Policy

We should empower our central bank to go further in steering capital flows towards the low-carbon economy, argues Positive Money's executive director Fran Boait

All the green business news from around the world this week

As UK steps up efforts to secure COP26 Summit for Glasgow, prospective Summit President Claire Perry offers her first take on what is at stake

Institution commits to selling its remaining £2.8m holdings in fossil fuel companies by 2022 following pressure from student campaigners

Installation of home insulation has plummeted since Warm Front Scheme was scrapped in 2013, which may have led to millions of tonnes of additional CO2 emissions

As fracking resumes in Lancashire, mixed messages emerge from government as it tones down the pro-shale gas rhetoric but hints at a review of crucial tremor rules

Developer Banks Renewables lodged application for formal review of Contracts for Difference subsidy scheme over the exclusion of onshore wind projects from current auction

Exchequer Secretary Simon Clarke's speech on the new 'Economics of Biodiversity' report - in full

Secretary to the Treasury Simon Clark eyes plans to build a 'sustainable economy in harmony with nature'

Shapps questions whether third runway 'stacks up' on financial grounds and promises to take 'really, really close look' at case for expansion