Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 26, 2023

An independent review of the UK’s current progress and plans in relation to achieving net zero – titled “Mission Zero” – was published on 13 January. While praise is due for the progress made since the UK set a net zero target, says the review, it is also clear that “we need a new approach to our Net Zero Strategy.”

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OCTOBER 26, 2023

A new report forecasting the energy generation mix out to 2030, has calculated the government will miss its 50GW offshore wind capacity target, with potential consequences for net zero. Figure 2: Power price forecasts – average price per fiscal year (Source: Cornwall Insight Benchmark Power Curve). ”

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 9, 2023

Trade group with oversight on “the cornerstone material for a net-zero future ” sets out “ambitious plans” to reach net zero in Scope 1 and 2 emissions by 2050, and significantly cut Scope 3 emissions. Estimates as to how much copper will be required for the energy transition appear to vary widely.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 23, 2022

Fund Local Net Zero Hubs to accelerate the transition to Net Zero. ” The organisation is pushing for a “win-win-win” VAT exemption for measures to boost household energy efficiency, action on public transport, and a funding boost for Local Net Zero Hubs. Draughty homes. ”

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Envirotec Magazine

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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JULY 27, 2023

Read the full story in Flying Magazine. On Tuesday, the FAA announced it has awarded $92 million in grants to 21 airports across the country.

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OCTOBER 26, 2023

Read the full story at Renewable Energy Magazine. With the shock announcement from the UK government to water down its net zero commitments, World Hydrogen Leaders – organisers of the largest hydrogen networking event, World Hydrogen Week – are urging greater and swifter investment to drive adoption of clean hydrogen.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

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. However, even meeting existing targets is likely to result in a surge past 1.5°C

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

In November last year, Ofgem and the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DSNEZ) released its Connections Action Plan, which sets out ambitious actions to significantly reduce connection timescales and ensure a timely transition to net zero. Projects that don’t meet milestones are to be ejected.

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Envirotec Magazine

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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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The ADBA Scottish Conference 2023 will feature opening and closing keynote addresses from – respectively – Maurice Golden MSP, Convener, Cross-Party Group on Circular Economy, the Scottish Parliament, and Sarah Boyack, Shadow Cabinet Secretary for Net Zero, Transport and the Just Transition, Scottish Labour Party.

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Envirotec Magazine

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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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Dr Chris Williams, Chair of the IDRIC Stakeholder Group, said: “The initial evidence gathered by this IDRIC survey is of real concern to the UK’s ambition to be net zero and could put UK jobs at risk.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 12, 2022

A lack of common carbon emissions reporting standards across industry “risks completely undermining the UK’s drive to net zero”, a leading UK strategic manufacturing group has warned. These account for up to 90% of emissions and are fundamental to reaching net zero.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 17, 2023

We are using the guidance provided by the Carbon Trust to accelerate our journey to Net Zero. Paul Hopkins, Managing Director, AUMA Actuators Limited, says: “We believe that every business has a responsibility to reduce its carbon footprint.

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Envirotec Magazine

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. Ensuring the new UK Infrastructure Bank has a Net Zero mandate to deliver local investment in Net Zero projects. license ).

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2021

A report published on 26 August by an independent group of experts warns that reaching net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 is now “too little too late”, and will not achieve the long-term temperature goals identified in the Paris Agreement to limit global warming to 1.5°C license ). C by the end of the century.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Embracing wind as a driver to accelerate our net zero transition not only addresses environmental concerns connected with greenhouse gas emissions, but also contributes to UK energy security and, as a result, economic growth.

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Envirotec Magazine

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.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 5, 2023

A new briefing from the Climate Change Committee (published on 24 May) calls for more decisive efforts to tailor the government’s skills and jobs strategy to ensure the majority of workers are not left behind by the transition to net zero. A hands-off approach to the Net Zero workforce from Government will not work.”

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Read more in Wind Systems Magazine. According to Robert Hornung, president and CEO of the Canadian Renewable Energy Association (CanREA), Canada saw almost 1 GW of new capacity installed in 2021. That gigawatt broke down into about 700 MW of wind and about 300 MW of solar.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Corporate commitments to net-zero accelerated over the last two years, with almost one-third (30%) of Europe’s largest listed companies now having pledged to reach net-zero by 2050, according to a new study by consultancy firm Accenture. And as our study shows, the targets work.

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Envirotec Magazine

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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Envirotec Magazine

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. Net zero targets could be brought forward, so ignoring the deadline may lead to penalties or larger pay outs further down the line.”.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

New skills and qualifications will be needed to underpin Net Zero. Cutting global greenhouse gas emissions to meet Net Zero targets is arguably the most ambitious engineering project ever undertaken, according to a new report from the Institution of Mechanical Engineers.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Smart electricity substations that speak to each other using the 5G network could hold one of the keys to enabling the Net Zero revolution. The post Revolutionary smart substation trial to spearhead Net Zero first appeared on Envirotec.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Next generation energy innovators will receive a £24 million cash boost to develop “new technologies that will decarbonise UK industry, build home-grown energy supplies and help prepare the country for a net zero future.”

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Envirotec Magazine

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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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Land development firm says long term energy storage is ‘crucial’ for the net zero energy system of the future and keeping consumer bills lower. The post Energy storage key to net zero ambitions, says conference speaker first appeared on Envirotec.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 22, 2023

The UK government is currently missing one of its core Net Zero commitments to reduce CO2 emissions by 101 years, according to the Public Building Energy Efficiency Report , prepared by network service providers Neos Networks. However, there is a mixed picture across the local authorities.

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MARCH 11, 2022

New findings on critical plant and equipment data usage within the UK’s hi-tech manufacturing industries appear to reveal slower-than-expected progress toward achieving sustainability and net zero carbon reduction goals.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 24, 2023

Agrifoodtech start-up MicroHarvest has been named as winning innovator for its response to the challenge of ‘Building a net-zero food production system’ by a panel of expert judges at the 2023 BloombergNEF (BNEF) Pioneers awards. The MicroHarvest co-founders (left to right) Luisa Cruz, Katelijne Bekers and Jonathan Roberz.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Quite simply, without storage we will not reach our net zero targets.”. “I frankly do not understand why governments have been so slow to recognise that it is largely meaningless to talk about transitioning to intermittent renewables without also prioritising the inescapable corollary, which is storage.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 6, 2023

This led to the now well-known Paris Agreement of 2015, in which the countries of the UN agreed on reaching the goal of net zero emissions by 2050. With so much CO2 saved, solar panels are crucial for the world to reach the net zero goal by 2050 as set in the Paris Agreement. leads.io

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 8, 2021

A more integrated approach to the deployment of offshore energy networks is needed as a key enabler for net zero or the sea ‘is at risk of being full’, a new report from the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) claims. The offshore energy sector will be critical to the UK’s net-zero goals.

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Envirotec Magazine

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. That’s the apparent conclusion of a new independent assessment of the Net Zero Strategy published on 26 October by the Climate Change Committee (CCC).

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