Business Green

APRIL 30, 2020

Investment in hydrogen infrastructure should form major part of coronavirus recovery plan, argues North West Hydrogen Alliance. Hydrogen is seen as a clean alternative to fossil fuelled cars, trains, and ships as the fuel produces only water vapour when burned and zero harmful emissions.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

They stem from the system we chose when we grabbed and relied on fossil fuels," McCarthy said. She sees no question that electric vehicles are the wave of the future, and we just need to work to get the technology up to critical mass by expanding the relevant infrastructure via public-private partnerships and other mechanisms.

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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. The lack of action on domestic energy efficiency that has now been evident for so long it has become a point of cliché for campaigners to point it out.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

The report released Friday underscores the role that transportation in emerging economies will play in future oil demand, and how quickly falling battery costs and increasingly aggressive decarbonization policies are accelerating the shift from fossil-fueled to electric vehicles. Credit: Carbon Tracker).

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Business Green

MARCH 29, 2022

The world's leading renewables authority has this morning raised the alarm that governments continued investment in fossil fuel infrastructure is pushing climate goals dangerously out of reach. Many answers lie in the accelerated transition. IRENA has calculated a 1.5C

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 25, 2021

These industries are likely to be politically harder to decarbonise too. The authors say the research underlines the political and economic challenges of delivering net zero, and the wholesale transformation of the UK’s industrial base it will require. This comprises between 900,000 and 1.3

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Clean Energy Canada

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

The Liberals announced key additional policies to help them achieve an increased climate target and build a sustainable economy, such as a 2035 clean electricity standard, a requirement for 50% of new cars to be zero-emission by 2030 (en route to 100% by 2035), capping oil and gas emissions, and eliminating fossil fuel subsidies.

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Grist

DECEMBER 15, 2021

And, in the United States, political gridlock chopped the heart out of Congress’ most ambitious clean energy plan. . Renewable solar and wind power now typically costs less than fossil-fuel alternatives. That’s looking more doable as renewable-energy prices drop, providing an alternative to fossil fuels.

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Business Green

MAY 18, 2021

Since it was first set up in the wake of the 1973 oil crisis, the International Energy Agency (IEA) has been a hugely influential player in world energy politics. The death knell is being sounded for fossil fuels. By far the most startling aspect of today's report is the outlook for fossil fuels.

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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. But in the long term We Know This Industry Is Dying, even if the political class in Australia refuse to face up to it. Canada joins global hydrogen push.

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Business Green

AUGUST 1, 2022

And the political challenge of building public support for what is set to be the biggest and fastest industrial revolution in history. But political and corporate understanding of supply chain risks often remains patchy at best. The skills challenge of developing a workforce capable of installing and operating them.

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Business Green

MARCH 25, 2021

Around 19 per cent of the UK's greenhouse gases come from warming up the places where we live and work, with more than three quarters of those emissions coming from domestic buildings, largely due to the fossil fuel gas boilers fitted in the overwhelming majority of homes. million gas boilers are still installed in the UK each year.

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Business Green

APRIL 19, 2021

Political and business leaders have certainly talked a good game in the wake of the coronavirus crisis. When it comes to cutting emissions and rebuilding the economy after Covid, the prime minister really can have his cake and eat it," argued Chris Venables, head of politics at Green Alliance.

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Business Green

MARCH 25, 2021

Ed Miliband is to unveil sweeping plans for an electric vehicle revolution, as opposition accuses government of delivering a badly 'underpowered' green industrial strategy. Labour would back our manufacturers and the communities with proud histories in the industry, but the government is asleep at the wheel.".

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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. per cent gain, almost entirely as a result of higher fossil fuel prices. Soaring energy bills? Blame net zero. Net zero's fault.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 17, 2021

The pace at which climate action has slipped down the political and media agenda, even as polling continues to show that it is a top priority for an overwhelming majority of the public , has been genuinely dizzying. The auto industry is finally leaning in to the electric vehicle transition.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 23, 2020

states, and an expansion of energy access in some markets — all would need to come from electricity, mainly renewables. And when you use more electricity to meet your energy needs, the demand curve flattens, which means less fossil fuel combustion and significantly lower losses from production to final consumption.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 2, 2022

The year in British politics has ended in dramatic fashion, with a number of scandals coming hot on the heels of the UK-hosted COP26 summit, and another wave of Covid sweeping through the country. Another year has come and gone, and with it a crucial climate conference and the battle over a controversial new oilfield. General Election.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

In road transport, France and Spain have joined 39 other countries and 14 vehicle manufacturers in committing to making all new car sales zero emission by 2035, under the Accelerating to Zero Coalition, a joint effort that will shift investment more quickly towards electric vehicles, bringing their costs down more quickly.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

The 10-Point Plan unveiled by the Prime Minister late on Tuesday provided funding announcements and policy signals across a range of areas, including hydrogen, CCS, nuclear, offshore wind, and electric vehicles. goal and the UK's target of achieving net zero emissions by 2050.

