Business Green

JUNE 23, 2020

Hydrogen-powered planes have "significant, and so far underestimated" potential to become a major force in the future of flight, and to thereby help reduce the aviation sector's growing impact on the climate, according to the findings of a major industry and EU-backed study released yesterday.

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Business Green

JULY 22, 2020

As MEPs enter talks over EU Council's €1.8tr recovery package and budget deal, many key green questions remain. Of the overall €1.8tr package encompassing the recovery funding and the 2021-27 budget, EU leaders agreed that 30 per cent should be earmarked for the bloc's climate objectives and transition to net zero.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Carbon capture, utilisation, and storage (CCUS) and hydrogen : The Act sets a clear economic licensing framework for CCUS and hydrogen transportation and storage, providing financial support through industrial carbon capture (ICC) and hydrogen business models.

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Business Green

MARCH 27, 2023

The government is widely expected to unveil a wave of decarbonisation and energy policies on Thursday as part of a package that had been badged as 'Green Day' by Whitehall insiders. It also reported Number 10 is keen to see gas play a critical role in the new package of measures. "It It is not Green Day," one insider told the paper.

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Business Green

MAY 3, 2024

This week provided another example of how significant new policy measures are imminent, in the form of Defra's confirmation it intends to lay legislation before Parliament this year that would enable new Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) rules for packaging to come into force from January 1st next year.

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Business Green

JULY 7, 2020

JCB Jo Bamford sits down with BusinessGreen to discuss his plans to usher in the UK hydrogen economy through passenger buses. After more than 15 years observing the UK hydrogen sector from afar, he says he felt the time had arrived to get involved.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Luke Murphy, associate director for energy, climate, housing and infrastructure at IPPR, said increasing investment in the net zero transition was "an economic, environmental and political necessity". It is also gearing up to launch - after much pressure - a long overdue public energy saving campaign.

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Business Green

MARCH 31, 2023

Yesterday's 'Green Day' package offered the good, the bad, and the ugly of the UK's climate policy programme It was way back in 2010 that the outgoing Labour Treasury Minister Liam Byrne wrote his infamous letter declaring that "I'm afraid there is no money". The level of support is an order of magnitude too small.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 8, 2021

Small modular reactors (SMRs) — nuclear reactors using novel technologies to fit into much smaller and mass-producible packages than the behemoth nuclear power plants of today — are presented as a way of rapidly decarbonizing the grid in the face of an ever more pressing need to meet climate targets. don’t think so.

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Business Green

MAY 23, 2021

Government says latest cash boost for carbon capture and hydrogen projects should help support up to 60,000 jobs. The new funding programme is set to support a wide range of research and development and deployment projects, covering technologies such as carbon capture, greenhouse gas removal, and hydrogen. "We

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 11, 2019

New European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen unveiled Europe's Green Deal on Wednesday, a package of 50 far-reaching policy ideas that are still missing many key details, calling it a "man on the moon moment" for Europe. A dedicated offshore wind plan, also to come in 2020.

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Climate Tech VC

JANUARY 16, 2024

Saudi Arabian ACWA Power outlined a $4bn green hydrogen and ammonia facility in Egypt that could produce up to 600,000 tons of green ammonia per year. M&A Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) bought Fertiglobe for $3.6bn, the world’s largest maritime ammonia exporter, as part of its national green hydrogen strategy.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

The Commission is likely to have found a target that is achievable and politically palatable to all member states. billion ($807 billion) coronavirus recovery package that contains the EU Green Deal, including the condition that 37 percent of the funds will be used to meet green objectives. The EU will then distribute that finance.

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Business Green

MARCH 16, 2021

The announcement of the policy package is part of a new Industrial Decarbonisation Strategy that will be published later today, the government revealed. In the North East, the Zero Carbon Humber coalition has been granted £21m and the Humber Zero project £12m to develop hydrogen and CCUS infrastructure.

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Business Green

JUNE 29, 2023

As CCC chair Lord Deben politely observed : "Even in these times of extraordinary fossil fuel prices, government has been too slow to embrace cleaner, cheaper alternatives and too keen to support new production of coal, oil and gas. The crucial question is what happens next?

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Business Green

APRIL 7, 2022

The i newspaper reported today that it had seen a leaked package of maeasure for the plan, which had proposed increasing the £200 'rebate' on energy bills announced by the government in February to "£500 or more". The document states: "We could boost the recently announced rebate scheme.

