Business Green

JUNE 28, 2020

In a letter sent to Chancellor Rishi Sunak today, committee chairs Darren Jones and Philip Dunne argued that a net zero aligned economy recovery could establish the UK as a climate leader ahead of its presidency of the G7 and COP26 climate conference in 2021, while stimulating the economy, generating jobs, and improving public health and wellbeing.

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E2 Environmental Entrepreneurs

JULY 20, 2020

In March, it passed trillions of dollars in relief packages that respond forcefully to the immediate economic and public health crises we face. Rather than reacting to climate change when it’s too late, we can seize this moment to build a more resilient economy powered by clean energy. Right now, these workers are hurting badly.

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Business Green

JUNE 9, 2020

The SDGs, adopted unanimously by UN member states five years ago, set out a raft of targets designed to put the global economy on a path towards a sustainable future, including action on climate, improving health and education, and reducing social and economic inequalities.

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Business Green

APRIL 20, 2020

In its most comprehensive assessment of the global energy transition to date, the International Renewable Energy Association (IRENA) today set out a compelling case for ensuring post-Covid-19 economic stimulus packages align with long-term climate and sustainable development objectives.

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Business Green

JUNE 4, 2020

It comes in the midst of the worst economic collapse since World War II, as many countries still struggle with strained public health systems, lockdowns, rising unemployment and the oil price crash. They understand that a science-based recovery is the route to reviving the economy, increasing productivity and delivering job security.

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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. Setting out its draft recovery plan back in May, the EU Commission promised to place its Green Deal programme and 2050 net zero ambition at the heart of its €750bn investment package to get the economy moving again.

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Business Green

JUNE 14, 2020

Tanya Steele, chief executive at WWF, urged the government to deliver on Ministerial promises - made repeatedly over the past few weeks ­- that the imminent stimulus package will feature a raft of green measures. "We What we urgently need to see now, and post-pandemic, is commitment from government on turning this into action.".

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Business Green

JUNE 23, 2020

Reports from CBI, EnergyUK, ECIU, and ScottishPower all hammer home calls for ambitious green recovery package. The government has been inundated with calls from green trade bodies, campaigners and academics for it to deliver a green stimulus package in recent weeks. The consensus keeps building.

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Business Green

JUNE 25, 2020

Hopes will also be high that ministers and civil servants on Whitehall are now digesting the report's many recommendations ahead of the Treasury's hotly-anticipated economic stimulus package, which is expected to emerge early next month. Nevertheless, Stark captured it pretty well yesterday with his plea for the government to "go for it".

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Business Green

AUGUST 27, 2020

Pressure is mounting on India over its continued support for coal, with both UN Secretary-General António Guterres and the CEOs of major Indian corporates uniting in calls for Prime Minister Narenda Modi to increasingly focus investment on clean energy and electric vehicles in the wake of the Covid-19 crisis.

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Smart Energy International

JULY 29, 2022

Additionally, an AI-powered inspection platform bolsters electric asset health maintenance, Elia Group illustrates expedited energy transition investments and a politically charged interconnector reaches financial closure. podcast episode about the package and the industry’s response. Listen to the FactorThis!

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Business Green

AUGUST 13, 2020

It includes calls for an improved focus on green jobs training, tighter home energy efficiency standards, support for natural climate solutions such as tree planting and better soil health, accelerated clean technology development, and schemes to incentivise cycling and low carbon transport.

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Business Green

JUNE 22, 2020

The Assembly members were also overwhelmingly in favour of a recommendation that the government's forthcoming Covid-19 economic recovery package should be designed to achieve its net zero target, with 79 per cent agreeing the imminent stimulus package should be in line with the UK's net zero goals.

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Business Green

JULY 6, 2022

A government rocked by the resignation of both Chancellor Rishi Sunak and Health Secretary Sajid Javid will today attempt to demonstrate it is still able to govern, with the introduction to parliament of the "most significant piece of energy legislation in a decade".

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Green Technology

JUNE 21, 2023

Inspired by nature and the unique place of Sacramento, this experience is celebrated throughout the interior and exterior of the building through practices that promote community health and well-being. Their efforts to optimize packaging and shipping has reduced the amount of waste that customers need to recycle downstream.

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Elemental Excelerator

APRIL 21, 2022

Matter has designed sophisticated filters to keep microplastics out of our waterways, protecting public health and ecosystems crucial for reducing carbon emissions. trillion dollar bipartisan infrastructure package includes formula and competitive grant funding for mobility, energy, electric batteries, water, and our built environment.

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Business Green

MAY 18, 2020

But several major new reports in recent days have stressed that longer-term policy stability, incentive programmes, and reforms crafted and enacted by the UK government over the coming weeks and months could prove just as important - if not more important - to the country reaching its 2050 climate goal that the much-debated stimulus packages.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2020

In a speech that placed an emphasis on optimism and resilience in the face of ongoing Covid-19 challenges, the Prime Minister sought to paint the pandemic as a chance for renewal for the UK economy, as he bemoaned a "long term failure" on skills training and "inadequate infrastructure". "We

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Business Green

JUNE 3, 2020

Gabrielle Ginér, BT's head of environmental sustainability, discusses the CO2 benefits of digital services and the challenges of shifting to a fully electric vehicle fleet. BT has long been a corporate leader on climate action. she tells BusinessGreen. "So So definitely our focus has not diminished.". I think that's hugely important.".

