Business Green

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Green number plates are to appear on the UK's roads for the first time from today, as the government looks to accelerate demand for zero emission vehicles ahead of the 2030 ban on the sale of new internal combustion engine cars and vans.

Electric vehicle 101

Electric vehicle Transportation Government Electricity 101

Terra Infirma

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

As the name suggests, an EV battery gigafactory is truly colossal with a price tag to match – we’re talking billions rather than millions. A couple of years a go a business associate asked me whether I would join with him to pitch our joint services to the proposed Britishvolt gigafactory in Blyth, just a few miles up the road.

Batteries 56

Batteries Government Investment Demand 56

Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

“Greenwashing involves companies either misleading consumers about the green credentials of a product or service, or misleading consumers about the environmental performance of a company as a whole.” – Dr. Aoife Brophy , Research Lecturer at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment at the University of Oxford.

Business Energy Monitoring 148

Business Energy Monitoring Sustainability Plastics Building Energy Monitoring 148

Business Green

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Exclusive: Research from Nesta points to major savings heat pump deployment can deliver for the UK economy, the government, and consumers as gas prices continue to soar. per cent of the nation's GDP, according to the report.

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Government Fossil fuels Electricity Climate change 68

Business Green

OCTOBER 23, 2020

SMMT warns 'no-deal' Brexit would undermine UK green recovery and net zero vision by heaping costs onto electric car manufacturing. As these figures show, 'no deal' tariffs will put the brakes on the UK's green recovery, hampering progress towards net zero and threatening the future of the UK industry.". "As

Electric vehicle 91

Electric vehicle Automotive Transportation Government 91

Mr. Sustainability

MARCH 17, 2021

Summary - Saudi Arabia is building a $5 billion plant called Helios to make green fuel for export and decrease the country’s dependence on petrodollars. million tons per year of green ammonia. million tons per year of green ammonia. The inspiration for this article is Bloomberg Green, click here to check it out.

Hydrogen 148

Hydrogen Carbon-neutral Pollution Real Estate 148

Mosaic

MAY 18, 2021

Home improvement financing options may not be the first way you think of to help homeowners go green for their next project. Homeowners Are Willing to Spend for Green. Those upgrades can be critical to improving a home’s energy efficiency—and often come with a higher price tag. Affordable” Is a Relative Term.

HVAC 75

HVAC Energy Energy Cooling 75

Business Green

JUNE 30, 2020

Prime Minister to reaffirm tree-planting plans as part of £5bn 'New Deal' style recovery package, but green campaigners fear 'false start' as key funding announcements still yet to be confirmed. Unfortunately, the PM seems to have got off to false start.

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Packaging Government Investment Fossil fuels 92

Business Green

MARCH 21, 2023

Major new report from Energy Transition Commission concludes bridging the net zero investment gap is a 'manageable macroeconomic challenge' How much will it cost to build a net zero emission economy? Moreover, this price tag is for capital investments, not costs. Again, it sounds like a lot but it is equivalent to around 1.3

Investment 57

Investment Fossil fuels Policy Carbon 57

Business Green

MAY 26, 2022

Building decarbonisation is critical to delivering a net zero Britain, but neither the Treasury nor Scottish government have set out a vision for how a mass green homes retrofit programme could be funded, writes Glasgow Caledonian University’s Keith Baker.

Climate change 91

Climate change Government Fossil fuels Construction 91

Business Green

MAY 23, 2021

As we all look to the hopeful end of the global Covid-19 pandemic and make plans to return to the 'new normal', many countries are struggling to fund the relief and recovery packages needed to get their economies back on track. Difficulties around resource intensive budget tagging and project identification could also be avoided.

Sustainability 85

Sustainability Government Resilience Policy 85

Business Green

DECEMBER 6, 2021

BloombergNEF warns steelmakers to prepare for major green transformation, as cost of shifting from coal to hydrogen and scrap metal could be far cheaper than previously thought. Green hydrogen will become the cheapest production method for steel, taking up 31 per cent of the market.

