Business Green

JUNE 18, 2020

While many are hearing the need to align immediate spending packages with longer-term goals, the idea of a green recovery is being met with political opposition from many quarters. Countries around the world are facing painful economic decisions as they design their recovery from the damage caused by coronavirus. per cent, with an expected 8.7

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The Environmental Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The cause of current climate change is largely human activity, like burning fossil fuels, like natural gas, oil, and coal. Climate change is a major threat to public health, food security, water supply, economic growth, and social stability. One of the most important things we can do is to reduce our reliance on fossil fuels.

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Business Green

MAY 14, 2020

Cutting fossil fuel subsidies and putting efficient price on CO2 would raise crucial revenue for Treasury, LSE research paper argues. It also cautions against imposing "any kind of 2010's style austerity".

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Business Green

JUNE 4, 2020

Fiscal stimulus and financial aid packages handed to struggling industries and businesses should "accelerate the transition to a fair and green economy - not undermine it", the recommendations state, while also stressing the importance of reducing future systemic risks and boosting economic resilience.

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Business Green

AUGUST 27, 2020

UN Secretary-General offers starkest criticism yet of the outlook for the coal sector, as he calls on India to end support for fossil fuels. As part of a Covid-19 economic recovery package announced in June, the Modi government revealed ambitions to open a further 41 coal mines. They see the writing on the wall.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Every effort must be expended on reducing risks and unknowns, whether from changes in weather, crop disease, and livestock health, or fluctuating commodity and market prices, not to mention consumer tastes and regulatory requirements. Cultivating more resilient crops. We should have spent the money, and so should our water companies.".

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Food systems are responsible for at least 15 percent of all global fossil fuel consumption, according to a major report launched ahead of the COP28 climate summit. Its authors found that even if governments delivered on their 2030 climate pledges, by 2037 food-related fossil fuel use alone would blow the remaining portion of the 1.5C

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Business Green

JULY 16, 2020

C40 Cities group of Mayors issues fresh call for national governments to end fossil fuel subsidies, as top scientists call on EU to deliver bolder net zero strategy. The C40 Cities group of Mayors has this week published a major new report setting out how they plan to engineer a "green and just" recovery from the coronavirus crisis.

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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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AGreenLiving

MAY 29, 2020

The COVID-19 recovery requires a resilient circular economy Jocelyn Bleriot Fri, 05/29/2020 – 01:00 The COVID-19 crisis has disastrous human and economic consequences, revealing our system’s exposure to a variety of risks. Read the original: The COVID-19 recovery requires a resilient circular economy.

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Business Green

MAY 27, 2020

The proposed stimulus package calls for a "renovation wave" of buildings and infrastructure in support of the Green Deal, as well as investments in circular economy efforts, renewable energy projects, clean hydrogen infrastructure, green transport networks, and an enhanced Just Transition Fund for workers.

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Business Green

JUNE 25, 2020

Hopes will also be high that ministers and civil servants on Whitehall are now digesting the report's many recommendations ahead of the Treasury's hotly-anticipated economic stimulus package, which is expected to emerge early next month. Nevertheless, Stark captured it pretty well yesterday with his plea for the government to "go for it".

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Business Green

AUGUST 13, 2020

One Nation Conservatives group of more than 100 MPs call for 2030 fossil fuel car ban, carbon tax and tree planting funding.

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Business Green

JUNE 2, 2020

The dramatic decline in demand for oil products as lockdown measures kicked in around the world has brutally exposed the dangers of making fossil fuels the global economy's most influential commodity. The UK's Green Building Council has called for all buildings and infrastructure to be made climate resilient by 2030.

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Business Green

MAY 3, 2020

For example, mitigation measures promoting a greater use of renewable energy may adversely impact the production and/or rendering of services that rely on fossil fuels. These measures may also affect parties' ability to fulfill their contractual obligations. The doctrine of hardship.

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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

JULY 7, 2020

The government may have secured plaudits this morning for its new £3bn energy efficiency package , but calls are continuing to build for the Chancellor to deliver a wider green recovery package when he delivers his economic update to Parliament tomorrow.

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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 What we urgently need to see now, and post-pandemic, is commitment from government on turning this into action.".

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Business Green

JUNE 29, 2020

A green recovery would tackle these head on, providing for better public health, stronger community cohesion and more resilient infrastructure. Their stimulus packages must drive ambition that will lead to growth in clean technologies and clean jobs. Shirley Rodrigues is London's Deputy Mayor for Environment and Energy.

