Charged

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The dawn of electrified trucking: Routes to decarbonising commercial vehicles forecasts that by 2030, zero-emission vehicles (battery-electric or fuel cell) will account for a third of all trucks in Europe, North America and China, and 70 percent by 2035.

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Business Green

JANUARY 4, 2023

As such, it sets out how the UK could accelerate its transition away from fossil fuels, secure its energy supplies, and tackle the looming affordability, security, and sustainability 'trilemma' through a raft of new policies. Britain will continue to need to access fossil fuel supplies during the Net Zero transition.

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Business Green

MARCH 29, 2023

Moreover, the technology results in more air pollution than EVs or fuel cell vehicles and environmental campaigners are fearful that allowing manufacturers to continue to produce ICE vehicles could leave the door open for the continued use of fossil fuels.

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Business Green

APRIL 30, 2020

The North West Hydrogen Alliance - a regional trade body backed by several local councils and leading gas companies such as Shell, Cadent, and INEOS-owned Inovyn - today launched a roadmap setting out "quick and easy steps" to deliver a rollout of hydrogen technology across the UK transport sector.

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GreenBiz

MAY 29, 2020

It is well documented that the current industrial agricultural model yields outputs of questionable quality, relies on fossil fuels and practices that are damaging to ecosystems, and is built around supply chains that involve long-distance transport that make it vulnerable to border closures. Policy & Politics.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

The fund assists organisations based in emerging economies that are working to improve access to clean transport. The LEAP Fund, backed by Drive Electric, was founded in 2022 to encourage low-carbon transitions and minimise fossil-fuel vehicle lock-in. million in funding grants. Have you read?

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

The European Investment Bank (EIB) will stop backing fossil fuel energy projects in 2021, except those using carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology or offsets to cancel out their emissions. “The EU bank has been Europe’s climate bank for many years.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

The Commission is likely to have found a target that is achievable and politically palatable to all member states. “I think 55 percent is a very positive step for Europe and honestly, it would have been unbelievable just a year ago,” she told GTM in an interview. Europe deployed 3.6GW of offshore wind in 2019.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 19, 2021

They straddle climate change, the role of biomass energy, greenhouse gas emissions from different oil feedstocks, policies towards slashing emissions in transport, buildings and infrastructure, and the interactions between climate change and human health. Reliance on the GDP-based system is not going to work.

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Business Green

JULY 15, 2021

First up, the UK's Transport Decarbonisation Plan sketched out how the global transport industry could be fully decarbonised. It is an energy policy, a trade policy, a nature policy, a buildings policy, a transport policy, and, above all, a growth policy. This is a big deal. It also has international significance.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 16, 2023

This story is part of a DeSmog series on the influence wielded by the gas lobby in Europe BERLIN, Germany — Germany’s push to achieve climate neutrality by 2045 could, by some projections , soon turn the vast network of natural gas pipelines powering the country’s homes and industry into one of Europe’s biggest stranded assets.

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Mr. Sustainability

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Funding decision granted and first contracts signed for the Northern Lights project Summary - Following a historic vote in parliament on December 15th 2020, the Norwegian Government announced its funding decision for the ‘Northern Lights’ CO2 transport and storage project. million tonnes of CO2 per year.

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Business Green

JANUARY 5, 2023

From clean energy and nature investments to phasing down fossil fuels, We Mean Business Coalition's Maria Mendiluce offers her take on what corporate climate leadership should look like over the coming year. However, it was a missed opportunity to be bolder and propose to phase out all fossil fuels.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 24, 2021

They straddle climate change, the role of biomass energy, greenhouse gas emissions from different oil feedstocks, policies towards slashing emissions in transport, buildings and infrastructure, and the interactions between climate change and human health. Reliance on the GDP-based system is not going to work.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

This story is part of a DeSmog series on the influence wielded by the gas lobby in Europe and was developed with the support of Journalismfund.eu. Italy’s gas lobby should be entering early retirement. Instead, it’s rarely been riding so high. In fact, Italy seems to be moving in the opposite direction. Italian Gas’.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 17, 2020

But there remain widespread misgivings about how long it is taking for the technology to get off the ground, particularly in Europe, which is trailing behind the US, according to a report released in December by the Global CCS Institute , a think tank dedicated to the topic.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 6, 2022

This story is part of a DeSmog series on the influence wielded by the gas lobby in Europe and was developed with the support of Journalismfund.eu. It’s fossil fuel madness.”. Political Decision’. Now, the city is at the forefront of the country’s dash to break its dependence on Russian gas. Credit: DeSmog.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

It therefore called for a new long-term, targeted energy demand reduction strategy to encourage homes and businesses to undertake measures and behaviours that drive more efficient energy use, including efforts both in the home and to reduce the use of transport fuel.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 17, 2022

As Russian forces advanced towards Kyiv, Canada’s oil and gas industry and its supporters responded with a self-serving narrative: the Ukraine crisis means Canada must accelerate its production of fossil fuels. The world is enriching Vladimir Putin when they buy his oil and gas,” it explained in one to its nearly 400,000 followers.

