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Climate risk: UN says business response needs more urgency

Tidal wave hitting a city

Awareness of dangers is improving, but companies must realise 'globalisation means disaster doesn't stop at the office door'

20 May 2013

Five climate lessons from John Ashton

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The UK's former Special Representative for Climate Change's five key lessons all business and political leaders should heed

17 May 2013

Defra prepares to slash climate adaptation team to just six officials

The Ship Inn York during September 2012 floods

Department insists cuts will not impact UK efforts to improve climate resilience as responsibility for action shifts across government

17 May 2013

Paying the Price

Inflation is spiralling, but as David Powell argues environmental pressures as much as economic mismanagement are to blame

17 May 2013

Defra aims to save firms £1bn by cutting "green tape"

Businesses urged to give their views on how environmental compliance information could be made easier to find

17 May 2013

Three things green tech firms can learn from the smartphone wars

What's true for the iPhone rings true for others finds lawyer Andrew Riley

16 May 2013

Are businesses really ready to cope with a hostile climate?

PwC's Celine Herweijer warns that disaster-related costs are threatening to undermine economic growth prospects - it is time for businesses and governments to act

16 May 2013

US weather clean-up bill eclipses education and transport spend

NRDC estimates $100bn was needed to deal with the aftermath of droughts, floods and fires in 2012, representing the biggest non-defence spend in the US budget

15 May 2013

Vince Cable: 'No problem' allowing Green Investment Bank to borrow

Business Secretary insists Bank is not overly constrained, as Vantage Power picks up Shell Springboard award for hybrid bus technology

15 May 2013

Floods could 'overwhelm Thames Barrier by end of century'

Sea-level rises could send storm floods over the barrier if nothing is done to bolster the UK's flood defences

15 May 2013

Rockefeller Foundation launches $100m resilient cities initiative

Cities around the world invited to join new network that promises to fund appointment of Chief Resilience Officers

14 May 2013

Has the UK’s environment movement lost its way?

Trewin Restorick bemoans the "shortage of innovation and creativity" that is hampering the green NGO community

14 May 2013

Shale gas: green groups condemn methane flaring plans for wells

The Guardian confirms that two leading fracking companies have plans to flare excess gas at sites in Lancashire and West Sussex

10 May 2013

Got the T-shirt

Don't feel guilty about the Dhaka tragedy - Feel angry

10 May 2013

Has sustainability become a risky business?

New Ernst and Young report reveals how sustainability professionals are increasingly playing a key role in risk management efforts

08 May 2013

Apocalypse? Wow!

Belief in the Second Coming means many Americans see efforts to tackle climate change as futile

07 May 2013

Nine lessons from the Bonn climate talks

The media may have given it a wide berth, but the latest round of UN climate talks could yet have major repercussions for businesses

07 May 2013

Report: US fracking could heighten water stress

Ceres report urges industry to increase use of recycled and alternative water sources to help tackle drought conditions in Texas and Colorado

03 May 2013

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