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

MARCH 12, 2021

Chipotle is the latest company to spice up its executive pay packages to include social and environmental goals. The trend to link ESG metrics to executive pay is a departure from traditional compensation packages, which have relied almost entirely on financial measures - earnings per share, revenue growth and other factors.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

As such, the Roadmap urges the government to publish the long-awaited Energy White Paper, so as to explain how a net zero energy system can be delivered, and release the promised National Infrastructure Strategy, which has now been delayed several times.

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Business Green

JUNE 24, 2020

Covid-19 stimulus plan must prioritise green building upgrades, tree planting, fossil fuel taxes, and skills training, advises Committee on Climate Change. There is rich evidence of the many, many straightforward benefits to the economy if we do that - if we use climate investments as the basis of that recovery.".

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Business Green

MARCH 30, 2021

At the end of last year, the Energy White Paper was released. While the REA, of course, welcomed the lofty ambitions of the government, we made it clear that net zero could not be achieved by aspiration alone - you had to have the detailed policy with robust and wide-ranging support packages too.

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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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Terra Infirma

JUNE 16, 2020

I once really upset somebody online by saying that trying to teach every individual the science of climate change was both impossible and unnecessary. He thought everybody needed to understand what is a highly complex field of science, then commune with nature, and change would happen. Just be like them.

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Sustainability Climate change Packaging Recycling 59

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. But it still has a huge to-do list ahead.

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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.

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Nuclear Power Government Hydrogen Electricity 95

AGreenLiving

MARCH 9, 2021

Chipotle is the latest company to spice up its executive pay packages to include social and environmental goals. The trend to link ESG metrics to executive pay is a departure from traditional compensation packages, which have relied almost entirely on financial measures — earnings per share, revenue growth and other factors.

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Sustainability Climate change Packaging Policy 36

Business Green

MARCH 11, 2020

Central to the new plans was a commitment to "increase taxes on pollution", which will see the government raise the Climate Change Levy (CCL) on gas for businesses in a bid to encourage investments in energy efficiency and green heat technologies. Nowhere near enough green infrastructure How does this "get the environment done"?

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Government Packaging Pollution Investment 64

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. Prepare communications including press releases, op-eds, factsheets, and white papers, on behalf of CBD. Benefits Package: .

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Law Fossil fuels Transportation Policy 40

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. Prepare communications including press releases, op-eds, factsheets, and white papers, on behalf of CBD. Benefits Package: .

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Law Fossil fuels Transportation Policy 40

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

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 million units installed in British homes, a rise of 1.8 per cent from 2018, UKERC said.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 16, 2022

In 2021, "net zero steak" maker Iron Ox joined with more than 8,300 businesses in the Race to Zero pledge through the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), committing to report annually on company efforts to halve carbon emissions by 2030 and eliminate them entirely by 2050.

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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

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 plan is starting to come together. Every month that passes matters.

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Government Policy Carbon Investment 60

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

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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Wind power Government Hydrogen Electric vehicle 56

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

AUGUST 25, 2021

We need a technology-neutral package," he insists. In the Energy White Paper, we committed to driving sustained growth in solar energy across the next decade to 2030.?". Hewett hopes the much-anticipated plan will take a technology-neutral approach to decarbonising homes when it does finally emerge. "We

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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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Waste Waste Climate change Government 77

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

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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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The CMA’s guidelines offer clarity and detailed assistance for businesses wanting to collaborate and combine expertise to achieve sustainability; For example, making more energy efficient products or eco-friendly packaging. The Climate Change Levy (CCL) is one of several environmental taxes and relief schemes in the U.K.

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Business Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Sustainability 97

R-Squared Energy

JANUARY 25, 2022

Now, imagine that we are trying to get a massive package of legislation passed that sets the groundwork for a domestic lithium supply chain. But, as a newly-published white paper by California-based lithium-ion battery supplier OneCharge argues, the blueprint presents neither timing nor budget, making it just a wish-list.

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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

APRIL 20, 2021

As reported last night, the government has formally accepted the recommendations of the Climate Change Committee (CCC) and confirmed the Sixth Carbon Budget that runs from 2033 to 2037 will require a 78 per cent cut in carbon emissions compared to 1990 levels by 2035.

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Government Aviation Policy Carbon 54

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 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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Carbon Government Packaging Climate change 72

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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Government Hydrogen Investment Carbon 72

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

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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