Business Green

JUNE 26, 2020

Plus all the top green business news from around the world this week, including Denmark's new climate law and the Australian mining sector's net zero pledge. Denmark agrees 'landmark' climate action law. IETA sets out net zero carbon trading vision.

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Business Green

APRIL 6, 2020

Key architect of the 2008 Climate Change Act returns to frontline politics, as Sir Keir Starmer unveils Labour's new front bench team. As such, Miliband was instrumental in passing the 2008 Climate Change Act, which set UK decarbonisation targets into law and established the Committee on Climate Change (CCC).

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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. Outside of the budget, there are driven policies being offered by legislators this year that put the responsibility where it belongs.

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Business Green

MARCH 29, 2023

The regulation, which will come into force in 20 days' time, strengthens the interim 2030 emissions reduction target automakers in the EU have to meet, as well as enshrines the 2035 phase-out date into law. Give businesses the clarity and certainty they need to invest in the switch to electric vehicles."

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 27, 2021

Fisheries should implement a strict policy requiring all netting, lines and other onboard waste to be collected and disposed of properly. Despite strict fines and penalties , many fishing vessels continue to overfish simply because of how hard it is to enforce these laws over millions of square miles of open ocean.

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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

JANUARY 17, 2023

"Nearly every industry and sector, representatives from almost every business reached out to us, to tell us how, with the right support, they were willing to go further, faster, and to seize the benefits of net zero with both hands," he told an audience of movers and shakers from business, politics, academia, and the NGO community.

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Business Green

MARCH 5, 2021

Strong political will is needed to make affordable, clean, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all a reality by 2030," said UNECE executive secretary Olga Algayerova. "As Overall, the group gave the government's draft climate law a score of 3.7 out of 10, calling on lawmakers to table amendments to strengthen the bill.

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Business Green

JULY 11, 2022

With the gap between many of the leading candidates on fantasy uncosted tax cuts, inhumane asylum policies, and their complicity in the last six months of rolling scandals as slender as Boris Johnson's sense of propriety, climate policy, net zero, and how to respond to soaring energy bills will become critical issues in the leadership election.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

A lack of coordinated policies, constant changes of direction, and a failure to build up delivery capability have left the UK "well off track" to meet its overarching emissions target, the leading think tank argues in its new report Net Zero: How the government can meet its climate change target.

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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. It's been a big week for European climate policy, and the implications are likely to ripple far beyond the EU itself.

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Business Green

MAY 10, 2022

Delivered in Her Majesty's absence by Prince Charles, the speech set out the government's legislative agenda and broad political priorities for the coming year, and contained myriad references to economic growth, levelling up, supporting Ukraine's war effort, and tackling rising living costs.

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Business Green

MAY 25, 2022

The money behind INEOS and Borealis , argues demand for plastic is set to fall in the coming years due to incoming laws aimed at curbing plastic use, and that therefore banks are putting their investments at risk. The study, Who finances the plastic flood?

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2023

It is a far from unsurprising message from Skidmore, who having signed the 2050 target into law, has long been a staunch advocate for an ambitious net zero agenda. All that is needed is more political urgency, policy clarity, and real world action to mobilise investment, drive clean tech deployment, accelerate the transition.

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Business Green

JULY 15, 2022

Our political leaders bear a genuinely world historic responsibility to try and drive the development of a net zero emission economy in less than three decades and end the obliteration of nature. Do you regret the failures of the past decade to deliver policies that would have kept the UK on track to meet its emissions targets?

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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. The prime minister is fond of saying that she wants to 'grow the pie' of the economy," said Stuart Dossett, senior policy adviser at Green Alliance.

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2023

I am grateful to Chris Skidmore - the man who signed our climate commitments into law - for his detailed report today, which offers a range of ideas and innovations for us to consider as we work to grasp the opportunities from green growth.".

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AGreenLiving

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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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 14, 2020

People can debate whether policy proposals like these are unrealistic , but the scale of the thinking is welcome, and it’s pushing the debate. There’s a growing realization that climate change itself, and the policies that are coming to tackle it, represent a profound financial risk and a permanent shift in valuations.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 24, 2020

Lyft’s 100% EV strategy requires a policy blitz Katie Fehrenbacher Wed, 06/24/2020 – 02:00 ICYMI, ride-hailing biggie Lyft announced last week that it plans to electrify every single car offering services on its platform by 2030, including both those that Lyft owns and rents to drivers and ones that its drivers own.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 6, 2021

Consider a recent global survey conducted by the Institute for Policy Integrity at New York University School of Law, focused on climate change risks and their related costs. more use of bicycles or electric vehicles. But political action starts with public demand (at least in theory), so it’s an encouraging sign.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Telegraph columnists routinely questioned climate science and criticised green reforms as a major backlash against net zero policies raged in the UK, DeSmog can reveal. Ridley is an advisor to the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), the UK’s main climate denial group, which is based on Westminster’s Tufton Street.

