Business Green

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Harriet Jameson, director of social value at the global lottery operator, explains how the firm has laid the foundations for a 'world first' net zero National Lottery in the UK

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FuelCellsWorks

DECEMBER 14, 2023

DNV is the lead partner for National Gas Transmission (NGT) in further expanding a world first hydrogen pipeline research facility FutureGrid. NGT was awarded two Strategic Innovation Funded (SIF) projects.

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TechXplore

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Britain's aviation regulator announced Monday it has issued Virgin Atlantic with a permit for a "world-first" transatlantic flight powered entirely by sustainable aviation fuels (SAF).

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Business Green

JANUARY 2, 2024

National Grid switches on record-breaking £1.7bn interconnectorr, which stretches 475 miles between UK and Denmark

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Business Green

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The UK’s strong tidal resource offers an opportunity develop 11.5GW of tidal stream power capacity, explains RenewableUK's Nathan Bennett. It was a landmark moment for the sector and the world. The same company is actively exploring opportunities in Indonesia, the world's fourth most populated nation formed of 17,500 islands.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

The North Sea Link is set to be operational by the end of 2021, allowing UK to import enough clean electricity got up to 1.4 Known as an 'interconnector', the subsea cable passing through Norwegian and British waters, will be the longest subsea power cable in the world, when operational in 2021. million homes. million homes.

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Business Green

JANUARY 26, 2021

The consensus that climate change is a global emergency is more broad in the UK than any other nation in the world, according to the results of a major new poll that is being touted by the United Nations as the largest ever survey to explore public opinion on climate action.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

The UK is leading progress to tackle the world's food waste mountain and has already covered half the distance towards meeting the UN Sustainable Development Goal to halve global waste by 2030, according to the latest report from campaign group WRAP and analysis from the action on food waste coalition Champions 12.3.

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Business Green

JUNE 3, 2021

The UK has already announced a ban on the sale of new diesel and petrol cars by 2030 and will review whether plug-in hybrid vehicles can be sold until 2035. When it comes to pioneering electric vehicles, it is clear that the UK should follow the example set by California. A ZEV mandate, however, puts the cost on manufacturers.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

A new research collaboration brings together researchers and industrialists from the UK and Japan to explore novel ways to detect and dispose of radioactive nuclear debris. This is the first UKRI award through the International Science Partnerships Fund (ISPF) which was launched by Science Minister George Freeman in Japan in December.

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Business Green

AUGUST 25, 2021

Sheet glass has been produced using hydrogen fuel at a plant near Liverpool, in an achievement that has been touted by developers as a world first and a major milestone in industrial manufacturing's transition towards net zero emissions. The achievement is believed to be the first full-scale, 100 per cent hydrogen trial on a float glass line.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 8, 2020

This investment programme is going to breathe life into the UK economy - it's as much an economic policy as a climate policy, particularly over the next 10 years as we recover from the pandemic'. The investment programme is going to breathe life into the UK economy," said Stark. "So

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2022

Six-an-a-half tonnes of sustainably-grown leaf-based salads, leafy herbs, and other fresh produce could be supplied to UK supermarkets every day thanks to plans to create the world's largest vertical farm at a site in Norfolk.

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Business Green

AUGUST 3, 2022

Last month, the High Court held the UK government's net-zero strategy to be unlawful, ordering it to produce an updated climate strategy showing how it will meet its own climate targets. This coincided with a new record temperature in the UK of over 40C which led to the London Fire Brigade having their busiest day since the Second World War.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 6, 2020

The initial site has been funded by GRIDSERVE, Hitachi Capital (UK) PLC, Innovate UK, and OZEV and forms part of the company's wider 'sun-to-wheel' strategy, which aims to integrate charge points with onsite solar panels and a network of hybrid solar farms.

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Business Green

MARCH 7, 2022

UK may look to domestic oil and gas sources to reduce reliance on Russia in short term, but Prime Minister insists government will not be abandoning net zero transition. You can see how this will encourage the world to go for green solutions wherever possible. We've got to make sure we've got substitute supply.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

The warning came from the Green Technical Advisory Group (GTAG), which has been appointed to advise the government on the design and implementation of the UK's Green Taxonomy that aims to clarify which investments and assets qualify as sustainable. But the UK must act now."

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Business Green

JUNE 8, 2022

RenewableUK hails UK potential to make floating wind a century-defining industrial success. A new Floating Offshore Wind Task Force has been launched by trade body RenewableUK to help the UK "seize world leadership" in the innovative technologies that underpin floating wind farm developments.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

UNECE-backed research hub established following seven-figure funding award for UCL, Brunel, Exeter, and Swansea universities and the British Geological Survey

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MAY 25, 2021

The North Sea has long been a powerhouse of the UK's economy and there are understandable fears the projected decline of the oil and gas sector over the coming decades could deliver a major blow to communities, supply chains, and workers sustained by the country's offshore fossil fuel industry.

