GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 14, 2020

government’s long-awaited energy white paper is out with confirmation of fresh negotiations with EDF over a new nuclear power station and a drive to push up the price of carbon. carbon trading to begin next year. According to the government, the plans will create 250,000 jobs. .'s

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Business Green

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Green Alliance warns that major decarbonisation policy gaps must be filled next year if government is to achieve its bold 2030 carbon reduction target. We'll be looking for the government to move from ambition to action in 2021, with new policies to make hitting the targets possible.".

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 26, 2022

A new programme has been announced by Google and C40, a global network of mayors taking action to confront the climate and energy crisis, to explore and integrate the concept of 24/7 carbon-free energy (CFE). The announcement sees C40 Cities join forces with Google to launch the 24/7 Carbon-Free Energy for Cities programme.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Although crucial to net zero, uptake of digital technologies is being hamstrung by policy shortfalls, underinvestment, and skills shortages, Green Alliance warns. As such, the think tank is urging the government to explicitly link its digital and low carbon agendas.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 8, 2020

A range of innovative new policies and financial products are to be debuted over the next year in a bid to make it easier for households and businesses to deploy zero emission heating systems. They're also backed by recommendations for the fiscal and policy incentives required to support their roll-out.".

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Carbon tax could generate £75bn by 2030 that could be investing into Covid-19 recovery efforts, emerging green technologies, and cushioning against any rise in household bills, campaign group argues.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 1, 2021

They discussed Clean Energy Action’s white paper on utility accountability and how we can equitably transition to a clean energy future for a recent episode of ILSR’s Building Local Power podcast, republished here for Local Energy Rules. She has been volunteering in support of carbon-free, local energy for 20 years.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Members of the commission, which was assembled by the Zero Carbon Campaign, have been drawn from political, scientific, academic and climate policy backgrounds. The policy recommendations will be delivered to the government in a white paper due for publication in April 2020, the Zero Carbon Campaign said.

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Smart Energy International

JUNE 13, 2022

T 3 transformation, which encompasses digital transformation, energy transformation and net-zero carbon transformation, is a new model for propelling today’s campuses into the future through systematic reformation and innovation. The world is consuming increasingly more energy, which causes higher carbon emissions.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

AUGUST 29, 2024

The event is being organized a second time by the White Paper Consulting after a successful inaugural outing. In recent months, MOL has won two geothermal exploration permits in Hungary, while INA (member of MOL Group) has also secured two in Croatia.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Here, BusinessGreen rounds up all the policies, commitments, and investment pledges in the 10-point plan: 1. 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. Catalysing the hydrogen economy.

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Business Green

JULY 2, 2020

The energy giant yesterday set out its top priorities for delivering net zero emissions by 2050, offering the stark assessment that the UK is "not on course to meet our fourth carbon budget commitments to decarbonise homes and transport emissions".

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Business Green

AUGUST 30, 2020

As a result, the carbon intensity of the grid averaged just 153g of CO2 per kilowatt hour (g/kWh) over the three month period, the lowest level on record, the experts said. Gary Smith, Scottish secretary of the GMB union, told the BBC that the closure of Hunterson B was "a defining moment in terms of energy policy".

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

GW of new long duration pumped hydro storage, with 90 GWh of storage, could save up to £690 million per year in energy system costs by 2050, as the UK transitions to a net-zero carbon emission system. A new study by independent researchers from Imperial College London has found that just 4.5

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

However, green businesses and environmental campaigners have repeatedly warned increased funding and clarity on a raft of climate policies are repeatedly required if the UK is to get on track to meet its emissions goals and deliver on Prime Minister Boris Johnson's promise to "build back better".

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Business Green

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Plans for 'comprehensive' policy document that sets out pathway to net zero emission economy confirmed in government's formal response to CCC's latest progress report. But in its 156-page response to the CCC's 'bumper' progress report , the government yesterday confirmed a raft of new deacrbonisation strategies are on the way.

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Business Green

MAY 6, 2020

BEIS released a suite of documents regarding 'clean heating' policy last Tuesday including most importantly details of what will follow on from the RHI. This policy consultation comes in advance of a long awaited energy White Paper and in advance of a heat and buildings framework expected to be released later this year.

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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'. We're going to need to achieve a faster pace of emissions reduction over the next 30 years than we achieved in the last 30."

