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

MARCH 20, 2020

Tesla Closes Its Factories in California and New York : As calls for people to stay home grew increasingly urgent, Tesla announced plans to close two plants making electric vehicles and products for the solar and energy storage markets. This week's podcast episode of Political Climate takes a look. Will other U.S.

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EDF + Business

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

But rather than the incremental progress of better pollution control equipment and improved fuel efficiency we’ve seen play out over the past two decades, the technical innovation in electric vehicles over the past few years has been brisk. Share a transition plan with clear milestones and that priorities community health.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 24, 2019

The $160 trillion in cost savings are derived from 30 years of cumulative savings from avoided health costs, energy subsidies and climate damages. Electrification of the transportation sector could grow the electric vehicle market from five million to one billion. Renewable energy consumption could go from 16.6

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Planet Pulse

JANUARY 11, 2024

We’ll trace supply chains as they move from open-pit mines to self-driving electric vehicles. Or that the effects of rising atmospheric emissions are harming everything in the long run, even fossil fuel infrastructure (which might be comically ironic if the health of the planet wasn’t in jeopardy).

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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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Business Green

MARCH 27, 2020

The world may be reeling from unprecedented public health crisis, but the UK's latest greenhouse gas figures offer genuine cause for optimism. Transport emissions are falling for the first time in years and electric vehicles provide a path to deep decarbonisation. UK emissions are down. And it has nothing to do with Covid-19.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

One of the most common responses to the gathering political campaign against the UK's net zero strategy is that it is important not to underestimate such an experienced and effective band of campaigners, regardless of how modest they may be in number. It is simply not plausible. But worst than that, it is obviously implausible.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

There is a long track record of wealthier and older people with more time on their hands being the first to tap into grant and subsidy schemes, such as the Feed-in Tariff incentives that triggered the first solar panel boom, the Plug-in Car Grant Scheme for electric vehicles, or the more recent Boiler Upgrade Scheme.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 2, 2020

All the top green business news from around the world this week, including VW's electric vehicle investment in China, electric ferries in Thailand, and Denmark's ambitious climate goal. It spans economics, health, social justice, and human rights.". VW revs up electric vehicle race with $15bn investment in China.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

When the government recently announced its intention to increase National Insurance to pay for a £12bn investment in health and social care, I can't have been alone in thinking about other ways in which they could raise the funds. Chris Sherrington is head of environmental policy and economics at Eunomia Research & Consulting.

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Business Green

MARCH 8, 2022

Scientists increasingly link air pollution to a whole range of health problems, from heart attacks, strokes, cancer, lung problems, miscarriages, even mental health problems. The group also said that most SUVs were "unnecessary" as three quarters of these 'off-road' vehicles are sold to people living in towns and cities.

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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

APRIL 22, 2022

Boris Johnson celebrates flurry of multi-million pound clean tech deals on trip to India, as UK separately agrees joint climate action roadmap with Indonesia to drive electric vehicles adoption and tackle deforestation.

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Business Green

JANUARY 18, 2022

It argues that to deliver on the capital's climate and air quality goals there would need to be a 27 per cent reduction in car vehicle kilometres at the latest, accompanied by a significant expansion in public transport use, cycling and walking, and electric vehicle fleets.

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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. But the shift to electric vehicles is happening and with enthusiasm.”. She added: “And, crucially for today’s politicians, that includes voters in ‘Red Wall’ seats.

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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. Legislative certainty is vital for business planning.

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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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Grist

DECEMBER 15, 2021

And, in the United States, political gridlock chopped the heart out of Congress’ most ambitious clean energy plan. . Will improve public health. Would make electricity more dependable. Electric vehicles are making huge inroads in the market. Political will. Is bound to create jobs. Jay Inslee.

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Business Green

APRIL 22, 2020

The world currently finds itself battling a major public health and economic crisis as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, yet - as the green economy knows only too well - it also faces a race against time to avoid a crisis of far greater and longer-lasting proportions in the form of accelerating climate change.

