GreenBiz

JUNE 24, 2020

Lyft's 100% EV strategy requires a policy blitz. So essentially Lyft has to act as a catalyst — using policy, economic and industry tools — to spur the broader transportation ecosystem to more rapidly adopt zero-emission vehicles. Lyft is committed to using the most powerful tool we have to fight climate change: policy influence.

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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2021

Metal and minerals, food and drink, paper and pump, ceramics, glass and oil refineries are responsible for 16 per cent of the UK's emissions, according to government statistics, and as such decarbonising these industries is critical if the UK is to meet its 2050 net zero ambition.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The UK's Climate Change Committee has called on the government to implement policies that work towards a 20 per cent shift away from meat and dairy in the next decade.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

But to find out how many of them will actually turn into decisions, we will have to wait until the even longer-heralded Energy White Paper appears - hopefully - later this month. They will see that the Prime Minister is clearly investing a lot of his political capital in Britain's net zero target. It is a plan.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Creation of a new UK Seas Authority and appointment of a Minister for the North Sea among measures that could ensure efficient and environmentally responsible planning of clean energy technologies in area key to UK’s successful net zero transition, Policy Exchange argues.

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Business Green

MAY 18, 2021

Political and business leaders are prioritising action on nature like never before, but can this sudden uptick in engagement be translated into tangible progress? These policy debates have been further advanced by technological progress that for once is focused on protecting and enhancing, rather than despoiling and exploiting nature.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 23, 2023

These policies contravene the International Energy Agency’s warning that new fossil fuel development is incompatible with net zero goals. This included £25,000 from Bseisu, who donated £12,500 in December 2020, four days after the government set out its strategy for the energy sector in a white paper on “powering our net zero future”.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Meanwhile, in surface transport, the government should introduce policies beyond a tax to drive electric vehicle adoption, given that fuel duty - in itself a form a tax - has had little effect thus far.

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Smart Energy International

JULY 19, 2022

Taking the ‘human factor’ into consideration when designing and implementing energy policy is crucial to achieving energy transition goals, writes Dr Rosa Garcia-Verdugo. Ignoring the “human factor” has caused some well-designed ‘behavioural change’ political campaigns to fail, say public policy analysts.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

In addition, the government confirmed a series of policy moves that are expected to catalyse massive private sector investment in the net zero transition. But the Prime Minister this evening insisted that the plan would be at the heart of his ambitious economic recovery plans for the country.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

A new analysis highlights the increasing availability of low cost capital for net zero technology and infrastructure, but calls for a clearer policy framework to attract it. As a result, it urges the government to development a framework to make them more attractive to such sources of low cost capital.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

MAY 1, 2019

We seek an experienced and passionate advocate, strategic thinker, and coalition builder to join our Energy team in waging a bold and progressive campaign, through policy, legal and grassroots campaign efforts, to phase out fossil fuel transportation in California. Excellent policy and legal research and writing skills.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

MAY 1, 2019

We seek an experienced and passionate advocate, strategic thinker, and coalition builder to join our Energy team in waging a bold and progressive campaign, through policy, legal and grassroots campaign efforts, to phase out fossil fuel transportation in California. Excellent policy and legal research and writing skills.

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Business Green

JUNE 24, 2020

As well as investing directly in shovel-ready green projects, policies mooted in the report include raising taxes on fossil fuels, phasing out new petrol and diesel car sales by 2032, and adding 'green strings' such as green product development goals and climate risk assessment requirements to any company bailouts.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

The 10-Point Plan unveiled by the Prime Minister late on Tuesday provided funding announcements and policy signals across a range of areas, including hydrogen, CCS, nuclear, offshore wind, and electric vehicles. goal and the UK's target of achieving net zero emissions by 2050.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Citing Treasury sources, the paper reported that Chancellor Rishi Sunak was actively considering ending the fuel duty freeze which was introduced in 2011, pausing the long-standing policy of increasing fuel duty in line with inflation each year. However, an increase in fuel duty would still present a significant political challenge.

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Business Green

APRIL 22, 2020

What does the coronavirus crisis mean for delivering net zero policy and a successful COP26? As such, it remains to be seen how many of the anticipated net zero policies and strategies will now be delayed and by how long. Now the top priority is saving thousands of lives and tackling the worst economic crash since the Second World War.

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Business Green

JUNE 30, 2020

A veneer of normality returned to politics, as the Prime Minister hauled himself back onto the campaign trail, found a high-vis jacket adorned clean tech factory backdrop in a Midlands marginal to stand in front of, and aspired to deliver some of his favourite old tunes while experimenting with some new material.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

A lack of coordinated policies, constant changes of direction, and a failure to build up delivery capability have left the UK "well off track" to meet its overarching emissions target, the leading think tank argues in its new report Net Zero: How the government can meet its climate change target.

