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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Hydrogen Fuel News

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The Challenge: Regulatory Barriers and Policies Complex and inconsistent regulations surrounding renewable energy. Lack of clear policy frameworks for sustainable energy integration. Political resistance to transitioning away from traditional energy sources. Insufficient support for electric vehicle adoption.

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Business Green

MARCH 27, 2023

The government is widely expected to unveil a wave of decarbonisation and energy policies on Thursday as part of a package that had been badged as 'Green Day' by Whitehall insiders. Tom Burke, a co-founder of the E3G thinktank, told the Guardian : "This is Fawlty Towers politics - don't mention the environment!

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Business Green

MAY 18, 2022

Policy decisions surrounding new coal mines, air passenger duty, and North Sea oil and gas are undermining the government's net zero agenda, think tank warns. A lack of joined-up policy making has often undermined cross-government ambitions," the IfG report states. "In

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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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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Pollution, poverty and race collide in many other disadvantaged communities across California — and the country — and some argue that the state’s climate policies haven’t helped. Both had to wrestle with outside factors that affected emissions, such as the Great Recession and California’s other climate policies.

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Clean Energy Canada

MAY 29, 2020

The announcement came after political leaders and European Commission officials voiced intentions to adopt clean stimulus measures in line with the EU’s Green Deal climate plan. This would include investments in clean energy, sustainable transportation systems, green buildings, and hydrogen technology. Other countries.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

” Getting there will require “aggressive collaboration,” within the solar industry and adjacent industries like energy storage, microgrids, wind, electric vehicles and hydrogen fuel cells. That coalition is reflected in the rebranding of SPI this year as North America Smart Energy Week.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 23, 2020

In our Accelerated Energy Transition, we state that global carbon prices of around $40/ton CO2e are in the zone of what’s politically palatable. The hydrogen economy is taking off. and finally, fuel-cell vehicles. The shift in power sector investment is so important because it increases zero-carbon electricity supply.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 20, 2022

We need a General Election now so people can vote for the policies they want to see that will turn this mess around.". The change in leadership leaves the UK's net zero agenda, environmental policy plans, and COP27 Presidency facing another chaotic period with huge uncertainty over the future direction of a host of crucial policies.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 13, 2020

In that realm, things are advancing: By 2023, there will be 19 all-electric or hydrogen fuel cell versions of heavy-duty trucks in production in North America, up from five Class 8 models available today, according to the Rocky Mountain Institute. Flurry of policy support for zero-emission trucks. national policy.

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Business Green

MARCH 30, 2021

Political opponents branded the move as further evidence that a government with laissez faire instincts remained temperamentally opposed to proactive industrial strategy. Business groups lamented a "frustrating" and "harsh" decision.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The system will be more decentralised and more digitalised and flexible, with millions of rooftop solar panels, heat pumps and electric vehicles, local energy communities sharing their resources, more offshore renewables coming online and growing hydrogen production needs. Have you read?

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Business Green

JULY 11, 2021

Adam Bell warns the government faces significant challenges if it is to make its mooted carbon tax and rebate policy work for everyone. Rather than simply moving policy costs, it would instead increase the price of gas by adding a carbon component to your gas bill. This has been widely welcomed , and rightly so.

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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. Whether we witness another general election or not, 2022 is set to be another crucial year for climate policy in the UK and beyond.

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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

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

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. However, critics maintain the country remains off track to meet its long term emissions goals and a bolder policy package is urgently required.

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Business Green

MARCH 25, 2021

Yet despite myriad proven replacements for carbon intensive gas heating - district heating, hydrogen, and heat pumps could all arguably play a key role - around 1.6 million gas boilers are still installed in the UK each year. Moreover, new homes are today being built with fossil fuel heating installed as standard.

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Clean Energy Trust

JANUARY 28, 2022

While governments have a significant role to play in helping usher in these new solutions; in the absence of certain policies, corporates and other stakeholders can make a big impact on the market for these emerging technologies by committing to buying specific volumes of these products.

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Business Green

MARCH 26, 2021

million new green jobs over the coming decade while adding a £330bn boost to the economy, but major policy challenges remain if the government is to engineer a smooth and fair transition for workers in high carbon industries. Setting the UK on a net zero pathway could create up to 1.7 The need to move to net zero is a must," she said.

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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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Grist

DECEMBER 15, 2021

And, in the United States, political gridlock chopped the heart out of Congress’ most ambitious clean energy plan. . In British Columbia, Premier John Horgan’s government detailed policies to nearly double climate-protection efforts. Electric vehicles are making huge inroads in the market. Here again, the news is good.

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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. Three major new reports raise alarm that for all the talk of a green recovery on the national and international stage net zero transition plans remain badly underpowered.

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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

JANUARY 30, 2023

Onshore wind, solar energy, electric vehicle charging infrastructure, improving the grid - these all represent the front line in the UK's quest for green growth. So how does the UK convert good will into good policy and really capitalise on the opportunities available? That's leaving serious money on the table.

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Business Green

MARCH 29, 2022

La Camera said governments that continued to back the expansion of coal, oil, and gas were making a "political choice" to bet against the clean energy transition. But it's a political choice to put policies in place that comply with Paris Agreement and the [International Energy Agency's (IEA's)] Sustainable Development Agenda.

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Business Green

AUGUST 13, 2020

The EU's proposed Green Deal shows that the right policy initiatives could address the economic crisis and climate change simultaneously. So, as we started 2020, sustainability and climate change were riding high on the political and corporate agenda. Proposed funding sources will also nudge companies to reduce their carbon intensity.

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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

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

DECEMBER 8, 2020

This investment programme is going to breathe life into the UK economy - it's as much an economic policy as a climate policy, particularly over the next 10 years as we recover from the pandemic'. So it's as much an economic policy as a climate policy, particularly over the next 10 years as we recover from the pandemic.".

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Business Green

MAY 24, 2022

As the electric vehicle (EV) transition gathers momentum, rethinking the way vehicles are built is fast emerging as the next frontier for the decarbonisation of transport. That is, to a large extent, a political decision.". Volvo Trucks plans to be at the forefront of that push.

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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

JUNE 21, 2020

Reports have suggested that Ministers are looking to create thousands of green jobs in carbon capture and storage (CCUS), hydrogen, active transport, electric vehicle charging infrastructure, and building efficiency programmes.

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Business Green

JUNE 21, 2020

Reports have suggested that Ministers are looking to create thousands of green jobs in carbon capture and storage (CCUS), hydrogen, active transport, electric vehicle charging infrastructure, and building efficiency programmes.

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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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Business Green

JULY 25, 2022

Delivering a major speech this morning on Labour's vision to "reboot" the economy amid soaring inflation, living costs and energy bills in the wake of the pandemic and Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Starmer stressed that net zero was mission critical to the UK's future both politically and economically. I reject that completely.

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