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Scaling Climate Solutions “Intertwined” with Coherent Policy Incentives

Chris Hall

She stressed that the phasing out of fossil fuels and the scaling up of climate solutions are two objectives that are “closely intertwined”, not only from an economic standpoint but also in terms of policy signals.

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ScotWind Auction May Force Investors to Think Big

Chris Hall

The successful bidders include Shell, BP, Ocean Winds, Vattenfall, SSE Renewables, Falck Renewables, DEME, BayWa, Northland Power, Magnora Offshore Wind, and Offshore Wind Power, a joint venture between Macquarie’s Green Investment Group (GIG), TotalEnergies and RIDG.

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Reports showcase imaginative solutions for tackling hard-to-reach emissions

Envirotec Magazine

Brian O’Callaghan, lead of Oxford’s Economic Recovery Project and another report author, explains, “In the shadow of COVID-19, government investment in green innovation can both help to constrain climate change and seed new industries to stand as powerhouses of economic growth in the long-term.”

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Social Safeguards “Critical” to EU Taxonomy

Chris Hall

The environmental taxonomy must implement minimum safeguards to ensure the EU isn’t “closing its eyes to the social impacts of greening its economies”, according to Signe Andreasen Lysgaard, Strategic Advisor on Business and Human Rights at the Danish Institute for Human Rights. . Fitting in .

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Assembling the Pieces of the Carbon Pricing Puzzle

Chris Hall

Whether it’s 62% or 65% is a purely academic question,” says Boakye. Earlier this year, US President Joe Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) into law, committing US$369 billion to investments in green technologies and domestic renewable energy sources through a series of tax incentives. .

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SDSN Greece and Black Sea host Third Sustainability Summit with The Economist in Athens

Sustainable Development Network

He also highlighted the importance of green investments, which are at the baseline of green economic growth. In the session on "Green-Blue Shipping and Sustainable Marine Resources Management", the Greek Minister of Maritime and Island Policy, Mr.