Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

The IEA has released its annual review of Hungary’s energy policy, stating that energy efficiency needs to be central in the coming years for the European country to reach its net zero targets, The Hungary 2022 Energy Policy Review states how Hungary has significantly increased its climate ambitions since the last review.

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Energy Innovation

OCTOBER 19, 2020

This week, Energy Innovation launched a significant model update to the United States Energy Policy Simulator (EPS) , our open-source, peer-reviewed, and nonpartisan model that estimates the environmental, economic, and health impacts of hundreds of climate and energy policies. This update is timely. As of version 3.0,

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Elemental Excelerator

APRIL 21, 2022

In our work deploying first-of-their-kind projects with climate tech entrepreneurs, we hear again and again that policy barriers present constant challenges, regardless of the industry in which they operate. It’s clear that we need to accelerate climate policy innovation with the same urgency and equity lens that we devote to tech innovation.

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Business Green

AUGUST 13, 2020

A group of moderate Conservative MPs has served up a raft of policy recommendations designed to help deliver on the Prime Minister's pledge to "build back greener" from the Covid-19 recession, including proposals to bring forward the petrol and diesel car sale ban to 2030, plant tens of thousands of trees, and create a domestic carbon tax.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

MARCH 26, 2022

Clean Transportation Coordinator – Dept. Are you interested in advancing of low carbon transportation such as walking, biking, and electric vehicles (EV) in San Francisco? SF Environment is also a great place to work, offering an attractive benefits package that includes healthcare and retirement. Company Description.

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Energy Innovation

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Energy Innovation has launched its largest-ever update to the United States Energy Policy Simulator (EPS) , our open-source and peer-reviewed computer model that estimates the environmental, economic, and health impacts of hundreds of climate and energy policies. energy use, while also enabling exciting new policies.

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Energy Innovation

JULY 28, 2020

Despite clean energy’s economic and job opportunities, and scientific warnings that net zero emissions are needed by 2050 to prevent the worst impacts of climate change , Trump’s federal government has worked to implement policies that increase pollution. It is also designed, at its core, to generate economic and health benefits.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

The package forms part of a €10.9 billion) investment agreement in new financing to accelerate climate action and clean energy, business investment, health and sustainable transport investment across Europe and around the world. “As billion) being funnelled into sustainable transport. billion ($11.3 billion ($3.5

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GreenBiz

MAY 29, 2020

While there is no question that addressing public health consequences is the priority, the nature of the equally crucial economic recovery effort raises some interrogations. At the municipal level, some COVID-19 specific measures already have been taken around mobility and transport. mph across the city.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 4, 2021

5 sustainable packaging developments to watch in 2021. For companies with sustainable packaging goals, 2025 is fast approaching. That’s the year when many have pledged to become zero waste, or to use 100 percent reusable, recyclable or compostable packaging. Loop isn’t the only reusable packaging platform seeing strong growth.

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Business Green

JUNE 3, 2020

Titled A Green Recovery: How We Get There , calls for a series of transformative recovery packages that mobilise significant investment in green infrastructure and ensure that radical policy changes transform business and operating models across five priority areas: clean transport, green buildings, smart power, nature, and a circular economy.

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Business Green

MARCH 10, 2021

The analysis, which looked at more than 3,500 fiscal policies across the world's 50 largest economies, finds that just 2.5 per cent of all Covid-induced spending to date had "positive green characteristics". For instance, roughly 16 per cent of recovery spending could bring positive air pollution impacts, but 16.4

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Business Green

APRIL 15, 2020

Think tank urges world leaders to build a low-carbon, circular economy in the wake of the health crisis. The Club of Rome has urged G20 leaders and other heads of state to work together to implement green recovery packages and fiscal stimulus plans during and after the coronavirus pandemic.

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Business Green

JUNE 25, 2020

The government can adapt what has worked well from its swift and immediate response and apply such learning to the economic recovery by putting climate-friendly policies at its core. Economic stimulus packages provide a perfect opportunity to reflect this. We remain in the middle of a global health crisis.

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Business Green

JULY 27, 2020

Councils and metro mayors are also set to be given stronger powers to close side streets to cars and restrict traffic around schools, backed by funding for 12 new 'Mini Holland' cycle-friendly areas and the creation of "at least one zero emission transport city centre", according to the new Cycling and Walking Plan for England.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 23, 2021

Over the past several decades, public health and environmental concerns have made controlling smog a top national policy goal in China and enforcement an increasingly critical issue for companies to navigate. More than a decade ago, national policies laid the groundwork for reducing air emissions in China.

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Business Green

JUNE 16, 2020

Transport Minister Grant Shapps today announced that following a recent consultation Ministers have approved plans for the new plates, which are designed to make it easier for cars to be identified as zero-emission vehicles. The plates will feature a green flash on the left-hand side and will be available for zero-emission vehicles only. "A

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Business Green

APRIL 3, 2020

Civil society, researchers, and business leaders argue that multi-million pound transport industry bailouts must come with climate-friendly conditions attached. Commenting on the rescue package, Fiona Nicholls, climate campaigner at Greenpeace, said: "The government must get these bailouts right. So far, not so good, however.

