GreenTechMedia

JULY 13, 2020

In that realm, things are advancing: By 2023, there will be 19 all-electric or hydrogen fuel cell versions of heavy-duty trucks in production in North America, up from five Class 8 models available today, according to the Rocky Mountain Institute. And then we’ve got pretty strong drivers in Europe and California.".

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Clean Energy Canada

MAY 1, 2023

It is a truly pan-Canadian sector, from the assembler producing electric vehicles in Windsor, to the construction worker building energy-efficient housing in Yellowknife, or the lineworker building power lines that will help electrify our lives. Rachel Doran , Director of Policy and Strategy at Clean Energy Canada.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Entitled Grids, the missing link , the plan points to an expected around 60% increase in electricity consumption in the EU between now and 2030. Naomi Chevillard, Head of Regulatory Affairs at SolarPower Europe, said the plan is “an excellent and necessary initiative from the European Commission”. Have you read?

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Business Green

OCTOBER 20, 2022

We need a General Election now so people can vote for the policies they want to see that will turn this mess around.". The change in leadership leaves the UK's net zero agenda, environmental policy plans, and COP27 Presidency facing another chaotic period with huge uncertainty over the future direction of a host of crucial policies.

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Clean Energy Trust

JANUARY 28, 2022

While governments have a significant role to play in helping usher in these new solutions; in the absence of certain policies, corporates and other stakeholders can make a big impact on the market for these emerging technologies by committing to buying specific volumes of these products.

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Business Green

APRIL 20, 2020

The report sees the influential Abu Dhabi-based agency join the UN, the IEA, and a raft of top political and business figures in calling for economic recovery plans to focus on driving more ambitious climate action. The time has come to invest trillions, not into fossil fuels, but into sustainable energy infrastructure.".

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Business Green

MAY 18, 2022

The electric vehicle (EV) market may be surging across major economies worldwide, but there are plenty of bumps in the road lie ahead on the journey to mass market adoption, and as a result some of the world's leading auto firms are starting to lag behind the leaders in the pack. In order to keep the sector in line with a 1.5C

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Business Green

AUGUST 13, 2020

The EU's proposed Green Deal shows that the right policy initiatives could address the economic crisis and climate change simultaneously. So, as we started 2020, sustainability and climate change were riding high on the political and corporate agenda. Isabella Hervey-Bathurst is Portfolio Manager/Global Sector Specialist at Schroders.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

The report states how specific national policy instruments incentivising DSOs may also be needed, at least in a transitional period until 2030. According to T&E’s report , ambitious policy targets correctly reflect the expected growth in demand for charging infrastructure.

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Business Green

JULY 17, 2020

Thousands of green projects are raring to go across Europe to help build resilient Covid-19 recovery, study suggests. Moreover, as the research was carried out over just four recent weeks, it likely only encompasses a fraction of all the potential shovel-ready green projects EY believes are currently under development in Europe.

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Business Green

MARCH 5, 2021

The report from the UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) argues that contrary to popular opinion the CCUS sector already comprises a "vast portfolio of existing technologies that are economically viable". Chargepoint becomes world's first publicly traded EV charging network. Vestaire Collective announces $216m financing round.

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Business Green

JUNE 29, 2022

A 2035 ban on sales of new fossil fuel cars and vans in Europe now looks inevitable, after long talks led to EU Council agreement on a host of crucial green policies. It's been a big week for European climate policy, and the implications are likely to ripple far beyond the EU itself.

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Business Green

JANUARY 30, 2023

As such, with just two months to go until the court's deadline, there are hopes that a renewed injection of green policy urgency could soon be in the offing, although there has been little indication to date as to whether the government plans to back any refreshed Net Zero Strategy with further funding and policy ambition.

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Business Green

JUNE 26, 2020

By this, we mean that policies should enable companies and sectors to cooperate through trading policies, including use of natural climate solutions and a wide range of technological removals.". Denmark agrees 'landmark' climate action law.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 18, 2020

A group of Europe's largest truckmakers have this week pledged to stop selling vehicles that produce emissions by 2040, a decade earlier than originally planned. It also called for a higher tax on carbon across Europe to help drive the change. "If All the green business news from around the world this week.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 10, 2024

Although it doesn’t get enough attention, the two major parties — the Conservatives and Labour — have chosen climate change and, in particular, fossil fuel production in the North Sea as a clear political dividing line for the electorate. Since 2019, the Conservatives have received £8.4 Alongside the material sits the institutional.

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Business Green

MARCH 29, 2023

The ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel cars and vans from 2035 had originally been envisaged as a means of driving the shift to electric vehicles (EVs) or potentially hydrogen fuel cell vehicles and as such would ban the sale of all new ICE vehicles.

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Business Green

APRIL 30, 2020

Lockdown restrictions imposed on the economy have led to a drastic cut in air pollution across the UK and Europe , and the Alliance (NWHA) said the UK now had an opportunity to push forward with "a new green agenda" to capitalise on these environmental gains by investing in low emission hydrogen transport.