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Business Green

JUNE 10, 2021

Talks are also said to be on-going on easing trade barriers for electric vehicles and boosting access to climate finance for developing countries, with reports yesterday suggesting German Chancellor Angela Merkel is prepared to sign off an increase in its climate funding for poorer nations.

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Business Green

JUNE 10, 2022

Most of the work relates to greening the city's buildings - electric heat pump installations, weatherizations and solar panel and battery installations. However, trainees also have the opportunity to learn other in-demand skills, such as electric vehicle charger maintenance and Wi-Fi installation. From Bed-Stuy to nationwide.

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Business Green

JUNE 7, 2021

Electric vehicle sales continued to surge throughout the pandemic and are expected to grow rapidly in the coming years as almost every major auto manufacturer plots a future beyond the internal combustion engine.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

Government must deliver carbon cutting policies this year to stay on track for net zero and maintain role as climate leader at COP26, think tank warns. This policy tracker will test whether the government can stand up at the end of the year and say it is taking the necessary action and leading by example.

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Charged

AUGUST 13, 2022

There’s broad agreement that the changes will help to speed EV adoption, but there’s also concern that some provisions of the law could be counter-productive, at least in the short term. Every government policy or program creates winners and losers, and every one has unintended consequences. Buy American, or else!

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Business Green

JANUARY 23, 2023

There were plenty of missteps and missed opportunities along the way, but over the past 12 years the UK took coal from around 40 per cent of the power mix to less than two per cent, built a genuinely world leading offshore wind industry, embraced electric vehicles, and built an ecosystem of cutting-edge clean tech and green finance firms.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

JULY 6, 2021

Customer Programs Policy and Strategy Manager | SDG&E | San Diego, CA. This position is responsible for leading the development of SDG&E’s greenhouse gas reduction and decarbonization policy strategy to advance the company’s clean energy policy to meet California’s climate goals. Primary Purpose.

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Business Green

JANUARY 5, 2021

On Christmas Eve the UK and EU averted a damaging no-deal scenario, but the resulting trade deal still leaves many outstanding questions about the UK's environmental policy prospects unanswered. The Brexit rollercoaster ride that has defined modern British politics may have entered a lull, but it is far from over.

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Charged

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The EV industry applauded the inclusion of a plan to fund charging infrastructure in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA)—now rechristened the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill (BIB)—that President Biden signed into law in November. However, until now we didn’t know exactly what we were cheering for.

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Business Green

AUGUST 2, 2021

But in keeping with the seriousness of the Covid-era the next month looks set to be dominated by an intensifying and hugely important political row over the future of both the British economy and the planet itself. As one campaigner told BusinessGreen , "we are going to have a lot of kite flying in the next month.

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Business Green

AUGUST 17, 2022

Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss seek to burnish green policy credentials as Tory leadership contest edges towards final fortnight – but beyond the rhetoric, how much more have we learned?

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The tough talk over fixed deadlines, regulatory autonomy, and the UK government's apparent willingness to tear up the political declaration it signed only a few months ago has further raised already heightened tensions on both sides of the Channel. Paris Agreement and other global green treaties. Emissions trading and carbon pricing.

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Business Green

MAY 10, 2021

Pollsters and political leaders may be fixated on the post-Brexit political realignment that has seen the 'red wall' turn blue while opposition parties start to nibble at the 'blue doughnut' in the south and suburbs, but are we also starting to see evidence of a green realignment that could yet inform the pace and shape of the net zero transition?

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Business Green

JUNE 29, 2023

As the Minister who signed into law the UK's world-leading net zero target, Skidmore has long advocated for the investments, technologies, and policies that can deliver a sustainable, healthy, and prosperous economy for all.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

JULY 9, 2021

Third Way’s Climate and Energy Program (CEP) is looking for a Communications and Content Advisor with an advanced understanding of federal climate and clean energy policy, and with a particular understanding of the politics and public opinion on clean energy and climate change, as well as the framing and context for climate and clean energy policy.

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