Business Green

MARCH 7, 2023

The UK's reliance on costly fossil fuels has left this country vulnerable to oil and gas price fluctuations - an absolute catastrophe for energy bills in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. per cent for fossil fuel electric utilities, the report concluded.

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Business Green

APRIL 16, 2021

Investment banks bolster their climate finance commitments for coming decade in latest wave of Wall Street net zero financing targets. The two banks, which are among the world's largest funders of fossil fuels, both cited the need to use their significant influence to tackle climate change.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

California is looking for ways to keep power flowing to customers amid wildfires without burning fossil fuels. Customers looking for economic multiday backup power usually have to turn to fossil fuels, like gas or diesel generators. A Canadian storage technology startup thinks it has the solution.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The Argentine government, with the cooperation of an array of global institutions, has the country locked in an “oil and gas trap,” mortgaging the country’s future on fracking even as the financial risks continue to grow, the report warns. But even the economic case is riddled with problems. The government spent $6.5

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 4, 2019

But storage's trajectory differs from the early growth dynamics of solar power in a crucial respect: It transcends the geographic boundaries, dictated by sunshine and policy, that constrained solar's rise. said Daniel Finn-Foley, energy storage director at Wood Mackenzie, speaking Tuesday at GTM's Energy Storage Summit in Denver.

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Elemental Excelerator

APRIL 29, 2022

The last couple months have been a hard lesson about the danger and limitations of our old-school fossil fuel economy. Only actions and policies that cut the cord with oil will save lives now. million investment from HSDC/HTDC. Whatever field you work in, no matter where you live, the time for talk is over.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

ESG investments: Exponential potential or surfing one wave? About 77 percent of ESG funds that existed 10 years ago are presently available, whereas only 46 percent of traditional investment vehicles maintain that survivorship. A declining investment rationale for fossil fuels. Mon, 09/21/2020 - 00:30.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

These offered policy makers a more effective tool to control deployment rates, and a way to procure increasingly low-cost power. Pairing PV with ever-cheaper batteries can offer firm zero-carbon power; pairing with existing fossil fuel generators can reduce the carbon intensity of power supply.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Now, in conjunction with accelerating climate change, El Niño means a wide array of exacerbated hazards may be coming down the pike. They’re going to actually have to affect the politics so that the special interests do not control — especially the fossil fuel industry — does not control the future.”

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 18, 2020

“I don’t want to spoil the party, but if we talk about profits, especially from hydrogen, probably we need to wait a couple of years before it is relevant in terms of investments and profitability," Krebber said on his company's earnings call. National policies on hydrogen support are in their infancy.

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Climate Tech VC

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Corporate carbon footprint tracking collects $27M, and forestry and battery interests intersect to invest $18M toward bio-graphite for lithium-ion cells. UK climate policy slide In a shocking press conference on Wednesday , UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced delays and rollbacks to the nation’s climate policies.

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Business Green

MAY 22, 2022

The government may have left businesses and campaigners frustrated with its failure to deliver new policies to boost domestic energy efficiency, but the public sector could soon unlock significant energy bill savings thanks to a major new wave of upgrade projects for public buildings.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Tickets are just $30 and are on sale now HERE This event uniquely positions itself at the intersection of policy, technology, and industry. Department of Energy’s investment of $7 billion in creating seven Regional Clean Hydrogen Hubs is a testament to this burgeoning interest.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2022

Upfront investments in low carbon infrastructure deliver much faster paybacks than they did a year ago, because the fossil fuels they displace are orders of magnitude more expensive. per cent gain, almost entirely as a result of higher fossil fuel prices. per cent loss of GDP to a 0.5

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Energy and Cleantech Council

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) for a proposed floating offshore wind research array. This Roadmap is likely to offer a comprehensive analysis of the opportunities and challenges (and therefore, insight into prospective state policy positions) that may arise as offshore wind development advances in the Gulf of Maine.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Green business leaders will be hoping Sunak reaffirms his commitment to the UK's net zero target and provide markets with much-needed policy clarity to support the net zero transition following weeks of political turmoil, policy U-turns and economic upheaval.

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Business Green

APRIL 22, 2022

French President ramps up green offering, as EU accelerates efforts to tackle fossil fuel imports. The EU is continuing to work on plans to drastically reduce imports of Russian fossil fuels in response to Moscow's unprovoked attack on Ukraine. China debuts new climate investment fund.

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Business Green

JANUARY 6, 2023

Meanwhile, the European Union's plan to reduce its reliance on Russian fossil fuels through its REPowerEU plan is expected to significantly boost investment in large-scale energy storage capacity on grids across in Europe. It will take four more years for costs to fall back to 2021 levels. link] pic.twitter.com/C55UHprYIv.