Hydrogen 80

Hydrogen Recycling Recycling Fossil fuels 80

Business Green

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

They've argued against net zero goals on the grounds no other countries have them, only to watch 90 per cent of the global economy adopt such targets. In contrast, the net zero agenda is not some magic salve for all the UK's woes, but it does at least speak to the needs of a 21st century economy and the concerns of the public.

Politics 69

Politics Policy Global warming Fossil fuels 69

Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

“Greenwashing involves companies either misleading consumers about the green credentials of a product or service, or misleading consumers about the environmental performance of a company as a whole.” – Dr. Aoife Brophy , Research Lecturer at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment at the University of Oxford.

Business Energy Monitoring 78

Business Energy Monitoring Sustainability Plastics Building Energy Monitoring 78

Business Green

JULY 7, 2021

The Office for Budgetary Responsibility has offered some of the most detailed estimates to date on the costs and savings that would result from decarbonising the UK economy by 2050. In short, it estimates the net cost to the UK economy of achieving its net zero goal at £321bn over the next 30 years.

Climate change 77

Climate change Government Policy Carbon 77

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Liz Truss has promised to transform the UK into an "aspiration nation" characterised by tax cuts, regulatory reform, and business-led growth and investments in her first speech as Prime Minister, as she touted boosting the economy, tackling the worsening energy crisis and supporting the NHS as the top three priorities for her new government.

Energy 67

Energy Energy Packaging Government 67

Business Green

JANUARY 11, 2023

World Economic Forum and Boston Consulting Group warn that despite growing demand for green products, supply chain risks pose a major threat to the net zero transition. It warns of looming "green scarcity" in many sectors as incumbent markets and producers struggle to ramp up supplies of green products to meet rapidly growing demand.

Demand 36

Demand Technology Plastics Carbon 36

Mr. Sustainability

MARCH 17, 2021

Summary - Saudi Arabia is building a $5 billion plant called Helios to make green fuel for export and decrease the country’s dependence on petrodollars. million tons per year of green ammonia. million tons per year of green ammonia. The inspiration for this article is Bloomberg Green, click here to check it out.

Hydrogen 78

Hydrogen Carbon-neutral Pollution Real Estate 78

Business Green

MAY 20, 2021

Over a third of respondents - 38 per cent - said they were unlikely to buy an EV in the next five years, with 59 per cent citing costly price tags, while 38 per cent raised concerns about short battery life and range anxiety, and 36 per cent worried about having nowhere to charge up their EV close to home.

Electric vehicle 68

Electric vehicle Electricity Climate change Fossil fuels 68

Business Green

JUNE 4, 2020

Covid-19 has highlighted the shortcomings of our food supply chains, but technology can help, argues Green Alliance's Imogen Cripps. Through Green Alliance's Tech Task Force programme, we've already investigated the transformative potential of smart green tech in the energy efficiency, transport and construction sectors.

Technology 67

Technology Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring 67

Business Green

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

A net zero emission economy cannot be built without them. A net zero emission economy cannot be built without them. That estimated $100,000 price tag for putting firms on a more resilient pathway looks like increasingly good value. Such investments need not break the bank.

Resilience 36

Resilience Agriculture Investment Technology 36

Business Green

AUGUST 16, 2021

The spectacular decline in renewable energy technology costs over the last decade has established the sector as the linchpin of the country's decarbonisation drive, offering a potential template for how government and industry can work together to scale green technologies that can decarbonise the economy.

Fossil fuels 90

Fossil fuels Hydrogen Demand Carbon 90

Business Green

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Nissan's strategy also included a raft of plans to scale up battery innovation, production, supply chains, and even recycling worldwide in order to drive down manufacturing costs, and ultimately push down the price tags for consumers. To deliver its new targets, Nissan said it would need to hire 3,000 more staff.

Global warming 39

Global warming Batteries Automotive Technology 39

Business Green

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Nissan's strategy also included a raft of plans to scale up battery innovation, production, supply chains, and even recycling worldwide in order to drive down manufacturing costs, and ultimately push down the price tags for consumers. To deliver its new targets, Nissan said it would need to hire 3,000 more staff.

