Business Green

JUNE 14, 2020

In an open letter published today and addressed to "CEOs everywhere", the Business for Nature campaign has called on corporates to encourage political leaders to embrace economic policies and packages that prioritise nature restoration.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 11, 2023

In late July, EPR fees for packaging converters, producers, and suppliers were delayed a year , from October 2024 to 2025, with the wider system, including the collection and reporting of packaging data for 2023, remaining a live requirement and due on October 1. And collection costs don’t have to be so different.”

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 2, 2024

Speakers at the meeting included the hardline Dutch organisation Farmers’ Defence Force (FDF), which hit out at EU environmental and trade policy. An event on the MCC Brussels website appears to corroborate this, inviting farmers to attend a protest on January 24 against “the EU’s overzealous green policies” followed by networking drinks.

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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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Business Green

JULY 11, 2022

Two separate reports this morning have set out the case for Ministers to press ahead with a raft of policies that can drive a shift away from the blast furnace method of steel production. Bold policies to revive the steel industry to make it clean and competitive would be a good start.

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Business Green

JULY 28, 2022

Such findings underscore the scale of support among Conservative Party members for ambitious green policies that can help curb the huge hike in energy bills expected this winter, just as postal ballot papers for choosing Britain's next PM are sent out to the membership from next week.

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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

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's a sop to the right wing.

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The Guardian: Energy

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

Supporters of the stance believe the recent Uxbridge byelection upset has revealed a valuable new electoral dividing line: voters who are keen on carbon-cutting in theory become much less keen when the bill arrives.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 12, 2020

So failure to address one issue is just going to exacerbate the risk of another," said Kristen Lang, senior director of the Ceres Company Network and lead author of the nonprofit’s latest set of suggested strategic, operational and policy change actions necessary for the corporate world to meet the warming-mitigation goals of the Paris Agreement.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 7, 2024

One of Canada’s top political journalists and pundits served on the board of a foundation that gave $6.4 His numerous accolades include two National Newspaper Awards and the prestigious Hyman Solomon Award for Excellence in Public Policy Journalism. They in turn belong to a U.S.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

He announced new policies to increase grants for heat pumps, ramp up spending on green research and skills, and tackle grid connection delays for clean energy projects. It is not wholly bad and most of the individual policy changes are defensible, up to a point. But the package as a whole is confusing and contradictory.

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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". That is not to say there is not good news here.

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Business Green

JUNE 14, 2020

In an open letter published today and addressed to "CEOs everywhere", the Business for Nature campaign has called on corporates to encourage political leaders to embrace economic policies and packages that prioritise nature restoration.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Far from cutting back on public investment in net zero projects, channelling public investment into the transition is the most responsible and cost-saving policy available to the government, it argues.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Parliament's Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) today unveiled a wide-ranging report on the government's green recovery agenda which argues major reforms to UK taxation and the swift release of long-awaited policy strategies will be central to laying the foundations of a greener, job-rich economy that protects nature. Green investment.

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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.

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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.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 29, 2022

According to the EU Commission , “The objective of these dialogues is to offer invited stakeholders the possibility to exchange with DG ENER officials on the European Green Deal package”. The 2022 dialogues’ theme will take into account political and legislative agendas, as well as the national context of each hosting country.

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Business Green

AUGUST 14, 2022

Deliberative democracy is a valuable tool that can help the next PM craft climate policies that are effective and popular, writes Lancaster University's Jacob Ainscough. The real source of debate over climate policy now lies firmly within questions of how, not if, net zero should be achieved. But that assumption is simply wrong.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

The government’s action plan for guiding the UK through the worsening energy crisis lacks energy efficiency and demand policies, report warns. New incentives should be backed by a universal carbon allowance for every individual in the UK and a package of energy efficiency measures to help better insulate low income homes, it said.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Last year Hicks rhetorically asked on his blog whether climate researchers were “over-hyping because they have a political agenda,” terming them “those chronic-doomster semi-scientists.” As for politics, I am liberal, while Dr. Peterson is conservative,” he said. As it should be, I think, for a good educational institution.”

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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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Clean Energy Canada

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

For a government trying to communicate the energy transition to a country feeling the economic squeeze, one could hardly envisage a better policy. Put simply, the Greener Homes Initiative is smart political calculus: support for Canadians, emissions reductions, and job creation in one tidy package.

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Business Green

JULY 15, 2021

Darren Jones, chair of the BEIS Committee in the House of Commons, condemned the decision to delay the policy document, arguing the Treasury needed to act faster to enable crucial climate policies. This and many other net zero policies are stuck in the Treasury until the net zero spending review in September.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

“I am glad the commission was finally able to look past partisan politics to support science and economics-based policy that stakeholders, utilities and ratepayers could all agree upon and benefit from.” Arizona experienced a record-setting heat wave this summer, and it and other states across the Western U.S.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

CLG Europe brings together influential European businesses which share the aim of delivering climate neutrality through "progressive public policy". The group includes a host of top brands , such as Coca-Cola European Partners, EDF, Salesforce, Sky, Unilever, and others.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Amazon, Coca-Cola, IKEA, Siemens, Sky, Aviva, and Nestle are among the 116 leading firms to have have signed a new letter, calling on Liz Truss to "prioritise policies that will address this crisis, as part of a robust net zero strategy".

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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 turns out that slogans without policies fail to deliver results.

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Business Green

JULY 15, 2021

The EU's new 'Fit for 55' decarbonisation package is far from perfect, but it is still an historic step forward for global climate action. Bigger still is the EU's Fit for 55 policy package , which it is no exaggeration to describe as a blueprint for decarbonising a continent. It also has international significance.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

The report - titled The Future of Heat Pumps - details how the heat pump market has been growing strongly in recent years, driven by falling technology costs, policy support, and growing confidence the technology can work in a wide range of climates. The technology is tried and tested, even in the coldest of climates.

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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

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

OCTOBER 20, 2022

We need a General Election now so people can vote for the policies they want to see that will turn this mess around.". The change in leadership leaves the UK's net zero agenda, environmental policy plans, and COP27 Presidency facing another chaotic period with huge uncertainty over the future direction of a host of crucial policies.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

There is a widespread political, economic, business, and economic consensus that renewables, energy efficiency, and net zero are a key part of the solution to the UK's challenges this winter and beyond - it should be difficult for the new PM to ignore.

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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

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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