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'Net zero is a no regret policy': How climate action could boost UK GDP by 9.1 per cent

Business Green

UK and US researchers have run the numbers on the huge costs of runaway climate change – and the myriad benefits of achieving net zero emissions. How much could climate change impacts cost the UK economy, and how much will it cost the UK to decarbonise and avoid the worst of these impacts? per cent by 2050 rising to 7.4

Policy 101
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How corporate buying power is helping to accelerate the electric vehicle revolution

Business Green

Companies in the UK are leading the way, too. UK members of EV100 have deployed 15,000 EVs throughout their fleets to date, including over 6,500 over the past year alone. Consumer EV sales are also booming in key markets across the UK, Europe, China and the US. The growth rate is bordering on the exponential.

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Trying to make a living on an organic smallholding: Paul Jennings, ‘One-Planet’ smallholder

Low Impact

You know I’m working to help build a mutual credit trading network for the UK. We formed a company, because when we came back to the UK, along with the other people involved with this project, we weren’t looking to form a community – mainly because we were exhausted from trying to find an established community. Did you form a co-op?

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Who Is Going to Clean Up the Scrap Heap in the North Sea?

DeSmogBlog

There is the corrosive smell of burnt steel, mixed with the stench of rotting fish. These steel structures have sometimes been in the sea for 30 to 40 years, and can become lively habitats for marine life. One is folding his grappling machine around an iron container. These yards are already in heavy demand.

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DOE Quietly Backs Plan for Carbon Capture Network Larger Than Entire Oil Pipeline System

DeSmogBlog

Proponents of carbon capture, usage, and sequestration (CCUS) often highlight ways that it could be used for sectors like steel and cement whose carbon pollution is generally considered “hard to abate.” million metric tons (MMT) of CO2 from iron, steel, and metallurgical coke production in 2019 and a nearly equal amount, 40.9

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? Spooky season for clean energy stocks #171

Climate Tech VC

🥩 Moolec Science , a Warwick, UK-based molecular farming developer, raised $30M in Convertible Note funding from Grupo Insud. A consortium of German, UK and French energy component manufacturers alongside 4 European universities demonstrated the world’s first 100% renewable hydrogen gas turbine.