The UK government aims to incorporate at least 10% sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) into its jet fuel mix by 2030. The move is part of the government's ‘Jet Zero’ strategy to achieve net-zero emissions in aviation by 2050. According to a report by ESG Today, this init...
18 Similarly, the UK government’s net-zero strategy estimates that 75–81 CO2 of removals per year will be needed by 2050 to offset residual emissions from hard-to-abate industries such as agriculture, transport (aviation and shipping), and industry.19 Specifically, the Sixth Carbon Budget ...
While productive tree planting can deliver real financial benefits to rural economies andcontribute to the UK's net-zero strategy,the focus of govemment support continues to be on foodproduction and the rewilding and planting of native woodland solely for biodiversity.Goodalladded:"While food ...
Net zero strategy: build back greener https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/net-zero-strategy (2021) Google Scholar 58 The Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) finds even higher general support of 80 % (4 % opposition) BEIS BEIS public attitudes tracker: energy ...
18 February 2022 | Energy transition, Net zero, UK Government-backed innovation competitions support UK’s transition to zero emission vehicles Ricardo E&E continues growth journey 30 September 2021 | ESG, Financial results, Global, Strategy, UK Group’s exposure to robust government spending ...
The government also aims to deploy at least 5 million tonnes of CO₂ a year of engineered greenhouse gas removals by 2030. The strategy said current gas price spikes underline the need to move away from fossil fuels as quickly as possible, but the transition has to be managed in ...
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 commit...
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. Ministers were forced to publish a raft of ...
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 CCA 2008 not only creates a legally binding obligation on a government of the future to reach a prescribed level of greenhouse gas emissions in the long term (currently, a 100 per cent reduction on 1990 levels by 2050, or 'net zero'), but also contains a sophisticated governance ...