Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

MAY 1, 2019

Job Description: The Center for Biological Diversity seeks a full-time Clean Transportation Advocate/ Staff Attorney in our Climate Law Institute to join our bold and progressive campaign to advance the urgently needed transition away from fossil fuel vehicles to zero emissions transportation in California and around the country.

Law 40

Law Fossil fuels Transportation Policy 40

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

MAY 1, 2019

Job Description: The Center for Biological Diversity seeks a full-time Clean Transportation Advocate/ Staff Attorney in our Climate Law Institute to join our bold and progressive campaign to advance the urgently needed transition away from fossil fuel vehicles to zero emissions transportation in California and around the country.

Law 40

Law Fossil fuels Transportation Policy 40

Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

But to find out how many of them will actually turn into decisions, we will have to wait until the even longer-heralded Energy White Paper appears - hopefully - later this month. A nice example of the circular economy on a grand scale, as London financed the initial development of fossil fuel economy. It is a plan.

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Politics Government Policy Carbon 95

Smart Energy International

JANUARY 18, 2022

Conversely, fossil fuel exporters such as Oman, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates increasingly consider clean hydrogen an attractive way to diversify their economies. And the transition is not a fuel replacement but a shift to a new system with political, technical, environmental and economic disruptions.”.

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Hydrogen Energy Energy Fossil fuels 52

Business Green

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Political opponents were swift to condemn the plan as inadequate, comparing the government's £12bn funding package, only around £4bn of which is new, with the €40bn green recovery package announced by the German government this summer. goal and the UK's target of achieving net zero emissions by 2050.

Fossil fuels 87

Fossil fuels Government Policy Carbon 87

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. Business stands shoulder to shoulder with political leaders and consumers in its desire for ambitious change.".

Government 101

Government Climate change Resilience Policy 101

Smart Energy International

JULY 19, 2022

Different organisations, universities, governments, industrial partners and citizens need to come together to decide how we want to live in the next decades, when fossil fuels are not available anymore,” says Leonor Ruiz, strategic designer at the consultancy Soulsight, Spain. Technical White Paper [link] (Rewiring America, 2020).

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Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 98

Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

For example, the plan confirms the government is to bring forward the ban on fossil fuel car sales by five years to 2030, giving car manufacturers a decade to switch entirely to manufacturing EVs and plug-in hybrids, backed by £1.3bn to support the rollout of EV charge points in England, and £582m in EV grants.

Government 101

Government Investment Packaging Hydrogen 101

Business Green

MAY 6, 2020

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. It should come as no surprise to anyone working in this sector that there is no strong political will for heat decarbonisation.

Policy 73

Policy Government Fossil fuels Politics 73

Business Green

APRIL 22, 2020

With the country having found a degree of political stability after more than three years of Brexit wrangling, there had been increasingly positive signals from the government that a raft of much-needed net zero policies were top priorities for 2020, as the Johnson administration looked to deliver on its considerable green manifesto promises.

Government 66

Government Policy Politics Climate change 66

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The government has promised a raft of hotly-anticipated plans and policies in the coming months, including the Heat and Buildings Strategy, Food Strategy White Paper, Treasury Net Zero Review, and an overarching Net Zero Strategy, all of which should help unlock billions of pounds of green investment.

COP 40

COP Fossil fuels Government Politics 40

Business Green

MARCH 18, 2021

Metal and minerals, food and drink, paper and pump, ceramics, glass and oil refineries are responsible for 16 per cent of the UK's emissions, according to government statistics, and as such decarbonising these industries is critical if the UK is to meet its 2050 net zero ambition.

Government 59

Government Policy Hydrogen Carbon 59

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

"The scheme risks being a huge exercise in greenwash, providing get out of jail free cards for polluting companies who wish to avoid the hard work of eliminating their own fossil fuel use," Greenpeace warned in a briefing note on the Carney-led Taskforce earlier this year.

Carbon 79

Carbon Carbon-negative Carbon-neutral Fossil fuels 79

Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2020

The government today confirmed that a new 10 point green recovery plan is imminent, but for now at least long-awaited net zero policy measures, including the energy white paper and national infrastructure strategy, remain stuck in the pipeline.

Policy 59

Policy Carbon-negative Government Carbon 59

Business Green

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU) acting director Sepi Golzari-Munro said: "This strategy is an economic and political plan as well as a climate one. There is also nothing about the emissions the City of London are responsible for through the billions of pounds they are pouring into fossil fuels overseas.

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Government Carbon-negative Investment Climate change 44

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 26, 2023

The meat industry is increasingly viewed as a sector where greenhouse gas emissions cuts can and should be made, just like the fossil fuel industry Livestock accounts for a third of total global emissions of methane, a potent gas that traps heat about 80 times more effectively than carbon dioxide but breaks up more quickly in the atmosphere.

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Carbon-neutral Methane Agriculture Fossil fuels 97

Business Green

MARCH 1, 2021

We have limited time to move from a system where around 80 per cent of our primary energy supply comes from fossil fuels, to one where low-carbon technologies dominate. Reaching the UK's target of net zero emissions by 2050 will require a complete transformation of the energy system.

Energy Monitor 73

Energy Monitor Government Business Energy Monitoring Energy 73

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. That's the biggest risk.".

Carbon-negative 76

Carbon-negative Politics Climate change Government 76

Business Green

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

As an analysis from Greenpeace today highlights, the UK's current North Sea oil and gas tax regime sees companies pay around 40 per cent tax on the profits arising from extraction of fossil fuels, which represents the lowest government tax take in the world for an offshore oil and gas regime.

Government 36

Government Policy Climate change Investment 36

Business Green

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Joe Biden's victory in the race for the White House has already seen the push for climate action skyrocket up the international political agenda, yet the jubilation among campaigners this weekend is unlikely to last too long.

Government 45

Government Packaging Carbon-negative Fossil fuels 45

Business Green

MARCH 11, 2020

Treasury decisions on tax and spending have to stop fuelling the climate emergency - whether it's road building or tax breaks for fossil fuels. The time for new roads and fossil fuel infrastructure has long gone.". The climate emergency cannot wait. Today's news is good news, but now is the time to build on that.".

Plastics 49

Plastics Recycling Recycling Government 49

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

The UK should end sales of fossil fuel cars within 15 years, rapidly scale up wind and solar power capacity, curb growth in air passenger numbers, use carbon labelling on consumer products, and encourage people to eat less meat and dairy in order to achieve its 2050 net zero emissions goal.

Government 96

Government Demand Policy Politics 96

Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

But Boris Johnson's announcement this week of a 10 Point Plan for a Green Industrial Revolution is the first time a world leader has not just talked about the desire to bring down the curtain on the fossil fuel age within three decades, but has explained, in some detail, how he intends to do it.

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Government Policy Hydrogen Investment 92

Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

The Brexit fight was over, the Conservative Party had just won an overwhelming majority in the General Election, and Dominic Cummings was still viewed by many as a political mastermind and tactician, rather than as a short-sighted castle enthusiast. Cast your mind back to the second day of January 2020.

Policy 49

Policy Government Investment Hydrogen 49

DeSmogBlog

MARCH 16, 2024

“If you were a fossil fuel project, you would have been shut down long ago.” For fossil fuel ideologues, sowing misinformation about wind and solar power is proving to be an effective stall tactic. “Hear this message: We’re here to save the whales!”

Fossil fuels 143

Fossil fuels Energy Energy Construction 143