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Whitbread aims to halve its carbon intensity with new science based target
Premier Inn and Costa Coffee owner joins SBT initiative to drive down emissions across its business and supply chain
Cleantech innovators set to pitch top green investors at BusinessGreen Forum
Next week's BusinessGreen Technology and Investment Forum will see inventors pitch everything from remade office furniture to hybrid motorbikes, to a room of green investors
British Solar Renewables and Mongoose strike community solar management deal
'First of a kind' agreement will see BSR manage 50MW of community solar assets across 14 parks
Bristol Energy taps 'poo bus' creators to run city on sewage
Bristol-based utility teams up with GENeco, the company behind the 'poo bus', to roll out green gas produced from toilet waste
Climate risk: PRI collaborates with Transition Pathways Initiative on carbon bubble challenge
UN-backed Principles of Responsible Investment will provide a secretariat and report services to the TPI in return for data analysis
Blenheim Palace to phase out single use plastic
UNESCO World Heritage Site is replacing plastic bottles, straws and cups with paper and glass alternatives
Reports: AB Inbev invents low-carbon beer bubbles
World's largest brewer claims it can make fizzy beer without needing to boil water and hops
Just Eat revs up electric delivery fleet vision
Online takeaway specialist to offer 'significant discounts' on electric scooters and green energy to 28,500 independent restaurants
New Zealand bans new offshore oil and gas exploration
High profile move deals blow to oil industry as Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern names tackling climate change as top priority
Chipotle cracks down on landfill waste
Mexican fast food chain promises to divert half of restaurant waste away from landfill by 2020
Government confirms £320m heat network funding scheme to open this year
Heat Networks Investment Project will offer loans and grants to help boost the uptake of low carbon heating networks
BusinessGreen Leaders Awards 2018: Finalists announced
From Blue Chips to start-ups, some of the UK's most exciting green businesses will be celebrated at this year's awards
CBI urges government to secure close alignment with EU energy and climate rules
Business body calls on government to remain close to EU's internal energy market, Euratom, and Emissions Trading System
Floating solar: AqvaFloat readies factory for floating solar PV production
UK-based firm finishes commissioning on Cumbria facility as it prepares to begin production of 'game-changing' floating solar energy systems
Uber swoops in for US electric bike hire service Jump
Tech giant moves into increasingly competitive bike sharing market after testing Jump Bikes' hiring services in San Francisco
World's most powerful wind turbine installed in Scottish waters
Vattenfall confirms giant 8.8MW turbine has been deployed at European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre
Shell confirms its greenhouse gas emissions rose in 2017
Both direct and indirect emissions from oil giant's global activities ticked up last year, according to its latest sustainability report
Re-wilding: Ecotricity inks partnership with National Forest
Green energy specialist to sponsor Timber Festival and back plans to develop the UK's first new large-scale forest in over 1,000 years
Iceland pledges to remove palm oil from own-brand food
Supermarket chain claims it is not possible to source mass market palm oil in a verifiably sustainable way
Green Apple: Tech giant confirms it is now 100 per cent powered by renewables
Apple announces renewables milestone, as company sets out opposition to EPA attempts to scrap Clean Power Plan
The Queen's Green Planet: Documentary to see Queen and David Attenborough discuss climate change
ITV documentary to air next week will focus on the Queen's Commonwealth Canopy project to boost forestry protection around the world
Green reading: Hay Festival switches to renewable power
Renewable energy company Good Energy to supply world famous literary festival with 100 per cent green power for the first time
Study: Hotels have 'compelling business case' to cut food waste
Research led by the global Champions 12.3 initiative found hotels saved $7 for every $1 invested in measures to reduce food waste
German water treatment company EnviroChemie acquires cheese waste start-up Clearfleau
British start-up turns cheese waste into green gas