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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

DECEMBER 8, 2020

This investment programme is going to breathe life into the UK economy - it's as much an economic policy as a climate policy, particularly over the next 10 years as we recover from the pandemic'. So it's as much an economic policy as a climate policy, particularly over the next 10 years as we recover from the pandemic.".

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 18, 2022

And the transition is not a fuel replacement but a shift to a new system with political, technical, environmental and economic disruptions.”. Policy considerations. But hydrogen is not a new oil. Geopolitical play out.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The move follows hot on the heels of a flurry of government green policy in recent weeks, including Prime Minister Boris Johnson's plan to accelerate decarbonisation efforts over the next decade, with an enhanced 2030 target to cut UK emissions by 68 per cent below 1990 levels. "Our

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

It is not every day that you find that the UK's biggest business group, most influential trade union bosses, seasoned policy experts, and protestors blocking motorway junctions are in broad agreement. It made for damning reading.

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Business Green

JUNE 23, 2020

Worldwide there is growing recognition of the moral imperative to ramp-up efforts to tackle the climate crisis," said Matthew Fell, CBI chief UK policy director. Third, the report reiterates previous calls for the government to deliver a series of key policy decisions that have been stuck in the pipeline for months.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Mobil ran these pieces, which Schmertz described as “political pamphlets,” in the Times every week for decades. Reuters’ creative studio Reuters Plus has produced content for multiple oil majors including Shell , Saudi Aramco , and BP that ranges from native print, audio and video content to white papers.

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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'. We hope that the forthcoming Budget, White Paper and National Infrastructure Plan will provide further momentum so we can go further and faster in decarbonising our economy.".

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The government has promised a raft of hotly-anticipated plans and policies in the coming months, including the Heat and Buildings Strategy, Food Strategy White Paper, Treasury Net Zero Review, and an overarching Net Zero Strategy, all of which should help unlock billions of pounds of green investment. Betts said.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Guy Newey, a former special advisor at both DECC and BEIS, countered that the changes risked proving a distraction from the critical fact that "ultimately you need political will to achieve net zero, no matter how you arrange it all". How long before they get the IT working?" he asked. "Or Or find a new building. And we did quite a lot.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 28, 2021

racial equity, political spending and policy influence activity influence also will factor highly. . companies become more willing to make substantial changes to their policies and practices, the expectation is that fewer engagements will need to be escalated to shareholder resolutions. In the U.S.,

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Business Green

OCTOBER 19, 2021

CBI chief policy director Matthew Fell said: "The Net Zero Strategy and [Spending] Review fills in some of the blanks on how we realise the UK's decarbonisation ambitions. The energy industry has shown what is possible with the right policies in place and is ready to invest further helping create jobs and growth across the country.".

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

Government must deliver carbon cutting policies this year to stay on track for net zero and maintain role as climate leader at COP26, think tank warns. This policy tracker will test whether the government can stand up at the end of the year and say it is taking the necessary action and leading by example.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Things are picking up in a very large way," says Robin Rix, chief policy and markets officer at Verra, a standard-setter that certifies offsetting projects. It then used this criteria to evaluate "top-tier projects certified by either Verra or Gold Standard", laying out its findings in a detailed white paper. "We

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

It is expected to include a raft of new funding and policy proposals designed to accelerate progress in a host of areas, such as clean energy deployment, energy efficiency upgrades, hydrogen production, carbon capture and storage development, and the switch to electric vehicles. There's no vaccine against climate change.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 24, 2020

Lyft’s 100% EV strategy requires a policy blitz Katie Fehrenbacher Wed, 06/24/2020 – 02:00 ICYMI, ride-hailing biggie Lyft announced last week that it plans to electrify every single car offering services on its platform by 2030, including both those that Lyft owns and rents to drivers and ones that its drivers own.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

His relatives participated in political acts such as the occupation of Wounded Knee by Indigenous people from across the U.S., White paper bags festooned the taller trees, their flowers covered to manage fertilization. Patterson’s mother made her children speak Tuscarora at home to keep the language alive.

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Business Green

MARCH 1, 2021

Delivering a programme of concerted economic change will require better coordination, an accelerated timeframe between policy and implementation, and a set of more strategic and complex decisions that translate policy ambition into action. This won't be possible without a set of targeted changes to how we govern the energy system.

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