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Fossil fuels Hydrogen Carbon Government 76

Envirotec Magazine

JULY 4, 2022

Presented as a key milestone in the UK’s race to meet its net zero targets, a new Carbon Capture and Usage (CCU) plant has been opened in Northwich, Cheshire by Tata Chemicals Europe. The process is patented in the UK with further patents pending in key territories around the world.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Chancellor Rishi Sunak will tomorrow set out plans to establish the UK as "the world's first net zero aligned financial centre", while welcoming new data that indicates financial firms with $130tr of assets have now set emissions goals in line with the Paris Agreement.

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Business Green

JULY 11, 2022

The UK could set an example for how industry and government can work together to rapidly decarbonise industrial emissions, writes UK Steel's Frank Aaskov. Steel enables the low-carbon economy and will be indispensable to reaching the UK's net zero target. The UK steel sector is responsible for about 12MtCO2e or 2.9

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FuelCellsWorks

MARCH 20, 2024

World-first development phase for offshore hydrogen production and transportation leads to new UK regulatory regime. A world-leading innovation. HT1 Project catalyses rapid industry progress in offshore hydrogen transportation and storage.

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Hydrogen Transportation Innovation Europe 116

Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 25, 2024

The UK government has announced a delay to the scheduled October 2025 start date of a UK-wide Deposit Return Scheme (DRS), which will now roll back to October 2027. Moore said he believed “including glass in any UK DRS will create undue complexity for the drinks industry and it increases storage and handling costs for retailers”.

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Business Green

AUGUST 21, 2019

The Prime Minister is right to say the UK has some of the most ambitious environmental legislation in the world, but as a new report reveals many of those rules are going unenforced.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 14, 2023

Researchers say they are using artificial intelligence to develop better microorganism-led processes that efficiently digest materials such as food waste, wastewater and animal manure to help boost the UK’s burgeoning biogas industry. million grant by UK Research and Innovation.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Billed as a world-first smart transformer trial, UK Power Network’s Project Stratus will see smart electricity transformers installed within existing substations at Uckfield and New Romney in East Sussex which, if successful, will provide live data on electricity usage and demand, “on a scale never-before achieved.”

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Business Green

JANUARY 9, 2024

per cent as capital remains world's slowest city to drive through, according to TomTom Traffic Index CO2 impact of London’s petrol vehicles rises 1.5

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Carbon 78

Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 12, 2022

A new report sets out to explain – in direct terms – why the UK Government’s current Net Zero Strategy (NZS) falls significantly short on ambition if Britain is serious about limiting warming to 1.5°C. The UK Government itself has warned that if we allow warming to rise above 1.5°C,

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 26, 2024

It appears to find that countries not adhering to the current World Health Organisation (WHO) recommended limits on the levels of arsenic in water are putting around 32 per cent of the global population – particularly those from low and middle-income countries – at risk of serious health issues. parts per billion) as a control.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Permutable AI , an award-winning UK start-up in the field of ESG data, has been awarded a grant by the UK’s innovation agency Innovate UK, to improve accuracy in predicting the world’s CO2 emissions trajectory. Most large company carbon emissions come from their supply chains and the SMEs in them.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 21, 2022

The Royal Mint has announced plans to build a “world first” plant in South Wales to recover gold from UK electronic waste. When fully operational in 2023, The Royal Mint says it expects to process up to 90 tonnes of UK-sourced circuit boards per week – generating hundreds of kilograms of gold per year.

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FuelCellsWorks

MARCH 6, 2024

A group of UK aerospace and academic leaders have joined together to establish HyFIVE, a consortium that will develop a world-leading hydrogen fuel system and supply chain supporting zero-emission aviation.

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Hydrogen Aviation Europe 128

Global Renewable News

JANUARY 31, 2024

Highlights Agreement facilitates Tootbus' end-to-end sustainability mission and is forecast to achieve carbon-emissions savings of 15,567kg per year. By 2029,Tootbus will have converted ov.

Carbon 52

Carbon Sustainability 52

Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 29, 2024

Europump (the European Pump Association) is staging its 2024 Annual Meeting in the UK. The first of these invited speakers to be announced is Stephen Phipson CBE, Chief Executive at Make UK. In a somewhat timely fashion, the implications of the impending General Election in the UK will also be considered.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The researchers used mandatory annual vehicle inspections – the MOT tests familiar to all in the UK – of all 65 million used vehicles on British roads between 2005 and 2021 to compare the pollution and emissions intensity of vehicles exported to those scrapped, destroyed, or driven in the UK.

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