Business Green

JANUARY 18, 2021

Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, and Global Witness have all raised concerns about the creeping reliance on unproven carbon removal methods in companies' decarbonisation strategies, but some scientists maintain carbon capture is essential if net zero goals are to be met.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 12, 2022

UK energy utility Drax has unveiled plans to build the world’s largest carbon capture facility with the goal of removing more CO2 from the atmosphere than it produces, and thereby securing “carbon negative” status. Any UK Government climate plan that relies on BECCS at Drax is extremely high-risk.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Previous work established the carbon negative position of the business and this paper now sets out the additional greenhouse gas savings that could arise from future activities. Bath University’s research not only validates those efforts but reinforces our vision to improve our already fantastic carbon credentials.”.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Professor Peter Taylor and Alice Garvey from the University of Leeds set out the challenges and policy requirements for decarbonising heavy industry which they included in a recent report commissioned by the CCC. Here, lead authors of the report Professor Peter Taylor and Alice Garvey set out the main findings.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 29, 2020

.'s largest-ever solar project, received its government planning approvals this week. The developers say they will not seek any government subsidy and will not participate in the contracts for difference (CFD) auction next year. ” Government auction? Despite a reputation for gray skies, the U.K.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Those are just a tiny fraction of the furious responses to the government's decision to approve plans for the UK's first new deep coal mine in 30 years. I've been writing about the UK climate policy landscape for 15 years and I genuinely can't recall a reaction like it. Where does this rank in the halls of climate policy infamy?

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Business Green

JULY 7, 2021

The government must ensure fairness underpins the transition to net zero, MPs on the BEIS Committee warn. The government has yet to respond as promised to the Assembly's recommendations, which were set out in a report to Parliament last autumn.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 6, 2020

The new ‘OxAria’ study started on 1st July, extending an existing collaboration which has enabled five low-cost air pollution sensors to be installed at city centre locations, generating real-time information on key air pollutants, including nitrogen oxides (NO, NO2), carbon monoxide (CO), ozone (O3) and particulate matter (PM1, PM2.5,

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Business Green

MARCH 22, 2021

BECCS proponents argue the technology can play a critical role in helping the UK reach net-zero, but a group of campaigners and academics are arguing the government should direct subsidies to more proven technologies. It also comes as the government designs its strategy on greenhouse gas removal technologies such as BECCS.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Image credit: Lorna Roberts / Shutterstock.com A new report argues that Birmingham, Camden, Hertfordshire, Leeds and Nottingham are leading the way in integrating climate and clean air policies but says that Ministers’ “refusal to recognise the importance of joined-up policy making” is stalling wider progress.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

A paper published yesterday in Nature Human Behaviour argues the government should introduce tax breaks for manufacturers who produce affordable versions of clean technologies. These engagement exercises could help pre-empt some of the "unintended negative impacts" of low-carbon technologies, they said.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 12, 2021

The fiscal spending plans of major economies in the wake of the coronavirus crisis have fallen far short of ensuring the recovery from the crisis does not exacerbate ongoing climate and nature crises, with just one in every $40 committed by governments in the wake of the pandemic set to deliver a positive impact for the planet.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Circular models made the rounds, starting with the design department, where a lot of negative environmental and social impacts are baked into garments, usually unwittingly. Now, companies themselves are seeing the business benefits of proactive forestry policies. It’s not just the climate impacts of concern to investors.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 6, 2023

Good Law Project is supporting the action being brought by the local council and campaign group, Protect Dunsfold, against the Government which gave the project the green light. National policy requires planning decisions to give great weight to “conserving and enhancing landscape and scenic beauty” in AONBs.

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Business Green

JANUARY 20, 2023

As many commentators have noted, there is no silver bullet for tackling carbon emissions. So it stands to reason that, focusing decarbonisation efforts on just a handful of these carbon intensive sectors could make an outsized impact to the global transition to net zero.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Seasoned observers fear that growing calls for a bolder and more ambitious global policy framework are continuing to founder on the rocks of vested interests and short-term cost concerns. . It is a dynamic that has left environmental campaigners increasingly frustrated. .

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Labour, which has been in power for less than three months, has already unveiled an ambitious raft of policies to tackle climate change, including plans to decarbonise electricity by 2030, facilitated by a state-owned company GB Energy. Drax disputes this claim.

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Business Green

MAY 5, 2020

A group of leading academics, campaigners, and executives have this week issued a renewed call for governments to accelerate efforts to scale up the deployment of Nature-Based Solutions capable of simultaneously reducing carbon emissions and restoring natural habitats.

