budget

Green budget preview and highlights from the Net Zero Festival

Policy

Green budget preview and highlights from the Net Zero Festival

BusinessGreen Editor’s Briefing: October 2024 – Part Two

clock 30 October 2024 • 2 min read
Small modular reactors are a high-risk and expensive pursuit

Nuclear

Small modular reactors are a high-risk and expensive pursuit

Next-generation nuclear technologies will divert resources away from cheaper options that can more quickly contribute to energy security and climate goals, argues Andrew Warren

clock 24 March 2023 • 8 min read
Why the focus of this year's Budget must be green growth

Energy

Why the focus of this year's Budget must be green growth

The new levy on electricity generators must be designed in a way that unblocks clean energy investment in the UK, argues the REA's Nina Skorupska

clock 14 March 2023 • 3 min read
Chancellor talks up new growth plan with vow to prioritise green industries

Politics

Chancellor talks up new growth plan with vow to prioritise green industries

Chancellor promises to seize 'Brexit opportunities', as he stresses government's focus on five key growth industries

clock 27 January 2023 • 4 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

Policy

Budget 2021: Chancellor to announce £27m to support Scotland's clean energy transition

Government trails plans to channel hundreds of millions of pounds into shifting the UK's oil and gas sector towards a cleaner future

clock 02 March 2021 • 4 min read

Policy

'Opportunity to reboot': Moderate Conservative MPs serve up green recovery policy menu

One Nation Conservatives group of more than 100 MPs call for 2030 fossil fuel car ban, carbon tax and tree planting funding

clock 13 August 2020 • 5 min read

Politics

Report: Fuel duty freeze has cost Treasury £50bn and led to five million tonnes of CO2 emissions

Research by Greener Journey's argues an additional five million tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions having been generated since the fuel duty freeze first took place in 2011

clock 10 March 2020 • 4 min read

Policy

The government must deliver clear sighted energy efficiency policy - nothing else will do

The government must deliver on its promises to tackle the UK's woefully inefficient housing stock, argues Andrew Warren

clock 05 March 2020 • 5 min read