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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Business Green

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The report highlights not only the direct economic benefits of investing in net zero infrastructure, but also the wider economic benefits for both UK plc and Treasury coffers that would ripple out from such investments. Still, any public investment should be spent wisely and fairly, Murphy stressed.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Boris Johnson has unveiled his much-vaunted 10-point green recovery plan, promising a multi-billion pound package of investment across the green economy designed to create an estimated 250,000 new jobs in the carbon capture, electric vehicle, nuclear, hydrogen and renewables sectors.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

In recent years as we have seen the financial sector moving towards sustainability, massive firms like Blackrock have been making noise about moving towards changing their investment strategies to highlight climate change. It is not just investment firms that are beginning to question traditional investment models.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 21, 2023

The firms were then featured prominently on panels alongside these cabinet ministers, MPs, and local political leaders. A spokesperson for WS Atkins disclosed that speaking on panels was a benefit offered by the NRG as part of their “sponsorship package”.

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Business Green

MARCH 13, 2023

The government announced this evening that the dozen "high-growth" Investment Zones will include eight areas already identified in England, as well a further four across Scotland and Northern Ireland that are yet to be chosen.

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Smart Energy International

DECEMBER 6, 2023

In light of the energy transition and geo-political tensions, the need to cope with grid security at the European level working with the best grid security expertise available has become evident.” The agreement will also enable ENCS to expand its expert knowledge pool and enlarge the community for trusted information and knowledge sharing.

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The Environmental Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

This makes it difficult to invest in green practices that may have upfront costs but long-term benefits. Through investment, countries can help support renewable energy, reducing our reliance on fossil fuels. They can also use packaging and advertising to showcase the sustainability of their products and brand.

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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". A lot of investment should start to flow from here.

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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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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

AUGUST 23, 2022

Almost a third of UK companies expect soaring winter energy costs to stifle investment in the measures that can accelerate the net zero transition, the CBI has warned, as it urged the government to act decisively to cushion the impact on homes and businesses and "prevent a short-term crunch becoming a longer-term crisis".

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 6, 2024

The Packaging Reduction and Recycling Infrastructure Act would dramatically cut the amount and toxicity of plastic garbage New Yorkers throw away by targeting the source. It would reduce plastic packaging in New York by half over the next 12 years, and it would prevent a slew of toxic chemicals from being used in those materials. “The

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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 8, 2020

It warned coal was a risky bet for post-coronavirus investment, with 90 per cent of coal generators worldwide in regulated and semi-regulated markets including China "implicitly and explicitly subsidised" by governments, while most coal power is already unprofitable in deregulated markets such as in the EU and USA.

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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. Clean R&D investment ranked more highly in high income countries. Hepburn et al. Hepburn et al.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

One that said he was fully committed to net zero and that the UK could get there through technological investment and innovation, but also stressed that this industrial revolution had to progress more slowly and that the UK should lead the way while allowing other nations to catch up. But the package as a whole is confusing and contradictory.

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Business Green

JUNE 29, 2020

MPs from across the political spectrum will today take part in over 100 digital meetings with constituents to discuss plans for a green recovery, as part of the world's biggest virtual lobby. It comes on the same day as a major new report from Greenpeace estimated that an ambitious green stimulus package could create 1.8

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Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The report found that around $11.1tr of economic support has been mobilised in respond to the coronavirus crisis, but "only a small handful of rich countries are investing in a green economy as they emerge from the pandemic". The political class of 2021 are throwing us out of the COVID-19 frying pan and into the climate fire.".

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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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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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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

100 billion of private investment: A breakdown The Act seeks to implement the British Energy Security Strategy (BESS) that will unlock £100 billion of private investment in the energy sector and create 480,000 jobs by 2030. Let us have a look below at some of the key areas in which the Act will support private investment.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

The announcement comes at a crucial time for European climate politics as the EU attempts to put green policies front and centre in its post-COVID-19 Recovery Package and finalise its plans to deliver on its net zero emissions by 2050 target.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 15, 2021

Such systems also imply an ideal combination of political framework regulations (such as extended producer responsibility, deposit return schemes, and so on) and technical processes for waste handling. As of 2021, the IVAR IKS ranks 1st in Norway in post-consumer plastic packaging collection rates.

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Business Green

JUNE 29, 2020

UK currently staring at a £14bn gap in the green infrastructure investment needed for net zero, warns Green Alliance. Moreover, speaking over the weekend Home Secretary Priti Patel hinted plans for a further increase in road-building investment were being actively considered as part of the government's imminent economic stimulus package.

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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 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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Business Green

JUNE 25, 2020

Greenpeace activists today delivered a letter to the Treasury backed by a 167,000 signature petition calling on Chancellor Rishi Sunak to ensure any bailout packaged for the aviation sector included climate-related conditions. Companies must protect both the workers who supported them, and the climate that supports us all.

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Business Green

JULY 6, 2020

E3G's Tom Burke sets out four tests the Chancellor's stimulus package must pass if the government is to deliver on its 'green recovery' promises. Investment in energy efficiency offers a triple whammy. By providing a lot of jobs all over the country much faster than other public investments it gets incomes up.

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Business Green

MAY 23, 2021

Unveiling the latest investment, the Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), said it would benefit energy-intensive businesses like Tate & Lyle, BAE Systems, and Celsa Manufacturing, helping them to cut costs and prepare for the UK's net zero transition. The government has today announced a new £166.5m

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Clean Energy Canada

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Indeed, re-funding the program to help another half a million households would require just one-third of the dollars currently destined for the fed’s carbon capture and storage investment tax credit—an incentive program that is expected to largely benefit the windfall-profit-laden oil and gas industry.

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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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Business Green

MAY 26, 2022

Rishi Sunak has announced a temporary levy on oil and gas company profits in order to help fund a fresh £15bn package of measures to support households facing soaring energy bills today, marking a major U-turn from the Chancellor's previous refusal to back a so-called ‘windfall tax'.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Treasury yesterday published technical note finalising details of its controversial new levy on clean electricity generators, sparking fresh warnings tax could undermine green investment. We strongly urge the government to fix this disparity by providing a tax relief for low carbon investments as part of the Electricity Generator Levy design.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 20, 2022

During her brief time in office Truss sparked a fierce row with conservation NGOs by announcing plans to water down EU-derived environmental protections, introduce new investment zones that would dilute planning and environmental rules, and review sweeping plans to reform farming subsidies to encourage more sustainable behaviour.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Iceland's position as one of the world's leading clean tech hubs has been driven by a combination of political choices, supportive policies, and the geological accident that has blessed it with some of the world's most accessible geothermal resources. You capture your CO2 yourself and we come and pick it up."

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