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Clean Energy Canada

MAY 29, 2020

The announcement came after political leaders and European Commission officials voiced intentions to adopt clean stimulus measures in line with the EU’s Green Deal climate plan. This would include investments in clean energy, sustainable transportation systems, green buildings, and hydrogen technology. Other countries.

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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

JUNE 21, 2020

Conservationists have urged the government to make nature restoration a key pillar of its forthcoming economic recovery package, claiming it could create thousands of jobs across the country while tackling biodiversity loss and the climate crisis. It remains to be seen what will be included in the government's recovery package.

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38 North Solutions

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Analysts say we might (finally) see an energy package pass next year. But energy analysts think Congress just might be able to cobble a package of energy bills together. Comprehensive energy package? A package out of the Republican-majority Senate energy panel “is not going to be some radical large-scale policy.

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Business Green

JUNE 21, 2020

Conservationists have urged the government to make nature restoration a key pillar of its forthcoming economic recovery package, claiming it could create thousands of jobs across the country while tackling biodiversity loss and the climate crisis. It remains to be seen what will be included in the government's recovery package.

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Business Green

JULY 20, 2020

MPs from across the political divide have called on the government to harness its Covid-19 recovery plans to accelerate the transition to net zero, today setting out a 10-point programme of policy recommendations "the government needs to urgently adopt to get the UK on track".

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Energy Innovation

JULY 14, 2020

And yet, opportunities exist through climate-friendly recovery packages to not only stimulate economies, but also reduce emissions while promoting social and environmental co-benefits. The authors highlight the stark shift in politics the COVID-19 pandemic has wrought on governments around the world. Hepburn et al. Hepburn et al.

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Business Green

MARCH 16, 2021

The announcement of the policy package is part of a new Industrial Decarbonisation Strategy that will be published later today, the government revealed. In the North East, the Zero Carbon Humber coalition has been granted £21m and the Humber Zero project £12m to develop hydrogen and CCUS infrastructure.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Carbon capture, hydrogen, nuclear, EVs, and renewables all set to benefit from £12bn government stimulus plan, but critics warn funding falls well short of the level required to trigger a green recovery.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Daimler, Scania, Man, Volvo, Daf, Iveco, and Ford signed a new pledge to phase out traditional combustion engines as they step up investments in hydrogen, battery technology, and clean fuels. However, critics maintain the country remains off track to meet its long term emissions goals and a bolder policy package is urgently required.

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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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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

Other circular approaches include making vanilla flavoring from discarded rice husks and reusing hydrogen peroxide for paper production. She is a chicken farmer, a zoo doctor, a firefighter, a polar marine biologist, a park ranger and a political candidate. Most of Mattel’s paper-based packaging is Forest Stewardship Council-certified.

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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

JULY 15, 2020

The reintroduction of a Green Investment Bank would be seen as a major victory by green campaigners and business groups, who have long argued that such an institution could help derisk investments, leverage in private capital, and catalyse strategic industries, such as green hydrogen, floating wind farms, carbon capture, and building retrofits.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Renewables will continue to thrive regardless of the final results on November 3, driven by their cost-competitiveness and broad political support, experts say. The American political system tends to move incrementally, but don’t rule out the incredible just yet. What’s at stake for utilities? But developing major U.S.

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Business Green

JULY 7, 2022

As a student of the classics Boris Johnson may one day manage a wry smile at the way the acme of his premiership came in the same week as he sowed the seeds that would ultimately lead to today's political nadir. It is, by any measure, a staggering political demise. It was on the evening of November 2nd, that hubris met nemesis.

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Terra Infirma

OCTOBER 10, 2022

As a political geek, every year I watch the leaders’ speeches from all the major UK political party conferences. This was not only nailing his colours to the green economy mast, but was also clever politics. Leadership, after all, is key to delivering the step changes we need.

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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

MARCH 9, 2023

In the run up to every change of government, fiscal event, or set piece political speech, green campaign groups and business lobbyists would warn the UK was at risk of missing out on huge global clean tech opportunities without more ambitious and co-ordinated policy measures. And the UK is in serious danger of missing out on them.

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Business Green

JANUARY 23, 2023

However, with the government languishing in the polls, the economy once again teetering on the brink of recession, and Ministers having singularly failed to deliver the 'Rooseveltian' post-Covid green recovery package that Boris Johnson once promised, the UK's recent green economic performance is being subjected to a damning reappraisal.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Tory strategists themselves with the idea that the next election could be more like 1992 than 1997, but if the Party is to engineer one of the biggest polling recoveries in electoral history the government desperately needs some success stories and positive political momentum to carry it into a general election campaign next year.

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