GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

California has a program called Transformative Climate Communities (TCC), in which communities most affected by pollution are able to choose their own goals, strategies and projects to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and address local air pollution. Policy & Politics. Community Resilience. California. Equity & Inclusion.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

political will. This includes poor air quality due to proximity to polluting facilities such as fossil fuel power plants and refineries, which compounds the impacts of crises such as COVID-19. . This can include reducing harmful on-site emissions as well as off-site fleet electrification in high pollution areas.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 14, 2021

At the same time, there is a growing need to develop and deploy a broader suite of solutions aimed at reducing pollution. This has moved these issues up the political priority list and bolstered a massive effort to diversify India’s economy away from coal and other polluting technologies and practices.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Anti-net zero campaigners and climate science deniers are claiming credit for the Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s weakening of UK green policies, as a senior official told DeSmog that civil servants were left “scratching their heads” after being ignored by Sunak this week. Household energy efficiency standards would also be dropped.

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Business Green

MAY 11, 2020

The government this weekend announced plans to fast track £250m of funding and accompanying policy reforms to deliver a "new era for cycling and walking" as the UK begins to ease to lockdown that has seen transport emissions plummet in recent weeks. transportgovuk @beisgovuk @DHSCgovuk. — Shaun Spiers (@ShaunSpiers1) May 10, 2020.

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Clean Energy Canada

MAY 1, 2023

Canada’s clean energy sector is made up of companies and workers that help reduce carbon pollution, whether by generating clean energy, helping move it, reducing energy consumption, or developing low-carbon technologies. Rachel Doran , Director of Policy and Strategy at Clean Energy Canada.

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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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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 transportation responsible for 42 per cent of all climate pollution in the province, which is more than any other sector, B.C.’s

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 13, 2020

Flurry of policy support for zero-emission trucks. still lacks a national transportation electrification strategy, state and local governments, utilities, and vehicle manufacturers are helping to build the market for zero-emission trucks. Parts of California suffer the worst air pollution in the country, including around Los Angeles.

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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. “In general, making climate action profitable is still being prioritized over pollution reduction and equity.” Of the $626.5

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Solar panels and other clean technologies slash energy and fuel bills for households, while minimising exposure to future energy price hikes and air pollution. But it does highlight how the way the costs and benefits associated with the transition are shared is a policy choice.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

The government must act now to prevent the transition to electric vehicles (EVs) burning a major hole in UK tax revenues that could see public services defunded and road congestion soar, MPs have warned. per cent and eight per cent of all new cars sold in January, respectively.

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Clean Energy Canada

JUNE 16, 2021

Since the federal government announced its new target of reducing emissions by 40 to 45 per cent from 2005 levels, up from the previous target of 30 per cent, much debate has ensued in political and environmental circles over whether the new number is too high, too low or just perfect. Emissions-reducing policy, not so much.

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Business Green

JANUARY 18, 2022

London Mayor Sadiq Khan is considering a raft of new policy measures to tackle transport emissions in the capital, including proposals for new charges for motorists, following the publication of a new report today detailing the huge scale of the challenge if London is to deliver on its target of becoming a net zero city by 2030.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

Green businesses contend the social media giant's policies are treating their adverts in the same way as campaigns from 'dark money' funded lobbyists, undermining the timeliness and effectiveness of their marketing messages in the process. But, as Fidler points out, she was trying to advertise a careers event, not make a political point.

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Business Green

JULY 23, 2021

Having been peppered with increasing policy demands since the UK was announced as host, each carrying with it the threat of failure on the international stage, the funnel of COP26 is a big public relations nightmare to manage. Glasgow isn't a ribbon cutting event, it requires real political muscle. That's no easy task. at Glasgow.

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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

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

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

But the support for decarbonisation came alongside a sweeping package of tax increases and spending cuts, including new taxes on electric vehicles, an extended windfall tax on renewables and nuclear power generators as well as oil and gas firms, and confirmation the Overseas Development Aid budget will not be returned to its 0.7

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Business Green

AUGUST 7, 2023

Priti Patel's latest attack on green policies makes little sense and offers no alternative vision for the future - it deserves to be rejected, line-by-line The attacks on the UK's climate policies are now coming thick and fast. There have been citizens assemblies, myriad policy consultations, and thousands of MPs' surgeries.

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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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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

The report states how specific national policy instruments incentivising DSOs may also be needed, at least in a transitional period until 2030. Heavy-duty vehicles would be the 6th largest CO2 emitter if they were a country in the EU?? We must take action NOW to decarbonise this heavily polluting sector.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

I’ve long viewed Jacobson’s life — and his collaboration with researchers, cultural icons, business leaders and political leaders — as a well-written movie script. If this soup of pollution was hurting me after only a few minutes, I imagined the damage it caused people who lived in it.” and PhD in Atmospheric Science.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 27, 2021

From litter and pollution to overfishing and habitat destruction, today’s unsustainable commercial fishing has a significant negative impact on the oceans’ ecosystems. Fisheries should implement a strict policy requiring all netting, lines and other onboard waste to be collected and disposed of properly. Use lead-free fishing gear.

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Business Green

AUGUST 31, 2021

New report from Tony Blair Institute warns failure to prepare for the accelerating shift to electric vehicles could hit Treasury coffers and trigger a new wave of congestion on the roads. Changes to fuel pricing are seen as politically toxic," he acknowledges. "[But]

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Citing Treasury sources, the paper reported that Chancellor Rishi Sunak was actively considering ending the fuel duty freeze which was introduced in 2011, pausing the long-standing policy of increasing fuel duty in line with inflation each year. However, an increase in fuel duty would still present a significant political challenge.

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Business Green

JANUARY 26, 2022

They are desperately working to revive their vision of enhancing the UK's 21st century competitiveness by expanding the use of the polluting fossil fuels pretty much every government and major business in the world has said they want to phase down.

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Business Green

MARCH 4, 2022

Mayor of London wants capital's ultra-low emissions zone to be extended to cover all London by 2023, as Greater Manchester mayor submits fresh vision to tackle pollution in North West. Burnham stressed the revised plans depended on more funding being provided to help people upgrade their vehicles.

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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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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. Political will.

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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. While industrial polluters such as steel makers have to date been exempted from the tax, this could change as Sweden's 2045 net zero goal approaches.

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Business Green

APRIL 30, 2020

Lockdown restrictions imposed on the economy have led to a drastic cut in air pollution across the UK and Europe , and the Alliance (NWHA) said the UK now had an opportunity to push forward with "a new green agenda" to capitalise on these environmental gains by investing in low emission hydrogen transport.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2020

The political message they sent was key. Five years on from Paris, 565 million people still lack access to electricity and 900 million cook their evening meals on polluting, dirty stoves that can kill. Some were short and vague. Many African plans were written by Western consultants. Virtually everyone was on board.

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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

JANUARY 24, 2022

Offsets shouldn't be used to allow pollution to continue unabated. Net zero strategies will fail unless they proactively manage the impact of decarbonisation policies on workers, communities and households. The growth in net zero targets suggests that political and business leaders know this to be true. They are a last resort.

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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? Putting net zero targets onto statute books has real legal and institutional value.

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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.

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