DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2023

All-Party Parliamentary Groups (APPGs) are informal cross-party groups of MPs and Lords which discuss issues and try to influence policy around a specific subject area. These were the APPGs on Net Zero, Hydrogen and Carbon Monoxide. They said the company does not operate fossil fuel power stations.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

OCTOBER 28, 2023

Most H2 is produced using fossil fuels like natural gas, but can the right methods make that green? The term “clean hydrogen” doesn’t have a specific official definition, but on the whole, it tends to refer to H2 that is produced in a way that doesn’t generate carbon emissions.

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Business Green

JUNE 1, 2021

Letter from 50 campaign groups urges government to heed recent advice of International Energy Agency that growing fossil fuel supply is incompatible with a 1.5C The court ruling was hailed by climate campaigners as a watershed moment that could potentialy pave the way for other climate litigation against major fossil fuel firms.

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Business Green

APRIL 22, 2021

Solar and wind power could push fossil fuels out of the electricity sector by the mid-2030s and out of the energy supply system altogether by 2050, as clean energy costs continue to plummet and governments pursue policies designed to ditch fossil fuels for cheap, home-grown renewables. per cent of daily sunshine.".

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Charged

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

The market would allow competition among electricity, biofuels and hydrogen as green transport fuels. The plan also includes a 2% e-fuels mandate for aviation, to be met by 2030. The term e-fuel , or electrofuel , refers to hydrogen and other synthetic fuels such as butanol and biodiesel.

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Business Green

AUGUST 3, 2021

The battle for dominance of the emerging green heating market continued to intensify last week, as businesses await the government's long-promised strategies for building a UK hydrogen industry and decarbonising homes and buildings, both of which are expected to land this summer.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 18, 2022

Hydrogen is considered key in the energy transition and could lead to significant geoeconomic and geopolitical shifts, according to IRENA. IRENA estimates that hydrogen could cover up to 12% of global energy use by 2050 with almost one-third traded across borders – a higher share than natural gas today. But hydrogen is not a new oil.

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Business Green

MAY 24, 2022

As such, electric trucks rolling off Volvo's production line from the third quarter of this year will have frame rails and a backbone made with 'green' steel produced using hydrogen and clean electricity. That is, to a large extent, a political decision.". We need to have the support from politicians, for instance incentives. "We

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Business Green

AUGUST 17, 2021

BusinessGreen rounds up all the reaction from politicians, green business figures, NGOs, investors and think tanks to the government's long-awaited Hydrogen Strategy. Business and Energy Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng said: "Today marks the start of the UK's hydrogen revolution. It has finally arrived.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 22, 2020

Before the stimulus was signed off, a leaked document by the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Energy (DG Energy) ran through a serious of policy plans to marry the European Green Deal and the COVID-19 recovery effort. Support for green hydrogen was also suggested. A rebounding European solar market.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 30, 2021

Net zero” is equally stamped all over international, EU and national climate policies. What it really means is that while some greenhouse gas emissions will be cut, fossil fuels will continue to be burnt but will be ‘balanced’ or ‘offset’ with an ‘equivalent’ amount of so-called ‘carbon removal’.

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Business Green

JULY 11, 2022

Two separate reports this morning have set out the case for Ministers to press ahead with a raft of policies that can drive a shift away from the blast furnace method of steel production.

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Business Green

MARCH 25, 2021

A perceived failure by the Scottish Government to deal with climate change, or to protect Scottish jobs and industries during the transition to net zero, may have considerable political ramifications. Yet while Scotland has a lot to lose from net zero, it may very well also have the most to gain.

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Business Green

JUNE 7, 2021

Investment in clean energy from fossil fuel majors saw a marked uptick during the pandemic in 2020, research suggests. Well, there are a growing signs that some may be at least starting to quietly plot their future beyond fossil fuels.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The Challenge: Transitioning from Fossil Fuels to Renewables Fossil fuels still dominate global energy production. Reliance on fossil fuels contributes to greenhouse gas emissions and climate change. Lack of clear policy frameworks for sustainable energy integration.

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Energy Innovation

JULY 14, 2020

Because our economies are still coupled with the burning of fossil fuels, this markedly reduced greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. In a May 2020 paper in the Oxford Review of Economic Policy, a team of economists led by Cameron Hepburn led a survey to assess the most climate-friendly recovery policies. From Hepburn et al.

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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

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. Now is the time for strong, decisive and progressive policy and leadership."

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 25, 2024

He said the fight against global warming was “the most important story of our political time” and delivering successful action to combat climate change also “means a free world order”. Climate action ‘not a plaything’ Climate action should not be “a plaything for politicians – our political generation needs to find a solution.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Thee government should aim to unleash commercial-scale heat pump projects instead of hydrogen for heating, argues Kevin Stickney, managing director of Erda Energy and part of the Pump It Up campaign. Well, with a whopping 392 mentions last year, hydrogen received more Parliamentary attention in 2020 than fracking in 2014.