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Business Green

MARCH 1, 2021

We have limited time to move from a system where around 80 per cent of our primary energy supply comes from fossil fuels, to one where low-carbon technologies dominate. This won't be possible without a set of targeted changes to how we govern the energy system. Today's governance confusion: overlap and underl ap.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 7, 2022

The United States is in a golden era for climate policy. The policy has been a long time coming, yet came to fruition quickly, responding to the urgency of the climate crisis and the opportunity to legislate before midterms. How the policy will unfold is impossible for me to imagine. Catch up fast: Recent climate legislation.

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Business Green

MAY 24, 2021

Fresh analysis warns plans for UK's largest BECCS facility in North Yorkshire could prove more expensive for billpayers than Hinkley Point C, but developer Drax rejects calculations and insists carbon capture technology is likely to prove a crucial component of the net zero transition.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 2, 2021

Dr Rebecca Heaton will end her five-year tenure on the government advisory group’s mitigation committee eight months early and take up a position at renewable energy company Ovo, the board announced today. . The conflict of interest has long been glaring, but in recent years became blinding,” said Phil Macdonald of energy thinktank Ember.

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Business Green

APRIL 21, 2021

Environmental Audit Committee writes to government slamming decision to axe grant scheme and urging Ministers to deliver replacement. The EAC report had explicitly advised that the scheme should "not to be scrapped or quietly wound down" - a recommendation that was unceremoniously rejected by the government. "In

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 28, 2022

British biomass giant Drax is lobbying the Californian government to play host to its first ever “carbon negative” power plant outside of the UK, despite concerns about the sustainability of the energy source. BECCS is a controversial technology that captures carbon dioxide from burning organic matter and buries it underground.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Environmental Audit Committee Chair Philip Dunne talks to BusinessGreen about the need for 'a tax system fit for net zero Britain' and the right time to judge whether the government has delivered on its green recovery promises.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

A coherent policy response that catalyses action to deliver emissions reductions across all sectors is required. To achieve this it will require an annual reduction in carbon intensity of 9.7%, according to the latest “Low Carbon Economy Index (LCEI)” produced by professional services firm PwC.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Ahead of the Prime Minister's promised new green recovery package, a new report from the business advocacy group outlines a raft of near-term policy interventions that could put the UK on track to reaching net zero emissions. The gap between the government's net zero rhetoric and its policy agenda remains.

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Business Green

JULY 6, 2021

A current lack of policy and leadership. The fashion industry is on course to take-up 25 per cent of the world's carbon budget, yet despite this huge impact, the UK government is failing to tackle the negative impact of fashion. Only one policy contained any detail of cost or timeframes. Hubbub's Trewin Restorick.

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Business Green

MAY 24, 2021

Government confirms £30m of new investment in a range of projects designed to enhance natural carbon sinks. Alongside the NetZeroPlus project the government and the UK Research and Innovation agency today announced new funding for projects exploring how to use peat, rock chips, and charcoal to expand natural carbon sinks.

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Business Green

JUNE 29, 2021

Current levels of investment in negative emissions technology fall far short of levels required to cap temperature rise in line with Paris goals, new coalition warns. Most global pathways to achieving decarbonisation in line with 1.5

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 24, 2024

A recent panel discussion in Glasgow brought together representives from some of the firms helping to build a carbon capture and storage (CCS) industry in the UK. We’ve never seen such ambition in public policy,” commented panellist Dr William Joyce of Innovate UK. Europe’s storehouse? million tons of CO2 per year.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 27, 2024

The campaigners’ analysis shows carbon emissions from vans in the UK have risen 63 percent since 1990, threatening climate targets despite the growing push for electric vehicle (EV) adoption. Carbon emissions from private cars and taxis have decreased by 19 percent over the same period.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

It plans to add carbon capture and storage to the biomass plants, taking them to a negative-emissions status. “[Thursday’s] announcement is part of Drax renewing its focus on renewables and pioneering bioenergy with carbon capture and storage technology (BECCS),” the company representative said in an email.

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Business Green

MARCH 28, 2022

Government greenhouse gas targets offer heavy emitters "a free pass" that could undermine efforts to cut emissions from industrial sites and accelerate the roll out of carbon capture and hydrogen technologies, according to the Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) of MPs.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Chris Winward, chief commercial officer at the specialist energy from waste funder, said the updated manifesto reviewed the industry’s progress from social, economic and environmental perspectives, and shared insight on the effect of government policy changes and Covid-19. “As

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 25, 2020

government’s official climate change advisory body is calling for fast-tracking investment in early-stage hydrogen infrastructure, as well as prioritizing carbon capture and storage and EV charging infrastructure, as immediate responses to the coronavirus outbreak. The steps that the U.K. ’s final energy demand by 2050.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

million tonnes of carbon dioxide in 2020, including 13.2 million from burning biomass, according to environmental law charity ClientEarth – is sponsoring an event called “How Can the UK Build a Zero Carbon, Lower Cost Energy Future?” Drax – which emitted 19.4 at the Labour conference in Brighton on Monday.

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