Taxation

'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

Policy

Shifting the burden

Adam Bell warns the government faces significant challenges if it is to make its mooted carbon tax and rebate policy work for everyone

clock 12 July 2021 • 4 min read

Taxation

The government must get serious with environmental taxes

Broad-based environmental tax reform can drive changes needed to put the economy on a pathway to net zero, writes Bright Blue's Sam Robinson

clock 28 June 2021 • 3 min read

Policy

Swiss citizens reject carbon tax in world's first 'CO2 referendum'

51.6 per cent of voters strike down federal government’s plans to hike taxes on petrol diesel, heating oil and natural gas

clock 15 June 2021 • 3 min read

Policy

Why the EU's proposed carbon border adjustment mechanism is a last resort

The EU's best carbon border adjustment mechanism may yet prove to be the one that never needs to be rolled out in full, writes Andrew Warren

clock 07 June 2021 • 5 min read