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Cecilia Keating is senior reporter at BusinessGreen, providing news, features and analysis for the site. She is interested in sustainable supply chains, renewables, and the decarbonisation of cities and transport.

Prior to joining the BusinessGreen team, Cecilia reported on municipal and provincial politics, clean energy, environment and mining for a number of outlets in Canada and the UK, including Solar Media, Canada's National Observer, Ricochet Media, Mining Magazine and CIM Magazine. She has scripted and researched podcasts for Harper’s Bazaar and The Globe and Mail, and worked for several years as an arts publicist.

She studied journalism at Concordia University in Montreal and English literature at the University of Bristol.

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EN+ Group vows to achieve net zero emission aluminium and energy production by 2050
EN+ Group vows to achieve net zero emission aluminium and energy production by 2050

Firm claims carbon reduction targets are most ambitious unveiled to date in hugely energy-intensive aluminum sector

  • Energy
  • 18 January 2021
Total to snap up stake in Indian solar giant Adani Green Energy
Total to snap up stake in Indian solar giant Adani Green Energy

Announcement of deal to acquire 20 per cent stake in world's largest solar developer comes just days after oil giant quits American Petroleum Institute over climate policy differences

  • Solar
  • 18 January 2021
Gemserv acquires Ecuity to boost net zero business solutions
Gemserv acquires Ecuity to boost net zero business solutions

Professional services firm announces takeover of Birmingham-based consultancy for an undisclosed sum

  • Workplace
  • 18 January 2021
Peak methane? IEA urges oil and gas sector to plug methane leakage
Peak methane? IEA urges oil and gas sector to plug methane leakage

Methane update reveals that reduced demand for oil and gas during the pandemic's shutdown of industry and travel saw methane emissions drop 10 per cent in 2020

  • Energy
  • 18 January 2021
From taxes to targets: How can the UK curb its offshore carbon emissions?
From taxes to targets: How can the UK curb its offshore carbon emissions?

Major report makes the case for new carbon tax on imported goods and goods, as the Environment Secretary reveals the UK's climate targets could eventually cover carbon embodied in imported goods

  • Carbon Trading
  • 15 January 2021
Scaling up sustainable finance: How can investors accelerate the net zero transition?
Scaling up sustainable finance: How can investors accelerate the net zero transition?

As the sustainable finance sector booms, asset managers and owners are under increasing pressure to use their financial clout to steer a greener future

  • Investment
  • 15 January 2021
'Economically feasible': New study maps how China could shift from coal to green energy in the 2020s
'Economically feasible': New study maps how China could shift from coal to green energy in the 2020s

Green electrification drive over next 10 years critical to the world's largest emitter decarbonising its power grid by mid-century, according to new analysis from Energy Transitions Commission and Rocky Mountain Institute

  • Energy
  • 15 January 2021
BYD and ADL to expand UK electric bus manufacturing operations
BYD and ADL to expand UK electric bus manufacturing operations

Firms announce plans to transfer assembly of chassis of electric buses from China to UK, citing need to meet growing demand of zero emission buses

  • Automotive
  • 14 January 2021
Study: Urban air quality improved less during Covid-19 lockdown than previously thought
Study: Urban air quality improved less during Covid-19 lockdown than previously thought

Researchers reveal NO2 emission reductions during first lockdown were lower than previously thought, amidst warnings ozone levels actually increased

  • Science
  • 13 January 2021
The real thing: Coca Cola European Partners' Joe Franses unpacks the drinks giant's net zero agenda
The real thing: Coca Cola European Partners' Joe Franses unpacks the drinks giant's net zero agenda

The vice-president of sustainability at CCEP, the largest Coca-Cola bottler in the world, spills the details on how the firm intends to achieve net zero packaging, manufacturing, shipping, and ingredients within 20 years

  • Management
  • 13 January 2021
TSB banks on new roadmap to deliver net zero operational emissions by 2030
TSB banks on new roadmap to deliver net zero operational emissions by 2030

10-year plan sets out how high profile bank intends to slash emissions generated by company cars, buildings, and boilers

  • Management
  • 13 January 2021
Study: Fleet electrification primed to soar as heavier-duty EVs come online
Study: Fleet electrification primed to soar as heavier-duty EVs come online