Global warming 39

Global warming Batteries Automotive Technology 39

Business Green

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

Green businesses contend the social media giant's policies are treating their adverts in the same way as campaigns from 'dark money' funded lobbyists, undermining the timeliness and effectiveness of their marketing messages in the process. Fidler's experience does not appear to be unique.

Climate change 84

Climate change Politics Policy Energy 84

Business Green

JUNE 10, 2021

In fact, the reverse is true, and often by a large margin: globally, government subsidies for fossil fuels are tagged at more than $440bn per year, according to IEA (International Energy Agency) estimates. It may seem paradoxical, but renewables only see a fractional 20 per cent of the subsidies paid to the energy sector.

Fossil fuels 42

Fossil fuels Pollution Transportation Wind power 42

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

As green groups slam the government's 'attack on nature', the opposition is this week seeking to make bolder climate action central to its offer to the country. Labour's new green energy policy is a case in point. We know business can't operate like that.

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Government Policy Climate change Fossil fuels 69

Business Green

JUNE 24, 2021

And since 2018, the Committee has beefed up its analysis and advice, judging the government's efforts against the legally-binding, overarching goal to transition one of the world's largest economies to net zero emissions by 2050. Delivering net zero remains an affordable and attractive investment.

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Government Policy COP Carbon 62

Business Green

MAY 18, 2020

An essay collection published late last week by centre right think tank Bright Blue and professional services firm WSP argued the government should prioritise market-based reforms over vast public spending programmes as it works toward delivering on its net zero goal in the wake of the coronavirus crisis that has devastated the economy.

Policy 72

Policy Government Packaging Transportation 72

Business Green

AUGUST 26, 2022

The impact of droughts, storms, and rising sea levels on economies and institutions that are in no way prepared for the ensuing fall out following decades of under investment and worsening inequality was always going to unleash a new era of instability. At the grand historic level, it was always likely to be this way.

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Government Energy Energy Demand 90

Business Green

JUNE 6, 2022

BusinessGreen gets a behind-the-scenes look at the fast fashion company's new green range. But how will this drive change the look, feel, and price tag of items on sale on high streets and fashion sites? We can trial it in small quantities and prove that it works," she said. "We

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Fashion Retail Recycling Recycling 36

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

However, there remains no indication as to how the proposed moratorium on green levies will work, with the Truss campaign having repeatedly failed to confirm whether the levies would simply be suspended or whether the schemes they fund would instead be paid for through general taxation. This is a tough time for the economy," he warned.

Energy 69

Energy Energy Packaging Government 69

Business Green

JANUARY 21, 2021

Yet without action to get to net zero emissions across every corner of the global economy, the planet's climate will continue to warm. Investing in emerging green manufacturing systems would not necessarily have a huge knock-on impact on consumer prices, according to the report. However, such costs are often overestimated.

Carbon 71

Carbon Demand Recycled materials Investment 71

Low Impact

JUNE 7, 2020

Yeah, that works, except for when your domestic economy is leaking rent or interest, out of the community. Because of our financial situation, I can’t enter into that, because we have money leaking out of our household economy. In the end, what hampers the development of a co-operative economy is the existence of capitalism.

Organic 75

Organic Politics Policy Retail 75

Business Green

MARCH 23, 2022

BusinessGreen rounds up all the reaction from the green economy to the Chancellor Rishi Sunak's mini-budget. Increasing investment in these areas is not only essential to improve the UK economy's productivity, but also to accelerate low carbon investment in key sectors like energy, transport, heavy industry and buildings.".

Fossil fuels 36

Fossil fuels Government Investment Energy 36

Business Green

AUGUST 25, 2021

Meanwhile, the government's abrupt decision earlier this year to prematurely axe its flagship home retrofit grant scheme, the Green Homes Grant, underscored how the sector's days of being buffeted by shock policy decisions may be far from over. But at the same time, the industry still faces major challenges.

Energy 69

Energy Energy Government Carbon-neutral 69

Hydrogen Fuel News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Plug Power Inc has announced its intentions to start the production of liquid green hydrogen in Georgia before the end of this year. The renewable energy used to power the green hydrogen production will be sourced at a local rural electric cooperative. The fuel will be used by the transportation sector. per kilogram.

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Hydrogen Natural gas Methane Transportation 94