The Guardian: Energy

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

But on Tuesday morning, the king opened the UK’s new parliamentary term by reading out his government’s plans for new oil and gas drilling licences in the North Sea despite warnings from the world’s energy watchdog that new exploration will push the world beyond the 1.5C climate limit. Continue reading.

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GreenBiz

MAY 10, 2021

What Biden's infrastructure plan fails to reimagine. Among the countless details, proposals and impassioned appeals within the American Jobs Plan Fact Sheet , the outline for the Biden administration’s $2 trillion infrastructure proposal, this line struck a chord with me. . Mon, 05/10/2021 - 01:15. This is the moment to reimagine."

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Ofgem denies that political considerations are at play in the debate. But whatever its motivation for proposing the lower cap, there is a gulf between the draft plan and the companies charged with building much of the infrastructure required to transform the country’s energy landscape. Two types of politics at work.

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The Guardian: Energy

OCTOBER 8, 2023

Exclusive: Party says bill would enable UK electricity system to be fully based on clean power by 2030 UK politics live – latest updates Ed Miliband is to announce Labour’s plan for an energy independence act that would boost Britain’s energy independence and cut bills for families.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

CBI warns political leaders need to realise UK's net zero potential and avoid 'sleepwalking into low growth and lost opportunities', as Labour ramps up green infrastructure plans

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The Guardian: Energy

JUNE 5, 2024

Party has put state-owned power company at centre of its plans for decarbonisation, security and energy bills Labour is to put a government-owned power company at the heart of the UK’s energy system for the first time since the privatisation of the industry in 1990, in one of Keir Starmer’s boldest pledges so far.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

With plans to spend €35.8 Through its new strategy, the Group plans to focus its investments where returns are visible, regulatory frameworks are remunerative and macro-economic as well as political environments are stable. billion, 49% will be invested in Italy, 25% in Iberia, 19% in Latin America and 7% in North America.

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The Guardian: Energy

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Labour MP Barry Gardiner, former shadow climate change minister, criticised Starmer’s plan to scale back the £28bn plan The waiting list for routine hospital treatment in England has fallen for the third month in a row, PA Media reports. An estimated 7.60 million patients, down slightly from 7.61 million treatments and 6.39

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Major meat companies and industry lobby groups are planning a large presence at COP28 in a few days time, equipped with a communications plan to get a pro-meat message heard by policymakers throughout the summit, DeSmog can reveal. The sector’s second largest emitter – Tyson Foods – is also planning to be at the summit in Dubai.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 26, 2023

This net zero scepticism has quickly entered the upper echelons of Westminster politics, with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak saying that policies to achieve the UK’s legally binding climate targets shouldn’t “hassle” households and should be “proportionate and pragmatic”. It claims to have the support of 140 MPs and “key media”.

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The Guardian: Energy

MAY 16, 2024

Unite launches bid to persuade Keir Starmer to invest more in north-east Scotland The UK’s oil and gas workers risk becoming “the coal miners of our generation,” Unite’s general secretary, Sharon Graham, has warned, urging Labour not to ban new North Sea licences without a clear plan to safeguard jobs.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 22, 2019

We are already taking action, through practical measures such as making it easier to walk and cycle safely, helping schools with travel planning and rolling out low-carbon vehicle technology.

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The Guardian: Energy

MAY 30, 2024

Researchers say world has enough fossil fuel projects planned to meet demand forecasts to 2050 if net zero is reached The world has enough fossil fuel projects planned to meet global energy demand forecasts to 2050 and governments should stop issuing new oil, gas and coal licences, according to a large study aimed at political leaders.

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Varuna

MAY 11, 2020

Say what you will, and I’m not discussing the politics of this situation we find ourselves in with the pandemic, the prevailing facts suggest that we did not have a plan to fight COVID19. Or any pandemic. The tech advancements we’ve made gave us a false perception of our underlying conditions.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The widely awaited EU Action Plan for Grids is aimed at enabling the region’s grids to operate more efficiently and be rolled out further and faster. Entitled Grids, the missing link , the plan points to an expected around 60% increase in electricity consumption in the EU between now and 2030. The] action plan sets the scene.”

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The Guardian: Energy

JUNE 7, 2024

The oil industry veteran, who was known as the Sun King when he ran the oil company between 1995 and 2007, said an important test for the UK’s political parties before next month’s general election was whether they have “serious plans for the country’s green energy transition”. Continue reading.

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The Guardian: Energy

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Senior Labour sources have told the Guardian that Starmer will finally confirm the party is no longer planning to spend £28bn a year on environmental schemes given the economic uncertainty caused by the Conservative government. Continue reading.

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The Guardian: Energy

JANUARY 10, 2024

Ministers hope to build fleet of reactors to meet quarter of electricity demand by 2050 but critics highlight long delays and rising costs The government has set out plans for what it claims will be Britain’s biggest nuclear power expansion in 70 years, despite concerns about faltering nuclear output and project delays.

