Politics

The opening speech from this year's BusinessGreen Leaders Awards - in full

Member states and third countries will face increased focus on beefed up Trade and Sustainable Development requirements

All the winners and highly commended entries from last night's prestigious BusinessGreen Leaders Awards

A wave of updated national climate action plans is now expected ahead of the COP27 Climate Summit, but countries are still resisting calls to ramp up climate finance pledges

Plus Canada single-use plastic ban, new Colombia president’s fossil fuel phase-out plans, and all the top green business news from around the world this week

'Natural gas is not green' CEOs declare, as they urge ministers to keep planned taxonomy rooted in science

Coherent government policies are required to push whole sectors towards ‘nature-positive' business models, write WWF's Cristianne Close, IKEA's Christina Niemela Strom and H&M’s Leyla Ertur

Fortnight-long meeting has made progress on number of technical issues, but disagreements over climate finance are now set to dominate the COP27 Climate Summit

Local government has a starring role to play in the mission to eliminate emissions across the UK's economy, writes the Environmental Industries Commission’s (EIC’s) Guto Davies

A failure to capture non-state climate action risks a skewed interpretation of success, argues CDP’s Petro Berttazzi