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Business Green

AUGUST 22, 2022

Consumer behaviour change must carry almost a third of the weight of delivering net zero - and there are plenty of policy options at the next PM's disposal, argues think tank Onward. However, the next Prime Minister is certainly not lacking for policy options.

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Business Green

JULY 23, 2021

Our Green New Deal mission aims to double the size of London's green economy by 2030 through retrofitting buildings, renewable energy, electric vehicle charging and urban greening.". These pivotal climate talks require bold policies, tough targets and political will from all governments.

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Business Green

MARCH 30, 2023

In a hotly-anticipated bonanza of climate and environmental policy announcements that the UK government insists it is not now calling 'Green Day', a revamped Net Zero Strategy is set to be published today with a flurry of climate policy bells and whistles attached. These aren't just rehashed policies, but the wrong priorities.

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Business Green

APRIL 18, 2022

The second-largest (and growing) source of climate pollution in Europe. The leading killer of children in both the US and Europe. In all, we have screened nearly 800 peer-reviewed reports and case studies from throughout Europe, published since 2010, seeking those that quantified where and how cities had successfully reduced car use.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2022

And yet, so complete is their disconnect from the real world that these zombie arguments continue to stumble across the political landscape desperately looking for an issue, any issue, to attack. The UK would be in a lot better position from an energy cost and security perspective if it had more renewables and electric vehicles, not less.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 23, 2020

In our Accelerated Energy Transition, we state that global carbon prices of around $40/ton CO2e are in the zone of what’s politically palatable. You can argue that EU Green Deal and Taxonomy don’t bode well for gas demand in Europe. For a 2-degree world, this must be extended to $110/ton. And starting from today.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Such concerns remain widespread, but there is also a recognition that nearly a year on from Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine and Russia's weaponisation of energy supplies, the UK government is very belatedly starting to mirror some of the energy security measures that have been rapidly deployed across much of Europe in recent months.

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Business Green

JULY 15, 2022

Our political leaders bear a genuinely world historic responsibility to try and drive the development of a net zero emission economy in less than three decades and end the obliteration of nature. Do you regret the failures of the past decade to deliver policies that would have kept the UK on track to meet its emissions targets?

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Business Green

MARCH 15, 2023

The Chancellor also confirmed a major shake-up to the corporation tax regime that will see the UK become the first major economy to adopt a "full expensing" policy, whereby companies can deduct 100 per cent of the cost of certain plant and machinery from their profits before tax. The sick man of Europe once again."

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Business Green

APRIL 26, 2020

Some political leaders are already asking if the degree to which nations are dependent on other countries for essential supplies is sustainable, while others are pushing for more global trade to kick-start dormant economies. In the UK and across Europe as a whole, there have been rising concerns about rising fuel import dependence.

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2023

"To meet the ever-increasing requirement for more capital, investors need the UK government to not only maintain - and where possible - exceed its existing net zero ambition, but to set a clear and stable policy vision underpinned by near-term actions and milestones.

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Business Green

JUNE 28, 2022

Beverley Cornaby, policy lead at the UK Corporate Leaders Group (CLG UK) said: "Today's report from the CCC shows we need to change gear to accelerate the pace of action which has been stuck in the slow lane far too long. It highlights opportunities for new policy, including supporting energy efficiency in homes.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 14, 2020

The list of extreme, tragic, and very costly weather events this year — record heat in Europe, hail in June in Mexico , record floods in Nebraska , endless Australian bush fires , and epic destruction from storms in Mozambique and the Bahamas – was shocking. Clean tech grows even more, especially electric vehicles.

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Business Green

JANUARY 4, 2023

The main policy announcement briefed to the press ahead of the speech was a plan to make school pupils learn maths right through to age 18, a tweak to the curriculum which risked further fuelling accusations that the PM is out of touch with the inflation, strikes, and crumbling public services that are currently ravaging economic confidence.

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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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GreenBiz

APRIL 28, 2021

The policy steps the administration has proposed provide clarity on the path forward, helping households, businesses and investors plan and invest. The plan also encourages greener transportation with electric vehicles. It supports electric vehicle manufacturing and adoption.

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Business Green

MARCH 23, 2022

Keeping the UK on track to meet its net zero emissions target has a key role to play in driving investment and job creation across the country in areas such as electric vehicle manufacturing, offshore wind, insulation and heavy industry. The Chancellor said this would add up to £250m tax cut to energy efficiency.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

It's been a busy summer for the green economy, but the government's triangulation is continuing to wilfully damage the UK's investment climate Earlier this summer, political correspondents could be found commenting on how for the first time in years there was a genuine August news lull.

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Business Green

MAY 3, 2022

It also features plans to invest £1bn in electric vehicle charging infrastructure over the next decade in a bid to more than treble the number of BP charge points - a goal that received a further boost last week with the announcement the company has teamed up with VW to accelerate its EV charging network roll out across Europe.

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