GreenTechMedia

JUNE 30, 2020

House of Representatives Select Committee on the Climate Crisis unveiled a mammoth and wide-ranging policy plan to embed climate action and resilience within the country’s economy. org encouraged stronger targets for emissions cuts including timelines for ending fossil fuel production and subsidies for oil, gas and coal.

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Business Green

MAY 25, 2020

Their statement calls on leaders of the world's biggest economies to draw up recovery packages which invest in safeguarding public health and providing jobs, and highlights how sustainable agriculture, green energy, and clean transport are key to a healthy recovery.

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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

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

More than 100 of the UK's top businesses have urged the Prime Minister to take action to accelerate the clean energy transition, arguing a faster shift away from fossil fuels can help tackle the current energy crisis whilst helping the UK reach its longer-term climate and nature goals.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 5, 2021

The recovery packages stipulated in the course of overcoming the impacts of the corona crisis can be an opportunity to channel needed investments into sustainable, green sectors and build back better. The voices calling for a swift recovery and build back better from COVID are vast and from across the political spectrum.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Transitioning to renewables is a win-win that offers a cheaper, more reliable and more resilient form of energy. Even before the global outbreak of the coronavirus, renewables were on track to replace fossil fuels. reviewed more than 700 economic stimulus packages and surveyed 231 experts from 53 countries.

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Business Green

JUNE 24, 2020

Covid-19 stimulus plan must prioritise green building upgrades, tree planting, fossil fuel taxes, and skills training, advises Committee on Climate Change. There is rich evidence of the many, many straightforward benefits to the economy if we do that - if we use climate investments as the basis of that recovery.".

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

John Howard has just won an election through a combination of populism, misinformation, and the stoking of anti-immigrant feeling, providing a cynicism-soaked playbook that dominates anglosphere politics to this day. The conversation drifts towards politics and fear. It just is.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Out of apparently nothing, the Democrats could pull together a good enough package of incentives as the climate components of an expediently misnamed Inflation Reduction Act became law. Our focus must be on how to drive efficiency, fund better grids, use fossil fuel resources more efficiently in the mix, and ramp up renewables.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Meanwhile, the huge clean tech buying signals from coalitions of large corporates focused on electric vehicles, green steel, renewables, green shipping, and sustainable aviation fuels, all point to how these markets could quickly reach tipping points that trigger the rapid adoption that obliterates fossil fuel demand.

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Business Green

MAY 3, 2020

The political instability and greater uncertainty associated with these events may also impede or reduce investment and economic growth. 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.

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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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Green Market Oracle

MAY 6, 2020

In response to the economic collapse we are also seeing increasing interest in a targeted stimulus package that would promote a green recovery. This entails efforts to transition away from fossil fuels to clean and renewable sources of energy. This includes increasing support for a green stimulus spending to drive recovery.

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Mr. Sustainability

JUNE 27, 2020

Aligning economic stimulus and policy packages with climate goals is crucial for a long-term viable and healthy economy. With the ‘old’, I refer to the fossil-fuel based, centralized energy industries that are reliant on conservative economic models. A green recovery is essential as we emerge from the Corona crisis.

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Business Green

JULY 14, 2021

Brussels launches major package of accelerated decarbonisation measures, including tax reforms, new clean energy targets, and carbon border tariffs. Europe walks the talk on climate policies through innovation, investment and social compensation.". Europe's transition will be fair, green and competitive.".

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Projects authorized for funding under the bill include renewable power, building efficiency, grid infrastructure, industrial decarbonization, clean transportation, reforestation and climate-resilient infrastructure. It could also direct much-needed investment in economically and environmentally disadvantaged communities.

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Business Green

MAY 10, 2022

However, the package was given short shrift by environmental campaigners and political opponents who slammed the continued lack of action on energy efficiency and soaring energy bills, new plans to criminalise protest, and proposals to roll back EU regulations.

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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

APRIL 26, 2020

Discussions are expected to be more political in nature than before, inevitably focusing on how best to facilitate sweeping economic recovery programmes along green lines, and how to maintain momentum and even accelerate climate action despite the postponement of COP 26, which has been pushed from November 2020 into next year. "The

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Business Green

JULY 8, 2021

Even the Prime Minister's most loyal allies would be hard pushed to argue he has delivered on last summer's promise of a Roosevelt-style stimulus package capable of remaking the British economy along net zero lines. It has been an undeniably good week for the government's occasionally-sighted green recovery agenda.

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Business Green

MAY 13, 2020

They are specifically calling for recovery packages to spur an accelerated transition to a net zero emissions economy by at least mid-century and for a wave of new federal investment in climate resilient infrastructure. But the campaign hopes to build pressure on Congress to deliver green stimulus proposals.

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Business Green

MAY 12, 2020

Lending high-level economic and political credence to that growing public clamour for action, the work of Chris Stark and his small team at the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) in driving the issue up the agenda should not be forgotten. Suddenly, barely days into 2020, a new paradigm began to take shape. Building back better.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Forests absorb up to a third of global carbon emissions generated from burning fossil fuels every year, but they are being lost at an alarming rate, with an area of forest equivalent to around 27 football pitches thought to be destroyed every single minute.

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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

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

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

But group of petrostates resist calls to phase down fossil fuels and accelerate decarbonisation efforts. It just shows that this UN process can achieve results, and that the world can recognise the plight of the vulnerable must not be treated as a political football.". The phasedown of all fossil fuels is not in this text.

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Business Green

APRIL 13, 2020

Planning time and funding that would have been assigned to climate resilience or mitigation will be eaten up by pandemic responses. So, if companies can't expect clear political direction, will the upsurge in climate activism keep corporate minds focused? You want the banks to be saved, then stop investing in fossil fuel expansion.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Australia, for example, has already put out a statement this week stressing that its 2030 target is "fixed" and highlighting how it has a near-unique position as an industrialised economy with huge extractive industries and fossil fuel exports. Coal and fossil fuels: An increasingly risky investment bet.

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Business Green

JULY 31, 2023

The first is essentially political and has dominated the airwaves ever since 495 voters in Uxbridge and Ruislip decided to reward the Conservatives for their opposition to the Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) extension that was proposed to help deliver on the government's Air Quality Strategy. You could make a case that this is all a sideshow.

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Defend Our Future

JUNE 25, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic and the national spotlight on racial injustices experienced by black, brown, and indigenous communities throughout the nation shows that now more than ever we must invest in communities and ensure access to resources to promote resilience in the face of challenges such as climate change.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Marking the Paris Agreement's fifth birthday, a summit hosted by the UN alongside the UK, France, Chile and Italy saw a raft of pledges from political and business leaders alike - here are the key takeaways. Barbados' Mia Mottley committed to making the country fossil-fuel free and carbon neutral by 2030. "By

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

Like many other banks, HSBC has pledged to step away from its funding of fossil-fuels interests and other high-carbon industrial activities with a pledge to achieving net-zero financed emissions across its customer portfolio by 2050. (It It aims to reach net-zero for its own operations and supply chain by 2030.) LinkedIn | Twitter.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

From Loss and Damage and just transitions to rows over fossil fuel phase outs and carbon markets, we take a look at some of the key lessons for businesses from COP27. From Loss and Damage and just transitions to rows over fossil fuel phase outs and carbon markets, we take a look at some of the key lessons for businesses from COP27.

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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

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

As such, the COP Presidency should presumably welcome mounting calls for a new era of public-private cooperation on the financial packages that can help developing and emerging economies wean themselves off fossil fuels.

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