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The Guardian: Energy

MAY 9, 2024

The plan announced on Thursday offers the gas industry – and Western Australia in particular – everything it could want Get our morning and afternoon news emails , free app or daily news podcast The bottom line of the “future gas strategy” isn’t what it might mean for the government’s political fortunes, despite what Labor pollsters and political commentators (..)

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Impact Alpha

MAY 14, 2020

Even in the first few months of the Great Pandemic, climate politics have already gone through several spin cycles. The post Climate makes a comeback in coronavirus recovery plans (just don’t call it climate action) appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Clean Energy Canada

OCTOBER 17, 2020

It’s similarly surprising because public opinion points to climate action as a political winner. The province’s economic recovery plan unveiled in September included support for electrifying commercial and industrial transport as well as clean technology. It’s a political one. Like most of the West Coast, B.C.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Carbon pricing has always been a thorny political issue, but as Ministers weigh how to drive the next phase of the net zero transition some experts believe it has a critical role to play. It all started with such ambition. No decisions have been taken on the expansion of the scheme.".

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 4, 2020

Read time: 4 mins It is increasingly unlikely that Ireland will develop new infrastructure to import liquefied natural gas ( LNG ) produced from fracked wells in the US , after the plans suffered a series of potentially fatal legal and political setbacks.

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The Guardian: Energy

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

The existential battle against global heating requires connecting science, politics and community life, often much harder than it looks Get our morning and afternoon news emails , free app or daily news podcast A lot of the time, politics feels incremental. But every now and again, a big thing happens suddenly.

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The Guardian: Energy

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Lack of activity persists despite lifting of ban on projects last year, and contrasts with 46 applications made in Scotland No new proposals for general-use windfarms were submitted for planning permission in England last year, despite the government’s much-vaunted relaxation of planning restrictions.

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Impact Alpha

OCTOBER 25, 2019

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 22, 2024

The United States-based oil major’s willingness to publicly throw down the gauntlet to policy-makers underscores the stakes for the fossil fuel industry as the EU fleshes out its plans to slash carbon emissions, ahead of June’s European parliament elections.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 3, 2022

Ten-point plan in line with Green Deal but IEA does not rule out ramping up coal plants to cut gas dependence. The International Energy Agency today unveiled a 10-point plan which it believes could wean the European Union off Russian gas imports by more than a third by this time next year. Gas as ‘economic and political weapon’.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 29, 2024

While two dozen carbon capture projects are proposed in Louisiana, figuring out exactly where companies plan to inject carbon dioxide underground for storage is a bit of a mystery. These approximate well locations are near where companies plan to inject CO2, as companies will want to test near the final project location.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

That’s because, he says, about six miles from where he found the dolphins dead in the middle of the road, the state of Louisiana plans to build an unprecedented multi-billion river diversion project. The plan is currently under federal environmental review. The massive river diversions planned for Plaquemines and St.

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The Guardian: Energy

OCTOBER 7, 2023

Climate campaigners dismiss government argument that controversial move will improve food security Rishi Sunak plans to restrict the installation of solar panels on swathes of British farmland, which climate campaigners say will raise bills and put the UK’s energy security at risk.

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Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 15, 2021

We hope that political disagreements going forward can now focus on how we do better, rather than on doing less. We were pleasantly surprised to see the Conservative climate plan has its own version of a carbon price and acknowledges the economic efficiency of the policy. s Low Carbon Fuel Standard.

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The Guardian: Energy

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Government plans to deliver SMRs ‘lack clarity’ say environmental committee, and will likely fail to meet clean-energy goal of 2035 MPs have warned that a planned fleet of small nuclear reactors are unlikely to contribute to hitting a key target in decarbonising Britain’s electricity generation, as the government opened talks to buy a site in Wales (..)

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Sustainability Consulting

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Nic Esposito, the former Zero Waste and Litter Director for the city of Philadelphia, sits down to discuss his plans to implement change and introduce zero waste practices. Before assuming this important role, Esposito worked in city planning for years and comes from a farming background.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

New Energy Security and Net Zero Secretary attacks Labour's green investment plans and promises 'pragmatic' approach to decarbonisation, but Tory backbenchers threaten 'political row' over government's own net zero policies

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The Guardian: Energy

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Labour leader says he has been ‘unwavering’ on green plans after party sources suggested policy would be dropped UK politics live – latest updates Keir Starmer has said Labour’s policy pledge to spend £28bn a year on green investment is “desperately needed,” as he re-opened an issue that has become a source of tension in the party.

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The Guardian: Energy

MAY 14, 2024

Cross-party group of 50 calls on prime minister to appoint climate envoy and back Beyond Oil and Gas Alliance A cross-party group of MPs and peers has urged Rishi Sunak to make a U-turn on his oil and gas extraction plans as part of a broader plea to increase efforts to address the climate crisis.

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