Business Green

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Clean transport advocates point out £30bn price tag for railway electrification is in the same ball park as budget for road building. That is despite HMT unveiling its hotly-anticipated Net Zero Review earlier in the autumn, which concluded that "global action to mitigate climate change is essential to long-term UK prosperity".

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Business Green

JUNE 30, 2020

This statement today is about putting shovels in the ground, but there is no point in that in the long term if it digs the UK deeper into trouble. However, Labour's Shadow Chancellor Anneliese Dodds warned the government's decision not to deliver a full Budget until the autumn risks jeopardising any recovery.

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Business Green

MARCH 23, 2022

Green Party MP for Brighton Pavilion Caroline Lucas, said: "With the triple threat of a climate, energy and cost of living crisis gripping the nation, we needed transformative action from the Chancellor today - yet this Statement feels like a damp squib. "We

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Business Green

DECEMBER 14, 2020

To describe autumn 2020 as a busy period for green economy policy in the UK would be an understatement. Previous unconfirmed reports have estimated a price tag for the Sizewell project of between £16-20bn. How to get the project to a position where it can be green lit remains the subject of intense debate.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

All the top reaction from leading business figures, politicians, campaigners and experts to Kwasi Kwarteng's first major fiscal statement as Chancellor. Today the Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng delivered his first major fiscal statement since moving into 11 Downing Street earlier this month.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 6, 2021

deals to sell natural gas this winter carry a price tag that’s roughly double or triple the costs in recent years , with a few traders placing bets that U.S. European natural gas prices skyrocketed in the autumn of 2021, drawing a comparison to the similarly shaped graphs of greenhouse gas levels (in ppm) surging over the past century.

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