Business Green

MARCH 12, 2020

The coronavirus crisis gripping the global economy has forced clean energy analyst BloombergNEF (BNEF) to downgrade its expectations for the solar, battery, and electric vehicle (EV) markets, in one of the first signals that the escalating pandemic could undermine urgent efforts to combat climate change.

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Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 19, 2024

And though a number of key policies continue to be developed—including the oil and gas emissions cap, an emissions cap on natural gas utilities and measures to reduce vehicle kilometres travelled by 25 per cent—many CleanBC policies are now substantially advanced. The plan is working: B.C. The difference?

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In this webinar, speakers Trevor Melanson, Jana Elbrecht, Louise Comeau, Brendan Haley, and Sarah Miller will discuss new research on household-level affordability , electric vehicles, heat pumps , energy efficiency, and effective affordability-oriented communications. She is a member of the Federal Net Zero Advisory Body.

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Clean Energy Canada

JUNE 27, 2023

If you have noticed a lot more electric vehicles on the roads lately, your eyes are not deceiving you. One in five vehicles sold in B.C. is now electric, a milestone that makes B.C. With its pre-existing EV advantage, population density, abundant clean electricity, and political environment (B.C.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 4, 2024

As energy policy and politics shift globally, business flexibility will be a necessity for the success of the energy transition. Well, not quite, because anyone who has even briefly scanned the news over the last few months will have noted the shift in the political mood music around energy policy across the world.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The Challenge: Regulatory Barriers and Policies Complex and inconsistent regulations surrounding renewable energy. Lack of clear policy frameworks for sustainable energy integration. Political resistance to transitioning away from traditional energy sources. Insufficient support for electric vehicle adoption.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The findings present a picture of a world that has made significant progress on climate action, powered by the rapid roll-out of clean energy technologies, the acceleration of the electric vehicle (EV) transition, and a growing understanding of the economic and geopolitical benefits ending reliance on coal, oil, and gas.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Akielly Hu, Grist’s news and politics fellow, discussed the growing popularity of degrowth with Kohei Saito — a Marxist author whose 2020 degrowth manifesto quickly turned into a bestseller in Japan and beyond. . In your free time, you play sports, spend time with loved ones, garden, and engage with local politics.

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Clean Energy Canada

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

In a decade’s time, a battery will likely power your car or the electricity grid that lights your home. Perhaps the biggest opportunity lies in electric vehicles. Leonardo Paoli is an Energy Analyst working in the Energy Technology Policy division of the International Energy Agency.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 3, 2019

The rest is here: Why a measured shift to electric vehicles would benefit the US. There is no point in putting forward an EV plan that is so aggressive that it cannot be implemented.

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Business Green

JULY 28, 2022

Such findings underscore the scale of support among Conservative Party members for ambitious green policies that can help curb the huge hike in energy bills expected this winter, just as postal ballot papers for choosing Britain's next PM are sent out to the membership from next week.

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Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 15, 2021

We hope that political disagreements going forward can now focus on how we do better, rather than on doing less. We were pleasantly surprised to see the Conservative climate plan has its own version of a carbon price and acknowledges the economic efficiency of the policy. s Low Carbon Fuel Standard.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

A new analysis from the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU) assesses the impact of the government's proposed Zero Emission Vehicle (ZEV) Mandate, which would require manufacturers to ensure an increasing proportion of the cars they sell in the coming years are electric.

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Business Green

JUNE 29, 2022

It would be easy at this point to simply list the litany of policy failures and the paucity of political leadership documented by the CCC's almost satirically titled progress report. A major building retrofit programme to deliver enormous energy cost savings and turbocharge the roll out of electric heating systems.

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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. Katie Fehrenbacher. Wed, 06/24/2020 - 02:00. Arons said Lyft was able to work with Colorado Gov.

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Business Green

MARCH 27, 2023

The government is widely expected to unveil a wave of decarbonisation and energy policies on Thursday as part of a package that had been badged as 'Green Day' by Whitehall insiders. Tom Burke, a co-founder of the E3G thinktank, told the Guardian : "This is Fawlty Towers politics - don't mention the environment!

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Clean Energy Canada

MAY 12, 2022

A majority (63%) of Ontarians now believe that, when you look at the lifetime costs of a car (including maintenance, repairs, insurance and energy to power it), electric vehicles are cheaper than gas vehicles. The preference for EVs is particularly profound among younger people. ” —Bruce Anderson, Chairman, Abacus Data.

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Energy Innovation

OCTOBER 21, 2020

The newest version of the Energy Policy Simulator (EPS) finds a set of clean energy policies that achieve net-zero emissions by 2050 would save more than 45,000 lives while preventing 1.3 The latest EPS version provides a powerful tool for communicating clean energy and climate policy’s tremendous health benefits.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 29, 2024

The Reform UK candidate for London mayor has been accused of ignoring science after joining a rally organised by conspiracy theorists who say green policies are a plot to impose “climate lockdowns”. Cox, who is running in May’s election for the anti-net zero party, used the rally to attack the science behind ULEZ and electric vehicles.

