Business Green

JULY 27, 2021

The Sun also reported the Treasury has rejected proposals for a 'carbon dividend' that would see low income households given an annual rebate to cover the cost of higher gas bills that would result from the introduction of carbon pricing.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

There are conflicting reports as to the potential price tag attached to such a policy, with various commentators putting the cost at between £90bn and potentially as high as £200bn, depending on various factors such as the on-going price of gas and how long the cap remains in place.

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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

JUNE 24, 2021

Silence from the Treasury opens the door to climate action 'naysayers'. As ever, the CCC's assessment of the potential costs of net zero offers a powerful tonic to the loud minority of political and media commentators who have taken to bemoaning the price tags attached to the projects that can help avoid catastrophic climate impacts.

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Business Green

AUGUST 11, 2021

WWF has today published a new analysis of the Treasury's fiscal plans, warning the UK's most recent Budget "doesn't add up" if the government is to make good on its climate promises. 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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Business Green

AUGUST 11, 2021

WWF has claimed the UK's latest Budget "doesn't add up" if the government is to make good on its climate promises, as the environmental group today unveiled fresh analysis of the Treasury's fiscal plans. percent of the country's GDP - has been directed towards climate change mitigation policies, the charity said.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

To bring down bills we need to use less gas by investing in insulating homes, a measure which could be cost neutral to the Treasury given it will spend billions on the price cap freeze. The huge price-tag for this unprecedented intervention lays bare the cost of our reliance on volatile and expensive gas.

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Business Green

MARCH 23, 2022

Slashing VAT on energy saving materials and installation will help families afford these improvements and cut their energy costs permanently, saving the Treasury money in the long run by dealing with one of the root causes of fuel poverty.".

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Business Green

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Recent weeks have seen a new 2030 emissions target, the National Infrastructure Strategy, the Treasury's Spending Review, the confirmation of an end to overseas financing of fossil fuel infrastructure, and, of course, Boris Johnson's Ten Point Plan for a Green Industrial Revolution.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 30, 2020

Recently, President Trump and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin both made clear their intentions to include some sort of bailout for the oil and gas industry as part of the federal government’s emergency economic response to the coronavirus pandemic. Originally published on Drilled News.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Boosting the ECO scheme could well end up being cost neutral on Treasury with insulation cutting gas demand and so the overall price tag of the bailout. As the Treasury-commissioned Dasgupta review into the economics of biodiversity showed, economic prosperity also requires a healthy natural environment, however.

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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.

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Climate Tech VC

OCTOBER 23, 2023

  The S&P Global Clean Energy and MAC Global Solar Energy indexes have swiftly dropped ~30% YTD , as the US 10 year treasury yield soared to above 5%.  Now,  demand has quickly fallen off amidst the rapid run up in interest rates and supply / demand imbalances. 

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