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'Paris Effect': How green technologies are on track to 'outcompete' high carbon sectors by 2030
'Paris Effect': How green technologies are on track to 'outcompete' high carbon sectors by 2030

Analysis backed by top green figures indicates net zero transition is set to rapidly escalate in 2020s, leaving carbon-intensive industries looking increasingly uncompetitive

  • Net Zero Now
  • 10 December 2020
We Mean Business and Amazon team up in support of The Climate Pledge
We Mean Business and Amazon team up in support of The Climate Pledge

Global green business coalition to work with tech giant to encourage businesses to adopt more ambitious net zero goals

  • Management
  • 17 July 2020
Covid-19 recovery must support resilient, net zero world, state leaders urge
Covid-19 recovery must support resilient, net zero world, state leaders urge

Business as usual is 'not an appropriate response' to Covid-19, according to 220 regional leaders around the world

  • Net Zero Now
  • 19 May 2020
'The world is ready': Campaigners and academics call on government to scale up Nature Based Solutions
'The world is ready': Campaigners and academics call on government to scale up Nature Based Solutions

Christiana Figueres, Nick Stern, and Paul Polman lead renewed push for beefed up approach to nature-based emissions reductions

  • Offsets
  • 06 May 2020
'Deeply irresponsible': Fossil fuel production set to far exceed climate thresholds, report warns
'Deeply irresponsible': Fossil fuel production set to far exceed climate thresholds, report warns

Research led by UN Environment Programme calls for end to coal, oil, and gas subsidy support and increase in climate policy ambition

  • Investment
  • 20 November 2019
'Everybody wins in the long term': 130 banks worth $47tr to align with Paris Agreement
'Everybody wins in the long term': 130 banks worth $47tr to align with Paris Agreement

More than 130 major banks holding assets of $47tr pledge to align strategies with the Paris Agreement and UN Sustainable Development Goals

  • Investment
  • 22 September 2019
'Economic self-interest': Climate adaptation essential for future prosperity, experts warn
'Economic self-interest': Climate adaptation essential for future prosperity, experts warn

Governments and businesses around the world should accelerate spending on climate resilience, according to new report from group chaired by Bill Gates, Ban Ki-Moon and World Bank chief Kristalina Georgieva

  • Climate change
  • 10 September 2019
Global briefing: George Clooney trolls climate sceptics
Global briefing: George Clooney trolls climate sceptics

From green Cathedrals to A-list climate spoofs, BusinessGreen brings you this week's green business headlines from around the world

  • Management
  • 10 May 2019
Christiana Figueres: 'Not even a stretch' for UK to achieve net zero emissions by 2050
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

  • Policy
  • 29 April 2019
'Deeply concerning': Global CO2 emissions set to rise to record high in 2018
'Deeply concerning': Global CO2 emissions set to rise to record high in 2018

Major study points to worrying reversal of decarbonisation trend in 2018 with emissions set to hit record highs

  • Climate change
  • 05 December 2018
What's changed? A year on from Trump's Paris exit
What's changed? A year on from Trump's Paris exit

Last year's shock announcement from the US president made headlines around the world, but has the US withdrawal put a pin in climate ambitions?

  • Politics
  • 01 June 2018
'The opportunity is there': Businesses join calls for bold shipping climate plan at crucial IMO talks
'The opportunity is there': Businesses join calls for bold shipping climate plan at crucial IMO talks

Christiana Figueres joins chorus of industry and green groups urging for ambitious action to decarbonise shipping sector, as crucial IMO talks rest on a 'knife edge'

  • Legislation
  • 09 April 2018
Green economy rallies behind International Women's Day
Green economy rallies behind International Women's Day

Key green business figures call for greater women's representation across the sector, as RenewableUK sets minimum quota for female speakers at its events

  • Work
  • 08 March 2018
BusinessGreen looks ahead to next decade with Secrets of the Pioneers report
BusinessGreen looks ahead to next decade with Secrets of the Pioneers report

Marking BusinessGreen's 10th anniversary, full report features interviews with Claire Perry, Jonathon Porritt, Christiana Figueres, Lord Stuart Rose and many more green business leaders

  • Management
  • 09 November 2017
Secrets of the Pioneers: Christiana Figueres on a vision of 'energy for everyone, and emissions from no one'
Secrets of the Pioneers: Christiana Figueres on a vision of 'energy for everyone, and emissions from no one'

In the first installment of BusinessGreen's series of interviews with green economy thought leaders, we talk to Christiana Figueres about her priorities for the next decade

  • Policy
  • 23 October 2017
Paris Agreement 'hero' Tony de Brum dies
Paris Agreement 'hero' Tony de Brum dies

Tributes pour in for former Marshall Islands' foreign minister, who played a key role in securing international agreement on tackling climate change

  • Politics
  • 23 August 2017
The G19 has sealed it, Trump really has strengthened the Paris Agreement
The G19 has sealed it, Trump really has strengthened the Paris Agreement

The G19's refusal to sign off on a statement offering a lifeline for high carbon energy is yet more evidence the Paris Summit marked the beginning of the end for the fossil fuel era

  • Politics
  • 09 July 2017
Figueres: World faces 'monumental challenge' to start cutting emissions by 2020
Figueres: World faces 'monumental challenge' to start cutting emissions by 2020

"The future of mankind lies in the difference between doing what we think is possible now, and doing what we know we need to do"

  • Climate change
  • 29 June 2017
Christiana Figueres: I would like to thank Donald Trump
Christiana Figueres: I would like to thank Donald Trump

The keynote address at the 2017 BusinessGreen Leaders Awards - in full

  • Politics
  • 29 June 2017
Has Donald Trump just fast tracked the start of the next era of climate action?
Has Donald Trump just fast tracked the start of the next era of climate action?

The US president has just forced climate action up the global political agenda - expect a new wave of investments and bold policy moves to follow

  • Politics
  • 05 June 2017
Christiana Figueres to deliver opening address at BusinessGreen Leaders Awards 2017
Christiana Figueres to deliver opening address at BusinessGreen Leaders Awards 2017

Former UN climate chief confirmed as guest speaker for UK's most prestigious green business awards

  • Management
  • 25 May 2017
Christiana Figueres: Why the rise of Trump will not stop climate action
Christiana Figueres: Why the rise of Trump will not stop climate action

Former UN climate chief insists 'real economy' around the world is heading for decarbonisation regardless of political posturing

  • Climate change
  • 11 April 2017
Former UN climate chief sets sights on 2020 deadline for rapid emissions cuts
Former UN climate chief sets sights on 2020 deadline for rapid emissions cuts

High-profile Mission 2020 campaign led by Christiana Figueres launches today, with a goal to encourage urgent climate action to ramp up emissions cuts in the next three years

  • Climate change
  • 10 April 2017
Figueres drops out of UN Secretary-General race
Figueres drops out of UN Secretary-General race

Former UN climate chief retires from leadership after poor performance in initial straw polls

  • Politics
  • 13 September 2016
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