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The UK Forestry Standard (UKFS) outlines the context for forestry in the UK. It is the reference standard for sustainable forest management across the UK, and sets out the approach of the UK governments to sustainable forest management by defining requirements and guidelines, and providing a basis for regulation and monitoring - including national and international reporting. It applies to all woodland, regardless of who owns or manages it. The standard also ensures that international agreements and conventions on areas such as sustainable forest management, climate change, biodiversity and the protection of water resources are applied in the UK (specifically those related to the 1992 UN Conference on Environment and Development).
The Law on Renewable Energy'. The main objectives of the document are: achieving a higher share of energy from renewable sources of at least 17% in gross final consumption of energy in 2020, as well as at least 10% share of energy from renewable sources in the final energy consumption in transport in 2020. Accomplishing these goals will increase the energy security of the country, significantly dependent on energy imports;
it As regards the specific example on the NACE category of the counterparty at subsidiary level or consolidated holding level or from an SPV point of view, please see the EBA answer above, under question 1. e Amendments to the proposals Summary of responses received
These Regulations contain measures to partly transpose Council Directive 2013/59/EURATOM laying down basic safety standards for protection against the dangers arising from exposure to ionising radiation. For this purpose, they amend existing legislation with respect to, among other things, definitions an references, levels of contamination, inspections, adding of geothermal energy production to the list of NORM industrial activities (that is, industrial activities involving natural occurring radioactive material where the radioactivity is incidental to the activity).
The Government will launch a new £120 million fund to provide targeted support in relations to barrier to entries for nuclear, including for small modular reactors, with potential sites such as the Wylfa site in Anglesey. Further details on how the fund will be operated will be published in 2022, along a roadmap for deployment.
A Government consultation was launched on 12 December with industry and other stakeholders on the implementation and impact of the new policy on ending support for fossil fuels. The consultation is expected to conclude by 8 February 2021. UK Export Finance (UKEF) will continue to consider applications for support in the oil and gas sector whilst the consultation is ongoing and has already scaled up its support for the renewable energy sector. There will be very limited exceptions for gas-fired power plants and other projects, within strict parameters that accord with the Paris Agreement – details are set out in the consultation paper. The Chancellor allocated GBP 2 billion to UKEF’s direct lending facility in the Spring Budget to accelerate its support for clean growth and renewable energy projects, meaning it can now provide direct loans dedicated to overseas buyers of UK renewable goods or services.
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Act of 25 August 2006 on the Fuel Quality
Monitoring and Control System (Official Journal
of the Laws of 2019, Item 660)
Regulation of the Minister of the Economy
of 21 November 2005 on the technical
conditions to be met by terminals and stations
of liquid fuels, long-distance pipelines for
transfer of crude oil and its products, and their
location (Official Journal of the Laws of 2014,
Item 1853)
Act of 6 December 2008 on the Excise Duty
(Official Journal of the Laws of 2018, Item 864, as
amended)
Energy consumption and energy efficiency
Act of 20 May 2016 on Energy Efficiency (Official
Journal of the Laws of 2019, Item 545)
Description
biofuels for their own use, the performance of economic
activities in the scope of the placing on the market
of biocomponents and liquid biofuels, the determination
and implementation of the National Indicative Target,
the confirmation of compliance with the sustainability
criteria, the performance of economic activities in
the scope of the award of authorisation for the use
of a recognised certification and the performance
of economic activities in the scope of the issue
of certificates. Moreover, it regulates the rules for carrying
out inspections, preparing reports and the procedure for
submitting reports. It implements the requirements
of Directive 2009/28/EC for achieving the target of a 10%
share of renewable energy in transport in 2020 and
introducing sustainability criteria for biocomponents and
liquid biofuels. The Act lays down the rules for the organisation and
operation of a system for monitoring and controlling
the quality of fuels intended for use in vehicles, including
agricultural tractors, off-road machinery, recreation-related
floating vessels, combustion plants and inland navigation
vessels, selected fleets and by farmers for their own use. Moreover, it regulates the rules for monitoring and using
certain means of reducing GHG emissions in the life cycle
of fuels used in transport and electricity used in motor
vehicles. The Act also lays down the rules for controlling
the quality of solid fuels. The Regulation regulates the issues of the hermetic storage
and distribution of liquid fuels with a view to limiting their
losses. The Act lays down, among others, the excise duty rates for
These Regulations amend the Controlled Waste (Registration of Carriers and Seizure of Vehicles) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999 and the Waste Management Licensing Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003 in relation to fees for considering applications to register an undertaking carrying on an exempt activity and charges for considering applications for registration as carriers of, brokers of, or dealers in controlled waste, which are set out in legislation, as opposed to the charging scheme designed to ensure that fees and charges payable for waste management licences under the Waste and Contaminated Land (Northern Ireland) Order 1997 are sufficient to recover the costs for the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs in exercising its functions under the 1997 Order.
