's latest slew of fiscal and policy announcements. 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. Global Britain retreats. per cent of GDP to 0.5

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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 government's commitment to a green recovery is a big step forward, but impatience is growing as green businesses continue to wait for key policies and spending decisions that have been in the pipeline for months. Over the years these green sections have tended to get longer and the rhetoric in support of climate action more committed.

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Business Green

APRIL 20, 2021

But big questions remain over how the UK will meet hugely ambitious new targets, after government signalled it will not sign off on all the CCC's policy recommendations. The target emphasises the importance of the 2020s as a decade of delivery on our climate ambitions, and urgent action is needed now to make this a reality," she said.

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R-Squared Energy

JANUARY 25, 2022

foreign policy for decades. Now, imagine that we are trying to get a massive package of legislation passed that sets the groundwork for a domestic lithium supply chain. Conduct a national educational campaign highlighting the importance of battery manufacturing separate from the climate change narrative. As the U.S.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

And will the much-trumpeted new strategy have the desired catalysing impact on the UK's covid-stricken economy and faltering net zero transition, or will it amount to yet more Johnsonian spin over substance, big on planet-saving rhetorical flourishes but low on bankable policy detail?

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

The Case For Green Certification White Paper Get your copy of Green Business Bureau’s in-depth look at the opportunities, benefits, market trends and business case available to greener businesses. Does your company offer an explicit policy for transgender healthcare coverage? Is Green Certification Right For Your Business?

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

It was launched in September as part of the government's coronavirus recovery package, with Ministers claiming the £3bn funding pot would help reduce carbon emissions, slash energy bills, and create tens of thousands of jobs.

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Business Green

MAY 12, 2020

Committee on Climate Change CEO discusses infrastructure, airline bailouts, COP26 and making the best of a bad situation. Climate change and our collective response has once again - albeit understandably this time - found itself playing second fiddle to a more immediate crisis, the full ramifications of which remain far from clear.

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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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Business Green

MARCH 11, 2020

Today, just weeks after his promotion to the second most powerful job in the country, the Chancellor Rishi Sunak unveiled the government's Budget for the coming year and beyond, outlining a multi-billion pound package of spending across the green economy, as well as new tax measures covering the energy sector, plastic packaging, and red diesel fuel.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Today Greta Thunberg offered a characteristically unvarnished assessment of what now is required to get the world on track to averting the worst impacts of the climate crisis, blasting politicians globally for failing to match their recent green rhetoric with meaningful policy action.

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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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