Business Green

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Temperate rainforests once stretched across much of the UK, but the habitat has been decimated over the centuries and now covers less than one per cent of the country. Amanda Blanc, Aviva Group CEO, said the investor was proud to play a role in re-establishing temperate rainforests in the UK. Aviva's approach meets our high standards."

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Business Green

JANUARY 20, 2023

In comments made at the Davos Summit earlier this week, Starmer said investment in new oil and gas fields in British waters would end under a Labour government. However, oil and gas industry trade body Offshore Energies UK (OEUK) warned Starmer's comments would undermine investment and jeopardise UK energy security. "We

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Fossil fuels Government Investment Carbon 68

Business Green

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Proposals for a new opencast mine in Newcastle that would have seen hundreds of thousands of tonnes of coal and fireclay extracted for use in UK steel, cement and brick manufacturing have been unanimously rejected by the city council over environmental concerns.

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Business Green

JANUARY 4, 2023

Legal action to be launched against government's controversial decision to green light plans for a new coking coal mine in Cumbria. The steel industry is under no illusion that it must decarbonise if we're to meet our climate goals, which calls into doubt the long-term viability of the mine and the jobs used to justify it.".

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Business Green

DECEMBER 5, 2022

However, Number 10 this week faced a counter-rebellion which saw a group of 24 MPs led by former Energy Minister John Hayes write to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to warn that allowing new onshore wind developments could undermine the UK's food security.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

In a decision hailed by campaigners as a hugely significant climate milestone for the UK, the government has again blocked plans for a controversial open cast coal mine in England's North East. The UK government has finally acted on its own words regarding emissions and stopped a new opencast coal mine," Harris said.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

The UK electric vehicle rollout has secured a boost today, with the government announcing its On-Street Residential Chargepoint Scheme will continue for another year, providing a £20m cash injection for the country's EV charging infrastructure.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 25, 2021

The UK’s annual budget was announced last week by Chancellor Rishi Sunak revealing more government support for the UK’s wind industry. The budget announcement included the unveiling of a £20 million programme designed to support the development of floating offshore wind technology across the UK.

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Business Green

MARCH 30, 2023

A notable omission from the shortlist is Drax's proposed bioenergy and carbon capture and storage (BECCS) project, which aims to significantly reduce the climate impact of the UK's largest power plant. Kintore will be a flagship project for Statera. Today, huge progress has been made," he said. "We

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The Department for Transport today confirmed an additional £56m in public and industry funding is to be made available to deliver up to 2,400 new chargepoints in the near term. The transition to electric vehicles remains one of the most pressing challenges of our generation.

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Investment Electric vehicle North America Government 41

Business Green

JUNE 22, 2021

It follows the news last week that carmaker Volvo has inked a deal with SSAB to purchase steel made from hydrogen-reduced iron at the Luleå HYBRIT demonstration plant, which is also being backed by the Swedish Energy Agency. "It At the same time, it creates new jobs and export successes.".

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Business Green

MARCH 3, 2021

As had been widely trailed , Sunak confirmed the government's new National Infrastructure Bank is to be backed by £12bn in initial capital and £10bn in government guarantees, in a bid to unlock as much as £40bn of private finance in support of Downing Street's 'levelling up' agenda and net zero emission goals.

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Investment Government Carbon Electric vehicle 93

Business Green

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Ofgem has this morning announced fresh funding awards for two cutting edge projects designed to slash emissions from the UK's energy systems. Construction is expected to start next year with testing beginning in 2022 at DNV GL's site in Spadeadam, Cumbria. National Grid confirmed it is to proceed with a £9.2m

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Business Green

AUGUST 11, 2021

The consultation comes ahead of the anticipated passage of the Environment Bill this autumn, which lays out a raft of measures to protect the environment, including the adoption of legally binding targets for enhancing biodiversity and expanding tree cover in the UK.

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Business Green

JUNE 21, 2022

In related news, the Guardian reported today that it has seen draft proposals to create five new highly protected marine areas in UK waters in which fishing would be banned.

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Biodiversity Carbon-negative Packaging Soil 36

Business Green

MARCH 18, 2021

Metal and minerals, food and drink, paper and pump, ceramics, glass and oil refineries are responsible for 16 per cent of the UK's emissions, according to government statistics, and as such decarbonising these industries is critical if the UK is to meet its 2050 net zero ambition. Carbon prices should keep climbing.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 21, 2022

This has been a year of three UK Prime Ministers, the first since 1852 (I gift you that pub quiz question). The good news for the end of the year is that we now have a functioning government, not one lurching from crisis to crisis. We have also had three Business Secretaries, three Environment Secretaries and four Chancellors.

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Politics Government COP Policy 41

Business Green

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

New study from Social Market Foundation warns of urgent need to recruit and train an 'army of plumbers' to deliver on the UK's heat pump goals. Amy Norman, senior researcher at SMF, said the switch to heat pumps should also be seen as a means of reducing the UK's exposure to surging wholesale gas prices.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 1, 2022

The campaign launched today alongside the results of a new YouGov poll of more than 8,000 adults conducted ahead of last week's mini-budget, which revealed that 81 per cent of UK adults believe nature is under threat and that more needs to be done to protect and restore it.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Such concerns remain widespread, but there is also a recognition that nearly a year on from Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine and Russia's weaponisation of energy supplies, the UK government is very belatedly starting to mirror some of the energy security measures that have been rapidly deployed across much of Europe in recent months.

