Clean Energy Canada

AUGUST 8, 2023

The effects of the climate crisis could cost Canadians some $700 per year by 2025—a price tag that is expected to double or triple by 2050. billion, in addition to $3 billion of financing support from the Canada Infrastructure Bank. billion in direct support and over $1 billion in financing.

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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. They seem to be placing all of their chips on the new Net Zero Strategy that is planned before COP26.

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Business Green

AUGUST 25, 2021

The CEO of Solar Energy UK sits down with BusinessGreen to discuss the critical role the solar sector must play in the next chapter of the UK's net zero transition. Something that focuses on all zero carbon technologies. We are going to be a solar express over the next decade," he says.

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Business Green

JANUARY 14, 2022

Unlike green or sustainable bonds, funds raised through sustainability-linked bonds are not tagged to a specific use for the proceeds with the funds raised able to be used for general corporate purposes. Ahmed noted that raising funds to deliver projects that would enable the firm's to meet its 2050 net zero ambition remained a challenge.

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Business Green

MARCH 31, 2023

Dr Francisco Souza, managing director of the FSC Indigenous Foundation and an ICVCM Board member, said IPs and LCs have a "vital" role to play in achieving net zero as they protect and manage around 40 per cent of the planet's ecologically intact landscapes.

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Clean Energy Canada

JUNE 26, 2020

Electrifying bus fleets is essential if Canada is to reach net-zero emissions by mid-century. Electric buses are expected to account for two-thirds of all buses and nearly 80 per cent of new bus sales by 2040, according to projections by Bloomberg New Energy Finance. How we get from point A to point B is high on that list.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Authorities are also beginning to take a closer look at greenwashing in finance, by ensuring the brands portraying themselves as sustainable , are exactly that. A hypothetical example would be saying that a diesel car causes zero carbon dioxide emissions. Yet, sometimes a company is guilty of greenwash without knowing it.

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Business Green

JUNE 30, 2020

There is very little announced today which will do anything to accelerate the transition to a zero carbon economy. By 2050, UK families will still be living in 80 per cent of the housing stock that is standing today- already old and in need of refurbishment and retrofitting in order to meet net zero targets," the group said.

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Business Green

MARCH 23, 2022

Keeping the UK on track to meet its net zero emissions target has a key role to play in driving investment and job creation across the country in areas such as electric vehicle manufacturing, offshore wind, insulation and heavy industry. This is a major vote of confidence in net zero, and I welcome the Chancellor's announcement today.

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Fossil fuels Government Investment Energy 36

Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Authorities are also beginning to take a closer look at greenwashing in finance, by ensuring the brands portraying themselves as sustainable , are exactly that. A hypothetical example would be saying that a diesel car causes zero carbon dioxide emissions. Yet, sometimes a company is guilty of greenwash without knowing it.

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Business Energy Monitoring Sustainability Plastics Building Energy Monitoring 78

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. However, WWF is not alone in harbouring concerns about the Treasury's commitment to the net zero agenda, it would appear.

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Climate change Government Policy Hydrogen 68

Business Green

DECEMBER 14, 2020

After several delays spanning at least a year, the government has finally unveiled vision for a future net zero energy system - here are the eight things you need to know about the long-awaited Energy White Paper. Nuclear projects - large, small, and fusion - are part of the net zero vision.

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Business Green

AUGUST 11, 2021

Despite UK government's promises to 'build back greener' and put the nation on a pathway to net zero, only a tiny fraction of the 2021 Budget unveiled earlier this year - equivalent to 0.01 However, WWF is not alone in harbouring concerns about HMT's commitment to net zero, it would appear.

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The Verge: Energy

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Now, more than 90 countries have made commitments to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by roughly the same date. New York Power Authority shelled out the initial $70 million in financing for the first 30,000 heat pumps. That was pretty progressive environmental legislation at the time.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

It is the kind of price tag that is bound to make treasuries baulk and climate sceptic newspaper editors salivate, but the report stressed that the benefits from building a global clean energy system would greatly outweigh the costs. In cumulative terms that amounts to net economic benefits of between $61tr and $164tr by mid-century.

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Hydrogen Energy Energy Fossil fuels 36

Climate Tech VC

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Renewable energy projects are particularly sensitive to interest rates, especially since most require debt to finance a high upfront sticker price for the tech. Renewable assets have a duration of ~30 years and are contracted for the first 10-15 years, but financed with debt at an average maturity of 7 years.   NEM 3.0.

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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. The thinking is that smaller projects create financing, siting, manufacturing, and safety benefits compared to traditional reactors. Subscribe Now

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