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

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

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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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

In its recent Energy White Paper, the UK Government set out that long-duration storage technologies, like pumped hydro, would play an essential role in decarbonizing the UK’s electricity supply by integrating renewable energy and maintaining security of supply.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The UK's oil and gas industry watchdog has the first time set an obligation for the sector to contribute to the nation's 2050 net zero emissions target, in a revised strategy submitted to Parliament yesterday aimed at driving as clean and efficient production as possible "as long as this demand exists".

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

But BloombergNEF analysis highlights gaping holes where supportive policies are needed to spur widespread decarbonisation towards net zero. However, action from policy makers will be needed if these changes are to happen.".

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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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Business Green

DECEMBER 15, 2020

The row over Sizewell led the headlines, but there is so much more to the Energy White Paper and its promise to deliver a decisive shift away from fossil fuels. Whisper it, but I'm not sure the inevitable reignition of the row over the UK's nuclear plans is the most important part of the long-awaited Energy White Paper.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2021

The current high gas prices have highlighted the need to invest in technologies which can store power as part of building a more resilient, renewables-based system which can wean us off fossil fuels. Much of the system flexibility in the past has been provided by fossil fuels.

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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. Have you read: PG&E implements behavioural Energy Efficiency Programme National Grid – Scaling demand response with behavioural outreach.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 18, 2022

Conversely, fossil fuel exporters such as Oman, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates increasingly consider clean hydrogen an attractive way to diversify their economies. Policy considerations.

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Business Green

JUNE 25, 2020

That's going to change fundamentally the context for climate policy, and everything else I suspect. The evidence that ambitious climate policies can boost the damaged economy while laying the foundations for long term competitiveness and climate resilience is becoming more compelling by the year. He isn't wrong.

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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. Chris Stark setting out the CCC's latest advice to government. The UK is facing its biggest economic shock for a generation," he said.

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Energy Innovation

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Deep decarbonization demands we do something that has never been done before: deliberately transform the energy foundation of the global economy in mere decades. A different approach called AR(1) (a univariate autoregression) is used modeling changes in costs of fossil fuels, which are not expected to change as dramatically.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 8, 2020

At present home heating - the bulk of which is provided by the fossil fuel gas grid - accounts for 13 per cent of UK emissions. It is not the first time the government has faced calls to set out a clearer policy path for decarbonising the UK gas grid, which is widely seen as one of the country's toughest net zero challenges.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Studies have shown the UK has among the draughtiest homes in Europe, and ramping up energy efficiency while shifting away from fossil fuel gas for home heating is widely seen as one of the biggest challenges for the net zero agenda for the next decade and beyond.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

Surely, the generalised economic difficulty that an energy squeeze puts us in should steel us to redouble our efforts to prise ourselves free from fossil gas. This means that we will never free ourselves of gas dependency without a nationwide replacement of fossil fuel heating in homes.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

However, it is equally important over the longer term to avoid any repeat of the current crisis by expanding our own sources of clean domestic power as well as reducing demand - and subsequent carbon emissions. The Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill was introduced in Parliament on 11 May and covers a large range of policy issues.

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Business Green

MARCH 8, 2020

A policy framework combining a strong carbon price with support mechanisms for renewables, has seen offshore wind prices tumble by a third. The Energy White Paper must maintain this momentum as well as explore how to keep older, lower carbon plant on the system when their subsidy ends.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

The government has announced a major review to explore how to align North Sea oil and gas exploration with its net zero ambitions, potentially opening the door to a critical shift in policy as the UK begins laying the foundations for decarbonising the economy over the next three decades.

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Grist

MAY 18, 2021

Strange as it may sound, demand for this service — a form of what’s called “ carbon removal ” — was just beginning to grow. And in less than a year, Charm went from a struggling alternative fuel startup to one of the most credible carbon removal companies on the market. Shaun Meehan pours bio-oil into a beaker.

