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Budget promises funding for carbon-free transport, clean heat for homes and businesses, and efforts to restore Scotland’s natural environment

New guidance from Institute of Sustainability and Environmental Professionals aims to help balance demands for clean energy generation, food production, and biodiversity protection

VIDEO: Caroline Bush, an associate director in law firm Osborne Clarke's environment team, reflects on the UK's Biodiversity Net Gain rules, assessing nature risk, and the changing landscape for environmental and climate regulation and legislation

New Oxfam GB analysis shows each of member of the UK’s richest 0.1 per cent emits more carbon in eight days than someone in the bottom 50 per cent does in a year

BusinessGreen Editor’s Briefing: January 2026 part one

Government proposals to exempt small sites from BNG rules signals a disappointing lack of ambition and understanding of how the sectors have already mobilised to support this new market, writes Forsters lawyer Polly Montoneri

Overly cautious culture within Defra, Environment Agency, and Natural England has restricted attempts to embrace new approaches for nature recovery, spending watchdog claims

Environment Agency warns 'every water company now needs to focus on delivery', as new rules require them to produce pollution action plans from April

POLICY BRIEFING: BusinessGreen Intelligence reflects on the first anniversary of the Sustainable Aviation Fuel Mandate, as experts assess how the fledgling market is likely to develop in the coming years

Cornwall Insight analysis predicts measures in Autumn Budget to slash energy price cap by eight per cent