Grist

MAY 18, 2021

To prevent the most devastating effects of climate change, it’s essential to cut greenhouse gas emissions by phasing out fossil fuel use. One of the company’s founders, Kevin Meissner, wanted to build a shrine of sorts to human-induced climate change. Most offsets that companies buy are designed to reduce emissions.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 1, 2021

They discussed Clean Energy Action’s white paper on utility accountability and how we can equitably transition to a clean energy future for a recent episode of ILSR’s Building Local Power podcast, republished here for Local Energy Rules. How Long Have Utilities Known the Costs of Climate Change? Episode Notes.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 14, 2020

government’s long-awaited energy white paper is out with confirmation of fresh negotiations with EDF over a new nuclear power station and a drive to push up the price of carbon. is reinforcing its effort to establish itself as a climate leader. It will host the next round of the UN climate change negotiations in 2021.

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Planet Pulse

JANUARY 23, 2024

From climate-disrupting emissions to tropical deforestation, Planet is developing the tools to help organizations track impacts and opportunities across the value chain, and to translate this intelligence into robust strategies and practical platforms.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Plans for 'comprehensive' policy document that sets out pathway to net zero emission economy confirmed in government's formal response to CCC's latest progress report. But in its 156-page response to the CCC's 'bumper' progress report , the government yesterday confirmed a raft of new deacrbonisation strategies are on the way.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Good Law Project and Ecotricity CEO Dale Vince threaten court action unless government reviews airports planning policy before the final approval process for third runway begins. We think that's unlawful. Both the Department for Transport and Heathrow Airport were considering BusinessGreen's request for comment at the time of going to press.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 22, 2020

The government's overarching ambition is welcome, but we now need a detailed policy agenda to make net zero a reality, writes the REA's Dr Nina Skorupska?. Here at the REA we are well used to a flurry of new policy being announced just before the end of the year, but this advent has been a real bumper few weeks.

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Business Green

APRIL 14, 2020

Committee on Climate Change plans to shortly offer advice to ministers on building an economic recovery consistent with the UK's 2050 net zero target. The advice had been seen as a critical milestone in the run up to the COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow, which had been scheduled for November, but has now been postponed until next year.

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AutoGrid

AUGUST 16, 2023

At its passage, the IRA was heralded as one of the most important pieces of legislation ever passed by any nation in the fight to combat climate change. Progress to Date All told, the IRA earmarks $369 billion to respond to climate change and increase the nation’s energy security. first appeared on AutoGrid.

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Business Green

JUNE 14, 2021

Electricity supplier has urged government to establish stricter decarbonisation policies that can put UK on track to meeting climate goals. In a white paper published this morning, E.ON We must not forget this is a marathon, a 30-year ambition," he said.

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Business Green

MAY 6, 2020

BEIS released a suite of documents regarding 'clean heating' policy last Tuesday including most importantly details of what will follow on from the RHI. This policy consultation comes in advance of a long awaited energy White Paper and in advance of a heat and buildings framework expected to be released later this year.

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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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GreenBiz

JUNE 24, 2020

Lyft's 100% EV strategy requires a policy blitz. So essentially Lyft has to act as a catalyst — using policy, economic and industry tools — to spur the broader transportation ecosystem to more rapidly adopt zero-emission vehicles. Lyft is committed to using the most powerful tool we have to fight climate change: policy influence.

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Smart Energy International

JULY 19, 2022

Taking the ‘human factor’ into consideration when designing and implementing energy policy is crucial to achieving energy transition goals, writes Dr Rosa Garcia-Verdugo. Changes in people’s buying habits need to be consistent to speed up the green transition, say experts. Griffith, S. & & Calisch, S.

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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2021

The government acknowledged that as the decade continues "further support" will be needed, pointing to the £1bn CCS infrastructure fund and £240m net zero hydrogen fund set out in the recent Energy White Paper. Industrial decarbonisation is set to feature in UK trade and diplomacy.

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Business Green

AUGUST 24, 2020

"The challenge today is to put in place the right infrastructure to implement and improve known and emerging technologies at scale, and to make the challenging policy decisions required to drive change across the whole system," Vallance and Rothwell advised.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Into this scenario came the government's recent white paper for "levelling-up" the UK's regions - an effort to ensure that it makes "good business sense for the private sector to invest in areas that have for too long felt left behind", according to the Prime Minister's foreword. Let's consider one example. Missed opportunities.

