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

JULY 8, 2020

We hope that the forthcoming Budget, White Paper and National Infrastructure Plan will provide further momentum'. A Green Recovery centred round the net-zero target can spread opportunities, investment and growth across the country but we need to vastly increase our ambition and the activity to deliver it.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 4, 2020

The investments, policies, and priorities that should flow from that target will reshape the UK economy for the better. And such emissions pledges will send clear policy and investment signals that businesses around the world are already responding to. A 68 per cent cut in carbon emissions by 2030 is a genuinely world-leading target.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

In addition, fiscal incentives like the removal of VAT for energy efficiency retrofits and business models for low carbon hydrogen will be essential to attract the private investment needed to reach net zero.". Consequently, the TUC is calling on the government to unleash a £85bn green recovery package capable of creating 1.24

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Chancellor Rishi Sunak today reiterated the Treasury's commitment to delivering on the UK's net zero emissions goal, announcing plans for a new National Infrastructure Bank, record investment in new infrastructure and R&D projects, and changes to how the government assesses spending decisions in light of escalating climate risks.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

It is also due to be followed by a series of white papers and detailed policy documents that are designed to set out precisely how the government intends to engineer a rapid uptick in the pace of decarbonisation across the UK economy. There's no vaccine against climate change.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

Following the £12bn green investment drive underpinning the Prime Minister's 10 Point Plan for a Green Industrial Revolution last week , there was cautious hope in the green economy that further supportive policy and funding announcements might emerge from the Treasury yesterday. Green Investment Bank 2.0? Sound familiar?

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

In recent months Johnson has similarly signalled his support for an acceleration in offshore wind development, investment in new green hydrogen infrastructure, carbon capture technology clusters, electric vehicle charging networks, new nuclear technologies and expanded tree-planting programmes. natural environment investment.

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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.".

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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. But there is ample evidence that the costs need not be prohibitive and that the return on investment from energy efficiency upgrades is remarkably attractive.

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Business Green

MARCH 11, 2020

Today, just weeks after his promotion to the second most powerful job in the country, the Chancellor Rishi Sunak unveiled the government's Budget for the coming year and beyond, outlining a multi-billion pound package of spending across the green economy, as well as new tax measures covering the energy sector, plastic packaging, and red diesel fuel.

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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. per cent - around £1.1bn - of China's recovery package has been designated for green projects.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

On the plus side fears that the Covid recession would push climate action down the political and corporate agenda have proved largely unfounded. On the domestic front, the government will have either delivered an historic green recovery package and credible net zero plan by the time winter is out or it never will.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

The investment signals are explicit. The best parts of the new 10 point plan both draw upon the transition already underway and seek to catalyse it further, creating a feedback loop that should mobilise billions of pounds of investment and create millions of jobs. There is some truth in this.

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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.

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