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'Go for it': Climate advisors urge government to deliver green recovery blitz

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It comes as the Treasury prepares a crucial package of recovery measures which are expected to be announced in Parliament next month, as the government attempts to combat the worst economic crisis in decades. Chris Stark setting out the CCC's latest advice to government.

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Government promises to unleash net zero investment blitz with 10 Point Plan for a Green Industrial Revolution

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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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'Action is needed now': CBI leads flurry of calls for green recovery

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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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'We are witnessing the impacts of a disorderly transition': CCC boss Chris Stark on net zero in the wake of Covid-19

Business Green

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. Building back better.

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Spending Review and National Infrastructure Strategy: Five key takeaways

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Greenpeace UK's head of politics Rebecca Newsom argued it would "sour the UK's diplomatic relationships in the run-up to the crucial Glasgow climate conference next year". Meanwhile, the long-awaited Energy White Paper, which had been widely expected this month, will now be published "in the next three months", it explains.

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Budget 2020: The green economy reacts

Business Green

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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Levelling up, but not joined up

Business Green

Instead, it looks to have opted for a package of loan guarantees for energy suppliers and targeted support for fuel poor households. For example, with such a commitment in place it would be impossible for the paper to get away with barely mentioning climate resilience and adaptation and having little to say about nature.