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JULY 15, 2021

A communiqué signed by UK mayors and local leaders calls for a ‘power shift’ from Whitehall so that local and regional authorities can deliver Net Zero. Local and regional leaders appeared at a public event in Birmingham on 13 July to make the case to Government for additional powers to tackle climate change.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Water industry experts from Ricardo and Mott MacDonald have collaborated to create what they describe as “a pioneering strategy that will guide the UK water industry to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2030.” Net zero by 2030 will be a huge team effort.”.

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AUGUST 25, 2020

Eight in ten Scots oil workers have considered that their careers could be impacted by actions being taken to tackle climate change, new research suggests. The post 80% of oil workers considering career impacts of climate change first appeared on Envirotec.

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OCTOBER 4, 2023

Good Law Project, Friends of the Earth and ClientEarth will bring their legal challenge of the Government’s threadbare net zero strategy to the High Court, in a hearing due on 20-22 February 2024. The UK’s 2050 deadline to reach net zero and the carbon reduction targets that apply along the way are legally binding.

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DECEMBER 9, 2022

Rob Jenkinson is Net Zero Program Manager at Swedish bearing and seal manufacturing firm SKF. Reaching Net Zero operations by 2050 will require huge changes in industrial practices – such as how we use energy and source raw materials – but despite all the challenges, the target is achievable writes Rob Jenkinson.

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OCTOBER 12, 2022

A new report sets out to explain – in direct terms – why the UK Government’s current Net Zero Strategy (NZS) falls significantly short on ambition if Britain is serious about limiting warming to 1.5°C. “We will never solve the problems of climate change without the help of the natural world. ‘Net

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MAY 31, 2022

Mark Kemp, the new President of the Association of Directors of Environment, Economy, Planning & Transport (ADEPT), has launched the group’s new Climate Change and Green Growth policy position. Key to achieving climate change action is behaviour change.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Research reveals manufacturing sector as one of the best prepared to meet 2050 UK Net Zero targets with 57 per cent of businesses having a strategy to reduce their carbon footprint. Reducing the world’s emissions and slowing down climate change has become a top priority.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT) believes its sector “can achieve net-zero by 2050” through a range of measures recommended to government and others in its latest report, Routes to Net-Zero 2050: 2020 Year End Summary. Setting carbon budgets for the transport sector.

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DECEMBER 10, 2020

A similar message appears to be forthcoming from reports on 9 December by the Committee on Climate Change on the important role both businesses and the public sector have in delivering Net Zero across the real economy. Pathways to Net-Zero need to be tailored to the organisational context.

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JULY 17, 2024

Phasing out fossil fuels is key to cutting emissions and fighting climate change. But a suite of technologies collectively known as carbon capture, utilization and storage, or CCUS, are among the tools available to help meet global targets to cut CO2 emissions in half by 2030 and to reach net-zero emissions by 2050.

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OCTOBER 20, 2021

The research report, “ Smaller businesses and the transition to net zero “, highlights the potential collective influence of UK smaller businesses and the considerable contribution they could make to wider net zero objectives if they all made changes to reduce their carbon footprint.

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MARCH 25, 2022

Reaching net zero carbon emissions by 2050 is impossible without urgent changes to national planning policy, analysis by CPRE, the countryside charity, appears to have found. No other local authority has a plan to hit net zero. said: ‘We’re not going to hit net zero by accident – we need to plan for it.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Iain Gulland, chief executive of Zero Waste Scotland. The group set out what it believes to be the next key steps needed to meet the Scottish Government’s landmark pledge to end Scotland’s contribution to the climate emergency by 2045. It means reducing all our emissions to zero. But net-zero cannot be the end point.

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JUNE 27, 2022

Simon Richards writes about how the construction industry is taking the lead ahead of the Government when it comes to setting targets to achieve net zero in the industry. However, true collaboration, which is open, transparent, and has its fair share of risks and opportunities, is only attainable from Government policy change.

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MAY 27, 2025

The Climate Change Committee (CCC) published its advice on the recommended level of Scotlands forthcoming four carbon budgets (covering the period 2026 to 2045) on 21 May, presenting what it suggested was a good news story about how Scotland can decarbonise. Scotlands climate future depends on it.

