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CCC Sixth Carbon Budget advice: The green economy reacts
CCC Sixth Carbon Budget advice: The green economy reacts

  • Policy
  • 09 December 2020
'Open for low carbon business': UK climate advisors unveil 'world first' 2050 net zero economy plan
'Open for low carbon business': UK climate advisors unveil 'world first' 2050 net zero economy plan

'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'

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  • 09 December 2020
How local electricity pricing could aid the pursuit of net zero emissions
How local electricity pricing could aid the pursuit of net zero emissions

Policy Exchange report explores how energy market reforms could save customers £50bn on bills by 2050 while supporting green manufacturing and offshore wind deployment

  • Infrastructure
  • 07 December 2020
Government urged to heed external advice when drawing up net zero policies
Government urged to heed external advice when drawing up net zero policies

Report from Institute for Government calls on Ministers to engage more extensively with external sources of evidence and analysis when designing energy policies, warning that departments have 'at times been too insular'

  • Policy
  • 07 December 2020
Glencore pledges to become 'net zero total emissions company' by 2050
Glencore pledges to become 'net zero total emissions company' by 2050

Mining giant announces it will achieve target by ramping up 'transition metals' business while delivering 'responsible stewardship' of its coal assets

  • Energy
  • 07 December 2020
Report: Cash-strapped councils climate plans hamstrung by inadequate government support
Report: Cash-strapped councils climate plans hamstrung by inadequate government support

A lack of funding and strategic support from central government is making it difficult for local authorities to support the drive for net zero emissions, imperiling the entire national mission, a new Green Alliance report argues

  • Policy
  • 04 December 2020
'Reach outside of Whitehall': Spending watchdog calls for holistic net zero strategy
'Reach outside of Whitehall': Spending watchdog calls for holistic net zero strategy

National Audit Office calls for greater clarity for how responsibility and roles of net zero will be divided across government and different public bodies

  • Net Zero Now
  • 04 December 2020
'We are taking the lead': Boris Johnson significantly strengthens UK's 2030 carbon target
'We are taking the lead': Boris Johnson significantly strengthens UK's 2030 carbon target

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

  • Politics
  • 03 December 2020
UK climate advisers urge PM to approve 'bold as possible' 2030 target
UK climate advisers urge PM to approve 'bold as possible' 2030 target

Climate Change Committee recommends UK set target to cut emissions by 'at least' 68 per cent from 1990 levels over next decade

  • Policy
  • 03 December 2020
Rivian, Uber, and Cabify pledge net zero by 2040 as they sign Amazon's Climate Pledge
Rivian, Uber, and Cabify pledge net zero by 2040 as they sign Amazon's Climate Pledge

Clutch of major transport firms join growing number of corporates that have pledged to reach net zero emissions over the coming decades

  • Management
  • 03 December 2020
'Unusually positive news': Does 2020 mark a turning point for delivering on the Paris Agreement goals?
'Unusually positive news': Does 2020 mark a turning point for delivering on the Paris Agreement goals?

The 'domino effect' of net zero pledges from world leaders in recent months could prove hugely impactful on global warming trajectories, a new analysis suggests, but is its optimistic outlook justified?

  • Climate change
  • 02 December 2020
Low carbon diamonds? De Beers pledges to reach carbon neutrality across operations by 2030
Low carbon diamonds? De Beers pledges to reach carbon neutrality across operations by 2030

New climate target will be achieved by transitioning mining operations to clean energy, improving energy efficiency, developing proprietary carbon capture technology and purchasing offsets, company said

  • Management
  • 02 December 2020
SteelZero: Major users unite to boost demand for net zero steel
SteelZero: Major users unite to boost demand for net zero steel

Eight leading companies sign up to new initiative from The Climate Group designed to accelerate the transition to a cleaner steel industry

  • Supply chain
  • 01 December 2020
Building on the Ten Point Plan
Building on the Ten Point Plan

Eliot Whittington of The Prince of Wales’s Corporate Leaders Group presents a new analysis that suggests the government's welcome plan to accelerate the Green Industrial Revolution will not yet put the country on track to meet its net zero goals

  • Policy
  • 01 December 2020
Corporate giants urge Prime Minister to boost UK's 2030 climate target this year
Corporate giants urge Prime Minister to boost UK's 2030 climate target this year

Appeal from Tesco, Heathrow, BT, others comes as fresh modelling highlights how government’s 10 Point Plan fails to deliver emissions reductions required to meet net zero goal

  • Policy
  • 01 December 2020
'Turning point': Global climate pledges could put world on 2.1C warming pathway, analysis suggests
'Turning point': Global climate pledges could put world on 2.1C warming pathway, analysis suggests

Paris Agreement climate goals now 'within reach' thanks to US, China, Japan, and South Korea joining net zero club, Climate Action Tracker estimates

  • Science
  • 01 December 2020
Energy giants urge Prime Minister to set net zero power target
Energy giants urge Prime Minister to set net zero power target

Johnson urged by major energy companies to emulate US president-elect Joe Biden and set a deadline for the decarbonisation of Britain's power system ahead of 2050 net zero goal

  • Energy
  • 30 November 2020
Italian gas giant Snam targets carbon neutrality by 2040
Italian gas giant Snam targets carbon neutrality by 2040

Europe's biggest gas pipeline company unveils multi-billion Euro investment plan to transition to hydrogen and biomethane

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  • 27 November 2020
Low emission broadband installations: Sky adds 151 smart plug-in hybrid vans to engineering fleet
Low emission broadband installations: Sky adds 151 smart plug-in hybrid vans to engineering fleet

Ford to supply 151 plug-in hybrid engineering vans to Sky following successful 12-month trial of prototype featuring geo-fencing technology that switches to electric mode in low emission areas

  • Automotive
  • 26 November 2020
Camel and Benson & Hedges owner sparks fresh net zero ambition
Camel and Benson & Hedges owner sparks fresh net zero ambition

Japan Tobacco International touts plan to reach net zero emissions by end of decade through fleet electrification, energy efficiency measures, and transition to clean energy

  • Management
  • 25 November 2020
'Emissions disclosure alone is not enough': Sir Chris Hohn launches investor campaign for AGM climate votes
'Emissions disclosure alone is not enough': Sir Chris Hohn launches investor campaign for AGM climate votes

Investor reveals his TCI hedge fund has filed climate resolutions at Alphabet, S&P, and Moody's as he launched campaign to force hundreds more companies to give shareholders annual climate vote

  • Investment
  • 24 November 2020
Net-zero is not just a buzzword - businesses must show they are serious about climate action
Net-zero is not just a buzzword - businesses must show they are serious about climate action

New survey finds many companies have set net zero climate targets, but few have milestones to reach them, explains South Pole CEO Renat Heuberger

  • Net Zero Now
  • 24 November 2020
Vodafone dials up net zero vision with new 2040 target
Vodafone dials up net zero vision with new 2040 target

Telecoms group brings forward its net zero deadline to 2040 as it touts new 2030 carbon reduction targets validated by the Science-Based Targets initiative

  • Net Zero Now
  • 23 November 2020
Government poised to unveil plans for net zero-focused National Infrastructure Bank
Government poised to unveil plans for net zero-focused National Infrastructure Bank

Chancellor reportedly set to launch new bank and reform Green Book to allow increased support for low carbon infrastructure

  • Policy
  • 23 November 2020
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