The UK government's decision to rollback and delay policy commitments designed to help achieve net zero by 2050 will be challenged in the High Court later this year. On March 4, 2024, the High Court granted television presenter and environmental advocate Chris Packham CBE permission to proceed ...
Claire Perry, the Energy and Clean Growth Minister, set the goal. She said: “I’m launching a mission to create the world’s first ‘net-zero’ carbon cluster by 2040 in the UK with up to ￡170 million of new government funding. This will help to develop the technologies of the futu...
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 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 pair of green hydrogen projects being developed by SSE have been selected by UK Government to progress to the final stage of its Net Zero Hydrogen Fund.
In particular, the government may reflect on remuneration models for new technologies, and a financial framework that ensures fair returns to investors and fair allocation of costs to consumers, as anticipated by the new net-zero strategy. Investors may need to be comfortable committ...
Local authorities in the United Kingdom are recognised by central government as key agents to achieving the national net zero target aimed at stabilising global temperatures at or below 1.5 degrees in line with the Paris Climate Agreement. Since 2018, over 75% of local authorities have declared ...
The UK government is responsible for meeting legally binding decarbonisation objectives, but it is not on track to meet its next Climate Change Act targets or the goal of Net Zero by 2050. The IPCC's Sixth Assessment Report is a stark reminder of the importance of all countries, ...
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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...