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Business Green

APRIL 22, 2020

What does the coronavirus crisis mean for delivering net zero policy and a successful COP26? As such, it remains to be seen how many of the anticipated net zero policies and strategies will now be delayed and by how long. Now the top priority is saving thousands of lives and tackling the worst economic crash since the Second World War.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The government has promised a raft of hotly-anticipated plans and policies in the coming months, including the Heat and Buildings Strategy, Food Strategy White Paper, Treasury Net Zero Review, and an overarching Net Zero Strategy, all of which should help unlock billions of pounds of green investment. Betts said.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Things are picking up in a very large way," says Robin Rix, chief policy and markets officer at Verra, a standard-setter that certifies offsetting projects. It then used this criteria to evaluate "top-tier projects certified by either Verra or Gold Standard", laying out its findings in a detailed white paper. "We

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 10, 2020

Most of New York’s fossil-fueled peak power plants would be vulnerable to competition if longer duration storage technologies hit the market, a new study says. out of nearby MIT to apply more rigorous modeling and analysis than is typical of a corporate white paper. But the company hired enough Ph.D.s

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AutoGrid

JULY 27, 2023

At the recent National Association of Regulatory Commission (NARUC) Summer Policy Summit, I saw up close the growing concern about grid reliability among state regulators, utilities and the industry at large. Electricity demand is expected to grow more rapidly with accelerated electrification across the building and transportation sectors.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 26, 2023

The meat industry is increasingly viewed as a sector where greenhouse gas emissions cuts can and should be made, just like the fossil fuel industry Livestock accounts for a third of total global emissions of methane, a potent gas that traps heat about 80 times more effectively than carbon dioxide but breaks up more quickly in the atmosphere.

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Business Green

JULY 27, 2020

In addition, National Grid's analysis, which is updated each year with several potential scenarios for how the UK could feasibly decarbonise its energy system, estimates that roughly 3GW of wind and 1.4GW of solar power would also need to be installed annually until mid-century to keep up with power demand.

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Clean Energy Canada

AUGUST 18, 2022

Timing and details of the policy have yet to be revealed. A new white paper from Clean Energy Canada and industry group Electric Mobility Canada released today lays out recommendations for how Canada can design a truly effective zero-emission vehicle mandate—and fix Canada’s EV supply problem once and for all. in Ontario.

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Clean Energy Canada

AUGUST 18, 2022

Timing and details of the policy have yet to be revealed. A new white paper from Clean Energy Canada and industry group Electric Mobility Canada released today lays out recommendations for how Canada can design a truly effective zero-emission vehicle mandate—and fix Canada’s EV supply problem once and for all. in Ontario.

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Business Green

MARCH 1, 2021

We have limited time to move from a system where around 80 per cent of our primary energy supply comes from fossil fuels, to one where low-carbon technologies dominate. Supply and demand will have equal value and flexibility at all levels will keep costs low. Governance fit for the future.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

Certification is shown to attract and engage top talent, increase credibility and build trust, slash costs, meet the demands of a consumer majority, and protect a company’s mission in the long term. Does your company offer an explicit policy for transgender healthcare coverage? Is Green Certification Right For Your Business?

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Business Green

MAY 12, 2020

I think the biggest risk that sits before the global mission on net zero is the risk of fossil fuel lock-in," warns Stark. "If If we choose to do what we did in 2009, we will lock in fossil fuel use with our infrastructure choices and we wouldn't have enough time to reverse from that now.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

As an analysis from Greenpeace today highlights, the UK's current North Sea oil and gas tax regime sees companies pay around 40 per cent tax on the profits arising from extraction of fossil fuels, which represents the lowest government tax take in the world for an offshore oil and gas regime.

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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

MARCH 11, 2020

Martin Baxter, chief policy advisor at environmental professionals body IEMA, said: "While IEMA welcomes the significant commitments announced in Budget 2020, questions remain over whether this reflects the urgency of tackling the climate and environmental emergency. The time for new roads and fossil fuel infrastructure has long gone.".

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Business Green

JULY 26, 2021

Energy use in the UK's homes, not counting electricity, accounts for roughly 14 per cent of the nation's greenhouse gas emissions, according to the Climate Change Committee , with the majority of properties poorly insulated and powered by fossil fuels.

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