Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

However, investors will also be hoping that the imminent Energy White Paper accelerates the timetable for the clean power contract auctions that will determine the pace of new development. Ramping up carbon capture and storage technology. Catalysing the hydrogen economy. Fast-tracking the EV transition.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Moreover, the NIC report notes that a wave of new strategy and policy documents are due to be published in the coming months, including the Heat and Buildings Strategy, the Hydrogen Strategy, a transport decarbonisation plan, the Integrated Rail Plan, and the English Devolution and Local Recovery white paper.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 5, 2020

The Prime Minister will use his Conservative Party conference speech tomorrow to trail a hotly-anticipated 10-point plan for a "green industrial revolution" - full details of which are set to be unveiled later this year - as well as announcing a major package of support for offshore wind.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

However, the firm said it would still "keep the lines of communication open with government" regarding future options at both sites, raising the prospect that the plans could be revived if the government's long awaited Energy White Paper helps address the financing challenges that continue to dog proposals for new nuclear projects in the UK.

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Business Green

JUNE 14, 2021

In a white paper published this morning, E.ON The report comes as pressure mounts on the government to launch an ambitious policy package to support the decarbonisation of UK's housing stock, particularly in the wake of its much-criticised decision to axe the Green Homes Grant scheme in the spring.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 9, 2022

If you’re wondering what to get your favorite coworkers while keeping your carbon footprint low, then here’s a must-have guide on sustainable office gifts! The Case For Green Certification White Paper. The holiday season is upon us which brings the challenge of finding a thoughtful gift for the special people in our lives.

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 20, 2024

If you’re wondering what to get your favorite coworkers while keeping your carbon footprint low, then here’s a must-have guide on sustainable office gifts! The holiday season is upon us which brings the challenge of finding a thoughtful gift for the special people in our lives. Sustainable fitness gear is growing in popularity.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Launching a white paper on the planning reforms for consultation in August, Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick said the changes would "cut red tape, but not standards". Instead, the government should look to ensure protection for nature and biodiverse land in its reform package, the charity said.

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Business Green

JULY 29, 2021

The government harbours hopes that, as well as delivering low carbon power to the grid to serve UK homes, HTGRs may also be able to help provide electricity for green hydrogen that could then potentially be used to help decarbonise a raft of other processes across transport and home heating. and exciting advanced? and exciting advanced?nuclear

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 17, 2023

They are carbon-based, found within nature, and derived from renewable sources. Through natural processes, microorganisms break down materials to produce carbon dioxide, water, and biomass (in the presence of oxygen). These facilities measure and manage inputs of water, air, carbon, and nitrogen-rich materials.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

As such, the Roadmap urges the government to publish the long-awaited Energy White Paper, so as to explain how a net zero energy system can be delivered, and release the promised National Infrastructure Strategy, which has now been delayed several times.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

However, the anticipated surge in demand for clean power over the coming decades and the huge scale of zero carbon hydrogen production that would be required if the fuel is to become a mainstay of global decarbonisation efforts suggests that a number of different production approaches could yet have a role to play.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

The government has been accused of coming up short with its much-vaunted green recovery plan, as further details on its £12bn low carbon investment package were released yesterday that suggested the new measures would only deliver around half of the CO2 cuts required to hit UK climate targets over the coming decade.

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Business Green

JUNE 30, 2020

Prime Minister to reaffirm tree-planting plans as part of £5bn 'New Deal' style recovery package, but green campaigners fear 'false start' as key funding announcements still yet to be confirmed. There is very little announced today which will do anything to accelerate the transition to a zero carbon economy.

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Business Green

JUNE 23, 2020

Reports from CBI, EnergyUK, ECIU, and ScottishPower all hammer home calls for ambitious green recovery package. The government has been inundated with calls from green trade bodies, campaigners and academics for it to deliver a green stimulus package in recent weeks. The consensus keeps building.

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Business Green

MARCH 30, 2021

At the end of last year, the Energy White Paper was released. While the REA, of course, welcomed the lofty ambitions of the government, we made it clear that net zero could not be achieved by aspiration alone - you had to have the detailed policy with robust and wide-ranging support packages too. million kg of CO2 every year.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

The government previously announced its intention in last year's Energy White Paper to launch call for evidence on energy consumer funding, fairness and affordability, and it is expected that this will include proposals for the shift in green surcharges onto gas bills. — Tim Lord (@timbolord) September 29, 2021.

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Grist

MAY 18, 2021

The company would take those almond shells and other types of biomass, convert them into a carbon-rich oil, and inject the oil deep underground. Strange as it may sound, demand for this service — a form of what’s called “ carbon removal ” — was just beginning to grow. That’s where carbon removal comes in.

