The latest articles written by Amber Rolt

Amber Rolt

Reporter

Amber Rolt is an award-winning journalist providing news, features, and analysis for BusinessGreen and in-depth whitepapers for BusinessGreen Intelligence.

She is particularly interested in the circular economy, decarbonising the built environment, the role of clean tech, and nature restoration and recovery.

Amber has been covering environmental topics for BusinessGreen since 2023 and has a career as a business correspondent spanning over a decade. She has previously covered property, hospitality, retail and leisure, and the music industry.

In 2015 she won ‘New journalist of the year’ at the IBP awards and ‘Newcomer of the year’ at the LSL Property Press Awards. And in 2017 she was named as a winner at MHP Group’s ‘Young Journalist Awards: 30 To Watch’.

Amber holds a MA in journalism from City University, London, and a BA in Spanish from the University of Bristol.

Solar

Octopus Energy enters domestic solar installation market

The energy provider is to offer solar panels, batteries, and heat pumps in bid to create 10,000 'Zero Bills' homes by 2030

11 January 2023 • 2 min read

Supply chain

'Farmers are staring down the barrel': Researchers warn agricultural industry facing fertiliser cost timebomb

Fresh analysis from ECIU and University of Edinburgh warns that escalating prices of fertilisers is having knock-on effect on farmers and global food security

11 January 2023 • 5 min read

Wind

Blustery weather pushes UK wind power to record 21.6GW

Britain's onshore and offshore wind turbines set yet anothe generation record on 10 January, National Grid ESO confirms

11 January 2023 • 2 min read

Risk

How to respond to the inevitable climate and nature emergency

The Inevitable Policy Response (IPR) has launched FPS + Nature – a new nature and climate scenario to help investors understand how nature and climate policies could shape future markets

10 January 2023 • 7 min read