Politics

Conservative Environment Network urges government to impose ambitious inland bathing water site target following water company apology

All the top green business news from around the world this week, including a new US-Canada electric vehicle corridor, Ireland's first ever offshore wind auction, and a slowdown in Amazon deforestation

Heads of state from leading economies and small island states warn 1.5C goal is in peril without more ambitious action from G7

National Audit Office claims plan to mobilise investment in net zero innovation lacks sufficiently defined outcomes and clear stewardship

Energy and Net Zero Secretary Grant Shapps announces UK will join initiative designed to accelerate roll out of carbon capture and storage and carbon removal technologies

Former UN climate head cites past efforts of slave traders to 'self-justify' their actions, as she argues history will not look kindly on oil and gas companies' continued failure to accelerate decarbonisation efforts

Auto giant Stellantis urges government to revisit Brexit trade rules or risk seeing electric vehicle manufacturing capacity migrate to the EU

Report into the impact of the European Green Deal on energy security, prices, jobs, and investment claims the bloc's green transition is 'set in stone'

Net zero and nature policies are at forefront of draft Labour policy platform sent out to Party members last week

The government will try and argue its bonfire of regulations will not weaken environmental protections, just as it is trying to convince people it is serious about onshore wind development - but such gaslighting will be met with a weary scepticism