Business Green

JUNE 28, 2020

The UK's post-crisis economic recovery package presents a major opportunity to accelerate investment on climate adaptation and cutting emissions to net zero," Jones and Dunne wrote. The EAC's inquiry will monitor the government's economic recovery packages and identify opportunities that can improve environmental safeguarding.

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Business Green

JUNE 21, 2020

Conservationists have urged the government to make nature restoration a key pillar of its forthcoming economic recovery package, claiming it could create thousands of jobs across the country while tackling biodiversity loss and the climate crisis. It remains to be seen what will be included in the government's recovery package.

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Business Green

JUNE 21, 2020

Conservationists have urged the government to make nature restoration a key pillar of its forthcoming economic recovery package, claiming it could create thousands of jobs across the country while tackling biodiversity loss and the climate crisis. It remains to be seen what will be included in the government's recovery package.

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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

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

JUNE 8, 2020

Alok Sharma to chair series of meetings with businesses, academics, and trade bodies, as government continues to work on green stimulus package. The other roundtables also cover topics that could help to shape a green recovery and drive investment in low carbon and climate resilient infrastructure.

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Clean Energy Canada

MAY 29, 2020

From the executive director of the International Energy Agency, who called it a “historic opportunity,” to the head of the International Monetary Fund, who said if we are to come out of COVID with more resilience, “we must do everything in our power to make it a green recovery.”. Around the world, governments are listening. Other countries.

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Business Green

JULY 14, 2020

"Twelve years on, there is mounting economic evidence that a recovery plan based on investment in low carbon infrastructure and industries is one of the most effective ways of creating jobs in the near term and driving greater productivity, innovation and resilience in the long-term.".

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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 29, 2020

The chancellor's stimulus package must include measures to replace lost jobs with green jobs, re-train workers so they can access these jobs and power the new green economy both Leeds and the UK need.". The Mayor of London Sadiq Khan stressed that a green jobs and skills drive was critical if the country is to build net zero cities. "I

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Business Green

JULY 6, 2022

Announcing the Bill, Kwarteng hailed the sweeping package of new policy measures as "the biggest reform of our energy system in a decade". "To The sweeping package of proposals was broadly welcomed by energy industry groups. And it pledges to "take back control" of powers given to the EU governing the energy performance of buildings.

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Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 8, 2020

Grocery stores suddenly had bulk bins to reduce wasteful packaging. In the face of an economic shock unlike anything modern society has ever experienced, perhaps it’s time for three new Rs: relief, recovery and resilience. But what about those next steps, recovery and resilience? The first thing Canadians need? Relief, and fast.

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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 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

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Sustainability Consulting

JULY 8, 2020

This study complements a previous University of Oxford working paper, Will COVID-19 fiscal recovery packages accelerate or retard progress on climate change? Expand electric-vehicle (EV) charging networks ? Expand large- and community-scale energy storage ? Accelerate the build-out of wind- and solar-power generation capacity ?

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Business Green

JUNE 30, 2020

Prime Minister to reaffirm tree-planting plans as part of £5bn 'New Deal' style recovery package, but green campaigners fear 'false start' as key funding announcements still yet to be confirmed. Meanwhile, business groups are also stepping up calls for Chancellor to deliver a wide-ranging green stimulus package.

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Smart Energy International

JULY 29, 2022

Joe Manchin stated that he had reached a deal with Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on a budget reconciliation package. Part of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 , this package allocates $369 billion for energy security and clean energy programmes over the next 10 years. Listen to the FactorThis! million ($207.1 million ($426.4

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Business Green

JUNE 9, 2020

The UKSSD-organised letter was published the same day as more than 20 leading UK health groups urged the Prime Minister to deliver a climate-friendly economic recovery package in order to prevent a second health crisis caused by climate change and environmental degradation.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

That is the core conclusion from DNV GL's 2020 Energy Transition Outlook, one of the first comprehensive assessments of the short and long-term impacts of the coronavirus crisis on fossil fuels, renewable energy, electric vehicles, and decarbonisation targets.

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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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Business Green

MARCH 12, 2020

Headline green pledges included sizeable support for electric vehicles, carbon capture and storage, flood defences, and nature-based climate solutions, as well as green tax changes for the energy sector and red diesel fuel. Could higher taxes on SUVs be on the way?

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Business Green

JANUARY 28, 2022

"Domestically the answer to cutting emissions, keeping bills under control and ensuring security of supply, is to continue to build out our world-leading offshore wind sector and invest in nuclear and hydrogen, as the government is doing," he said.

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Business Green

JULY 8, 2020

Chancellor Rishi Sunak has again reiterated the government's commitment to engineering a "green recovery", confirming plans for a new £3bn energy efficiency programme and promising that the UK's stimulus package will have "concern for the environment at its heart".

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Business Green

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Innovating into resilience is the key for future growth. Unilever , for example, is helping its suppliers to develop new low-carbon sources of thermal energy using technologies from heat pumps to hydrogen. If you have the scale, you can use your purchasing power to help drive down the cost of new, clean technologies.

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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". Mother Nature has savaged us with Covid," Johnson added.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 18, 2022

From improving energy efficiency, to rolling out electric vehicle charging infrastructure, developing green skills and restoring nature, there is much for the new government to get on with.". Other constructive green policies could be delivered at relatively low cost.

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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

MARCH 15, 2023

But players across the green economy were quick to point out the government's package of policies and tax changes was notably bereft of focus on three other critical 'E's that are planks of a prosperous economy: environment, energy, and efficiency. billion every year. "It

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

President Joe Biden called the funding package a " once-in-a-generation " investment solar, wind, energy storage, and electric vehicle technologies that will create millions of jobs. Hydrogen was perhaps the biggest clean energy winner in the bipartisan infrastructure package, securing $9.5 Hydrogen. $8

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Business Green

MARCH 30, 2023

When UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres calls for a ‘quantum leap in ambition' to tackle the ever-worsening climate emergency, we needed a bold and visionary package to meet the scale of the climate emergency we face - yet the Government barely moves an inch. The IPCC report was clear - there is no time for hesitation.

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Business Green

AUGUST 25, 2021

Navigating the boom and bust cycle of government subsidy programmes may have been turbulent, but throughout it all the sector developed a remarkable resilience. They are thinking about getting an electric vehicle in the next couple years and the idea of charging your own vehicle [with electricity generated on site] is a very attractive one.".

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Elemental Excelerator

AUGUST 12, 2022

This is the largest climate funding package Congress has ever passed. Boosting shared solar installations through the 10-year extension of the 30% Investment Tax Credit, which is now technology neutral and covers energy storage, clean hydrogen, and more. Allison Wolff, CEO of Vibrant Planet. Nth Cycle ). Allume Energy , Transcend ).

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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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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2020

On the other, lower oil prices could undermine the financial case for switching to electric vehicles and prompt some governments to undertake short-term and carbon intensive stimulus programmes.

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Clean Energy Canada

MAY 28, 2020

94% endorse or would go along with efforts to promote Canadian minerals and metals for use in clean technologies and Canadian forest products as low-carbon building and packaging solutions. The growing interest in electric vehicles is notable. Our recovery measures must be resilient. Bruce Anderson, Chairman, Abacus Data.

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Business Green

JULY 9, 2020

The trailed £3bn energy efficiency package was hugely welcome, even if questions remain over precisely how it will be administered and what will happen when the single year Budget is exhausted. But then once again the accompanying policy measures singularly failed to match the rhetoric.

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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. We're still reaping the consequences.

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