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Instead, the story in the news was that Justin Trudeau’s Liberals had cracked on carbon pricing when they unveiled a three-year carbon-pricing hiatus for home heating oil last week, and long-time critics of the policy were quick to grab their favourite pickaxes. Ottawa was likewise quick to reject further calls for “carve-outs.”

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Take synthetic fuels: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change does not believe that these fuels will play any meaningful role in decarbonising road transport because “ the total energy efficiency [of synthetic fuels] is lower than that of electric vehicles ”. This cannot be allowed to go on.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 27, 2021

The road to electric vehicles is paved with disruption. The expectation that electric vehicles will displace the internal combustion engine continues to accelerate. Proponents of electric vehicles forthrightly acknowledge the many technological, management, political and consumer challenges that lie ahead.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 24, 2020

Lyft’s 100% EV strategy requires a policy blitz Katie Fehrenbacher Wed, 06/24/2020 – 02:00 ICYMI, ride-hailing biggie Lyft announced last week that it plans to electrify every single car offering services on its platform by 2030, including both those that Lyft owns and rents to drivers and ones that its drivers own.

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Business Green

JUNE 29, 2023

The CCC's annual report is scathing on the lack of policy progress over the past year - the UK cannot afford another 12 months of inaction No aspect of the Climate Change Committee's (CCC) absolutely damning assessment of the UK's decarbonisation efforts over the past year is as dispiriting as the government's response to it.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

JULY 6, 2021

Customer Programs Policy and Strategy Manager | SDG&E | San Diego, CA. This position is responsible for leading the development of SDG&E’s greenhouse gas reduction and decarbonization policy strategy to advance the company’s clean energy policy to meet California’s climate goals. Primary Purpose.

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Clean Energy Trust

AUGUST 5, 2020

July 2020 Cleantech Roundup: Electric Vehicles Go Public | Energy Policy Scandals | SunRun Acquires Vivint Solar Clean Energy Trust’s cleantech roundup highlights interesting cleantech news and perspective, across industry, technology, policy, and investing. Hint: it is not sales. but is heartbreak inevitable?

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Business Green

MAY 10, 2021

Pollsters and political leaders may be fixated on the post-Brexit political realignment that has seen the 'red wall' turn blue while opposition parties start to nibble at the 'blue doughnut' in the south and suburbs, but are we also starting to see evidence of a green realignment that could yet inform the pace and shape of the net zero transition?

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 28, 2020

Electric vehicle sales are expected to take a big hit this year amid the current health and economic crisis. In the sixth episode of Political Climate's monthly “ Path to Zero ” series, we discuss what it will take to decarbonize the transportation sector, with a focus on accelerating the adoption of electric vehicles.

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EDF + Business

JUNE 18, 2020

Today, Lyft responded to stakeholder demands for rebuilding a better future — and in particular for climate action — through a bold commitment to reach 100% electric vehicles (EVs) on the Lyft platform by 2030. transportation emissions , and these vehicles are primed to lead the transition to a net zero future.

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 27, 2021

The road to electric vehicles is paved with disruption Terry F. Yosie Tue, 04/27/2021 – 00:05 The expectation that electric vehicles will displace the internal combustion engine continues to accelerate. Will electricity be reliably available for electric vehicles?

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Elemental Excelerator

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The Elemental Policy Lab Fellow is working with rural leaders and electric cooperatives to accelerate federal funding implementation. Picture this: It’s 1937, and more than half of all American households have had electrical power since 1925. In March 1938, with a $200,000 loan made possible by Franklin D.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 10, 2022

At first blush, the Twitter policy seems like it could be a gamechanger. The problem is that Twitter’s new policy won’t actually stop the most dangerous type of climate disinformation: fossil fuel industry greenwashing. The post Twitter’s New Ad Policy Ignores a Subtler Form of Climate Disinformation appeared first on DeSmog.

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Clean Energy Trust

MARCH 11, 2020

Clean Energy Trust’s cleantech roundup highlights interesting cleantech news and perspective, across industry, technology, policy, and investing Top Topics Large oil and gas and utility companies are making net-zero pledges , as they look to get ahead of consumer and regulatory trends.

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Terra Infirma

JANUARY 3, 2024

But the big question this year is political will. Having already watered down its eye-catching policy of investing £28 billion per annum in green capital investment, there are rumours of further backtracking in case the policy attracts further Tory fire. As always, I’m mildly optimistic, but not naive.

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R-Squared Energy

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Good energy policy starts with a good understanding of energy issues. But both major political parties have glaring blind spots when it comes to understanding the energy sector. I have major disagreements with both political parties, and I strive to approach issues from a completely objective viewpoint.

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38 North Solutions

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Top 5 Energy Policy Predictions for 2020. In some ways, 2020 likely marks a holding pattern for climate and energy policy ahead of the November election. And even if national environmental policy remains rather stagnant, the electric vehicle industry — and domestic gas production — are poised to have a strong year.

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Clean Energy Canada

OCTOBER 1, 2021

OTTAWA — In the run up to the recent federal election, the Liberal Party of Canada announced plans for a mandatory target requiring that half of all passenger vehicles sold in 2030 will be zero-emissions, en route to 100% by 2035. The good news is that a proven policy solution exists. In fact, electric vehicle sales in B.C.

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