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 6, 2020

Titled Making the UK a digital clean tech leader , the report outlines the ways in which smart energy, smart mobility, and smart buildings can slash energy use and carbon emissions across their respective sectors. The report also stresses that established digital technologies could deliver massive emissions savings if deployed at scale.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Good Law Project and Ecotricity CEO Dale Vince threaten court action unless government reviews airports planning policy before the final approval process for third runway begins. Heathrow is already one the busiest airports in the world and one of the largest emitters of carbon dioxide in the country, campaigners argue.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 16, 2020

But the technologies that can cost-effectively meet that need have so far attracted more attention from white paper authors than paying customers. I haven’t seen anything this big in nature that’s focused on long duration," said Jin Noh, senior policy manager at the California Energy Storage Alliance.

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Business Green

JULY 22, 2020

If the UK wants to be a global climate leader and finance hub at COP26, a carbon charge should be a core part of its climate strategy, argues Green Finance Institute CEO Rhian-Mari Thomas. The Zero Carbon Commission will publish its final white paper at the end of the summer. The interim findings can be found here.

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Business Green

JANUARY 28, 2021

Addressing shortfalls in what remains the flagship national policy to insulate millions of homes will be top of the list. The recent Energy White Paper hints that plans for the rest of this cash will be forthcoming in the Heat and Buildings strategy, but a proper plan to carbon free homes will have eyes beyond this parliamentary term.

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Business Green

APRIL 14, 2020

The Committee on Climate Change (CCC) is to present advice to the government on supporting a resilient, low carbon economic recovery from the coronavirus crisis as part of its annual assessment of the UK's progress towards its 2050 net zero greenhouse gas emissions goal this summer.

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Business Green

JUNE 14, 2021

Electricity supplier has urged government to establish stricter decarbonisation policies that can put UK on track to meeting climate goals. In a white paper published this morning, E.ON In a white paper published this morning, E.ON

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Business Green

DECEMBER 22, 2020

The government's overarching ambition is welcome, but we now need a detailed policy agenda to make net zero a reality, writes the REA's Dr Nina Skorupska?. Here at the REA we are well used to a flurry of new policy being announced just before the end of the year, but this advent has been a real bumper few weeks.

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Business Green

JUNE 14, 2021

Electricity supplier has urged government to establish stricter decarbonisation policies that can put UK on track to meeting climate goals. In a white paper published this morning, E.ON In a white paper published this morning, E.ON

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 7, 2021

energy white paper , the first step in the development of overarching new energy policy, claimed that the country’s power sector would be “overwhelmingly decarbonized” by the 2030s. In preparation for that, National Grid ESO is aiming to be able to run a zero-carbon grid by 2025. The recent U.K.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

Government must deliver carbon cutting policies this year to stay on track for net zero and maintain role as climate leader at COP26, think tank warns. This policy tracker will test whether the government can stand up at the end of the year and say it is taking the necessary action and leading by example.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

For example, completely removing and replacing CSOs, would require an entirely new sewer network costing up to £600 billion4 and widespread, disruptive roadworks over many decades, according to a recent white paper on sewer security published by water technology firm Grundfos.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Prime Minister announces new target to cut emissions 68 per cent against 1990 levels by 2030, confirming a major tightening of carbon goals as part of UK's pre-COP26 submission to the Paris Agreement. Green business groups warmly welcomed the move to accelerate the pace of UK decarbonisation over the coming decade.

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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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Clean Energy Canada

MAY 18, 2023

But the federal government isn’t yet taking full advantage of this opportunity, a new white paper finds. With climate and energy among the major topics to be discussed at the summit, eyes will be on each country’s policy actions and emissions performance.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Ahead of tomorrow's Net Zero Festival, Toby Hill explores how carbon offset standards are evolving in a bid to assure clients and campaigners that promised carbon savings can be delivered. To find out more about the role of carbon offsets in the net zero transition, sign up now for a free pass to tomorrow's Net Zero Festival.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Having consistently highlighted this Standard as the centrepiece of its plans to decarbonise new housing over recent months - not least in the recent Planning White Paper - the pressure was certainly on the government for this announcement to deliver. All eyes will now be on the response to the Planning White Paper.

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Business Green

MARCH 17, 2021

The overarching ambition of the Industrial Decarbonisation Strategy is to slash greenhouse gas emissions from UK industry by two-thirds within 15 years, as part of plans to develop the "world's first" low carbon industrial sector that creates and supports up to 80,000 jobs by 2050.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Reports yesterday suggested the PM has been forced to delay several times a major speech touting a new policy and investment package for the green economy due to the disruption wrought by Covid-19. Nevertheless, environmental groups broadly welcomed the latest green policy signals.

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