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More UK businesses offered energy bill relief packages
…licence-exempt energy and the corporate customers of these suppliers can apply. Energy Bill Relief The Energy Bill Relief scheme was introduced last October by then-Business Secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg. Under Rishi…
Hydrogen levy on home energy bills to be shelved
…as Labour, Lib Dem and Green Party players. Conservatives opposing the levy included Jacob Rees-Mogg, former Business and Energy Secretary. Shapps has now stated that the Government will need to…
‘This is idiocy’: Green economy leaders slam PM’s backtracking on key low-carbon policies
…this rhetoric, as has Jacob Rees-Mogg. He was Business and Energy Secretary briefly last year under Liz truss. But Sunak has been told by a far larger cohort of organisations…
Why the Autumn Statement was a major missed opportunity for energy efficiency
…businesses first introduced by Jacob Rees-Mogg. Yet many observers have concluded that the Chancellor’s gifts relating to energy efficiency lacked the necessary scale and direction. IPPR’s senior research fellow Dr…
England’s farmers to get paid more for tree planting
The Department for Food, the Environment and Rural Affairs (Defra) this week confirmed a boost for payments made under the England Woodland Creation Offer, which incentivizes farmers to add trees…
AstraZeneca invests $400m to quadruple tree planting commitment
The trees will all be planted this decade, with the pharmaceutical giant working in partnership with local environmental NGOs and community groups to design and implement reforestation programmes. AstraZeneca has…
UK sued for counting wood burning with carbon capture as ‘negative emissions’
…chapter on BECCS, which explains how the technology can deliver negative emissions. BECCS relies on a simple assumption: Because trees and plants suck up CO2 from the atmosphere when they…
Liverpool FC’s recycling scheme and a new record for offshore wind: The sustainability success stories of the week
…a ‘Trees for Life’ scheme to finance planting in the UK and in tea and coffee growing regions. To date, some five million trees have been planted under the scheme….
‘A wake-up call for Ministers’: UK’s green economy reacts to new CCC net-zero progress report
…example, the CCC is warning that climate stress tests for new oil and gas fields remain insufficient. The report also outlines gaps in plans to plant trees, deploy heat pumps…
The Woodland Trust seeks major new corporate partner to empower young people through ‘Funding for the Future’
…tree cover sits at 36%, woods and trees cover just 13% of our land. Worse still, according to the recent “State of Woods and Trees” report by the Woodland Trust,…
Who Will Speak for the Trees? Series presents Reforestation — The Front Line in Our Climate Battle
…the world’s governments, corporations, and other influential groups should direct their primary focus. Reforestation: A Proven, Simple Solution Planting trees is a process as old as nature itself, a simple…
Commission tables proposal for 30% cut in EU food waste by 2030
…product’s best-before date has expired does not mean it is bad,” she said. On the other hand, the director general of the food industry group FoodDrinkEurope, Dirk Jacobs, said that…
Why initiatives need to combine women empowerment and climate justice
…popular in this hot, dry marketplace where roads intersect, travelers and truckdrivers merge for a rest stop, and the average annual temperature hovers above 80 degrees Fahrenheit (26.6 degrees Celsius.)…
Businesses have an important role to play in tackling climate change through regenerating nature
…more than 93,000 trees planted across Spain, Poland and Mexico in collaboration with NGOs and government organisations. This investment included supporting the restoring of damaged ecosystems due to forest fires,…
How businesses can lead the way in creating a positive environmental legacy
…must go beyond trees. ESG schemes should aim to support native animal and plant life through the creation of interconnected habitats. This means connecting patches of forest using green corridors…
Glastonbury’s wind turbine and EV charging in Cornwall: The sustainability success stories of the week
…two newest projects were announced this week, in Vietnam and Madagascar. The project in Madagascar intends to halt deforestation and replace lost trees with new, native trees. This should deliver…
Bupa invests £2m in urban nature restoration projects
…in Spain; the rehabilitation of wildfire-affected areas in Chile; plastic removal from the Nile in Egypt; and planting trees in Poland. This announcement follows the completion of the 2023 Healthy…
Volcanic batteries and speedier hydrogen R&D: The best green innovations for Net-Zero November 2023
…highly efficient modular cells are rapidly heated to 500 degrees Celsius and can store this energy for hours, ready to deliver heat on demand at temperatures between 80 to 200…
Government accused of ‘deep-rooted complacency’ on water industry sustainability
…Government to announce its proposals on social tariffs as soon as possible,” the letter states. Defra response A Defra spokesperson said that while the Department “agrees that more needs to…
Bboxx: Affordable tech-driven service for clean cooking devices in Africa
…million trees each year. The results Each device deployed allows one household to stop using charcoal, and therefore avoids the cutting down of 6 trees and the emission of 2…
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