Study published this week by US charging network ChargePoint predicts growing range of specialist commercial vehicles will turbocharge corporates' shift away from fossil fuels

  • Automotive
  • 13 January 2021
'Climate pariah': Campaigners urge Blackrock to strengthen coal exclusion policy after counting $85bn of coal investments
'Climate pariah': Campaigners urge Blackrock to strengthen coal exclusion policy after counting $85bn of coal investments

Environmental NGOs urge investment giant to expand its coal exclusion policy to include bigger portion of coal value chain, noting that current ban applies to just 17 per cent of coal companies

  • Investment
  • 13 January 2021
UK joins 50 nations in pledge to protect 30 per cent of land and oceans by 2030
UK joins 50 nations in pledge to protect 30 per cent of land and oceans by 2030

New High Ambition Coalition for Nature and People established in support of '30 by 30' goal, which comes ahead of crucial COP15 biodiversity summit this year

  • Biodiversity
  • 12 January 2021
Verdantix expands ESG research practice to meet surging demand for green tech
Verdantix expands ESG research practice to meet surging demand for green tech

Independent research firm says rebooted sustainability practice will allow companies to grow more sustainably

  • Management
  • 12 January 2021
Clean power drives Britain's grid to record low CO2 intensity in 2020
Clean power drives Britain's grid to record low CO2 intensity in 2020

National Grid ESO data for 2020 confirms raft of new records for wind and solar generation, as well as longest coal-free run since the Industrial Revolution

  • Energy
  • 12 January 2021
'Detail is crucial': Schroders urges UK's biggest companies to publish climate plans in 2021
'Detail is crucial': Schroders urges UK's biggest companies to publish climate plans in 2021

Asset manager's chief executive warns that 'too little is known' about climate plans of UK companies that are critical to delivering net zero transition

  • Investment
  • 12 January 2021
'Environmentally regressive': UK government approves use of bee-harming pesticide banned in EU
'Environmentally regressive': UK government approves use of bee-harming pesticide banned in EU

Decision to temporarily lift restrictions of neonicotinoid insecticide on sugar beet crops prompts outcry from public and conservation groups

  • Policy
  • 11 January 2021
Blow for climate campaigners as government refuses to block controversial Cumbrian coal mining project
Blow for climate campaigners as government refuses to block controversial Cumbrian coal mining project

Decision not to intervene in planning process for coal mine draws widespread condemnation from politicians and green campaigners amid concerns over project's climate impact

  • Policy
  • 06 January 2021
'Real risk to wellbeing': UK summer temperatures set to rise faster than global average, study finds
'Real risk to wellbeing': UK summer temperatures set to rise faster than global average, study finds

Research mapping 40 years of future global climate trends has concluded that temperatures in the UK are set to increase faster than other parts of the world

  • Climate change
  • 06 January 2021
Global coffee players brew up 2050 climate plan to slash 1.5 gigatonnes of CO2
Global coffee players brew up 2050 climate plan to slash 1.5 gigatonnes of CO2

Starbucks, Walmart, McDonalds and Nescafe among more than 150 coffee retailers and producers to join collective pledge to invest in forestry protection and smallholder farm efficiency

  • Climate change
  • 06 January 2021
Electrification of harbour crane moves Port of Tyne closer to carbon neutral goal
Electrification of harbour crane moves Port of Tyne closer to carbon neutral goal

Port selected to be maintenance base for massive Dogger Bank offshore wind farm cut 700 tonnes of carbon emissions in 2020 after electrifying its harbour crane and other key assets

  • Infrastructure
  • 06 January 2021
Poll: UK banking customers demanding greener financial services
Poll: UK banking customers demanding greener financial services

Deloitte's Better Banking Survey reveals a public increasingly concerned about the social and environmental credentials of the companies entrusted with their money

  • Investment
  • 06 January 2021
Veganuary 2021: Record 440,000 commit to plant-based diet challenge
Veganuary 2021: Record 440,000 commit to plant-based diet challenge

More than 440,000 people have so far signed up to the 31-day challenge in the UK, making this year's the biggest yet, according to Veganuary