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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. The decision reached overnight is great news," said Sandra Roling, director of transport at the Climate Group.

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Business Green

MAY 18, 2022

Just this week Ford and Volvo joined together with 26 other energy, transport and logistics operators in calling on the EU to ban sales of new fossil fuel cars and vans in Europe by 2035, alongside fresh mandatory EV charging infrastructure targets. But the change to e-mobility is powerful and very dynamic.".

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2022

To become energy secure and genuinely resilient from volatile fossil fuel prices, the UK must accelerate its transition to a zero-carbon energy system, writes Nick Molho, from the Aldersgate Group. As gas is a globally priced commodity, Europe and the UK are facing severe impacts.

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Business Green

JULY 1, 2022

I believe that in the future, the most advanced military vehicles, and the most resilient armed forces, will be those that do not rely on fossil fuels," he said. The Netherlands is on the path out of fossil fuels and we're here to help on this mission. UK confirms it is to use climate funds to supply weapons to Ukraine.

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Mr. Sustainability

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

The so-called Porthos project in the North Sea should therefore be a milestone in Europe. is captured from flue gas that is released when fossil fuels are burned. This is transported via pipelines to, in this case, an empty gas field. So this could become a political target." Last summer, it became political.

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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. Moreover, as the research was carried out over just four recent weeks, it likely only encompasses a fraction of all the potential shovel-ready green projects EY believes are currently under development in Europe.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2023

In the summer of 2022, faced with a very real opportunity to confront the fossil fuel industry, potentially forcing the facility to halt oil train shipments entirely, the city instead chose to strike a compromise that allows the oil facility to continue to operate. You’re in the driver’s seat.

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Business Green

MAY 27, 2020

A sweeping €1.85tr stimulus strategy to rebuild Europe's economy from the wreckage of the coronavirus crisis has been unveiled by the European Commission today, promising a green infrastructure spending blitz to help put the continent on a path towards net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. This is Europe's moment," she said.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

The government has said the review is necessary due to "major changes to the economic and political landscape" since Boris Johnson's administration published its Net Zero Strategy last autumn. He will also hold a series of roundtables across the country, the government said.

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Business Green

JUNE 10, 2020

Renewables costs are falling fast and clean energy is outcompeting fossil fuels on multiple fronts. Investment in renewables, excluding large hydro, was more than three times that in new fossil fuel plants, the report notes.

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Business Green

JULY 22, 2020

And most importantly, this is the right deal for Europe, right now.". Michel conceded negotiations had been difficult, but was quick to hail the resulting recovery package - known as the Next Generation EU fund - and 2021-27 long-term budget agreement as a "pivotal moment in Europe's journey" that would "also launch us into the future". "In

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Business Green

MARCH 23, 2023

That is the hypothesis advanced in a new report published today by the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science. The authors anticipate the upcoming Fit for 55 package in particular is set to trigger several new cases.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

The NIC - the UK's independent infrastructure advisory body - set out a number of recommendations today in its annual assessment of government progress towards key infrastructure priorities, including boosting transport connectivity and decarbonising the energy system.

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Business Green

AUGUST 17, 2021

Here, BusinessGreen rounds up the reaction from a host of leading figures and organisations from across politics, business, NGOs, academia and think tanks offer their views on the Strategy and its many implications for the UK's net zero transition. — Jan Rosenow (@janrosenow) August 17, 2021.

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Business Green

APRIL 18, 2022

The second-largest (and growing) source of climate pollution in Europe. The leading killer of children in both the US and Europe. In all, we have screened nearly 800 peer-reviewed reports and case studies from throughout Europe, published since 2010, seeking those that quantified where and how cities had successfully reduced car use.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 23, 2020

And when you use more electricity to meet your energy needs, the demand curve flattens, which means less fossil fuel combustion and significantly lower losses from production to final consumption. Green hydrogen provides a new supply source that can help to decarbonize heavy-duty transport, industry, and residential sectors.

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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. How do you ensure the focus on switching to EVs does not distract from the need to promote public transport and active travel?

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Business Green

MARCH 23, 2022

But climate and energy experts have been quick to slam the fuel duty cut as both environmentally and socially regressive, noting the move will benefit more affluent citizens who tend to own the most polluting vehicles and do nothing to alleviate the cost of living for poorer people dependent on public transport for travel.

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