Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

The fund assists organisations based in emerging economies that are working to improve access to clean transport. The LEAP Fund, backed by Drive Electric, was founded in 2022 to encourage low-carbon transitions and minimise fossil-fuel vehicle lock-in. million in funding grants. Have you read?

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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

The North West Hydrogen Alliance - a regional trade body backed by several local councils and leading gas companies such as Shell, Cadent, and INEOS-owned Inovyn - today launched a roadmap setting out "quick and easy steps" to deliver a rollout of hydrogen technology across the UK transport sector.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Overseas Development Institute warns fossil fuel emissions from plastic will rise three-fold by 2050 unless current trends are addressed. Phasing out the use of plastic in a number of industries could help the world curb demand for fossil fuels and more effectively confront the climate crisis, researchers have today advised.

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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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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

They stem from the system we chose when we grabbed and relied on fossil fuels," McCarthy said. The transformation we need demands significant work in transportation, McCarthy offered. Policy & Politics. For too long, climate change was viewed as a problem for the planet instead of a problem for people. Sponsored Article.

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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 growing fears charging infrastructure and public and active transport networks are struggling to keep pace with soaring demand.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Transport Committee chair declares it is 'time for an honest conversation' about road pricing, as report warns that accelerating switch to EVs will lead to plummeting revenues that could impact funding for critical public services. per cent and eight per cent of all new cars sold in January, respectively.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2022

By far the most politically contentious aspect of the new emissions budgets involves Ireland’s livestock-dominated agriculture sector, which currently accounts for 37.5 After the painful financial crash of 2008/9, the political atmosphere in Ireland ahead of the lifting of quotas was febrile. Irish Agriculture.

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Business Green

JULY 18, 2023

For critics of climate policies - be they fossil fuel vested interests, trade unions genuinely concerned about employment in carbon intensive industries, or reactionary climate sceptics - scare stories about the impacts of decarbonisation have considerably more edge if the talk is of all petrol cars being banned or gas boilers being ripped out.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 27, 2021

Reduce fossil fuel use. Reduce Fossil Fuel Use. Fishing is one of the most energy-intensive industries and almost entirely relies on fossil fuels. of total global fuel consumption. Inventions like this help the fishing and shipping industries reduce the amount of fossil fuels they burn.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 2, 2021

With the ban of new petrol and diesel cars in place in the UK by 2030, sales of electric cars are expected to surge. Plug-in hybrid and electric vehicles accounted for more than 1 in 10 vehicle registrations in 2020, up from 1 in 30 in 2019, according to data published by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders.

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Business Green

MARCH 8, 2021

Fossil fuel car phase out risks a Gilets Jaunes-style backlash among low income groups if efforts to improve access to charge points are not stepped up, the Social Market Foundation warns. Ultra-low emission vehicles (ULEVs) now represent nearly 11 per cent of the new car market.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 8, 2023

4 times and electric vehicle (EV) sales will need to grow over sixfold by 2030 from current levels. offshore wind transport vessels or grid transformers) that are costly and have long lead times. offshore wind transport vessels or grid transformers) that are costly and have long lead times.

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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. The faster than predicted shift to renewable energy is disguising a lack of progress in other sectors of the economy, such as transport, agriculture and land use, and buildings.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 16, 2024

One news report from the past weekend, where temperatures hit -40 Celsius, indicated that electric vehicles and heat pumps were not operating as well as they normally would. Premiers who support the fossil fuel industry were quick to exploit the emergency for the apparent political advantage.

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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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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

JULY 23, 2021

How to maintain public and political support while all this is done. That means wind and solar capacity, batteries, energy efficiency upgrades, and electric vehicles (which we now know are cheaper than petrol and diesel vehicles ). They need to throw everything possible at destroying fossil fuel demand.

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2022

To become energy secure and genuinely resilient from volatile fossil fuel prices, the UK must accelerate its transition to a zero-carbon energy system, writes Nick Molho, from the Aldersgate Group. Developing new sources of fossil fuel production: a tempting but inadequate answer to the crisis.

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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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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.

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Front And Centered

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

We require a Just Transition because the physics of climate are unforgiving, because it’s the right thing to do, and because it’s the only politically possible path toward what we really need. million, $91 million in electrification, to build two 144-car hybrid electric ferries and to convert a regular ferry to a hybrid electric model.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2020

According to World Resources Institute it is 60 per cent more ambitious than its 2015 submission, and heralds a rapid expansion of renewables and cleaner transport on the island of three million. The political message they sent was key. But it was significant. Jamaica's plan was not a back-of-fag-packet piece of work.

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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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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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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

May also cited polling by the More In Common thinktank, which found concern about climate change was common across political and social groups. May said the “new frontier” for sceptics was transport. But the shift to electric vehicles is happening and with enthusiasm.”.

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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

JULY 27, 2021

Will well-intentioned critiques of demonstrably inadequate net zero strategies catalyse more ambitious decarbonisation plans or will they inadvertently undermine a trend that has helped successfully push climate issues up the corporate and political agenda? They are setting hugely ambitious emissions targets for five and 10 years hence.

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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. The decision reached overnight is great news," said Sandra Roling, director of transport at the Climate Group.

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Business Green

MARCH 28, 2023

That is the controversial and counter intuitive headline from todays' Business Outlook report from the Offshore Energies UK (OEUK) trade body, which argues fossil fuels from the North Sea will be used to power the UK economy for "decades" to come and as such are crucial to the net zero transition.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Technologies such as so-called “mobile carbon capture”, in which vehicle emissions are captured and stored onboard, and ‘​”advanced fuels” — synthetically-manufactured fuels that Aramco believes will help decarbonise not only F1, but road transport more broadly.

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Business Green

AUGUST 30, 2020

As offices and factories shut up shop and millions of people were furloughed or working from home across the country during the second quarter of the year, electricity demand plummeted and renewable electricity took up its highest ever share of the energy mix, leading to record low CO2 emissions from the grid.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 13, 2022

But if the green agenda does not provide economic growth, it will ultimately not have political support and it will be self-defeating. "It is in this light that we can achieve our commitments to net zero by 2050, as dark satanic mills are replaced by onshore and offshore windfarms.

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2023

The findings of his Review may do little to convince the net zero sceptics in his own party, but if they take the time to read it they might find themselves pleasantly surprised by how reasonable its 129 recommendations are - and how economically, politically, and socially rational to boot.

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