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Business Green

JULY 1, 2020

They must be acted upon not as singular threats but as a potential series of shocks and long-term risks to human health and livelihoods, economic prosperity and planetary stability as targeted by the World Economic Forum this year. Sandrine Dixson-Declève is co-president of the Club of Rome.

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Business Green

JULY 6, 2022

A government rocked by the resignation of both Chancellor Rishi Sunak and Health Secretary Sajid Javid will today attempt to demonstrate it is still able to govern, with the introduction to parliament of the "most significant piece of energy legislation in a decade".

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Business Green

JUNE 18, 2020

IEA Executive Director Dr Fatih Birol said the coronavirus crisis had presented governments with "a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to reboot their economies and bring a wave of new employment opportunities while accelerating the shift to a more resilient and cleaner energy future".

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Profligate producers of fossil fuels are benefitting from extortionate profits at the expense of human civilisation - while they are profiting the planet is burning," Browne added, speaking on behalf of the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) negotiating bloc.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

And I will deliver on the National Health Service.". Reports this morning indicated that the Truss campaign team is working on a wide-ranging energy support package worth up to £100bn that is thought to include proposals to freeze gas and electricity prices at current levels.

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Business Green

APRIL 29, 2020

Global carbon emissions are set to drop a record eight per cent this year, with lockdowns on public and economic life introduced to tackle the coronavirus pandemic delivering an unprecedented blow to fossil fuel demand, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA). This is a historic shock to the entire energy world," he said.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Our current food system is dependent on fossil fuels, fertilizers, and pesticides — it’s a very lucrative business model.”. It urges European decision makers to “protect our health and the environment, and to make our agriculture resilient”. We need to look at the interests behind that. Their agenda?

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Farmers, retailers, and processors also drive greenhouse gas emissions by clearing trees, using fossil-fuel derived synthetic fertilisers and in packing transport, packaging and storage. We are committed to scale up efforts to make food production and agriculture more sustainable and resilient”.

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Business Green

APRIL 26, 2020

This means not only creating new jobs but also advancing climate action in ways that make the entire world more resilient. The world must work together, as it has to deal with the coronavirus pandemic, to support a green and resilient recovery, which leaves no one behind."

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

The increase in funding for energy efficiency schemes is likely to be welcomed, but the promised funding falls well short of the £5bn package the industry backed Energy Efficiency Infrastructure Group (EEIG) had proposed. Separately today, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) announced a £49.4m

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

In addition to an emergency package to offer immediate support to consumers, the best way to do this is to rapidly lower the UK's dependence on volatile fossil fuels. Opposing it in favour of new domestic fossil fuel extraction is a concerning backwards step and we urge a change of position.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

CARB said the new plan would achieve carbon neutrality by 2045, while cutting air pollution by 71 per cent, slashing greenhouse gas emissions 85 per cent, and reducing fossil fuel consumption to less than one-tenth of current use. The health benefits of these actions alone will pay for the huge investment by the state.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Responding to DeSmog’s findings, Natacha Cingotti, senior health and chemicals policy officer at Brussels-based policy and advocacy group, Health and Environmental Alliance (HEAL), said: “[W]hen working on chemicals- and pesticides-related policies, the imbalance of stakeholders in favour of industry interests is striking.”.

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Grist

APRIL 17, 2024

For some 200 years, humans have been burning fossil fuels, spewing planet-warming carbon dioxide into the air. These ingredients have historically been more accessible than coffee, and sometimes confer purported health benefits. Some Grist-y swag, and a book of your choice lovingly packaged and mailed to you by Claire.

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Elemental Excelerator

APRIL 21, 2022

Companies also struggle with long approval and procurement windows and the need to compete with inefficient and outdated fossil fuel subsidies. Matter has designed sophisticated filters to keep microplastics out of our waterways, protecting public health and ecosystems crucial for reducing carbon emissions.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The companies behind the supplier programme - which include AstraZeneca, Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, GSK, and Novartis - are making strides to decarbonise their own electricity use, but they are now trying to get the many hundreds of companies they work with - from chemicals makers to packaging providers and distributors - to follow suit.

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Business Green

MARCH 30, 2022

The government has unveiled a package of measures designed to support farmers amid surging energy and artificial fertiliser costs. The costs of war keep adding up. The significant rise in the cost of fertiliser is a reminder that we need to reduce our dependence on manufacturing processes dependent on gas," said Eustice. "The

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Business Green

JULY 19, 2022

As such, the court order presents a major challenge to the next Prime Minister, who will be under immediate pressure to both strengthen the UK's net zero plans and deliver a more ambitious package to help households cope with soaring energy bills this winter.

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