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Net Zero Strategy: Energy Systems Catapult calls for market incentives to be aligned with net zero agenda

Business Green

As part of its preparations for the vital COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow, the government must set out how it plans to harness the power of markets to deliver the next phase of decarbonisation of the UK economy and address incentives that currently push consumers towards high carbon choices, experts have warned.

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As climate change threatens cultural treasures, museums get creative to conserve both energy and artifacts

Grist

But climate control represents a particularly bedeviling problem, since more energy use contributes to climate change, which in turn causes greater temperature extremes that necessitate even more energy use to maintain a controlled indoor environment (sometimes known as the “doom loop” of AC ).

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Queen's Speech: At a glance guide to the government's green legislation plans

Business Green

Planned legislation covering energy, transport, and a clamp down on environmental protests was unveiled in today's Queen Speech. Energy Security Bill.

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Net Zero: Green groups urge UK 'to get its house in order' ahead of COP26

Business Green

Arguing that "the time is now" for the UK to be a global climate leader, it calls for immediate policy action to ensure that by 2030 all homes are highly energy efficient, petrol and diesel car sales are phased out, wind and solar generation triples, and 10 million heat pumps are installed in homes.

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COP26 Climate Summit: From fossil fuels to forests - 10 things we learned in Glasgow

Business Green

For the first time in 25 years of UN climate talks, coal and fossil fuel subsidies have been singled out in an official document. And it sees countries back a "phase down" of unabated coal power, after a dramatic 11th hour intervention from India on the conference floor saw the initial "phase out" phrasing weakened.