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. It's a litmus test because upgrading 16 million homes is primarily is political not a technical challenge," she said.

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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. Of course, there will still be political trade offs to make and short term setbacks along the way. The plan is starting to come together. Every month that passes matters.

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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

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

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

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

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

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.". The PM wants to get on with it, with plans for the long term, but he is meeting a lot of resistance.

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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

Joe Biden's victory in the race for the White House has already seen the push for climate action skyrocket up the international political agenda, yet the jubilation among campaigners this weekend is unlikely to last too long. per cent - around £1.1bn - of China's recovery package has been designated for green projects.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

The Brexit fight was over, the Conservative Party had just won an overwhelming majority in the General Election, and Dominic Cummings was still viewed by many as a political mastermind and tactician, rather than as a short-sighted castle enthusiast. Cast your mind back to the second day of January 2020.

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