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Business Green

JULY 9, 2020

The trailed £3bn energy efficiency package was hugely welcome, even if questions remain over precisely how it will be administered and what will happen when the single year Budget is exhausted. But then once again the accompanying policy measures singularly failed to match the rhetoric.

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Business Green

JUNE 24, 2020

The nuclear sector has become the latest industry to wade into the debate about the government's imminent green recovery package, arguing that it has a critical role to play in delivering on the UK's net zero emission target.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

On emissions trading, the clock is ticking but still businesses wait in vain for clarity on a UK carbon pricing regime. This means a clear strategy to upgrade the UK's infrastructure and publishing the Energy White Paper.". But ambition must be matched by action on the ground. These two crises were virtually ignored. "As

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 27, 2022

This could include highlighting opportunities for career development or offering competitive compensation packages. Calculate the company’s carbon and water footprints of each department, individual employees, products, processes, etc. packaging) with costs to be added to the procurement policy.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

It was launched in September as part of the government's coronavirus recovery package, with Ministers claiming the £3bn funding pot would help reduce carbon emissions, slash energy bills, and create tens of thousands of jobs. This will give the reassurance needed to the building industry to invest in the scheme," he said.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Series of reports and policy documents published by the Department for Transport this week seek to advance 'future of transport' programme and spur new wave of low carbon transport innovation. The latter solutions provide low-carbon alternatives to transport by car that could cut down on delivery times and air pollution, it explained.

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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

JUNE 30, 2020

The speech was inevitably overshadowed by the news Leicester has already been forced back into lockdown and undermined by the realisation the trailed £5bn package amounted to little more than a compendium of previously announced programmes that are an order of magnitude smaller than the template supposedly provided by FDR's New Deal.

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Business Green

JUNE 25, 2020

At 196 pages, the report is a wide-ranging, highly detailed, and genuinely compelling analysis of the myriad challenges and opportunities that face the UK as it seeks to deliver a green recovery, meet near-term carbon targets, and set the UK on track for a net zero transition over the next three decades.

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Business Green

JUNE 24, 2020

It comes as the Treasury prepares a crucial package of recovery measures which are expected to be announced in Parliament next month, as the government attempts to combat the worst economic crisis in decades. Chris Stark setting out the CCC's latest advice to government.

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Business Green

AUGUST 27, 2021

Past topics range from agrobiodiversity and packaging to aquatic foods. In contrast to most other regenerative ag programs, Regen1 doesn't include carbon as a metric due to "the unsettled science on the permanent sequestration of carbon and the present volatility of carbon markets.".

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Business Green

MARCH 11, 2020

There can be no lasting prosperity for our people, if we do not protect our planet," he said, arguing that environmental action would form a key plank of the government's "Plan for Prosperity", helping to "create the high skill, high wage, low carbon jobs of the future [and develop] completely new industries in our regions and nations".

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

However, critics argued the plans were not ambitious or detailed enough, comparing the promised £12bn of funding - only around £4bn of which is new - with the multi-billion Euro green recovery packages unveiled by the French and German governments.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Without a clear and ambitious government plan zero carbon home heating by 2050 remains a pipe dream, a new analysis from the UK Energy Research Centre warns. But she voiced her disappointment that the research did not consider the role of biomethane, biomass or geothermal energy in delivering low carbon gas and heating in the UK.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 4, 2020

The implications that flow from the upgrading of the UK's 2030 carbon target are hard to underestimate - the economy is about to change for the better. The change in timing may have been modest - the full report on the CCC's recommendations for the sixth carbon budget is expected next week - but it was still significant.

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Business Green

AUGUST 6, 2020

The white paper reiterates the government's support for its imminent Future Homes Standard, which is meant to ensure all new homes are 'zero emission ready' - i.e. gas boiler- and cooker-free - from 2025. The white paper offers some answers, but not nearly enough.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Big corporations must pivot to reduce their carbon footprints in the next 10, 20 or 30 years, she explained, "so we decided to come with a different approach and build a company from inception at zero.". Aleph Farms launched in 2017. With its robotics and massive greenhouses, Iron Ox has a bigger operational footprint than other farms.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Further details forming a trailed 10-point plan for a green industrial revolution are expected to be laid out in November, with reports indicating hydrogen, carbon capture and storage, small modular nuclear reactors, electric vehicles, and green synthetic fuels are likely to feature heavily. Without the damage to the environment.".

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Business Green

JULY 8, 2020

We hope that the forthcoming Budget, White Paper and National Infrastructure Plan will provide further momentum'. We hope that the forthcoming Budget, White Paper and National Infrastructure Plan will provide further momentum so we can go further and faster in decarbonising our economy.".

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