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Charged

JULY 9, 2020

electric vehicles), stationary energy storage and microgrids. Non-utility markets are showing up with six types of services: demand response; energy efficiency; distributed solar; electric vehicles (or mobile energy storage); and stationary energy storage. What are the trends that will shape future scenarios?

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Business Green

JULY 19, 2022

As such, the court order presents a major challenge to the next Prime Minister, who will be under immediate pressure to both strengthen the UK's net zero plans and deliver a more ambitious package to help households cope with soaring energy bills this winter.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

MARCH 5, 2024

Let’s unravel this financial package together and discover why investing your dollars into these environmentally-friendly entities may potentially make your financial portfolio greener too. Scrutinize the balance sheet to determine its financial health. It’s wise to consider a comprehensive view of the company.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

The increase in funding for energy efficiency schemes is likely to be welcomed, but the promised funding falls well short of the £5bn package the industry backed Energy Efficiency Infrastructure Group (EEIG) had proposed. Separately today, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) announced a £49.4m

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Clean Energy Canada

MAY 28, 2020

COVID has people preoccupied with the economy and health. New Abacus Data-Clean Energy Canada polling reveals that the current economic and health challenges have done little or nothing to diminish support for infrastructure changes that will create a cleaner Canadian economy in the future. Our recovery measures must be resilient.

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Clean Energy Canada

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

The EU is investing nearly a third of its historic stimulus package toward exactly this end. Federal and provincial investments to bring electric vehicle manufacturing to Ontario this week may have saved thousands of local jobs, as Ford Motor Co. Op-ed | “Ottawa wants more electric vehicle manufacturing in Canada.

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Elemental Excelerator

AUGUST 12, 2022

This is the largest climate funding package Congress has ever passed. This funding includes direct investments in technology, infrastructure, and other needs of communities that have been striving for better health, resilience, and access. This would have set clean electricity generation targets for all utilities in the U.S.,

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Defend Our Future

JULY 19, 2021

Biden has proposed a $2 trillion blueprint to spur clean energy growth, limit climate pollution from the fossil fuel industry including power plants, and expand the electric vehicle market through tax credits and investments in infrastructure including medium and heavy duty vehicles. More than half of U.S.

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Business Green

JUNE 24, 2020

I think Covid is building on that and making people think harder about the social resilience and public health side of some of this stuff.". Over the last three to four years, there's been much more consciousness and understanding that these issues [air quality, recycling, climate change'] go together and have to be tackled together."

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 16, 2020

The health crisis was a shock to the renewables sector: Equipment deliveries were delayed, project deadlines pushed out, contract lawyers nervously consulted. The health crisis is ongoing, putting a big, scary asterisk next to any forecast. North Central Wind (American Electric Power): Oklahoma. will build a record 1.2

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Business Green

JULY 13, 2020

The report predicts the proposed package of measures could create over 300,000 jobs, help to "level up" all parts of the country, and deliver on the government's stated goal to "build back better and greener" from the coronavirus crisis.

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Business Green

JUNE 11, 2020

Moreover, such projects reduce energy bills for households and businesses, create skilled jobs right across the country, and improve the health of the millions of people currently living in draughty and damp homes. These proven benefits combine to deliver significant economic gains. It should be a slam dunk.

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Elemental Excelerator

AUGUST 5, 2020

In fact, from Numina’s curb-level data collection helping cities develop insights into social distancing and mobility behaviors to Kando’s wastewater monitoring technology helping to detect and pinpoint the source of coronavirus outbreaks , it’s clear that climate innovation and public health often go hand-in-hand.

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Business Green

MAY 12, 2020

Speaking shortly after that call to BusinessGreen from his makeshift home office - aka his bedroom - Stark is, like many working in the green economy, continuing to wrestle with what coronavirus could mean for the climate fight, alongside the wider fears about public health and economic uncertainty that everyone shares. Building back better.

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Business Green

MARCH 11, 2020

Today, just weeks after his promotion to the second most powerful job in the country, the Chancellor Rishi Sunak unveiled the government's Budget for the coming year and beyond, outlining a multi-billion pound package of spending across the green economy, as well as new tax measures covering the energy sector, plastic packaging, and red diesel fuel.

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Business Green

JUNE 24, 2021

Together, business and government can build a legacy founded on green jobs, sustainable growth, and a more resilient, competitive net zero future for every community across the country.". As the report highlights, progress in upgrading our new build standards and enforcing them properly has fallen behind. A piecemeal approach won't cut it.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Instead, it looks to have opted for a package of loan guarantees for energy suppliers and targeted support for fuel poor households. For example, with such a commitment in place it would be impossible for the paper to get away with barely mentioning climate resilience and adaptation and having little to say about nature.

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Business Green

JUNE 23, 2021

Together, business and government can build a legacy founded on green jobs, sustainable growth, and a more resilient, competitive net zero future for every community across the country.". As the report highlights, progress in upgrading our new build standards and enforcing them properly has fallen behind. A piecemeal approach won't cut it.

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