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The car industry has been hit badly by the Covid-19 pandemic. New car registrations dropped by 30 percent in the UK, down from 2.3 million in 2019 to just 1.6 million last year, and 2021 hasn’t started off any brighter.
January saw a drop of 40% year on year, with just 90,000 new cars registered. That s the worst start to a year since 1970 – but the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders cautioned the numbers could have been even worse if it hadn’t been for the availability of click-and-collect preventing greater decreases.
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From developing offshore wind projects to boosting biomass energy crops, unveiling sovereign environment-friendly bonds and an online delivery tax, British finance minister Rishi Sunak will embark on a green agenda in his budget on Wednesday.
Expected climate change initiatives include the funding of three green programmes through the government’s £1 billion ($1.39bn) Net Zero Innovation Portfolio, with a £70 million competition to develop long-duration energy storage prototypes.
There will also be £20m to develop offshore wind demonstration projects to support the government s bid to generate enough electricity from offshore wind to power every home by 2030 and a further £4m to fund a biomass feed stocks programme to identify ways to increase production of green energy crops and forest products in a decarbonisation boost.
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