Financial Times: Moral Money

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Also in today’s newsletter, a Brexit silver lining?

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Energy Central

JULY 5, 2023

I was slightly surprised when attending a finance event to see people coming up and congratulating the UK for her Brexit decision. Here perhaps, are some of the underlying causes [link] sectoral training

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Impakter

JUNE 29, 2022

On Monday night, a bill proposing to alter the terms of the Brexit deal between the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland passed through the second reading stage in the House of Commons despite warnings that it could lead to a trade war. The UK Bill That Could Lead to Trade War.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 18, 2020

The post Sponsored content: Instrumentation firm has a memorable year, and not just because of coronavirus and Brexit first appeared on Envirotec. as well as a T200 NOx analyser has now been installed in pride of place, right outside Cardiff Castle.

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Impakter

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

But since then, Brexit occurred and things changed, as […]. In the autumn of 2014, after over 300 years of union with England, the Scottish government held a referendum to ask the country’s population: “Should Scotland be an independent country?” Lauren Richards.

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Impact Alpha

MARCH 17, 2020

was about to close its Series A financing round when Brexit struck. ImpactAlpha, March 17 – Sidai Africa Ltd. The Kenya-based company supports more than 200,000 sustainable farmers through its stores and services. Its lead investor, the U.K.

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Energy Central

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Quote of the day… Britain has made moral and military support for Ukraine a fundamental plank of its post-Brexit foreign policy, winning support in Eastern Europe and aligning itself with the US.

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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 26, 2021

Some areas of the press have pointed to the decision as evidence of the negative impacts of Brexit but in fact, British energy policy has always been the preserve of London rather than Brussels. However, another negative environmental ruling that has hit the headlines this week is influenced by Brexit. Bad news for bees.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 22, 2021

Let’s start with Brexit and the impact on chemical manufacturing and import. Bill Atkinson, Chief Scientific Adviser: The legislation governing chemical supply will switch from EU REACH to UK REACH after Brexit. Registration with UK REACH after Brexit is likely to follow closely the process under EU REACH. Ongoing pandemic.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

.” An announcement from eBay cites repairers, like James Dunn from AW Repair, for whom the use of green parts “has slashed waiting times for customers, with green parts available in just three days compared to longer delays because of Brexit.”

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

The effects of climate change have impacted areas such as crop production and now consumers are no longer seeing an abundance of fruit and vegetables on the shelves, as some supermarkets were forced to resort to rationing supplies for reasons that include poor weather conditions and Brexit.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

The UK is falling behind just because there’s new legislation being developed by different countries.” He added that the UK and its businesses were facing many challenges from the recent past such as the pandemic, Brexit and the rising cost of living.

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Eco-Business

JANUARY 21, 2021

Carbon Brief breaks down the trade deal between the UK and the EU: what some call the best climate free trade agreement to date—a potential 'game-changer' for Paris Agreement targets.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 30, 2019

A combination of reduced Chinese quota, Brexit uncertainty and a General Election, an increasingly difficult global economic situation, reduced demand from European and other global mills, a lower PRN/PERN price plus increased shipping costs and volatile currency markets have forced down OCC prices in particular.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

UK ministers enthuse about the post-Brexit potential to unleash a new wave of green investment, but not everybody is convinced. Now, more than six years after the Brexit vote, which took place in the same year, 2016, as Solvency II came into effect, HM Treasury is planning to slim down Solvency II as it applies to the UK.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 17, 2020

Campaign groups question the government’s commitment to air quality improvement as, although the government has verbally expressed a desire to maintain high standards of environmental stewardship outside the EU, Brexit means the UK can diverge from EU-imposed environment regulations, including the clean air commitment.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 29, 2024

The first of these invited speakers to be announced is Stephen Phipson CBE, Chief Executive at Make UK.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 11, 2023

However, as part of a wide range of proposed post-Brexit legislative changes, the Government had planned for this safety marking to be replaced by a new UKCA (UK Conformity Assessed) mark for all goods sold in Great Britain from the end of 2024; a deadline which had already endured several postponements and extensions.

