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BusinessGreen staff

BusinessGreen frequently publishes articles from the inhouse editorial team as well as leading freelance environmental and business journalists.

If you have queries about any of these articles please contact BusinessGreen editor James Murray at [email protected].

Articles by BusinessGreen staff

We can't afford to get carbon budgets wrong

Policy

We can't afford to get carbon budgets wrong

Carbon budgets are critical to reaching climate goals - they require debate, but must remain ambitious, writes Turner & Townsend's James Hardy

clock 06 November 2023 • 5 min read
New wind farms, deep sea mining, and the end of the net zero 'sugar rush': BusinessGreen's most read stories of the week

BusinessGreen

New wind farms, deep sea mining, and the end of the net zero 'sugar rush': BusinessGreen's most read stories of the week

BusinessGreen rounds up the most widely read stories on the site this week

clock 03 November 2023 • 1 min read
Reflections on Party Conference Season and all the highlights from the Net Zero Festival

Editor's Blog

Reflections on Party Conference Season and all the highlights from the Net Zero Festival

BusinessGreen Editor’s Briefing: October

clock 03 November 2023 • 2 min read
Net Zero Festival 2023: Tracking the defining economic trend of the 21st century

Net Zero Festival

Net Zero Festival 2023: Tracking the defining economic trend of the 21st century

VIDEO: What does net zero mean for your organisation? Business leaders offer their views on the UK's premier green business conference

clock 02 November 2023 • 1 min read
'Industrial food systems have a fossil fuel problem': Study estimates global food system uses 15 per cent of all fossil fuels

Energy

'Industrial food systems have a fossil fuel problem': Study estimates global food system uses 15 per cent of all fossil fuels

Report warns oil companies are manoeuvring to lock in global food system's dependence on fossil fuel-based pesticides, fertilisers, and plastic packaging

clock 02 November 2023 • 3 min read
Companies neglect nature at their peril

Risk

Companies neglect nature at their peril

The new TNFD framework offers a major opportunity for firms to enhance their risk management approach, writes Mott MacDonald's Ed Roud

clock 02 November 2023 • 4 min read
Study: Cutting meat consumption by a third could deliver 'outsized' climate and nature benefits

Climate change

Study: Cutting meat consumption by a third could deliver 'outsized' climate and nature benefits

A small switch to eating more plant proteins could deliver 'outsized benefits' for climate, nature and water, fresh research claims

clock 02 November 2023 • 4 min read
CDP: $33bn-worth of investors and corporates join push for high-emitting firms to set science based targets

Carbon Accounting

CDP: $33bn-worth of investors and corporates join push for high-emitting firms to set science based targets

Around 2,100 high-emitting companies, including FedEX, Eskom, Nippon Steel Corp, Rio Tinto, and JD.com are being targeted by CDP's campaign to set science-aligned climate goals

clock 02 November 2023 • 3 min read
'Underfinanced, underprepared': Inadequate climate adaptation efforts leave world exposed, UNEP warns

Climate change

'Underfinanced, underprepared': Inadequate climate adaptation efforts leave world exposed, UNEP warns

Latest UNEP Adaptation Gap Report warns world needs to invest hundreds of billions of dollars more each year in climate adaptation efforts

clock 02 November 2023 • 4 min read
'We can already see it is working': ULEZ expansion slashes polluting car use in London

Legislation

'We can already see it is working': ULEZ expansion slashes polluting car use in London

First data shows 95 per cent of vehicles across inner and outer London are now compliant with clean air standards after ultra low emission zone was expanded in August

clock 01 November 2023 • 4 min read