Science

Legislation

CCC Net Zero Report: At a glance

The Committee on Climate Change has set out how the UK can achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 - here is everything you need to know

clock 02 May 2019 • 15 min read

Politics

Holding out for a hero

The declaration of emergency is central to the stories we are told from childhood - calls for a climate emergency are not going away and the government needs to find a credible way to respond

clock 01 May 2019 • 10 min read

Risk

What would a response to the climate emergency look like?

The Green Economy Coalition's Emily Benson outlines an emergency treatment plan for nature

clock 01 May 2019 • 7 min read

Supply chain

Nestle extends satellite monitoring in bid to combat deforestation

Confectionery giant is drawing on a satellite monitoring service to help eliminate deforestation from its palm oil supply chain

clock 01 May 2019 • 2 min read

Policy

What is net zero?

What does 'net-zero' mean and what are the challenges - from technological to moral - to achieving it? Josh Burke at LSE's Grantham Research Institute sets out some of the issues

clock 30 April 2019 • 7 min read

Policy

Christiana Figueres: 'Not even a stretch' for UK to achieve net zero emissions by 2050

Former UNFCCC chief speaks to BusinessGreen about XR climate protests and risks to business ahead of CCC's hotly anticipated 1.5C advice this week

clock 29 April 2019 • 5 min read

Policy

'Net zero must mean zero': What can we expect from the CCC's pivotal 1.5C advice?

As the Committee on Climate Change gears up to provide its hotly-anticipated net zero advice to the government, green economy experts explain what to expect

clock 26 April 2019 • 16 min read

Management

Science-based targets look beyond carbon

It's hard to overstate the challenge in broadening the science-based approach for land use, water and biodiversity

clock 26 April 2019 • 6 min read

Policy

Green Alliance: UK must plant 70,000 hectares of trees a year to combat climate change

Think tank calls for mass woodland planting drive, a ban on peatland burning, and a focus on low carbon farming methods in new report - but is the government listening?

clock 25 April 2019 • 4 min read

Climate change

Extinction Rebellion targets financial sector ahead of 'closing ceremony'

Having confirmed they are to bring the latest wave of actions to an end, Christian activists this morning staged a protests at Canary Wharf warning 'business as usual = death'

clock 25 April 2019 • 3 min read