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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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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

While California already has cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 13 percent since their peak in 2004, many residents still suffer from high levels of air pollution — much of it produced by fossil fuels. And they have suffered collateral damage from the harmful pollutants produced by using fossil fuels. As the U.S.

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Grist

MARCH 10, 2021

Fossil fuel–fired power plants emit a hodgepodge of gases, making it difficult and energy-intensive to build a capture system that can separate out the CO2. He stressed that we are trying to decarbonize in a political context, where we need many stakeholders, including companies and workers, to support climate policy.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2021

That is the view of leading figures from carmaker Volvo Cars, steelmaker SSAB and green business non-profit The Climate Group, all of whom provided an overview of pioneering efforts currently underway to slash emissions from the production of electric vehicles at BusinessGreen 's Net Zero Festival last week.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Growing corporate demand for electric vehicles indicates the UK could phase-out new fossil fuel cars by 2030, but trail-blazing EV100 members fear the limited supply of EVs could delay the shift. Huge corporate demand for electric vehicles is on course to put at least 2.5

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Hydrogen Fuel News

DECEMBER 26, 2023

As a result of a delay in consultations for gas- and hydrogen-ready boilers to be installed in new constructions in England as of 2025, those units could be banned and heat pumps may become the new standard. The consultation for hydrogen-ready boilers and other systems had been scheduled for last March.

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Business Green

MARCH 26, 2021

The centre-right think tank also predicted that an additional 367,000 new jobs could be created in the electric vehicle (EV) sector, while 36,000 new roles are set to emerge in the low carbon power industry over the same period. million jobs in the low carbon heating and energy efficiency sectors alone by 2030.

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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. Market share continues to creep upwards, too.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 3, 2024

Canadian hydrogen companies are waiting to hear about the regulations that will be applied to billions of federal government dollars regarding which ones will qualify for a substantial tax credit. ” Hydrogen companies are concerned with time-matching, deliverability and additionality. Take our fun and engaging Hydrogen Quiz now!

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Carbon capture, hydrogen, nuclear, EVs, and renewables all set to benefit from £12bn government stimulus plan, but critics warn funding falls well short of the level required to trigger a green recovery.

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Business Green

MARCH 8, 2023

The UK's climate advisory body latest report provides an in-depth assessment of the mix of renewable, flexible grid, hydrogen, nuclear, and carbon capture technologies that will need to be in place by the middle of the 2030s if the government is to deliver on its stated goal of operating a nearly completely decarbonised power grid by 2035.

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Business Green

MAY 3, 2022

Taken together, Kwarteng's letter and BP's investment plan provide the clearest indication yet as to how the government and the oil and gas industry hope to square the circle of expanded fossil fuel production and binding net zero emission targets.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Civil servants then dutifully run off to try and find anything on the statute book that is genuinely outdated or counter productive, only to return several months later having found next to nothing that can be cut without serious economic, environmental, and/or legal consequences, as well as likely political uproar.

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Business Green

APRIL 6, 2022

FSO will take 'whole-systems' approach to integration of green energy technologies such as renewables, hydrogen, and CCUS, government confirms. The government is widely expected to publish its hotly anticipated Energy Security Strategy within the next 24 hours, setting out how it intends to wean the UK off Russian oil and gas.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Kwasi Kwarteng's 'mini-Budget' sets out aim to streamline planning for roads, nuclear, renewables, hydrogen, CCUS, and oil and gas, and confirms modest boost for energy efficiency funding. Separately today, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) announced a £49.4m

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2023

But its central appeal is for the government to be more consistent and reliable, so as to encourage businesses and investors to deliver the clean technologies of the future and reduce the country's reliance on volatile, polluting and expensive fossil fuels. But it also means we need to lock out climate-wrecking fossil fuels for good.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Electric vehicles (EVs) have been one of the biggest success stories of the burgeoning net zero transition so far, having now decisively shot into the mainstream after doubling their market share to 8.3 Both partnerships are aimed at developing fossil fuel-free metals and potentially other materials for manufacturing Polestar's EVs.

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