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Global Briefing: Saudi Arabia plots car-free city stretching 100 miles
Global Briefing: Saudi Arabia plots car-free city stretching 100 miles

Plus Danish diets, China climate policy signals, and all the top green business news from around the world this week

  • Management
  • 15 January 2021
From taxes to targets: How can the UK curb its offshore carbon emissions?
From taxes to targets: How can the UK curb its offshore carbon emissions?

Major report makes the case for new carbon tax on imported goods and goods, as the Environment Secretary reveals the UK's climate targets could eventually cover carbon embodied in imported goods

  • Carbon Trading
  • 15 January 2021
Scaling up sustainable finance: How can investors accelerate the net zero transition?
Scaling up sustainable finance: How can investors accelerate the net zero transition?

As the sustainable finance sector booms, asset managers and owners are under increasing pressure to use their financial clout to steer a greener future

  • Investment
  • 15 January 2021
'Economically feasible': New study maps how China could shift from coal to green energy in the 2020s
'Economically feasible': New study maps how China could shift from coal to green energy in the 2020s

Green electrification drive over next 10 years critical to the world's largest emitter decarbonising its power grid by mid-century, according to new analysis from Energy Transitions Commission and Rocky Mountain Institute

  • Energy
  • 15 January 2021
Aegon commits to net zero across its default pension funds by 2050
Aegon commits to net zero across its default pension funds by 2050

The pension provider is also aiming to slash the carbon emissions in its default pension funds in half by 2030, covering around £10bn of assets

  • Investment
  • 15 January 2021
Climate adaptation: Could nature based solutions help bridge the gap?
Climate adaptation: Could nature based solutions help bridge the gap?

Huge shortfall in financing for climate adaptation measures means global efforts to tackle the climate crisis are akin to 'going into battle blindfolded with one hand tied behind our backs', UN warns

  • Climate change
  • 14 January 2021
UK water industry joins UN Race to Zero campaign
UK water industry joins UN Race to Zero campaign

Water UK becomes first trade body to join as official partner of UN campaign, which aims to rally ambitious corporate climate action ahead of COP26

  • Net Zero Now
  • 14 January 2021
Keir Starmer: Climate action must be 'at the heart' of Covid-19 recovery
Keir Starmer: Climate action must be 'at the heart' of Covid-19 recovery

Labour leader promises climate change and the green economy will be central to Party's plans 'now and at the next election'

  • Politics
  • 13 January 2021
Is inaction on environmental crises leading humanity into a 'ghastly future of mass extinction'?
Is inaction on environmental crises leading humanity into a 'ghastly future of mass extinction'?

Today has seen some of the starkest warnings yet on how the failure to grasp the severity of the impacts that climate change and biodiversity loss will have for human could trigger conflict, disease, and mass migration - how should businesses respond?...

  • Science
  • 13 January 2021
Zoom in on Net Zero - with E.ON's Anthony Ainsworth
Zoom in on Net Zero - with E.ON's Anthony Ainsworth

VIDEO: COO of energy giant's industrial and commercial energy division sits down with BusinessGreen editor James Murray to discuss all things net zero

  • Net Zero Now
  • 13 January 2021
UK joins 50 nations in pledge to protect 30 per cent of land and oceans by 2030
UK joins 50 nations in pledge to protect 30 per cent of land and oceans by 2030

New High Ambition Coalition for Nature and People established in support of '30 by 30' goal, which comes ahead of crucial COP15 biodiversity summit this year

  • Biodiversity
  • 12 January 2021
Boris Johnson: 'Tackling climate change must be part of overall agenda to protect the natural world'
Boris Johnson: 'Tackling climate change must be part of overall agenda to protect the natural world'

The Prime Minister says nations most 'go further' to protect nature, in addition to fighting carbon emissions, in his address to world leaders at the UN-backed One Planet Summit hosted by the French government on Monday

  • Biodiversity
  • 12 January 2021
Sky announced as 'principal media partner' for COP26
Sky announced as 'principal media partner' for COP26

Media giant to work with UK government as latest corporate sponsor for crucial climate summit, as it also unveiled a clutch of new green broadcasting commitments

  • Policy
  • 12 January 2021
Could Jordan Cereals point the way for a flourishing post-Brexit green farming sector?
Could Jordan Cereals point the way for a flourishing post-Brexit green farming sector?

The Jordans Farm Partnerships provides incentives to farmers to conserve some of their land for nature leading to the creation of more than 4,000 hectares of wildlife habitat in the last five years, according to a new study

  • Policy
  • 12 January 2021
Business leaders urge Prime Minister to pursue climate solutions with same urgency as Covid vaccines
Business leaders urge Prime Minister to pursue climate solutions with same urgency as Covid vaccines

Group of leading climate scientists, business figures, and civil society leaders publish open letter to Prime Minister Boris Johnson urging the government to beef up response to escalating climate crisis

  • Policy
  • 12 January 2021
Honouring the Paris Agreement Goals: A way forward
Honouring the Paris Agreement Goals: A way forward

While clean tech progress narratives dominate, less attention is being given to adaptation, resilience and finance for climate vulnerable countries, writes lawyer and activist Farhana Yamin

  • Politics
  • 12 January 2021
Boris Johnson unveils £3bn climate finance push to help safeguard global biodiversity
Boris Johnson unveils £3bn climate finance push to help safeguard global biodiversity

Commitment to help protect land and ocean ecosystems that are critical to combating climate change will be announced by Prime Minister at today's One Planet Summit

  • Policy
  • 11 January 2021
10 green business trends to watch out for in 2021
10 green business trends to watch out for in 2021

From net zero strategies to COP26, 2021 promises to be one of the most eventful and important years on record for the green economy

  • Management
  • 11 January 2021
'Environmentally regressive': UK government approves use of bee-harming pesticide banned in EU
'Environmentally regressive': UK government approves use of bee-harming pesticide banned in EU

Decision to temporarily lift restrictions of neonicotinoid insecticide on sugar beet crops prompts outcry from public and conservation groups

  • Policy
  • 11 January 2021
Alok Sharma takes on COP26 Presidency full-time
Alok Sharma takes on COP26 Presidency full-time

BREAKING: Kwasi Kwarteng promoted to become Business Secretary, as Sharma to step up his focus on preparations for crucial Glasgow Summit

  • Policy
  • 08 January 2021
COP26: Five key questions for a crucial year of global climate diplomacy
COP26: Five key questions for a crucial year of global climate diplomacy

Much is at stake in 2021 to deliver the much needed framework for the global net zero transition, with all eyes on the UK, USA, China and Covid-19

  • Politics
  • 08 January 2021
The Boy Who Cried Wolf: Redux
The Boy Who Cried Wolf: Redux

The real message from the parable of the boy who cried wolf is that there was a wolf

  • 07 January 2021
'Biden effect': Brits optimistic 2021 could mark turning point for climate action
'Biden effect': Brits optimistic 2021 could mark turning point for climate action

New poll suggests majority of British public think Joe Biden's victory spells good news for the environment

  • Management
  • 07 January 2021
Could Democrat's Georgia victory and Trump's disgrace trigger the 'Decade of the Green New Deal'?
Could Democrat's Georgia victory and Trump's disgrace trigger the 'Decade of the Green New Deal'?

Amidst historic chaos in Washington, the Democrat's Senate victory has provided a major boost to hopes for a new era of global climate action – but can they be realised?

  • Policy
  • 07 January 2021
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