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Business Green

MAY 25, 2021

Long-awaited Heat and Buildings Strategy expected in coming weeks backed by consultation on policy options to accelerate roll out of heat pumps. The CCC has similarly recommended only boilers capable of running on hydrogen should be sold and installed in the UK from 2025.

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Business Green

APRIL 30, 2020

Investment in hydrogen infrastructure should form major part of coronavirus recovery plan, argues North West Hydrogen Alliance. Hydrogen is seen as a clean alternative to fossil fuelled cars, trains, and ships as the fuel produces only water vapour when burned and zero harmful emissions.

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Business Green

JUNE 29, 2022

It would be easy at this point to simply list the litany of policy failures and the paucity of political leadership documented by the CCC's almost satirically titled progress report. The renewables-hostile planning system, grid bottlenecks, and glacially-paced nuclear pipeline.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

OCTOBER 9, 2023

This mechanism serves as a protective shield for the EU’s climate policies, preventing them from being undermined by production relocation to countries with less stringent environmental standards or by the substitution of EU products with more carbon-intensive imports.

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Business Green

JUNE 24, 2021

The government is failing to back up its climate commitments with credible action, with almost all its green policy efforts marred by uncertainty, delay, and a insufficient engagement with the public about the scale of changes ahead, and time rapidly running out for Ministers to get the UK's net zero agenda on track.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Mark Fullbrook, who ran Truss’s leadership campaign, launched a political consultancy – Fullbrook Strategies – in March , with clients including Cerulean Winds, official records show. Green Party Peer Natalie Bennett said: “We need fossil fuels to stay in the ground. Green’ Oil Rigs.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 3, 2023

By engaging in climate-washing, corporations are trying “to shift public perception regarding their business activities to be viewed as part of the solution to, rather than the primary cause of, climate change,” explains a January 2022 policy briefing examining this type of litigation. In a complaint filed with the U.S.

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Business Green

MAY 6, 2020

BEIS released a suite of documents regarding 'clean heating' policy last Tuesday including most importantly details of what will follow on from the RHI. This policy consultation comes in advance of a long awaited energy White Paper and in advance of a heat and buildings framework expected to be released later this year.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Questioned as to why the UK was apparently abstaining from the coalition, a government spokesperson said the UK's reliance on fossil fuels would fall over the coming years but there would be an "ongoing but diminishing need for oil and gas over the coming years" as the country's renewable energy capacity expanded to meet demand.

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Clean Energy Canada

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

The Liberals announced key additional policies to help them achieve an increased climate target and build a sustainable economy, such as a 2035 clean electricity standard, a requirement for 50% of new cars to be zero-emission by 2030 (en route to 100% by 2035), capping oil and gas emissions, and eliminating fossil fuel subsidies.

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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2021

At the same time, these industries are strategically important to the economy, major sources of employment, and hugely politically and culturally resonant. BusinessGreen takes a look at the five key lessons from the Industrial Decarbonisation Strategy: CCUS and hydrogen are critical to the industrial decarbonisation mission.

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Business Green

MAY 18, 2021

Since it was first set up in the wake of the 1973 oil crisis, the International Energy Agency (IEA) has been a hugely influential player in world energy politics. The death knell is being sounded for fossil fuels. By far the most startling aspect of today's report is the outlook for fossil fuels.

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Business Green

MARCH 29, 2022

The world's leading renewables authority has this morning raised the alarm that governments continued investment in fossil fuel infrastructure is pushing climate goals dangerously out of reach. Many answers lie in the accelerated transition. IRENA has calculated a 1.5C

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Business Green

JUNE 22, 2022

Confidence in Europe and the UK's ability build a net zero energy system in little over a decade continues to build among investors, engineers, and energy policy wonks - even if it remains to be seen whether political decision makers are willing to deliver the policy frameworks necessary to turbocharge the roll out of clean technologies.

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Business Green

JULY 15, 2021

But the new plan clearly signals that fossil fuels will soon have next to no role to play in surface transport and it should help catalyse investment in the technologies that could yet deliver green shipping and aviation. There may still be an ambition gap, but these policies could deliver a significant step towards closing it.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

Russia has sent dozens of executives from the country’s vast fossil fuel industry to COP27, including two sanctioned oligarchs with significant interests in coal. Green MP Caroline Lucas said: “Russian coal billionaires with close ties to Putin should be nowhere near the COP27 climate conference. conference this year, however.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Government argues coal mine would be compatible with net zero goals, but MPs across political spectrum condemn move as a 'backward step' for UK climate action. Absolutely indefensible", "a ridiculous and dreadful decision", and a move that "further cements Rishi Sunak as an out of date fossil fuel PM in a renewable age".

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