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2021

Labour leader promises climate change and the green economy will be central to Party's plans 'now and at the next election'. Tackling the climate emergency is the defining challenge of the next decade," he said.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

A higher, simpler and more broadly applied carbon price is a crucial element in the fostering of a post-Covid economic recovery that is consistent with net-zero emissions by 2050," said Lord Stern, who serves as chair of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment.

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Business Green

MARCH 17, 2021

However, with the Energy White Paper released late last year having set an aim to capture 10Mt of emissions by 2030, it remains unclear precisely how the remaining 7Mt will be delivered. Overall, it estimate building net zero industry could support up to 80,000 jobs from now until 2050.

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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. Responding to the CCC's report today, a government spokesperson said, "we agree with the Committee that tackling climate change should be at the heart of our economic recovery". "We

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Members of the commission, which was assembled by the Zero Carbon Campaign, have been drawn from political, scientific, academic and climate policy backgrounds. The policy recommendations will be delivered to the government in a white paper due for publication in April 2020, the Zero Carbon Campaign said.

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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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Charged

AUGUST 26, 2020

The full details will be presented in September, in a white paper published online by the global EVS-33 conference. As Jeff Allen, Executive Director of Forth Mobility, said in 2015 , “We tend to collaborate really well across companies and government, and we have a history of innovative, supportive public policy.”.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The UK's Climate Change Committee has called on the government to implement policies that work towards a 20 per cent shift away from meat and dairy in the next decade. Preparing now for the shift towards plant-based foods will also shore up our national food security for future generations.".

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Business Green

AUGUST 24, 2020

Public awareness of climate change was at an all-time high, young people marched through the streets demanding that politicians act to safeguard their futures, and concern about the environment was recognised as one of the top five issues in December's General Election.

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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

OCTOBER 5, 2022

The full details on planning arrangements are yet to be announced, however, references so far have been made to ‘removing burdensome EU environmental requirements', alongside ‘relaxing' key national and local policy requirements. Simon McWhirter is director of communications, policy and places at UKGBC.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Our global leadership on climate change can open up new large and attractive sectors in the world economy in which British businesses will be well placed to succeed.". Griffith said he was "delighted" to have been offered the new role.

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Business Green

JUNE 25, 2021

Securitisation of homes with top energy ratings could create 'virtuous cycle of green lending' and compensate for weak energy policy framework, new study claims. With the right regulatory and policy environment, the potential is there to harness green financial engineering in support of much needed green home engineering.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

In addition, the government confirmed a series of policy moves that are expected to catalyse massive private sector investment in the net zero transition. This is just the tonic as we look to 2021," he added.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

As we stand a year away from the start of the COP26 Climate Summit, and five years on from the Paris Agreement, we believe there is an opportunity for the UK to demonstrate the right level of ambition to guide a green recovery and secure international momentum," they wrote.

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Energy and Cleantech Council

MARCH 11, 2020

This week, the Massachusetts Attorney General’s office released a white paper documenting the results of a symposium convened last fall to discuss how electric markets should be organized to manage the transition to a “low / no-carbon future.”

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Meanwhile, businesses are eagerly awaiting a host of crucial green policy frameworks in the coming weeks that should unlock a new wave of investment in low carbon infrastructure. Black said the poll findings "show clearly that people want action and government leadership on climate change".

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

A lack of coordinated policies, constant changes of direction, and a failure to build up delivery capability have left the UK "well off track" to meet its overarching emissions target, the leading think tank argues in its new report Net Zero: How the government can meet its climate change target.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Max Boykoff, who contributed research and analysis on the media’s role in climate action to the most recent report on reducing carbon pollution from the UN-backed Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), says the media plays a fundamental role in shaping the public’s and policymakers’ understanding of climate issues.

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Business Green

JULY 8, 2020

The government has confirmed it remains confident the Agriculture Bill will secure Royal Assent in time to transition away from EU farming policies as planned in 2021, after the landmark legislation returned to the House of Lords yesterday.

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