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Editor's Blog

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Boris Johnson's conference speech contained some encouraging rhetoric for the green economy, but the lack of tangible policies and strange silence on the net zero will leave business leaders feeling nervous

clock 07 October 2021 • 5 min read
Net Zero Festival: The economic case for a net zero industrial revolution

Policy

Net Zero Festival: The economic case for a net zero industrial revolution

VIDEO: CBI's chief economist Rain Newton-Smith explains why the net zero transition is inevitable, desirable, and affordable

clock 06 October 2021 • 1 min read
'Go for growth': CBI urges Treasury to leverage autumn spending review to drive net zero

Politics

'Go for growth': CBI urges Treasury to leverage autumn spending review to drive net zero

Budget planned for late October could put UK at front of a global race for green technologies, according to business group

clock 17 September 2021 • 4 min read
Keeping 1.5C alive: What to expect from a critical autumn for the net zero mission?

Net Zero Now

Keeping 1.5C alive: What to expect from a critical autumn for the net zero mission?

Former climate diplomat Pete Betts, WWF's Tanya Steele, CBI's Tania Kumar, and the CCC's Chris Stark offered their views on a crucial period for global climate action at last week's launch of the Net Zero Festival

clock 13 September 2021 • 10 min read
'Make-or-break moment': Why business, unions, and campaigners are united in urging government to fix faltering climate strategy

Policy

'Make-or-break moment': Why business, unions, and campaigners are united in urging government to fix faltering climate strategy

The CBI, the TUC, and Green Alliance are all issuing much the same message: the government has just weeks left to deliver a genuinely credible net zero plan

clock 13 September 2021 • 9 min read
UK Hydrogen Strategy: The green economy reacts

Energy

UK Hydrogen Strategy: The green economy reacts

BusinessGreen rounds up all the reaction from politicians, green business figures, NGOs, investors and think tanks to the government's long-awaited Hydrogen Strategy

clock 17 August 2021 • 19 min read

BusinessGreen

Coventry 'gigafactory' proposals get off to flying start

Planning application submitted for 'mission critical' West Midlands gigafactory

clock 15 July 2021 • 3 min read

Policy

Government targets net zero planes, roads and railways in 'landmark' green transport strategy

Long-awaited Transport Decarbonisation Plan aims to make public transport, walking and cycling 'natural first choice' for UK journeys

clock 14 July 2021 • 8 min read

BusinessGreen

'EV Hub': Nissan confirms plans for £1bn battery gigafactory

Car marker gives "major vote of confidence" to UK manufacturing says PM

clock 01 July 2021 • 4 min read

Politics

'Good for your bottom line': Alok Sharma urges businesses to embrace net zero transition

COP26 President tells CBI climate summit that UK businesses should pledge to deliver net zero emissions, decarbonise their fleets and power supplies, and work to establish deforestation-free supply chains

clock 14 June 2021 • 3 min read