Targets and obligations U.K. 16 U.K. The regulations must, for each trading period- (a) set a target for the total amount of the activities, and (b) impose, or provide for the imposition of, an obligation on each participant in relation to the carrying on of a specified amount of the activities in the period.
These Regulations amend the Merchant Shipping (Ship-to-Ship Transfers) Regulations 2010 in relation with ship-to-ship transfers of oil by separating the prohibitions on the ship-to-ship transfer of cargo oil and the ship-to-ship transfer of bunker oil (fuel). These are described in the 2010 Regulations as a “cargo transfer” and a “bunkering operation” respectively (regulation 2 of the 2010 Regulations) and were both contained in regulation 3(1) of the 2010 Regulations. Following amendment by the 2012 Regulations, the prohibition on bunkering operations is contained in regulation 3(2A) of the 2010 Regulations. Regulation 6 of the 2010 Regulations, which permits the Secretary of State to make exemptions to the general prohibitions on cargo transfers and bunkering operations, was not amended by the 2012 Regulations.
Zero emission powered light vehicles are a clean and efficient way of getting around and can reduce congestion, air, and noise pollution from transport. While cars and vans outnumber motorcycles on UK roads, motorcycles are an important and sizeable vehicle population, with 1.4 million licensed in 2020 and we do not want to see them remaining fossil fuelled as the rest of the vehicle fleet cleans up.88 Government will ensure one in four of the central government car fleet is ultra low emission by 2022 and achieving a fully zero emission car and van fleet by 2027. Government is leading the way here, going further and faster and again demonstrating that ZEVS are credible for fleet users across the UK. Powered light vehicles are two, three and four wheeled passenger or cargo vehicles. They are smaller and lighter than many other vehicle types and so can have a significant impact on urban transport systems, particularly when used in place of other forms of low occupancy vehicles. Their size also makes them complementary to increased public transport use and the growth of cycling and walking infrastructure.
The purpose of this law is to ensure that national climate protection targets and European targets are met to protect against the effects of global climate change. The ecological, social and economic consequences are taken into account. The basis is the obligation under the Paris Agreement based on the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, according to which the increase in global average temperature must be limited to well below 2 degrees Celsius and, if possible, to 1.5 degrees Celsius compared to the pre-industrial level in order to reduce the effects of global climate change as low as possible, as well as the commitment of the Federal Republic of Germany at the United Nations climate summit on September 23, 2019 in New York to pursue greenhouse gas neutrality by 2050 as a long-term goal.
In 2010, the EU committed to reducing its greenhouse gas emissions by 20% by 2020 compared to 1990 levels. This objective was submitted by the EU-28 within the framework of the Convention, and there are no specific objectives for each Member State. Within the framework of the Energy-Climate Package, the EU has established internal rules that underpin the implementation of this objective. This is divided into two sub-objectives compared to 2005, one for the ETS sectors for the entire EU (target of -21% in 2020 compared to 2005 emissions) and the other for non-ETS sectors shared by each Member State (target of -14% in 2020 compared to 2005 emissions for France). Under the WAM scenario, projected emissions in 2020 in sectors not covered by the ETS is 16% lower than 2005 emissions. Moreover, the non-ETS objective is one to be reached over a period of time as opposed to by a given year. Given that emissions in France are lower than those resulting from the decision to share this effort in previous years, France is in possession of surplus allowances. Therefore, it will reach its 2020 objective.
• Integration of conversion processes into an energy system with a high proportion of fluctuating renewable energy sources, • Methane pyrolysis for the controlled, climate-neutral splitting of methane into hydrogen and elementary carbon, • Decentralized approaches that contribute to the long-term stability and security of the energy system.
