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Mathias Cormann appointed as OECD chief, despite climate concerns
Former Australian Finance Minister reportedly handed top job at influential agency, prompting warnings from green group's over his previous opposition to ambitious climate action
Victory for climate campaigners as government calls in controversial Cumbrian coal mine
BREAKING: Government confirms Communities Secretary will now intervene and review plans to build UK's first coal mine in 30 years
UK intent on holding 'physical' COP26 summit in Glasgow, Alok Sharma insists
COP26 President reiterates that he has strong support across cabinet for net zero agenda, despite mixed green policy messaging in recent weeks
Sustainable Farming Incentive: Defra plots first post-Brexit green farming subsidy pilot
Sustainable Farming Incentive trial to kick off later in 2021, as Defra develops new environmentally-focused approach for supporting farmers now the UK has left the EU
(Not so) green recovery: UNEP and University of Oxford warn world is failing to 'build back better'
Analysis of 50 major economies' post-Covid spending programmes concludes policymakers are wasting major opportunity to a build safer world and greener economy in wake of pandemic
Hitachi joins COP26 Principal Partner roster
Tech giant becomes latest high profile firm to be unveiled as a formal partner of COP26
'Polluter pays': Government unveils legally binding environmental principles to guide future policies
Defra to consult on five-overarching principles to be embedded in landmark Environment Bill, as campaigners warn welcome new approach needs to be embedded right across government
UK coal mine: Legal battle heats up as West Cumbria Mining seeks Judicial Review over latest delay to planning approval
Developer appoints lawyers to challenge Council's surprise decision to revisit planning permission for controversial project following letter from Committee on Climate Change
Former energy ministers urge government to demand equal representation on COP26 negotiating teams
Amber Rudd and Claire O'Neill have called on the government to take steps boost the number of women participating in the crucial COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow this year
Study shows net zero transition to affect over six million jobs, as criticism grows of Budget's 'climate failure'
Just Transition Jobs Tracker details how around one in five UK jobs are likely to be affected either positively or negatively by the net zero transition, further cranking up pressure on government to deliver coherent transition plan
'COP26 is a few months away': MPs slam UK government's 'lack of plan' for Climate Summit and net zero transition
But government rubbishes 'nonsense' claims from two MP committees that UK lacks coordinated net zero strategy and clear outcomes for UN climate summit
Green recovery or bust? Six green things we learnt from the Budget (and a lot of things we didn't)
The Chancellor Rishi Sunak served up a host of green infrastructure and financial measures, but has kicked many key issues down the road
Budget 2021: All the green announcements at a glance
BusinessGreen's all-you-need-to-know guide to the raft of key green tax and spending pledges in Rishi Sunak's second budget
A Budget of green miracles and disasters
Today's Budget significantly improves the UK's green investment climate, but it was still a long way short of the comprehensive net zero transition strategy that is so desperately needed
'We need a real commitment to green growth': The green economy reacts to the Budget
All the reaction from green groups, businesses, political figures to Rishi Sunak's hugely important pandemic-recovery, pre-COP26 Budget announcement
'Future economy': Sunak pledges to put green investment at heart of economic recovery
Chancellor touts potential of offshore wind, carbon capture, freeports, and green finance, but freezes fuel duty and leaves questions over energy efficiency and electric vehicle infrastructure unanswered
The wrong sort of recovery?
Or why today's Budget matters so much
'Beyond GDP': UN mulls adoption of green prosperity measure
UN Secretary-General António Guterres urges nations to consider the costs of economic profit against damage to the environment
Could a greener post-Brexit trading policy soon take shape?
Government confirms the Interim Office for Environmental Protection is to be up and running in July, as independent advisors warn Ministers against 'race to the bottom' on food and farming standards
Budget 2021: Chancellor to announce £27m to support Scotland's clean energy transition
Government trails plans to channel hundreds of millions of pounds into shifting the UK's oil and gas sector towards a cleaner future
Rewriting the green growth rule book: How environmental regulation could help fast track the UK's economic recovery
Aldersgate Group makes the case that 'ambitious, well-designed and properly enforced environmental regulations' can drive the UK's economic prosperity in new analysis
Budget 2021: Treasury trails green bond launch and £22bn UK Infrastructure Bank plans
Chancellor Rishi Sunak set to unveil slew of green investment measures as pressure mounts on government for ambitious net zero recovery drive
Budget battlegrounds are further evidence of short-termism
The Budget is a prime opportunity to bring some much-needed certainty and direction that can underpin the journey to net zero, writes ECIU's Dr Jonathan Marshall
UN: Weak 2030 national climate plans put world 'very far' from meeting Paris goals
UN urges countries to submit tougher climate plans to meet Paris goals and prevent climate catastrophe
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