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'Forest Allies': Kingfisher and Rainforest Alliance team up for tropical forest conservation
'Forest Allies': Kingfisher and Rainforest Alliance team up for tropical forest conservation

Partnership will help home improvement company meet its aim of creating as much wood as it consumes by 2025

  • Supply chain
  • 16 December 2020
Retiring 'Dad's Army'? Government publishes updated climate adaptation plan
Retiring 'Dad's Army'? Government publishes updated climate adaptation plan

UK becomes one of the first countries to submit Adaptation Communication to the UN

  • Risk
  • 14 December 2020
Joe Biden confirms plans for major economies climate summit ahead of COP26
Joe Biden confirms plans for major economies climate summit ahead of COP26

As Climate Ambition Summit unlocks a wave of modest new climate pledges, the US President-elect vows to 'to do all that we possible can' to accelerate global climate action

  • Policy
  • 14 December 2020
'Climate change's fingerprints': Report highlights growing link between climate change and weather extremes
'Climate change's fingerprints': Report highlights growing link between climate change and weather extremes

New analysis summarising latest thinking on climate attribution, reveals increasingly clear evidence climate change is leading to increased extreme weather risks

  • Climate change
  • 11 December 2020
UN: 'Green recovery' essential to close on-going emissions gap
UN: 'Green recovery' essential to close on-going emissions gap

Annual Emissions Gap report from the UN Environment Programme warns that without ambitious green recovery packages the world remains on track for around 3C of warming

  • Risk
  • 10 December 2020
Writing the book on the net zero transition
Writing the book on the net zero transition

The CCC's epic new report provides the blueprint for a net zero economy, the rationale for following it, and hints at the high drama that will define the century - it could prove to be a canonical document

  • 09 December 2020
'Irreversible damage': Greenpeace calls for ban on deep sea mining as it condemns sector's 'murky' corporate practices
'Irreversible damage': Greenpeace calls for ban on deep sea mining as it condemns sector's 'murky' corporate practices

Fresh investigation from NGO slams UK government for its part in rush to issue exploration licenses to a string of European and North American companies

  • Climate change
  • 09 December 2020
Reports: Number 10 mulls COP26 reshuffle as anticipation builds for crucial climate summit
Reports: Number 10 mulls COP26 reshuffle as anticipation builds for crucial climate summit

UK urges governments to come forward with 'very clear ambition and targets' at this week's Climate Action Summit, amid fresh warnings of devastating climate impacts

  • Policy
  • 07 December 2020
No country compliant with Paris Agreement climate goals, analysis warns
No country compliant with Paris Agreement climate goals, analysis warns

Annual Climate Change Performance Index points to mixed progress among world's 58 highest emitters

  • Policy
  • 07 December 2020
Crown Estate and government to team up for offshore wind sustainability research
Crown Estate and government to team up for offshore wind sustainability research

Offshore Wind Evidence and Change Programme will run for five years and explore how the seabed can best be protected as the UK's offshore wind boom continues

  • Energy
  • 07 December 2020
Green shoots: Defra touts £12m to help plant 500 hectares of trees
Green shoots: Defra touts £12m to help plant 500 hectares of trees

Over next five months more than 500 hectares of trees are to be planted in 10 community forests across England, the government has announced

  • Policy
  • 07 December 2020
2030 Vision
2030 Vision

The implications that flow from the upgrading of the UK's 2030 carbon target are hard to underestimate - the economy is about to change for the better

  • 04 December 2020
'We are taking the lead': Boris Johnson significantly strengthens UK's 2030 carbon target
'We are taking the lead': Boris Johnson significantly strengthens UK's 2030 carbon target

Prime Minister announces new target to cut emissions 68 per cent against 1990 levels by 2030, confirming a major tightening of carbon goals as part of UK's pre-COP26 submission to the Paris Agreement

  • Politics
  • 03 December 2020
How the global fossil fuel 'production gap' threatens to exacerbate the climate crisis
How the global fossil fuel 'production gap' threatens to exacerbate the climate crisis

Despite lockdown generating a steep decline in fossil fuel production, COVID-19 recovery plans risk accelerating it beyond pre-COVID levels, a UN-backed study warns

  • Energy
  • 02 December 2020
'Unusually positive news': Does 2020 mark a turning point for delivering on the Paris Agreement goals?
'Unusually positive news': Does 2020 mark a turning point for delivering on the Paris Agreement goals?

The 'domino effect' of net zero pledges from world leaders in recent months could prove hugely impactful on global warming trajectories, a new analysis suggests, but is its optimistic outlook justified?

  • Climate change
  • 02 December 2020
Building on the Ten Point Plan
Building on the Ten Point Plan

Eliot Whittington of The Prince of Wales’s Corporate Leaders Group presents a new analysis that suggests the government's welcome plan to accelerate the Green Industrial Revolution will not yet put the country on track to meet its net zero goals

  • Policy
  • 01 December 2020
'Turning point': Global climate pledges could put world on 2.1C warming pathway, analysis suggests
'Turning point': Global climate pledges could put world on 2.1C warming pathway, analysis suggests

Paris Agreement climate goals now 'within reach' thanks to US, China, Japan, and South Korea joining net zero club, Climate Action Tracker estimates

  • Science
  • 01 December 2020
Government urged to make UK tree planting target legally-binding
Government urged to make UK tree planting target legally-binding

Enshrining goal to plant 30,000 trees each year by 2025 in law could help catalyse wider action on woodland, petition argues

  • Politics
  • 01 December 2020
Why business needs to see an ambitious NDC
Why business needs to see an ambitious NDC

ScottishPower's Keith Anderson argues that the growing band of businesses and investors committed to accelerating the net zero transition need the government to submit a suitably ambitious national climate action plan to the UN

  • Policy
  • 30 November 2020
Zoom in on Net Zero - with environmental scientist Dr Tara Shine
Zoom in on Net Zero - with environmental scientist Dr Tara Shine

VIDEO: Leading scientist, policy advisor and author talks to BusinessGreen's James Murray about her new book on everyday climate actions, the challenges of COP negotiations, and the links between climate change and human rights

  • Climate change
  • 30 November 2020
Why anyone who cares about climate action should have Georgia on their mind
Why anyone who cares about climate action should have Georgia on their mind

As Andrew Warren argues, the high profile re-run election for Georgia's two Senate seats could yet determine the direction of US - and by extension global - climate efforts for years to come

  • Policy
  • 30 November 2020
'Tip of the iceberg': Aviation emissions three times larger than current estimates, scientists warn
'Tip of the iceberg': Aviation emissions three times larger than current estimates, scientists warn

Landmark report from EU aviation regulator into non-CO2 emissions produced by jet engines sets out new financial, fuel, and air traffic measures that would target the full gamut of aviation emissions

  • Aviation
  • 27 November 2020
England flood protection plans 'lack clarity' in key areas, watchdog warns
England flood protection plans 'lack clarity' in key areas, watchdog warns

Environment Agency on track to meet flood protection defence targets, but many gaps in data remain, says NAO

  • Risk
  • 26 November 2020
Biden ramps up plan to put US on 'irreversible path to achieve net zero emissions'
Biden ramps up plan to put US on 'irreversible path to achieve net zero emissions'

President-elect's ambitious climate strategy secures first victory, as General Motors ditches support for emissions standards legal battle

  • Policy
  • 25 November 2020
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