Implementation period Participants Other consequences Impact assessment Interactions. These should serve both application-oriented R&amp;D and testing on an industrial scale and broad market launch of mature technologies and also focus on their economic efficiency. In particular, the funding program aims to reduce GHG emissions as far as possible in the production of high-emission goods, optimize process chains, convert processes to the use of renewable energy sources and raw materials, and substitute high-emission ones Promote goods and technologies for the conversion of hydrogen and technologies for the use of CO2. The funding program should have a minimum term of ten years and start in 2020. Lead management: BMU, involved: BMWi, BMBF Managing authorities, companies The resulting product innovations can also promote the decarbonization of other sectors (e.g. energy, buildings). Is available A coordinated approach to support the reduction of industrial process emissions is necessary. Coordination with measures of the BMBF (cf. 3.4.3.5), the BMWi (energy research) and this measure should take place according to BMWi planning in an innovation pact &quot;Climate protection in industry&quot;. Here, if necessary, gaps or possible further measures and instruments should also be considered be identified with regard to a long-term climate protection strategy for industry. Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS): The vast majority of studies and scenarios have now confirmed that CCS technology is indispensable for achieving extensive greenhouse gas neutrality by 2050, because in the medium term it is a comparatively inexpensive way of reducing process-related emissions in the basic industry that cannot otherwise be avoided. A large number of reduction strategies to achieve the global temperature targets of the Paris Agreement also rely on so-called &quot;negative emissions&quot;; the elements of the entire CCS process chain would also have to be available for this. A broad consortium consisting of scientists, company representatives and representatives of NGOS recently prompt further development of CCS - flanked by a discourse with social actors - is required so that the technology is available for these industries from 2030 (Acatech, September 2018); the deep subsoil below the North Sea has extensive CO2 storage capacities. The program aims from the adaptation and scaling of CO2 capture methods to industrial plants,
31 U.K. In Part 2 of Schedule 1 to the 1975 (bodies of which all members are disqualified), at the appropriate place insert- " The Committee on Climate Change. "
House of Commons, London SW1A 0AA 020 7219 4494 - beiscom@parliament.uk - - @CommonsBEIS Minister of State for Energy, Clean Growth and Climate Change Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, Joint Committee on the National Security Critical National Infrastructure and I understand that you have been invited by Dame Margaret Beckett MP to attend the final evidence session of our Joint Committee inquiry on Critical National Infrastructure and climate adaptation on Monday 4th July, but that you are not available to do so. As Chair of the BEIS Select Committee I sit ex officio on the Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy. One of the reasons we are doing this work on the Joint Committee is because I did not have the capacity to do it on the BEIS Select Committee. I’d therefore be grateful if you could make yourself available to appear before the Joint Committee so that we need not take the extra time to ask you the same questions via the BEIS Select Chair of the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee
8th National Communication, 2022 to developing countries, while both developed and developing countries collectively agreed to work to reduce the gap between existing emission reduction plans and what is required to reduce emissions, to ensure limiting the rise in global average temperature to 1.5 degrees Celsius. Nations also called for the phasing down of unabated coal power and inefficient subsidies for fossil fuels and completed the Paris Agreement's rulebook relating to market mechanisms and non-market approached and the transparent reporting of climate actions and support provided or received, including for loss and damage. Malta, as part of the EU, is amongst the nations who have committed to a reduction target of 55% by 2030 and carbon neutrality by 2050, compared to 2010. Being the smallest emitter in the EU, and having the highest disproportionate costs burden to reduce emissions, Malta was assigned a national emission reduction target of -19% Malta ratified the UNFCCC in 1994 and the Kyoto Protocol in 2001. These ratifications were made on the basis of non-Annex I status. To this effect, Malta did not immediately take on any quantified emission limitation or reduction obligations under these international instruments; thus, it did not have a quantified target for the limitation or reduction of greenhouse gas emissions for the first Kyoto Protocol Commitment Period (CP1; 2008-2012).
The national policy aims to increase the production of biofuels in an effort to achieve the target of renewable energy sources accounting for 10% of the energy used in the transport sector by 2020. In 2018, this share of renewable energy in the transport sector was 8,9% 57. This was largely due to the blending of biofuels with diesel and gasoline (98%). The other 2% were from the use of biogas (1.5%) and electricity (0.8%). The biofuels used in 2018 were made largely from waste (72%), mostly coming from used frying fat (56%) imported from other western European countries, Asia (China and Taiwan) and North America. 28% of the biofuels were made from crops, mainly wheat and corn originating from Europe. The share of advanced biofuels was 0.8%, which is a sharp rise from 0.1% in 2017.
