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.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The more the city invests in community adaptation, the higher the price tag — in its complaint, the city said it is already spending $188 million on climate projects in low-income communities — and that’s the kind of thing Chicago wants oil companies to help pay for.

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 5, 2021

A green wave is currently surging through the business world in full force, and it’s not expected to let up anytime soon. As a result, there has never been a better time to transform your office into a green workspace. Choose a Green Web Hosting Service for Your Website. The Benefits of Sustainable Business Practices.

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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.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

The move is set to provide the centrepiece of Number 10's much-anticipated 10 point green recovery plan, which is also expected to include fresh support for EV charging infrastructure and a new UK battery gigafactory to boost the EV supply chain.

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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.".

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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.

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Business Green

MAY 29, 2022

Aside from the clear moral imperative underpinning climate action, these are the two key questions which guide almost all green policymaking in the UK, whether in government, finance, or business. per cent GDP boost is on offer to the UK as a result of stimulating investment in green industries and infrastructure.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

It promises good green jobs, regional development, ultimately lower energy bills and enhanced energy security, and improved health and well-being, even before you get to the whole habitable biosphere stuff. When you unpack their manifesto the paucity of it is genuinely staggering. And that's it. The public is not stupid.

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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.

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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. The quicker this happens, the quicker the UK can get to safe, stable, and affordable power for good.".

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Business Green

MAY 18, 2020

For one, Nick Charter, professor of behavioural science at Warwick Business School, suggests the government introduced a 'carbon pound' tagged to all goods and services that would alert consumers to the environmental impact of their purchases and activities.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

But many green solutions and technologies remain out of reach from smaller firms, especially at a time when the rising cost of goods, rent, energy, and staffing threaten to a significant bite out of smaller businesses' revenues and profits. A net zero emission economy cannot be built without them.

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2023

Moreover, this price tag is for capital investments, not costs. Yet even in these economies, public financial institutions will need to play a role in financing specific types of investment, such as first-of-a-kind technology deployments, shared infrastructure (e.g., Again, it sounds like a lot but it is equivalent to around 1.3

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

But the new Prime Minister promised to unveil an emergency plan to support homes and businesses struggling with soaring winter energy bills later this week, while touting a "bold plan to grow the economy through tax cuts and reform" and promising a new surge in infrastructure development. "I

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 12, 2022

But building out LNG infrastructure to address an energy crisis is at odds with governments simultaneously trying to slash emissions to address the climate emergency. The tags quantify the greenhouse gas emissions of a given LNG cargo, with the aim of easing buyers’ concerns. Data Problems Obscure Methane Emissions.

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Business Green

JULY 7, 2021

The UK has embarked on what the government describes as a green industrial revolution, with whole industries, the entire jobs market, every inch of infrastructure and even the banal, minutiae details of our daily lives on the cusp of major transformation. Or is it a billion pound question? Or will it require a cost at all?

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Hydrogen Fuel News

OCTOBER 27, 2023

have announced their intentions to collaborate on the development of a South African hydrogen car infrastructure that will help drive the manufacture and use of the vehicles. While BMW brings the hydrogen car, Sasol will supply green H2 , according to the companies involved in the collaboration. BMW, Sasol Ltd.

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Business Green

MARCH 23, 2022

BusinessGreen rounds up all the reaction from the green economy to the Chancellor Rishi Sunak's mini-budget. The Chancellor should also have committed to an ambitious nationwide energy efficiency programme to deliver warm homes, lower bills and thousands of green jobs - a retrofit revolution fit for the 21 Century.

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Mr. Sustainability

APRIL 18, 2021

This article explores what is needed to build such a green hydrogen refinery. It provides an overview of the existing fossil infrastructure and fuel consumption, which technologies are required to transform, how much it would cost and who are actually working on it. For that we need green hydrogen. Lots of green hydrogen.

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Business Green

MAY 24, 2021

High price tags are sometimes necessary for innovative green technologies, but with biomass, there's a real risk that the UK doesn't get what it's paying for," Ember's COO and lead UK analyst Phil MacDonald warned. Today's report from Ember is unequivocal that BECCS plants carry the risk of becoming net emitters of carbon.

