Competition encourages energy firms, software developers and innovators to apply to be part of the government’s £1bn Net Zero Innovation Portfolio.20 September 2023 / Digital, Green finance, Net zero, UK Standing out against the government’s recent backtrack from net zero commitments, funding...
The UK Government has released a Net Zero Estate Playbook to provide guidance to Public Sector Bodies to Transition their Estate towards NZ.
1. In which city did many world leaders recently meet to discuss reaching net zero? 2. Name one thing the UK government is going to end the sale of. 3. What is the UK government hoping to plant by 2025? 4. True or false?A few countries need to take action to tackle climate change...
As part of BSI’s Net Zero Week, this general introductory webinar explores the legislative drivers that are framing the UK Government’s response to net zero and how organizations can best adapt, both strategically and operationally. We ask what tools and techniques will help, and how greener ...
The UK government is aiming for net zero on carbon emissions by 2050. Credit: Thomas Millot on Unsplash. The UK Government has announced that the UK will “eradicate” its net contribution to climate change by 2050 in an amendment to the Climate Change Act of 2008. The announcement was made...
But not all emissions can be reduced to zero, so those remaining will have to becompensated for, oroffset. One way to do this is to plant thousands of trees, which are good atabsorbingcarbon dioxide. The UK government has pledged to plant 30,000 hectares of trees a year by 2025. There...
The US government has a goal: net-zero emissions by 2050. Our analysis maps out a pathway to this net-zero frontier—and the growth opportunities that $27 trillion of capital spending could create.(21 pages)With the United States’ announcement of targets to halve US greenhouse-gas (GHG) ...
The UK government believes carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) has an essential role to play to meet the net zero target, and expects to have the option to deploy CCUS at scale during the 2030s, subject to costs coming down sufficiently.(1 pound=1.27 U.S. dollars)...
A host should set the tone for a gathering. And so, as delegates descended on Glasgow for the COP26 summit last November, the UK government announced that the country would become “the world’s first net zero-aligned financial centre”. Listed companies and big asset managers would be requi...
The UK’s new net zero strategy will fail to cut greenhouse gas emissions enough to hit its own legally enforceable targets, the government has admitted, with environmental analysts and politicians criticising the plans unveiled on Thursday as incoherent. ...