Charges U.K. 26 (1) The regulations may- U.K. (a) require the payment by participants or other persons authorised to trade in allowances, credits or certificates of charges of an amount determined by or under the regulations by reference to the costs of operating the scheme, and (b) provide for such charges to be imposed by- (i) a national authority, (ii) the administrator of the scheme, or (iii) such other person as may be specified in or determined in accordance with the regulations. (2) If the regulations provide for charges to be payable to a person other than a national authority, they must provide for that person to pay the sums received to the national authority or authorities specified in or determined in accordance with the regulations.
This Strategy aims to identify measures, including additional measures, to achieve climate neutrality in Slovakia by 2050. This ambitious target was formally defined only at the last stage of preparation for this Strategy (after the completion of the modelling of possible emission scenarios), and therefore other less ambitious emission reduction (and increase in removals) scenarios are analysed in detail: a scenario with existing WEM measures and a scenario with additional WAM measures. These, however, as pointed out in the Strategy itself, are unlikely to bring Slovakia to a lower degree of climate neutrality without additional effort. Possible additional measures are proposed at the end of each sectoral chapter, marked NEUTRAL, and should be modelled in future strategy updates.
Technological progress in the automobile industry will be of major importance in bringing to market more efficient technologies in terms of fuel consumption as well as technologies based on alternative fuels such as LPG, liquefied gas, biogas, hydrogen, electricity and others. In order to ensure road traffic with the previously mentioned means, the adequate development of the road infrastructure is necessary. the aforementioned means, the adequate development of the road infrastructure is necessary. A very important role in the reduction of GHG emissions from road transport is played by the application of the provisions of Directive 2009/33/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of April 23, 2009 regarding the promotion of non-polluting and energy-efficient road transport vehicles, Regulation (EC) 443/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 April 2009 establishing emission performance standards for new passenger cars, as part of the Community&#39;s integrated approach to reduce CO emissions from light-duty vehicles, targeting CO from new cars, which provides for an objective of reaching an average emission level in 2020 of 95 g CO/km and Regulation (EU) 510/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 May 2011 establishing performance standards for new light commercial vehicles as part of the Union&#39;s integrated approach to reducing emissions CO generated by light-duty vehicles, targeting CO emissions from new light-duty vehicles, which sets a target of achieving an average emissions in 2020 of 147 g CO/km. D. Intelligent transport systems - STI
The countries delivering on these commitments will need to radically change their energy, transport, buildings and land use sectors. By driving forward UK action now, we can build companies that can win the lion's share of these new global markets in the future. Our presidency of the UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26), which will meet in Glasgow in November 2021, provides the opportunity to drive further ambitious action on climate change and unite the world on a path to a net zero economy, including through our COP26 Energy Transition Campaign and co-leadership of the Powering Past Coal Alliance. We will continue to demonstrate international leadership by building on the policies set out in the UK's National Energy and Climate Plan (NECP) and a number of other publications. This white paper goes even further than the ambitions set out in the NECP for renewables and energy efficiency.
This Ordinance implements provisions of the Land Planning and Development (Guernsey) Law, 2005 by prescribing, in its Schedule, use classes for the purposes of the Law and for the purposes of any description used in the Strategic Land Use Plan and any Plan or Local Planning Brief. The Ordinance also provides with respect to minor, ancillary or incidental uses and uses falling without use classes. Specific provision is made for land used for agriculture falling within use class
We mobilised £12 billion of government investment, shared some of the risks of pioneering new industries, and began to introduce regulations to assure industry of the future demand for green products - such as through our decision to end the sale of new petrol and diesel cars by 2030. We have also invested in the skills the British workforce will Our Strategy for Net Zero 3. We will ensure that the most vulnerable are protected through Government support
These Regulations amend the Climate Change Agreements (Administration) Regulations 2012 with regard to the terms which must be included in both umbrella agreements (which are the agreements between the administrator and the sector associations) and underlying agreements (which are the agreements between the administrator and the operators). These Regulations also make provision for the administrator (the Environment Agency) to be able to vary existing agreements as a result of those amendments.
Accelerating our domestic supply of clean and affordable electricity also requires accelerating the connecting network infrastructure to support it. Within this decade, our modern system will prioritise two key features: anticipating need because planning ahead minimises cost and public disruption; and hyper-flexibility in matching supply and demand so that minimal energy is wasted. This more efficient, locally-responsive system could bring down costs by up to 10 billion a year by 2050.
Section 71 F1 SCHEDULE 5 E+W Waste reduction schemes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 repealed (15.1.2012) by Localism Act 2011 (c. 20) , ss. 47(a) , 240(1)(e) , Sch. 25 Pts. 8