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Eco-Business

MARCH 3, 2020

Survey shows surge in concern, with nearly a quarter of people saying it is the most important issue facing Britain, even though few have been personally affected.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 19, 2023

Of those surveyed, 30% of businesses reported they had already invested in supply chain management digital tools which can reduce emissions and build resilience from delivery disruptions caused by new Brexit trading rules and long-term Covid disruption in Asia.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

As we adapt to a post-Brexit, post-pandemic world, climate change really is the fundamental issue of our time and I hope the UK will act with the same urgency to deliver, not just promise, that we at Malaby are demonstrating.

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Sense and Sustainability

JULY 15, 2020

But the impact of these tensions between local fishers and industry on one hand, and scientists working for broad, ecosystem-level reforms and governance on the other, has not stopped with just reforms – it was one of the factors leading to the famous 2016 referendum on the UK’s EU membership, triggering Brexit.

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Eco-Business

JANUARY 13, 2021

The United Kingdom is forging ahead with R&D projects to reduce the carbon impacts of dirty industries, with the central focus on carbon capture and hydrogen generation, ignoring energy efficiency.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 27, 2023

The UK’s second mover advantage had at times been promoted as a ‘Brexit dividend’, allowing the UK to learn from Europe’s example, although its apparent intention to include nuclear opened this to question.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

And, against a background of Brexit and recent political uncertainty, investors will now look at the country as less politically stable. All commentators agree that huge investment is required into renewables and related technology in the immediate future. The need is pressing. However, the financial resources are finite.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 10, 2024

Post-Brexit politics seen as an obstacle to cooperation on carbon pricing mechanisms.

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3BL Media

JUNE 6, 2022

In his previous role as head of European gas for the United Kingdom Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, Justin was responsible for the United Kingdom-European Union (UK-EU) gas relationship, including the approach to exiting the EU (Brexit) and the Free Trade Agreement negotiations.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 22, 2021

Whilst there are major challenges to be faced post-pandemic and post-Brexit, the UK would do well not to lose its leadership in solving global problems such as air pollution. The Global Burden of Disease project estimated in 2017 that 3.4 million premature deaths globally could be attributed to outdoor air pollution and in 2019, 2.31

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The UK’s disjointed approach was also evident in plans to scale back post-Brexit Environmental Land Management schemes, alongside efforts to accelerate wind power , having recently backed a new coal facility.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Under current EU law and also post Brexit, manufacturers retain responsibility for the safe disposal of electric car batteries. There are already 164,100 pure electric vehicles on Britain’s roads, with that number rising to 373,600 when plug-in hybrids are included.

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ESG Today

JULY 27, 2022

Finally, post Brexit the EU and the UK are beginning to diverge as the UK follows its own (TCFD led) path in conjunction with new Sustainability Disclosure Requirements (SDR). In addition, global ESG standards currently differ and many emerging markets have no requirements for companies to report on ESG.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Whatever our views on Brexit, many of these laws provide vital environmental protections for our air, rivers, wildlife, and food standards. They helped remove the UK’s 1970’s reputation of being the ‘dirty man of Europe’ by cleaning up our waterways.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 25, 2021

It’s hoped that the strange decision making around the coal plant project can be chalked up to Brexit teething problems. However, public outcry led ministers to reconsider plans and the future of the development is now in doubt.

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Chris Hall

JULY 6, 2022

Buttle admitted some investors have been concerned about putting Sainsbury’s at a “competitive disadvantage” in a tight labour market due to the loss of workers following Brexit. . However, he argued that there is also a strong business case for backing resolutions calling for a fair living wage.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 7, 2022

This was partially due to the COVID-19 pandemic and to Brexit, which caused a reduction in PVC cables exported to the UK for recycling. Daniele Redaelli, Italian Regional Representative of Recovinyl® highlighted how, thanks to the collection and recycling schemes set up in the framework of VinylPlus, 1.5

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 5, 2024

Hopefully, post-Brexit EU and UK regulators will be able to learn from each other. The EC has consulted on whether the introduction of product categories should be accompanied by specific rules on how market participants must label and communicate on their products.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 30, 2021

In the aftermath of BREXIT and in view of COP26 in Glasgow in November 2021, the UK has been focussing on decarbonisation in relation to its infrastructure and power offerings. Victoria Judd, a lawyer at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, considers the sustainability credentials of biomass, and what this bodes for its future.

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