GreenBiz

MARCH 9, 2021

Last week, the fast-casual restaurant chain Chipotle Mexican Grill announced a new policy that ties executive compensation in part to environmental, social and governance (ESG) metrics. . One reason is that it’s early days, with many of these policies just kicking in. Finance & Investing. Can C-suite paychecks save the world?

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Google’s new commitment is distinct from the more typical corporate commitments from rivals such as Amazon, Facebook and Microsoft, and a growing number of companies, to offset their carbon emissions from electricity by buying renewable energy, investing in reforestation efforts, and other carbon reduction strategies. Europe and Chile.

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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. How Long Have Utilities Known the Costs of Climate Change? The Need for Broader Grid Reform.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 4, 2020

Recent product developments offer growing opportunities to electrify trucks and buses and slash their emissions (see our recent white paper ). These examples show the need for more power at a given site than most utilities can provide without planning and investment. California policy pushes utilities toward planning.

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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. The National Infrastructure Strategy should ensure that all projects that receive public funding embeds smart technology, it argues.

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GatesNotes

OCTOBER 29, 2021

I recently wrote a white paper about the investments and policies we need to get to net-zero as quickly as possible.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Boris Johnson has unveiled his much-vaunted 10-point green recovery plan, promising a multi-billion pound package of investment across the green economy designed to create an estimated 250,000 new jobs in the carbon capture, electric vehicle, nuclear, hydrogen and renewables sectors.

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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. billion) of government investment will trigger another £36 billion in private money by 2030, it claims. The £12 billion ($16.1

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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

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.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

In its recent Energy White Paper, the UK Government set out that long-duration storage technologies, like pumped hydro, would play an essential role in decarbonizing the UK’s electricity supply by integrating renewable energy and maintaining security of supply. The post 4.5

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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. In doing so, they beat the state's investor-owned utilities in making good on the California Public Utilities Commission's call to invest in this resource. "We

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

In the UK this also includes mandatory levels of investment, with Defra’s National Storm Overflow Plan, for example, having earmarked more than £10 billion for storm overflow improvements – triple the current level of investment. But there’s a potentially big price tag.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Boris Johnson trails first stage in '10-point plan' for a green industrial revolution, as government confirms new £160m wind turbine manufacturing investment. So we are committing to new ambitious targets and investment into wind power to accelerate our progress towards net zero emissions by 2050.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 8, 2020

New report from Green Finance Institute identifies barriers to investment in green heating systems and trails series of new demonstration projects. 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.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Major gaps in the UK's infrastructure plans compounded by a severe lack of public investment in key areas must be urgently addressed if the government is to avoid locking in environmentally damaging economic activity long into the future, Green Alliance has today warned.

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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 addition to reducing system costs, avoided infrastructure investments, even delaying those investments has benefits.

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Business Green

JULY 2, 2020

As such it called for a raft of new green policy interventions that could help accelerate decarbonisation efforts and boost the economy as it seeks to recover from the coronavirus crisis. We must drive momentum into the low carbon heating market to deliver cost savings and provide job opportunities," the firm's policy briefing states. "We

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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 We must not forget this is a marathon, a 30-year ambition," he said. Net zero by 2050 is achievable.

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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

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Boris Johnson is set to cast a major vote of confidence in the UK's flourishing offshore wind sector tomorrow in a bid to help the country "build back greener", confirming a higher target for 40GW of capacity by 2030, backed by £160m investment towards state-of-the-art turbine manufacturing.

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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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ThinkGeoEnergy

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Some 200 participants came together in Budapest, Hungary for the second edition of the Budapest Geothermal Energy Summit , organized by White Paper Consulting. In general, the world needs 20,000 new wells a year in order to achieve 63 new gigawatts of production annually. ?ukasz ukasz Koli?ski,

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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

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 We must not forget this is a marathon, a 30-year ambition," he said. Net zero by 2050 is achievable.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Creation of a new UK Seas Authority and appointment of a Minister for the North Sea among measures that could ensure efficient and environmentally responsible planning of clean energy technologies in area key to UK’s successful net zero transition, Policy Exchange argues.

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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

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.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 6, 2020

Accordingly, it outlines a series of recommendations for government policy, including calls for ministers to launch a call for evidence to explore incentive schemes to stimulate low-carbon investment in businesses, homes, and the public sector.

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Business Green

APRIL 14, 2020

The move comes amid growing calls across Europe for Covid-19 recovery efforts to focus on delivering the EU's proposed 2050 net zero goal, with a coalition of CEOs, politicians, NGOs and trade unions this week calling for a green investment programme to spur the bloc's economic recovery.

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Business Green

AUGUST 24, 2020

"The challenge today is to put in place the right infrastructure to implement and improve known and emerging technologies at scale, and to make the challenging policy decisions required to drive change across the whole system," Vallance and Rothwell advised.

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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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Planet Pulse

JANUARY 23, 2024

We are expanding this portfolio with a white paper guide to help navigate new sustainability reporting demands around nature-related impacts and dependencies – Accelerating Biodiversity and Ecosystem Reporting , written in collaboration with Microsoft, the Natural Capital Project, and the Gund Institute at the University of Vermont.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

A new analysis highlights the increasing availability of low cost capital for net zero technology and infrastructure, but calls for a clearer policy framework to attract it. As a result, it urges the government to development a framework to make them more attractive to such sources of low cost capital.

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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2021

As such, Labour's warning that the various proposals urgently need to be firmed up if the strategy is to mobilise the investment in hydrogen production, carbon capture and storge (CCS), and green fuels that is needed, was broadly echoed by industry commentators.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

AUGUST 17, 2021

Federal Policy Director | CalStart | Washington DC. CALSTART is seeking a Federal Policy Director to advance our work nationally. Advancement of policy is a core CALSTART strategy to grow the industry. The FPD will: Lead and manage CALSTART’s federal policy (legislation) and regulatory matters.

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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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