Taxation

'Go for growth': CBI urges Treasury to leverage autumn spending review to drive net zero

Politics

'Go for growth': CBI urges Treasury to leverage autumn spending review to drive net zero

Budget planned for late October could put UK at front of a global race for green technologies, according to business group

clock 17 September 2021 • 4 min read
'Wasteful and baffling': Government urged to stop funding gas boilers through fuel poverty grant scheme

Policy

'Wasteful and baffling': Government urged to stop funding gas boilers through fuel poverty grant scheme

All subsidies for heating systems that undermine the UK’s climate goals must come to an end, analysts warn

clock 14 September 2021 • 4 min read
Gridlock Britain: Is the UK prepared for the rapid demise of fuel duty?

Automotive

Gridlock Britain: Is the UK prepared for the rapid demise of fuel duty?

New report from Tony Blair Institute warns failure to prepare for the accelerating shift to electric vehicles could hit Treasury coffers and trigger a new wave of congestion on the roads

clock 31 August 2021 • 8 min read
Citizen jury finds strong public backing for greener UK tax and VAT regime

Taxation

Citizen jury finds strong public backing for greener UK tax and VAT regime

Overhaul of the tax and VAT regime to help drive greener behaviours, products and services strongly favoured by poll respondents and citizen's jurors

clock 17 August 2021 • 4 min read
'Doesn't add up to a cleaner, greener future': WWF warns UK Budget is failing net zero test

Politics

'Doesn't add up to a cleaner, greener future': WWF warns UK Budget is failing net zero test

Green group claims only fraction of Budget 2021 has been directed towards climate change mitigation policies, as pressure ramps up Chancellor Rishi Sunak to step up support for net zero transition

clock 12 August 2021 • 5 min read
Why carbon dividends are having a moment

Taxation

Why carbon dividends are having a moment

Josh Burke at LSE's Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment explores the challenges and benefits of redistributing the proceeds of a carbon tax

clock 04 August 2021 • 7 min read

Carbon Accounting

Government urged to overhaul UK's 'regressive' carbon pricing system

Per-mile road pricing and annual 'carbon budgets' among raft of proposals from think tank Bright Blue to make carbon taxes fair and effective

clock 29 July 2021 • 4 min read

Management

How five green incentives could kick-start your company's route to net zero

Financial support is available to UK businesses of all sizes that want to cut their emissions - it is often just a case of submitting an application

clock 20 July 2021 • 8 min read

Transport

Government revs up Transport Decarbonisation Plan with proposed diesel truck ban, but will it go far enough?

Details of Transport Decarbonisation Plan revealed to Financial Times, as separate report suggest ministers are continuing to lock horns over the best way to introduce new carbon pricing mechanisms

clock 13 July 2021 • 8 min read

Taxation

G20 finance ministers back carbon pricing as key tool to tackle climate crisis, but climate funding moves prove elusive

At G20 meeting in Venice, finance ministers conclude that climate pricing is among raft of tools that can be deployed to tackle climate change

clock 12 July 2021 • 6 min read