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1.5 Items made of or containing Ivory: The Ivory Act (2018) applies to the import to the UK and export from the UK of items made of or containing elephant ivory which are intended to be dealt. (...) The Ivory Act (2018) prohibits the import and export of items made of or containing elephant ivory for the purposes of dealing those items, unless they fall within one of five exemptions.

1.6 Waste shipment: This section provides a description of the UK waste shipment notification scheme as established by the UK rules and procedures for the transboundary shipments of waste. The import of waste into the UK is for wastes controlled under a licensing system administered by the UK competent authorities. Its requirements are tied in with those of the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal, and an Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) decision on transboundary movements of waste for recovery.

1.7 Ozone-depleting substances: The import of ozone-depleting substances (ODS) is subject to licensing. In the context of the Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer and the Montreal Protocol on the substances that deplete the ozone layer, the Environment Agency issues ODS licences for imports into Great Britain based on applications submitted via the ODS quota, licensing and reporting system. Imports (as well as exports) of controlled substances, referred to hereby as ODS and products and equipment containing or relying on ODS are prohibited. However, there are exemptions to this prohibition. (...)

1.8 Fluorinated gases including hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs):. HFCs are, together with perfluorocarbons (PFCs) and sulphur hexafluoride (SF6), a fluorinated greenhouse gas (F-gas). F-gases are powerful greenhouse gases, with a global warming effect up to 23,000 times greater than carbon dioxide (CO2). HFCs are the most relevant F-gases from a climate perspective. As a signatory of the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol, the UK is committed to reduce our consumption of HFCs and to licence and report on them annually. Reducing emissions from F-gases is a part of UK's effort to implement the Paris Agreement under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050...

Industry and R&D&I: UK Government: Horizon Europe Guarantee Sector Scheme: The Scheme provides funding to researchers and innovators unable to receive their Horizon Europe funding while the UK is in the process of associating to the EU Horizon Europe programme.

Industry and R&D&I: UK Government: Infrastructure systems sector scheme: The Infrastructure Systems Sector scheme focuses on optimising transport and energy systems (...). Areas supported include Connected autonomous vehicles, Driving the electric revolution, Energy generation and supply, Energy revolution, Future cities, Future flight, Industrial decarbonisation, (...).

Industry and R&D&I: UK Government: Legacy Schemes under the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) 2014 2020: The ERDF aimed to strengthen economic and social cohesion by correcting imbalances between its regions. It supports (...) sustainable development (...). For the period 2014 – 2020, ERDF investments focused on several key priority areas. This is known as "thematic concentration": (...) The low carbon economy.

Industry and R&D&I: UK Government: Material and Manufacturing Sector Scheme: (...) aims to improve economic growth through sustainable increases in long term productivity across the UK and internationally. (...) Areas supported include, Advanced materials, Aerospace, Automotive transition fund, Energy batteries, Robotics, Connected autonomous Vehicles, Driving the electric revolution, High value Manufacturing, Advanced propulsion centres, Low carbon, vehicles, (...)

Industry and R&D&I: UK Government: Relief for Energy Intensive Industries (EIIs) from a proportion of the indirect costs of funding the Contracts for Difference (CFD), Renewables Obligation (RO) and small scale Feed in Tariff (FIT)

Industry and R&D&I: UK Government: Relief from Climate Change levy for businesses who have a Climate Change Agreement: CCA are voluntary agreements made between UK industry and the Environment Agency, an executive non departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA), to reduce energy use and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. In return, operators receive a discount on the Climate Change Levy (CCL), which is a tax on certain non domestic energy commodities (e.g. fuel and electricity).