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Energy Innovation

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

emissions has become a hot topic in climate policy discussions, and not a moment too soon. But what actual policy package would be required to reach net zero U.S. A substantial new update to Energy Innovation’s peer-reviewed Energy Policy Simulator can help answer those questions and more, with many new modeling capabilities.

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EDF + Business

JUNE 22, 2023

Measuring, reporting, and including Scope 3 emissions in sustainability targets can be a challenge, especially for companies that outsource the transportation of goods via medium- and heavy-duty (MHD) trucks. & Amazon – transportation emissions are under Scope 1. For fleets – companies that own and operate vehicles like U.S.

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The Environmental Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Many businesses and governments put profits and short-term gains over the long-term health of our planet. But it will require a shift towards eco-friendly practices and policies in various sectors. They can also use packaging and advertising to showcase the sustainability of their products and brand.

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Low Impact

AUGUST 11, 2021

I’m guessing that a lot of Western governments will claim the same thing, as their manufacturing base declines, but their consumption increases – of goods produced on the other side of the world and then transported across land, sea and air via fleets of trucks, planes and cargo ships. This is driving up carbon emissions.

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EDF + Business

OCTOBER 26, 2021

For the 128 asset managers and 61 banks that have committed to align trillions of dollars with the Paris Agreement, this moment presents a once-in-a-generation opportunity to achieve their climate goals – not through investments but through public policy advocacy. Advocating for climate policy is in investors’ best interest.

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Front And Centered

JANUARY 14, 2022

Our legislative priorities aim to transform our energy and transportation systems to provide equitable access to affordable and renewable power and transportation on our path toward a Just Transition. . Just Transition in Transportation. Front and Centered Community-Led Priorities. Energy Justice for All – HB 1490.

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Business Green

JULY 2, 2021

Around 47 per cent of all plastic produced is used in packaging, but a further 14 per cent is used in textiles and six per cent in transport. Its social impacts include harm to human health, in particular among vulnerable communities, and it comes with substantial economic costs affecting especially regions depending on tourism.

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EDF + Business

JULY 14, 2021

Transportation is now the leading source of greenhouse gas emissions, and trucks, though making up only less than 5% of vehicles on the road, are responsible for over half of smog pollution. The growing risks of transportation . alone, the volume of delivery is expected to double by 2026 to over 100 million packages a day.

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Business Green

MAY 15, 2020

Transport for London says it is 'determined' to keep gains seen for air pollution and safer streets over past two months after lockdown measures ease. If we want to make transport in London safe, and keep London globally competitive, then we have no choice but to rapidly repurpose London's streets for people," said Khan. "By

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Front And Centered

JANUARY 17, 2020

In the 2019 Legislative Session , Front and Centered made many strides to advance equitable statewide climate policy thanks to the strength of our coalition and allies. In collaboration with the Climate Alliance for Jobs and Clean Energy we are working in the legislature to: Make Transportation Revenue Equitable.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2021

During a two-day judicial review hearing in the High Court on June 29 and 30, Transport Action Network (TAN) is arguing that ministers should have evaluated how the government’s whole £27.4 It also makes people more dependent on their cars instead of shifting to cleaner forms of travel such as public transport, walking, and cycling.

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Business Green

MAY 15, 2020

Transport for London says it is 'determined' to keep gains seen for air pollution and safer streets over past two months after lockdown measures ease. If we want to make transport in London safe, and keep London globally competitive, then we have no choice but to rapidly repurpose London's streets for people," said Khan. "By

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Business Green

MAY 14, 2020

Prime Minister says commitment to net zero transition is 'undiminished' and tells MPs the aviation sector should look to curb CO2 emissions once flights resume, as pressure mounts on EU for green stimulus package. However, the Commission itself has decided against making such climate conditions mandatory under state aid rules.

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Business Green

JUNE 25, 2020

That's going to change fundamentally the context for climate policy, and everything else I suspect. 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.

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Business Green

MAY 18, 2020

But several major new reports in recent days have stressed that longer-term policy stability, incentive programmes, and reforms crafted and enacted by the UK government over the coming weeks and months could prove just as important - if not more important - to the country reaching its 2050 climate goal that the much-debated stimulus packages.

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Charged

JUNE 15, 2020

We’ve been reading a raft of articles speculating on how the COVID-19 health crisis will affect the EV industry. The latest addition to the virus-versus-EVs literature is a report from Transport & Environment. Source: Transport & Environment. The EU’s 2020/21 target of 95 grams of CO?

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Front And Centered

APRIL 14, 2020

Make Transportation Investments Equitable (HB 2688/SB 6399). This bill would have required that all transportation packages be evaluated through community-centered criteria that embraces equity, environmental justice, accessibility, safety, health, economic vitality, and other key values.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

The government has been urged draw up a robust 'National Heat Risk Strategy' to tackle the growing threat hot weather is posing to the UK's buildings, infrastructure, and public health, following estimates that at least several hundred people have been killed by high temperatures this summer.

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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. That has to change.

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