Business Green

MARCH 1, 2021

The Energy White Paper hinted for the first time that policymakers have awakened to this need and as thinking on the agenda accelerates, we wanted to share our very brief thoughts on how government could address the governance challenge in a way that sets us up for success but critically drives impactful climate action in the near-term.

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Business Green

AUGUST 6, 2020

There are few issues more political in the rawest, most tangible sense than the question of who gets to build what, where. The white paper reiterates the government's support for its imminent Future Homes Standard, which is meant to ensure all new homes are 'zero emission ready' - i.e. gas boiler- and cooker-free - from 2025.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

APRIL 29, 2019

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

APRIL 29, 2019

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Smart Energy International

JULY 19, 2022

Have you read: PG&E implements behavioural Energy Efficiency Programme National Grid – Scaling demand response with behavioural outreach. Ignoring the “human factor” has caused some well-designed ‘behavioural change’ political campaigns to fail, say public policy analysts. Putting people at the centre. Griffith, S. &

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Business Green

JUNE 30, 2020

A veneer of normality returned to politics, as the Prime Minister hauled himself back onto the campaign trail, found a high-vis jacket adorned clean tech factory backdrop in a Midlands marginal to stand in front of, and aspired to deliver some of his favourite old tunes while experimenting with some new material. "It

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Business Green

JUNE 24, 2020

The past year has seen a change of Prime Minister, an election, the UK's departure from the EU, and the coronavirus crisis, all of which have combined to delay a raft of critical net zero-related policy measures, such as the long-awaited energy white paper and national infrastructure strategy.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 18, 2022

And the transition is not a fuel replacement but a shift to a new system with political, technical, environmental and economic disruptions.”. But demand is expected to only take off in the mid-2030s as cross border trading increases at pace with the cost competitiveness of green hydrogen with fossil-fuel hydrogen.

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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2021

Metal and minerals, food and drink, paper and pump, ceramics, glass and oil refineries are responsible for 16 per cent of the UK's emissions, according to government statistics, and as such decarbonising these industries is critical if the UK is to meet its 2050 net zero ambition.

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Business Green

MAY 12, 2020

Lending high-level economic and political credence to that growing public clamour for action, the work of Chris Stark and his small team at the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) in driving the issue up the agenda should not be forgotten. Suddenly, barely days into 2020, a new paradigm began to take shape. That's the biggest risk.".

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Business Green

APRIL 22, 2020

With the country having found a degree of political stability after more than three years of Brexit wrangling, there had been increasingly positive signals from the government that a raft of much-needed net zero policies were top priorities for 2020, as the Johnson administration looked to deliver on its considerable green manifesto promises.

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Business Green

JUNE 23, 2020

The report - titled Principles for a low-carbon, sustainable and net-zero aligned economic recovery post COVID-19 - suggests five key government interventions aimed at harnessing growing political, business, and consumer will to tackle the climate emergency, as well as a raft of specific policy recommendations.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 26, 2023

The political economist and policy fellow at Harvard University likens the industry’s techno-fix mentality to the fossil fuel industry’s sustained push for carbon capture and storage, a technology as yet unproven at scale. In a 2021 press release , Elanco referenced Frank Mitloehner’s white paper , “Pathway to Climate Neutrality for U.S.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

"We are facing a climate and nature catastrophe and to improve the health, wealth and wellbeing of all we should be pulling every lever to accelerate the transition to net zero," said Katie White, executive director of advocacy and campaigns at WWF. The big question is what makes the Levelling Up plans any different to previous efforts?

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Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2020

The government today confirmed that a new 10 point green recovery plan is imminent, but for now at least long-awaited net zero policy measures, including the energy white paper and national infrastructure strategy, remain stuck in the pipeline. Catch up on all the debate at last week's Net Zero Festival on demand by registering here.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

As a result, the UK is now a leader in offshore wind, with a recent RenewableUK report concluding the sector could grow from around 10GW now to 40GW by 2030, delivering more than a third of the UK's total electricity demand, before providing up to 90GW of capacity by 2050. The hope is the government will deliver sooner rather than later.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

"The 2020 climate summit is a massive opportunity for the government of the UK to showcase its leadership to the world on the most pressing issue of our time," said Paul McNamee, Green Alliance's head of politics. 2020 is a vital year for climate action and we will ?be

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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. But huge challenges await.

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Business Green

MAY 6, 2020

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. It should come as no surprise to anyone working in this sector that there is no strong political will for heat decarbonisation.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Many day-to-day services across transport, industry, and heating would be entirely powered by electricity, driving up demand for power by a half over the next 15 years, with offshore wind set to become the backbone of the whole UK energy system, the CCC said.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Offsetting allows the continuation of delay," argues Duncan McLaren, a Professor in Political Ecology at the University of Lancaster's Environment Centre, where he studies the "mitigation deterrence effects of greenhouse gas removals". For some analysts, such flaws are hard-wired into the concept of offsetting itself.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Setting a higher climate ambition has been widely called for by businesses, political figures and green campaigners alike, and is seen as a hugely important diplomatic gesture to encourage other nations around the world to follow suit in the run up to COP26 in Glasgow next year. Leadership demands consistency.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Brexit, Covid, climate change - all demand that the UK forges a new growth story to compete in the world. We have clear plans to cut emissions further, having recently published our energy white paper, North Sea transition deal, transport decarbonisation plan, industrial decarbonisation and hydrogen strategies. "We

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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.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

His relatives participated in political acts such as the occupation of Wounded Knee by Indigenous people from across the U.S., in part to demand that the federal government uphold treaty obligations to the Lakota people. White paper bags festooned the taller trees, their flowers covered to manage fertilization.

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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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Business Green

JUNE 25, 2020

A year on from the UK's net zero target being adopted in law coinciding with the start of one of the most eventful 12 months in modern political history, the influential Committee on Climate Change today published its annual review of the UK's progress against its climate goals. The CCC is right to demand more from government.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

JANUARY 18, 2021

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Business Green

MARCH 11, 2020

It demands we mobilise our resources on a massive scale. This Budget will help the UK transition to a much greener future, but it needs to be backed up by bold decisions in the forthcoming government Energy White Paper and the National Infrastructure Strategy. The climate emergency threatens our very existence.

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Low Impact

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Matthew Slater wrote the Credit Commons white paper – an idea for federating mutual credit networks to create a new global, moneyless trading system He’s part of a group called Mutual Credit Services (MCS), formed to build this federation (new website coming soon). That’s a political question that I couldn’t answer.

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Business Green

JANUARY 31, 2020

But for the green economy, the clearest continuity with the past few years is also the least welcome: the huge chasm of political and policy uncertainty that stretched across almost every aspect of the Brexit process will still be there tomorrow. At the same time the chances of a big political row are considerable.

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