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Business Green

JULY 15, 2020

"Through unprecedented collaboration with the extraordinary array of businesses, academic and environmental institutions that make up the Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership, this government is putting its full weight firmly behind the Net Zero campaign," said Shapps. "By

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Business Green

AUGUST 12, 2022

The renewables industry has today hit back at accusations from Tory leadership frontrunner Liz Truss that field-based solar arrays are "one of the most depressing sights", warning that her comments risk undermining investment in technologies that can drive down bills and enhance the UK's energy security.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Last week, she launched the Carbon Removal Alliance, a group of startups and investors that will lobby for policies that support “high quality, permanent carbon removal.” “I’m But they argue that permanent carbon removal will not be an option later without immediate, sustained investment.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Partner Content: For financially constrained local authorities, deciding where to invest public money to achieve net zero carbon targets is increasingly complex. Investing in decarbonisation means investing in the future and establishing a region where people want to live and where businesses want to invest.

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Business Green

MAY 6, 2020

But these groups have been joined by a wide array of mainstream businesses, with a host of Blue Chips across Europe calling on politicians to place the net zero mission at the heart of their stimulus packages. Governments should accelerate investment in renewable power generation, flexibility provision and grid infrastructure," the ETC says.

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Business Green

AUGUST 19, 2022

However, following claims from Truss last week that field-based solar arrays were a "depressing" sight in the British countryside, her rival Sunak today broadly echoed her stance, promising to "make sure that high quality farmland is kept in production and not used for housing, ‘rewilding' or large-scale solar farms".

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Green Market Oracle

JANUARY 17, 2020

Around the same time Amazon updated its communication policy for employees requiring them to seek prior approval before speaking about the company in any public forum. Amazon is investing in locally generated power installing more than 50 rooftop solar arrays that generate a combined total of 98 MW and 130,000 MWh annually.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

“I don’t see that in their climate plans they are creating a systematic transformation,” said Shefali Sharma, European director at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, a U.S.-based This means corporations are using the term to describe a vast array of different practices. based environmental organization.

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Business Green

MARCH 23, 2023

There is a high likelihood that states may be involved in litigation, as both defendants and plaintiffs, particularly as civil society activists seek to ensure that national-level policies and action are as ambitious as possible, and as controversies over the type and nature of new energy technologies continue to play out," they said.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 17, 2021

Indigenous peoples in Canada and a coalition of environmental groups launched a “Global Week of Action” for June 14-21 , aimed at pressuring an array of insurance companies to cut ties with a long-distance tar sands pipeline under construction in Canada. They should know and understand that the fossil fuel industry is in a state of demise.

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GreenBiz

JULY 19, 2021

In looking across the broad array of business, environmental, social, technological and political topics that cross my screen and engage me in daily conversation, there is a temptation to allocate a growing share of mind for pessimism. Historically, the private sector invested in research and development to produce world-changing innovations.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 9, 2021

In recent years, this lag in utility recognition has become increasingly problematic, risking the health, environmental, and financial impacts of over-investment in large fossil fuel power plants. It also provides direct bill savings to thousands of residents and businesses that host distributed solar arrays.

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Clean Energy Canada

AUGUST 23, 2019

But what about those wind turbines, those solar arrays, those hydro dams? We’ve talked about a couple of different hugely important climate policies that don’t receive enough news coverage. Those policies we just mentioned? Strategic investments in cleaning up government operations, innovation and off-grid communities.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

More broadly, it promises that the regulator will step up support for clean tech R&D and take a more agile and adaptable approach to price controls for network operators so as to enable investment in net zero infrastructure. Anderson said the regulator was demonstrating a "colossal disconnect" with the UK's long term net zero plans.

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Business Green

JANUARY 20, 2022

For context, 100GW is more than the UK's entire current electricity capacity, which stands at around 75GW from both clean and fossil fuel sources. Last year it became the first oil-rich Gulf state to commit to achieving net zero emissions by 2050 , backed by a plan to invest $163bn in clean and renewable energy over that timeframe.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 4, 2021

6 Capitol riot, an entrepreneur and a scholar challenged audiences to picture how an enterprise and a policy regime could supply solar and other fossil-free energy to more people with more broadly dispersed downsides. That bridging needs to happen in part, she said, because energy policy “has been dominated by technocrats.”

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

JANUARY 28, 2022

We’ve built a vertically-integrated startup accelerator model to back this, which unites investors, corporates, market and policy experts, and startups to work together to increase the success and speed to market for climate innovation. . Since our launch in December last year, our ecosystem includes $3.3T That is our mission.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 1, 2023

They will use their connections to network, lobby – and even raise investment. The fossil fuel industry has often been invited to country delegations, whose numbers have increased nearly sevenfold since the first COP 1995. claims to have raised $13 billion for climate-friendly investments to date.

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2022

The third in a trilogy of reports over the past year or so, today's - dubbed Climate Change 2022: The Mitigation of Climate Change - was particularly highly anticipated due to its focus on solutions to the aforementioned crisis the world currently faces, in terms of technologies, policies, nature-based measures and finances. on the table.

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