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Business Green

AUGUST 13, 2020

So, as we started 2020, sustainability and climate change were riding high on the political and corporate agenda. Understandably, this all came to a grinding halt with the spread of Covid-19 and the subsequent health and economic crisis that it posed.

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Business Green

JUNE 23, 2022

More credible than a Number 10 spokesperson denying the latest political scandal. You have continued to drive down emissions, to accelerate the roll out of clean technologies, to make electric vehicles and renewables and heat pumps not just the green choice, but the smart and attractive choice. That is still the mission.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 27, 2021

This can leave a lasting impact on the health of our oceans as well as communities who rely on fishing for stability. Fuel and propulsion technology still have a long way to go but fisheries can still reduce their fossil fuel use onshore by optimizing energy efficiency within their facilities and migrating to hybrid or electric vehicles.

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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. There is $40 million from some state and mostly federal funding for weatherization and home health of low income households.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

These pollutants, which include particulate matter, nitrogen and sulfur oxides, and toxic substances such as benzene, have been linked to health problems ranging from respiratory disorders to reproductive problems to cancer. Some feel uncomfortable about the source of these funds, because they often come at a cost to community health. "We

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Energy Innovation

OCTOBER 21, 2020

By Sarah Spengeman and Surili Patel, Director, Center for Climate, Health and Equity, American Public Health Association. The vast majority of the pollution that damages human health is produced by burning fossil fuels to power our homes, cars, and businesses. PM 10) – three of the most damaging pollutants for human health.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

Climate action can have multiple additional benefits, for biodiversity, public health, and food security. Low-carbon technologies like electric vehicles may unleash a virtuous cycle of innovation, investment and growth as information technology did two decades ago. Both must form an integral part of net zero strategies.

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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. But, as with any other company currently, BT is set to face a very different economic and political landscape when the UK emerges from the coronavirus crisis.

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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? The net zero concept also has three inherent strengths.

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Business Green

MARCH 3, 2021

The net zero transition is increasingly one of the top priorities right across the political spectrum and there is little doubt the UK's green economy will continue to prosper mightily over the coming decade and beyond. That such a vision is seemingly so embedded within Downing Street and the Treasury is remarkable progress in and of itself.

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Business Green

AUGUST 22, 2022

Against this sobering backdrop, political leaders are scrambling for policy fixes to try and mimimise the looming economic storm. Such tariffs have become increasingly popular among electric vehicle (EV) drivers who can secure cheaper electricity to charge up their car overnight.

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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

MARCH 4, 2020

This would mean that by 2030 the UK could have higher living standards, and better health and wellbeing, underpinned by UK businesses innovating and adopting cutting-edge zero-carbon technologies and practices fit for the mid-21st century.".

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Business Green

JUNE 26, 2020

Other green efforts in the strategy include lowering taxes on renewables, rolling out heat pumps and district energy systems, installing electric vehicle charge points, and supporting efforts to decarbonise heavy industry. In the face of a historic health and economic crisis, it is perhaps more important than ever.".

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Greenability Magazine

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Through a collaboration with KCP&L, now Evergy, Murphey led the city in moving toward a goal of 100-percent renewable electric energy for municipal operations by 2022. The city now has 96 electric vehicle (EV) charging stations on city property through Evergy’s Clean Charge Network.

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EDF + Business

JUNE 24, 2021

For companies whose business depends on trucks, including shipping-dependent brands, large fleet operators and truck and engine manufacturers, the pressure to reduce emissions is especially urgent – given that pollution from medium and heavy-duty vehicles not only contributes to climate change but also causes serious harm to human health.

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Business Green

MARCH 4, 2022

Unveiling the proposal, Khan said he had carefully considered the rising cost of living but stressed the move was "justified to save lives and protect the health of Londoners". They must give a straight answer to that question and they must do it today.".

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