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JULY 20, 2022

A new “Jet Zero Strategy” seemingly commits UK domestic aviation to achieving net zero emissions by 2040, and for all airports in England to be zero-emission by the same year. The Jet Zero Strategy is said to build on the government’s existing strategies for net zero, and transport decarbonisation.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Scottish Water has completed work on its first large-scale battery storage project which the utility says will accelerate its drive towards net zero emissions by 2040. The ability to maximise green energy production as well as store and release this energy when we need it is a vital part of our journey to net zero. “By

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FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Net zero offers ‘huge economic development opportunity’ for Scotland. A new report suggests immediate action aimed at achieving net zero carbon can still offer a significant economic opportunity for Scotland – and the transport sector is “hugely optimistic” about the country’s prospects of decarbonisation.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Achieving the UK’s commitment to achieve net zero emissions by 2050 will require an annual decarbonisation rate of 9.7%. This year the UK became the first major economy to set a legally binding commitment to reach net zero emissions by 2050. required decarbonisation rate for net zero.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2024

A team of young engineers is launching a £100,000 project to build a robot that will plant seagrass to help fight climate change, thanks to help received from Converge, a group describing itself as a pan-Scotland springboard for university entrepreneurs. The Seagrass planting prototype.

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JUNE 2, 2023

The work was completed on behalf of the South West Net Zero Hub working with the region’s Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPS) The objective of the research was to define the gap between current skills and workforce supply and the net zero ambition communicated by local authorities.

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DECEMBER 5, 2023

A new report sets out a strategy for achieving net zero concrete and cement. Making Net Zero Concrete and Cement Possible appears to show, through its Net Zero scenario, how the sector can reach net zero GHG emissions and comply with a 1.5°C

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JANUARY 10, 2025

The Net Zero Lighting 2025 conference “which made its hugely successful debut in 2024” is set to be held again on Thursday 29 April 2025. Lighting and electrical manufacturers are invited to gather at a special event to share insights and learnings on cutting their carbon emissions.

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OCTOBER 15, 2024

JJ Chalmers, “We can all play our part in tackling climate change. It’s also why this government will move towards a circular economy where we keep our resources in use for longer, waste is reduced, and the path to net zero is accelerated.” Recycling at home is a simple way to get involved and make a big difference.

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DECEMBER 16, 2020

A similar message appears to be forthcoming from reports on 9 December by the Committee on Climate Change on the important role both businesses and the public sector have in delivering Net Zero across the real economy. Pathways to Net-Zero need to be tailored to the organisational context.

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OCTOBER 7, 2020

New research published by UK100, a group of mayors and local government leaders in late September appears to show that a “retrofit army” of nearly half a million builders, electricians and plumbers will be needed to meet the Government’s objective of becoming Net Zero by 2050. 100 billion green investment.

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DECEMBER 16, 2024

At the conference, ADBA launched its latest report, The Role of Green Gas In Net Zero; Cutting the Cost of Keeping the Lights On , developed in association with Business Modelling Applications (BMA). This considered the cost of the transition to Net Zero with green gas. Previous government modelling had omitted green gas.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

The exclusion means the UK will fail in its obligations under the Paris Agreement and instead has concentrated on the need to achieve net zero by 2050. By concentrating only on achieving net zero by 2050, it is alleged that the Government has failed to lawfully take account of those aims. This is wrong in law.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Coal-fired power plant chimneys: In fast-growing economies, rapidly increasing energy demand is triggering investment in both low carbon and fossil fuel generation, leaving certain countries, including India and China, unlikely to reach net zero until much later. Progress across different sectors is varied.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2019

An overwhelming majority of UK planners want the next government to give stronger direction and more resources to enable local planners to deliver net zero carbon emissions by 2050. A total of 994 out of the RTPI’s 25,000 members responded to the RTPI’s climate change survey.

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JANUARY 22, 2025

Scotland must do more to help hydropower facilities maximise their output and prevent negative impacts on wildlife in the face of the challenges posed by climate change, according to a new report. While hydropower is vital for meeting climate change targets, care must be taken to minimise its impacts on river health and ecosystems.

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MARCH 24, 2021

Vital electricity storage capacity needed to help the UK meet its net-zero target should be supported by an innovative funding mechanism, new research launched on 24 March appears to have found. The post Energy storage reform needed to meet net-zero, says report first appeared on Envirotec.

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OCTOBER 26, 2021

The UK Government’s new Net Zero Strategy sets out for the first time how the Government intends to halve UK emissions in little over a decade, and to eliminate them by 2050. It is also a strong example to bring to the COP26 summit of how to follow climate change targets with action.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Announced as “the beginning of the UK’s path to net zero” the plan sets out a number of initiatives in areas such as energy, transport, carbon capture and flood defences. The firm said these were the figures needed to deliver the 19 million heat pumps the net zero target necessitates, according to the Committee on Climate Change.

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DECEMBER 2, 2019

Almost half of UK boards spent zero hours discussing climate change this year. A third of UK boards feel little or no responsibility for climate change. In the UK, the zero hours figure has reduced from almost two thirds of boards in 2018 (61%) to 46% in 2019, but the report says that progress is too slow. .

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NOVEMBER 20, 2023

To achieve this, the Climate Change Committee’s 2023 report stated that it would require urgent and radical change in the UK’s manufacturing and industrial sectors. Ultimately, to achieve the Government’s critical goals in tackling climate change, companies must reduce emissions at scale.

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