Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Ahead of the Prime Minister's promised new green recovery package, a new report from the business advocacy group outlines a raft of near-term policy interventions that could put the UK on track to reaching net zero emissions. The gap between the government's net zero rhetoric and its policy agenda remains.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

Britain's biggest business group urges government to fast track rollout of host of green technologies, including new CCUS, hydrogen, EV, and renewables projects. As COP26 chair and holder of the G7 presidency next year, the UK has a unique opportunity to prove itself a global climate leader post-Brexit," Fairbairn will say.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

The government has been accused of coming up short with its much-vaunted green recovery plan, as further details on its £12bn low carbon investment package were released yesterday that suggested the new measures would only deliver around half of the CO2 cuts required to hit UK climate targets over the coming decade.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

However, the firm said it would still "keep the lines of communication open with government" regarding future options at both sites, raising the prospect that the plans could be revived if the government's long awaited Energy White Paper helps address the financing challenges that continue to dog proposals for new nuclear projects in the UK.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

A new analysis highlights the increasing availability of low cost capital for net zero technology and infrastructure, but calls for a clearer policy framework to attract it. As a result, it urges the government to development a framework to make them more attractive to such sources of low cost capital.

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Business Green

JUNE 24, 2020

The nuclear sector has become the latest industry to wade into the debate about the government's imminent green recovery package, arguing that it has a critical role to play in delivering on the UK's net zero emission target. The intervention comes at a critical time for the UK's nuclear industry.

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Business Green

JUNE 30, 2020

The speech was inevitably overshadowed by the news Leicester has already been forced back into lockdown and undermined by the realisation the trailed £5bn package amounted to little more than a compendium of previously announced programmes that are an order of magnitude smaller than the template supposedly provided by FDR's New Deal.

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Business Green

JUNE 23, 2020

Reports from CBI, EnergyUK, ECIU, and ScottishPower all hammer home calls for ambitious green recovery package. The government has been inundated with calls from green trade bodies, campaigners and academics for it to deliver a green stimulus package in recent weeks. The consensus keeps building.

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Business Green

JUNE 30, 2020

Prime Minister to reaffirm tree-planting plans as part of £5bn 'New Deal' style recovery package, but green campaigners fear 'false start' as key funding announcements still yet to be confirmed. Meanwhile, business groups are also stepping up calls for Chancellor to deliver a wide-ranging green stimulus package.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 8, 2020

The report also assesses the use of zero carbon hydrogen gas as a possible replacement for fossil fuels on the gas grid to feed home boilers, which has been gaining increasing interest in recent years, particularly among gas network operators.

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Grist

MAY 18, 2021

The friends, all engineers by training, had designed a machine that could turn agricultural waste, like almond shells, into renewable hydrogen fuel. They’d even found a partner, the owner of a fueling station for hydrogen-powered cars, who wanted them to build a pilot plant at his facility. But the investor was undeterred.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Further details forming a trailed 10-point plan for a green industrial revolution are expected to be laid out in November, with reports indicating hydrogen, carbon capture and storage, small modular nuclear reactors, electric vehicles, and green synthetic fuels are likely to feature heavily.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

It is not every day that you find that the UK's biggest business group, most influential trade union bosses, seasoned policy experts, and protestors blocking motorway junctions are in broad agreement. It made for damning reading.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Sunak's speech received a decidedly lukewarm welcome from green business groups, who argued the package did little to build on the 10 Point Plan announced last week and fell well short of the "green recovery" rhetoric embraced by the government over the summer.

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Business Green

AUGUST 25, 2021

Roughly 160MW of solar is expected to be installed on public sector buildings alone in 2021 through the government's Public Sector Decarbonisation Scheme, and the industry is now keenly anticipating details of other grants and incentives designed to catalyse the decarbonisation of the UK's homes expected in new policy documents this autumn.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

It is expected to include a raft of new funding and policy proposals designed to accelerate progress in a host of areas, such as clean energy deployment, energy efficiency upgrades, hydrogen production, carbon capture and storage development, and the switch to electric vehicles.

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Business Green

JULY 9, 2020

The government's commitment to a green recovery is a big step forward, but impatience is growing as green businesses continue to wait for key policies and spending decisions that have been in the pipeline for months. But then once again the accompanying policy measures singularly failed to match the rhetoric.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

BP's biggest rival, Shell, has also called a 2030 ban "the right policy". The anticipated new date for ending the sale of polluting cars and vans would form one of the centrepieces of an autumn that is expected to see a raft of new climate policy measures.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

The scheme offers grants worth up to £5,000 - rising to £10,000 for low income households - against the cost of approved energy efficiency measures such as insulation, heat pumps, and hydrogen-ready boilers.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

I hope the long-awaited, and frequently delayed, Energy White Paper soon sees the light of day and that, through the plethora of reviews and plans that are due over the coming year, the Government will begin to set a path to delivering on their green ambitions.". "But John Alker, Director of Policy and Places at UKGBC, said. "We

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

BusinessGreen rounds up the top green headlines from government's latest slew of fiscal and policy announcements. But they also suggest a growing willingness from ministers to harness the nuts and bolts of governance to tilt the playing field a little in favour of green policies and projects. Global Britain retreats.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

And will the much-trumpeted new strategy have the desired catalysing impact on the UK's covid-stricken economy and faltering net zero transition, or will it amount to yet more Johnsonian spin over substance, big on planet-saving rhetorical flourishes but low on bankable policy detail? offshore wind. the power system. carbon capture/storage.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Instead, it looks to have opted for a package of loan guarantees for energy suppliers and targeted support for fuel poor households. The oil and gas industry has warned that a windfall tax could jeopardise its ability to fund new offshore wind, hydrogen, and carbon capture projects, which is a legitimate concern.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Today Greta Thunberg offered a characteristically unvarnished assessment of what now is required to get the world on track to averting the worst impacts of the climate crisis, blasting politicians globally for failing to match their recent green rhetoric with meaningful policy action.

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Business Green

JULY 26, 2021

The Chancellor needs to develop a financial support package that works for landlords and tenants," said Ben Beadle, chief executive of the National Residential Landlords Association. This should especially be targeted at the hardest to treat properties where the cost of work will be prohibitive for landlords.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak have talked a good game, but beyond the welcome £3bn for energy efficiency upgrades there is still no sign of a coherent green stimulus package on a par with the €40bn programme already finalised by Germany.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Plenty of Prime Ministers have sketched out their grand 'white heat', 'no alternative', 'third way' economic visions for the country. Countless Ministers have scratched around for a couple more policies to turn an eight strategy into a satisfying 10 point plan. There is some truth in this.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

There are also game-changing policy commitments: bringing forward the ban on sales of petrol and diesel cars, targeting 5GW of low carbon hydrogen production, and 600,000 heat pump installations per year - all within a decade. It aims to deliver 250,000 jobs and prosperity up and down the country.

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