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Business Green

JUNE 24, 2021

Given the huge pressures the UK has faced from Brexit and the Covid-19 pandemic, and the swathes of critical climate policy that has been promised and repeatedly delayed by the government, it will come as little surprise to many in the green economy that the lack of climate policy progress is a major cause for concern for the CCC.

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Mr. Sustainability

APRIL 18, 2021

Transforming this fossil feedstock and the industry behind it requires an immense amount of green hydrogen, in the very least 2GW of renewable energy coming from a windfarm like IJmuiden Ver. This explores what is needed to build a green hydrogen refinery. For that we need green hydrogen. Lots of green hydrogen.

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Business Green

AUGUST 11, 2021

Green group claims only fraction of Budget 2021 has been directed towards climate change mitigation policies, as pressure ramps up Chancellor Rishi Sunak to step up support for net zero transition. The analysis suggests Budget spending on green measures was equivalent to 0.01

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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. However, today's publication of the Energy White Paper marks a significant milestone in the UK's net zero transition, representing the first detailed policy framework to be delivered in support of Johnson's new 'green revolution'.

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Climate Tech VC

JULY 17, 2023

The majority of Denbury’s revenue comes from EOR, which involves injecting CO2 into the ground in order to extend the life of oil fields, and ~60% of the price tag likely covered the value of Denbury’s oil production rather than the CCS infrastructure.

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Business Green

JULY 2, 2021

A raft of corporate green packaging goals are looming - how can they be met? There is still, of course, a very long way to go to eliminate plastic waste, and an urgent need for both investment in recycling infrastructure - and for more attention to reuse. Infrastructure investment is urgently needed.

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Business Green

AUGUST 11, 2021

Green group claims only fraction of Budget 2021 has been directed towards climate change mitigation policies. But a government spokesperson slammed WWF's claims as "misleading", pointing to the £12bn funding behind the Prime Minister's Ten Point Plan for a Green Industial Revolution published last year.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

And to do that, this Green Business Bureau is your guide. The issue with this approach is that an organization’s specific emission reduction efforts aren’t captured, such as the purchasing of green power. Consider the types of data your business needs to capture, and how that data can be tagged and aggregated.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

So although £1.2bn may look like a sizeable price tag, for every £1 invested in it, the government expects the economy to reap £19 in benefits. And it's not as if there haven't been warnings - even ignoring now almost yearly severe flooding events - about the scale of the UK's infrastructural fragility to heavy rainfall.

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Business Green

JANUARY 20, 2021

EV uptake continues to accelerate but price, access to infrastructure and driving range continue to deter many drivers, new analysis from RAC has found. Accordingly, more than half called for increased financial help from the government to help bring green cars within their price range.

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Grist

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Students on Holabird Academy’s Green Team address the crowd at the event on April 21. Federal funding from the 2021 bipartisan infrastructure law has been crucial to this trend, largely because one of the biggest barriers to electrifying school bus fleets is the price tag.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

The measures include plans to ditch or curtail green planning regulations that are sure to upset environmental campaigners and local communities alike. Taking action to get Britain's economy moving again by beginning construction on transport and green infrastructure projects shows immediate delivery.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

A day before the blueprint launch event, the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) sent a report to Congress on carbon capture and its associated infrastructure. It also highlights the possibility that future technologies that could draw carbon dioxide from the air might use the same kinds of underground storage infrastructure.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

Director-general of the clean energy agency offers his thoughts on the energy crisis, green and blue hydrogen, and why renewables must be the priority in the 2020s. On green and blue hydrogen. BusinessGreen was there to listen in on what the self-styled 'good guys' of the global energy transition are currently thinking.

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Climate Tech VC

OCTOBER 23, 2023

⚡ EarthGrid PBC , a Richmond, CA-based plasma boring for grid infrastructure developer, raised $30M in Seed funding and Crowdfunding from NetCapital. Other Fundings ⚡ Novohydrogen , a Golden, CO-based green hydrogen project developer, raised $20M in funding from Modern Energy.  across two new energy funds. 

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Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 7, 2023

Since then, the price tag for the project has since more than doubled and the Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office had to step in to provide additional financing. ⚡ OpConnect , a Tigard, OR-based EV charging infrastructure provider, raised $3M in Series A funding from The 22 Fund.

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