  • Climate change
  • 05 January 2021
Ecotricity strikes landmark deal to secure geothermal power from Cornish plant
Ecotricity strikes landmark deal to secure geothermal power from Cornish plant

Major milestone for emerging renewable energy sector as developers of UK's first geothermal power plant agree to sell 3MW of baseload power to green energy supplier

  • Energy
  • 05 January 2021
Campaigners vow to oppose Gatwick Aiport's 'stealth' second runway following shareholder approval of plans
Campaigners vow to oppose Gatwick Aiport's 'stealth' second runway following shareholder approval of plans

As Gatwick kicks off planning permission process for plans to convert an emergency runway into functioning second runway, campaigners accuse airport off being 'disengenuous' by understating scale of upgrade

  • Aviation
  • 05 January 2021
Tesco toasts removal of one billion pieces of plastic from its shelves in 2020
Tesco toasts removal of one billion pieces of plastic from its shelves in 2020

Supermarket claims to have met its pledge to remove one billion pieces of plastic, working with suppliers to remove unnecessary and excessive packaging of products

  • Waste
  • 05 January 2021
Firms pledge to showcase Scotland's 'first' hydrogen-powered train at COP26
Firms pledge to showcase Scotland's 'first' hydrogen-powered train at COP26

Train to be developed by retrofitting an old passenger car with hydrogen fuel cell technology over the coming months, in the hope the model can feature at the COP26 climate conference set to be held in the autumn in Glasgow, according to project lead...

  • Rail
  • 05 January 2021
Tyne and Wear village to tap blended hydrogen from gas grid in green heating pilot
Tyne and Wear village to tap blended hydrogen from gas grid in green heating pilot

Plan for 10-month hydrogen heating trial near Gateshead comes as WWF Scotland urges major energy efficiency investment programme to slash emissions from leaky and carbon-intensive homes

  • Buildings
  • 04 January 2021
Government unveils £8m to advance plans for six net zero industrial hubs
Government unveils £8m to advance plans for six net zero industrial hubs

Latest funding to be split between six regional industrial decarbonisation projects across the UK in support of hydrogen, carbon capture and renewable energy technologies

  • CCS
  • 04 January 2021
'Disastrous extremes': Christian Aid catalogues $145bn cost of 2020 weather disasters
'Disastrous extremes': Christian Aid catalogues $145bn cost of 2020 weather disasters

Most costly floods, windstorms, tropical cyclones and fires in 2020 killed thousands of people across the globe and displaced millions, charity finds

  • Climate change
  • 29 December 2020
'Move from ambition to action': Government urged to ramp up green policies and spending in 2021
'Move from ambition to action': Government urged to ramp up green policies and spending in 2021

Green Alliance warns that major decarbonisation policy gaps must be filled next year if government is to achieve its bold 2030 carbon reduction target

  • Policy
  • 29 December 2020
'Business exists to address challenges': Ingka Group's Karol Gobczynski on net zero problem-solving
'Business exists to address challenges': Ingka Group's Karol Gobczynski on net zero problem-solving

The head of climate and energy at Ingka Group, which owns the majority of Ikea stores, sits down with BusinessGreen to discuss the company's sustainability plans and why investment now will secure the company's future profitability

  • Management
  • 23 December 2020
Fintech start-up turns to algorithms and sensors to scale nature-based solutions investment
Fintech start-up turns to algorithms and sensors to scale nature-based solutions investment

Cultivo aims to facilitate flow of private finance to nature-based solutions, by using cutting-edge technologies to identify projects with potential for strong natural capital returns

  • Technology
  • 23 December 2020
'Gold standard': Bankers draft net zero rules for financial services sector
'Gold standard': Bankers draft net zero rules for financial services sector

Bankers for Net Zero alliance convened by All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Fair Business Banking unveils framework for sector's role in accelerating UK decarbonisation

  • Investment
  • 22 December 2020
Britain's wind turbines deliver new record amid blustery weather
Britain's wind turbines deliver new record amid blustery weather

Wind power generation hit a new high of 17.3GW last week during short period when zero carbon electricity produced nearly three-quarters of output, National Grid ESO reveals

