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Study: UK falling far short of '30 x 30' nature protection goal
03 October 2024
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4 min read
European Commission proposes 12-month delay to landmark deforestation regulation
Campaigners accuse European Commission President Ursula Van der Leyen of 'kowtowing to agribusiness lobbyists'
03 October 2024
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3 min read
Climate Week NYC was right to focus on healthcare and cities
Bupa's Nigel Sullivan offers an optimistic take on a busy week of meetings and events in New York
03 October 2024
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3 min read
'Job losses aren't inevitable': The case for 'fair and strategic' net zero transition planning
Green Alliance criticises government's 'disappointing' Port Talbot deal and calls for more co-ordinated approach to supporting communities reliant on carbon intensive industries
02 October 2024
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7 min read
'Working in lockstep with industry': Government reactivates shelved Solar Taskforce
03 October 2024
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5 min read
Tory leadership candidates launch blistering attacks on UK net zero targets
02 October 2024
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6 min read
Study: Policy interventions could cut plastic pollution 96 per cent by 2040
03 October 2024
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4 min read
Green heat networks: Over 30 schemes secure £2.7m in government funding
03 October 2024
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3 min read
Lidl beefs up net zero plans with new near-term emissions targets
02 October 2024
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2 min read
Did Labour's conference send the right signals to the green economy?
BusinessGreen Editor’s Briefing: September 2024
Alice Aedy: 'Every job can be a climate job in some way'
Earthrise's CEO and co-founder discusses the climate crisis’ position at the centre of a web of issues and the need to focus on 'solutions-driven, community-led' innovation
Hawksmoor: Addressing the climate 'cow in the room'
Co-founder and head of purpose at the UK's foremost chain of steak restaurants discusses pursuing 'integrity at scale' and why we should all eat less beef
Hannah Scott: 'Technology is a crucial piece of the puzzle, but it's not the only thing that needs support'
Oxfordshire Greentech's CEO reflects on her journey from writing sustainability articles for a local parish magazine to running a county-wide low-carbon business network
Highlights from a summer of sustainability announcements
BusinessGreen Editor’s Briefing: August 2024
'Why would you demolish large chunks of it?': Exploring the green retrofit of House of Fraser's flagship Oxford Street store
Civic Engineers' Simon Bennett unpacks the role of 'urban mining' in cutting carbon emissions from a £130m department store revamp
'Job losses aren't inevitable': The case for 'fair and strategic' net zero transition planning
Green Alliance criticises government's 'disappointing' Port Talbot deal and calls for more co-ordinated approach to supporting communities reliant on carbon intensive industries
02 October 2024
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7 min read
Torrential rain represents an opportunity to build a better society
Some actions to minimise the risk of catastrophic floods can make life more pleasant, even when it isn't raining, according to Anglia Ruskin University's Maryam Imani
02 October 2024
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4 min read
ClientEarth CEO Laura Clarke: 'I expect climate litigation against governments and corporates to increase'
Head of influential environmental law NGO speaks to BusinessGreen about UK net zero court victories and the fast-changing landscape for climate-related litigation
01 October 2024
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16 min read
Ex-Tory voters want the next leader to boost climate ambition - but is anyone listening?
Survey of 1,000 former Conservative voters finds a third would be more likely to support the Party again if it adopts more ambitious climate policies
01 October 2024
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8 min read
COP16: How countries are failing to deliver promised national nature plans
WWF publishes tracker assessing quantity and quality of national nature plans submitted by governments ahead of upcoming Biodiversity Summit - and finds just 20 nations have submitted updated plans
30 September 2024
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4 min read
Shaky Foundations: Nuclear power can help, but it won't end Britain's stagnation
A hugely influential new essay on how to revive the UK's flat-lining economy makes a compelling case for sweeping reforms, but its plan to decarbonise the economy risks delaying the clean energy transition
24 September 2024
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14 min read
Tory leadership candidates launch blistering attacks on UK net zero targets
Eden Dock: Canary Wharf and Eden Project team up to deliver new urban oasis
'Job losses aren't inevitable': The case for 'fair and strategic' net zero transition planning
Azerbaijan bids to host COP17 Biodiversity Summit in 2026
Green heat networks: Over 30 schemes secure £2.7m in government funding
Lidl beefs up net zero plans with new near-term emissions targets
Shaky Foundations: Nuclear power can help, but it won't end Britain's stagnation
A hugely influential new essay on how to revive the UK's flat-lining economy makes a compelling case for sweeping reforms, but its plan to decarbonise the economy risks delaying the clean energy transition
24 September 2024
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14 min read
We need an Office for Budgetary Radicalism
The latest OBR report on the UK's increasingly unsustainable deficit and the macro trends that threaten to make it worse still demands a bold response
13 September 2024
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5 min read
The climate angle on the Oasis ticketing fiasco
As the climate crisis proves, free market is as much of an oxymoron as definitely, maybe
05 September 2024
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6 min read
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