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2025 on course to be joint-second hottest year on record
Copernicus Climate Change Service confirms average global temperatures for 2023-2025 are now likely to breach 1.5C warming threshold
09 December 2025
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3 min read
'Another record': UK wind power generation hits all-time high
NESO confirms Great Britain generated a new peak of 23,825MW of electricity from its wind farms, providing enough clean power for over 23 million homes
08 December 2025
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2 min read
Carrie Harris: 'Some people don't realise how multi-dimensional it is to work in sustainability'
British Airways' director of sustainability reflects on starting out as a countryside ranger, the importance of resilience and creativity, and why the best way to have an impact can be to stay in your current role
09 December 2025
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8 min read
Insuring a net zero future: How the insurance sector can turn risk into resilience
09 December 2025
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4 min read
Tesco launches new nature partnerships to boost biodiversity in its supply chain
09 December 2025
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3 min read
UK and Ukraine expand InnovateUkraine green energy programme
09 December 2025
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2 min read
Mercedes-Benz truck becomes first electric HGV to drive from Land's End to John O'Groats
09 December 2025
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2 min read
'The future of British housing': 113-home development becomes 'world's largest' Zero Bills neighbourhood
09 December 2025
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5 min read
Study: Over 80 per cent of firms consider ESG ratings important to their sustainability strategy
09 December 2025
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3 min read
'There is no upside to delay': How a renewables-based energy system could save Europe $1.6tr
New study reveals how generation mixes with high shares of renewables will save money for consumers and businesses, even when grid upgrades, energy storage, and back-up power costs are considered
08 December 2025
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9 min read
'People are still treating cheap vapes as disposable': Is the government's vape ban failing?
Six months after the ban on disposable vapes came into force, waste companies warn behaviour has not changed with consumers continuing to discard vapes that lead to fires, lost resources, and millions of pounds of damage
05 December 2025
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8 min read
Global Briefing: Trump administration ramps up war on US climate policies
White House rejects climate science in new National Security Strategy and strips 'renewable' from National Renewable Energy Laboratory, as deadly floods hit Asia, and Thailand advances plans for its first climate law
05 December 2025
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5 min read
How Smart Green Shipping is charting a course for fleet decarbonisation
Smart Green Shipping CEO Diane Gilpin and BusinessGreen editor-in-chief James Murray discuss the future of low carbon shipping and what it could mean for broader corporate emissions reduction efforts
03 December 2025
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1 min read
What we told UK leaders about climate and nature at a national emergency briefing
I joined eight other experts to deliver a National Emergency Briefing in late November on the climate and nature to around 1,200 of the UK’s leaders — across politics, business, faith and culture — in Central Hall Westminster.
04 December 2025
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4 min read
The biggest climate stories often aren't labelled 'climate' - so newsrooms miss them
Last week's Budget provided a perfect example of how the mainstream media has a huge blindspot when it comes to the climate crisis and the policies that are shaping it
03 December 2025
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5 min read
Can the government deliver its promised environmental improvements?
The government's new Environmental Improvement Plan is an impressive document, but big questions remain over whether Number 10 and the Treasury will give Ministers the tools they need to deliver
02 December 2025
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4 min read
Budget: There was good news for climate action, but it was hidden among the chaos
Rachel Reeves sent a series of mixed signals to the green economy, which could have been avoided if only there had been a clearer narrative
26 November 2025
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7 min read
COP30 delivered mix of success and failure, but that is no success at all
Belém Summit provided important progress, but the market signals were compromised by petrostate wrecking tactics - the onus is now on leading governments and businesses to deliver the climate action that is so desperately needed
23 November 2025
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9 min read
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