  • Wind
  • 21 December 2020
Government faces fresh legal threat over Heathrow expansion plans
Government faces fresh legal threat over Heathrow expansion plans

Good Law Project and Ecotricity CEO Dale Vince threaten court action unless government reviews airports planning policy before the final approval process for third runway begins

  • Policy
  • 21 December 2020
'Modern, smarter, digitally enabled': Ofgem sets out price control plan for local networks from 2023
'Modern, smarter, digitally enabled': Ofgem sets out price control plan for local networks from 2023

Energy regulator sets out how it expects to deliver a 'more modern, smarter, digitally enabled' grid that can support up to 11 million electric vehicles by 2030 and increased demand for heat pumps

  • Energy
  • 21 December 2020
A plant-based recovery? The Vegetarian Butcher's Hugo Verkuil on shifting diets during a pandemic
A plant-based recovery? The Vegetarian Butcher's Hugo Verkuil on shifting diets during a pandemic

Chief executive of the Vegetarian Butcher sits down with BusinessGreen to discuss the current vegan food frenzy and how to market plant-based products to meat-lovers

  • Science
  • 21 December 2020
'Real risks of social backlash': UK utilities urged to publish dedicated 'just transition' plans
'Real risks of social backlash': UK utilities urged to publish dedicated 'just transition' plans

National Grid, E.On, RWE, Scottish Power, EDF and Centrica urged to follow SSE’s lead and publish dedicated strategies setting out how workers and consumers will be protected from any shocks of net zero transition

  • Energy
  • 21 December 2020
PwC: Rate of global decarbonisation must quintuple to avert worst climate impacts
PwC: Rate of global decarbonisation must quintuple to avert worst climate impacts

Net Zero Index reveals UK has maintained highest decarbonisation rate in 21st century, but warns efforts must be accelerate rapidly to achieve global climate goals

  • Net Zero Now
  • 21 December 2020
Asset managers and index providers urged to end ETF market's financing of deforestation
Asset managers and index providers urged to end ETF market's financing of deforestation

New report from Planet Tracker warns booming ETF market is supporting soybean companies driving mass deforestation in Brazil, Indonesia, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)

  • Investment
  • 18 December 2020
'Historic milestone': Battery pack prices fall under critical $100/kWh mark for first time
'Historic milestone': Battery pack prices fall under critical $100/kWh mark for first time

Update from BloombergNEF reveals battery pack prices have plummeted from $1,100 per kWh in 2010 to $137 per kWh in 2020, powered by soaring EV sales, cheaper materials, and manufacturing and tech innovation

  • Automotive
  • 17 December 2020
Climate Action 100+: Nine out of 10 corporates exclude indirect emissions from climate goals
Climate Action 100+: Nine out of 10 corporates exclude indirect emissions from climate goals

Update from investor-backed campaign calls on companies to better account for their indirect emissions in corporate climate goals

  • Investment
  • 17 December 2020
Supreme Court overturns ruling blocking Heathrow third runway
Supreme Court overturns ruling blocking Heathrow third runway

BREAKING: Campaigners vow to challenge decision in European Court of Human Rights, arguing the Supreme Court has 'betrayed' the public by ruling Ministers did not have to consider the Paris Agreement when approving the controversial project

  • Aviation
  • 16 December 2020
'Step up to be counted': EU launches major climate engagement campaign
'Step up to be counted': EU launches major climate engagement campaign

Count Us In campaign will urge EU citizens to embrace a number of carbon cutting measures, such as reducing food waste, travelling by bike and foot, and investing in better home insulation

  • Climate change
  • 16 December 2020
'Forest Allies': Kingfisher and Rainforest Alliance team up for tropical forest conservation
'Forest Allies': Kingfisher and Rainforest Alliance team up for tropical forest conservation

Partnership will help home improvement company meet its aim of creating as much wood as it consumes by 2025

  • Supply chain
  • 16 December 2020
The ghost of carbon past: Velux Group's Ingrid Reumert on tackling historic corporate emissions
The ghost of carbon past: Velux Group's Ingrid Reumert on tackling historic corporate emissions

Velux Group's vice-president of sustainability reveals what it takes to address emissions from the present, the future, and the past

  • Management
  • 16 December 2020
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