Business Green

MARCH 11, 2020

Sunak also confirmed plans to move ahead with the government's manifesto promise to introduce a new plastics packaging tax, confirming that from April 2022 the government will charge manufacturers and importers £200 per tonne on packaging made of less than 30 per cent recycled plastic. Budget2020.

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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. 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.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2020

In a speech that placed an emphasis on optimism and resilience in the face of ongoing Covid-19 challenges, the Prime Minister sought to paint the pandemic as a chance for renewal for the UK economy, as he bemoaned a "long term failure" on skills training and "inadequate infrastructure".

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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

MAY 12, 2020

Whether governments use their economic recovery plans to support decarbonisation and long-term economic resilience is now the single biggest question at the top of the climate agenda. Building back better. But with economies only tentatively easing lockdown conditions, many major recovery plans have yet to emerge.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

But could it also perhaps signal hopes of delegating some responsibility for decarbonisation and climate resilience - and any setbacks along the way - to councils, cities, and regional governments? That means 2021 is now shaping up to be an even more important year for the green economy than it looked two days ago.

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Business Green

AUGUST 25, 2021

Navigating the boom and bust cycle of government subsidy programmes may have been turbulent, but throughout it all the sector developed a remarkable resilience. We need a technology-neutral package," he insists. In the Energy White Paper, we committed to driving sustained growth in solar energy across the next decade to 2030.?".

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

The way in which the UK can make sure there is strong stimulus for investment in UK battery electric vehicle manufacturing is by putting forward a comprehensive package to drive adoption of EVs," Brandmayr tells BusinessGreen.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

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