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Energy Energy Government Policy 36

Business Green

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Rishi Sunak is set to perform a major U-turn on controversial planning restrictions for onshore wind and solar farms, in a move that could help unleash billions of pounds of new investment and significantly bolster UK energy security. Whether deployment speeds up will now come down to the detail of the planning rule changes.".

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

What could it all mean for the UK's energy and climate policy going forward, particularly with the government under pressure to publish a revamped Net Zero Strategy before the end of next month? Tony Danker, director general of the CBI, said: A Dept for Energy Security and Net Zero is big news.

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Energy Energy Government Policy 36

The Guardian: Energy

MARCH 1, 2024

Michael Gove said UK needed coal to make steel, but business department papers drafted around same time say it will not Previously unseen documents have emerged that appear to contradict the government’s case for a new coalmine in Cumbria. Continue reading.

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The Guardian: Energy

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

National Audit Office to examine risks and costs at nuclear waste site in Cumbria Britain’s public spending watchdog has launched an investigation into risks and costs at Sellafield, the UK’s biggest nuclear waste dump.

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Waste Waste Nuclear Power Energy 81

The Guardian: Energy

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

UK’s coal-hungry blast furnaces likely to be replaced, making economic case for mine ‘dead in the water’ says local MP News of the likely closure of the UK’s steel blast furnaces has prompted calls for the government to reconsider approval for a controversial Cumbrian coalmine that had been planned to supply the industry.

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The Guardian: Energy

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Other countries are using the UK as an excuse for pressing ahead with fossil fuel projects despite their climate commitments, according to Adair Turner, the first chair of the Committee on Climate Change and a former head of the CBI.

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Fossil fuels Climate change Government Politics 93

Business Green

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Reports suggest Number 10 is considering a radical overhaul of the UK's carbon taxes in a bid to spark global climate action ahead of COP26 Summit. Number 10 has instructed every department in government to propose a price for carbon emissions, in a move that could provide the basis for a major extension of the UK's carbon tax regime.

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Business Green

AUGUST 2, 2021

The overwhelming political consensus in support of the UK's world leading net zero targets suddenly looks to be more fragile than at any point in recent years, while the preparations for the critical COP26 Climate Summit are said to be subject to increasingly acrimonious turf wars within Whitehall.

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Business Green

JULY 7, 2022

Most notably, the government had been due to announce its final decision on whether to give the green light to controversial plans for a new coal mine in Cumbria today - a decision that has now been postponed amidst the ongoing confusion over when the Prime Minister will step down and who might succeed him.

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Government Policy Climate change Politics 81

Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2022

New £20m funding competition announced in same week as plans for Manchester hydrogen hub secures planning approval, but industry warns policy framework still needs to be delivered. The new funding will also look to build on a previous competition earlier this year which saw over £2.6m

Hydrogen 36

Hydrogen Government Transportation Policy 36

Business Green

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

"Climate change means we must redouble our efforts and over the next six years we are investing a record £5.2bn to build 2,000 new flood and coastal defences which will better protect another 336,000 properties," Defra said.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

The biggest threat we now face is not climate denial but climate delay including from the UK government. These are not freak events - as the Met Office warned last month, flash floods & extreme temperatures are the new normal in the UK. In the UK, we need the policy to match the ambition the government has already shown.".

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Sea level rise Climate change Fossil fuels Government 83

DeSmogBlog

MAY 26, 2023

A majority of GB News hosts attacked climate action on the channel in 2022, while one in three spread climate science denial, a DeSmog analysis can reveal. Broadcaster GB News has faced criticism for spreading anti-green messages to millions of viewers since its launch in June 2021. Adapted image.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

In the age of social media, fake news and clickbait journalism this is to be expected: it applies to everything, not just water. There is bad news and good news, myth and fact. First, the bad news: our waters are nowhere near the condition we want. 25 per cent of homes in the UK are located above former coal mines.

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Pollution Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Climate change 31

DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 19, 2021

” But the Bassetlaw MP – a Brexiter who was a member of his local Vote Leave campaign – received £3,000 ahead of the 2019 general election from IM Group , a UK import-export business whose automotive wing International Motors Ltd boasts of working with “some of the largest vehicle manufacturers” in China. Cost of Net Zero’.

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Business Green

APRIL 1, 2021

Even so, the UK remains under significant pressure to orchestrate the diplomatic breakthroughs required to finalise the rulebook for the Paris Agreement and unlock a new wave of ambitious climate action, and Sharma's tone at the virtual IEA-COP26 meeting yesterday appeared to strike an increase in urgency towards the task at hand.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Boris Johnson’s reshuffle has dominated the news this week – but what does it mean for government policy on climate change? In a statement yesterday, Deirdre Michie, CEO of Oil & Gas UK said the trade body looked forward to working with Hands on implementing the North Sea Transition Deal. No change.).

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Global warming Climate change Policy Government 89