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Party conference season, Tory climate policy rollbacks, and reflections on the Women in Green Business Awards 2025

Politics

Party conference season, Tory climate policy rollbacks, and reflections on the Women in Green Business Awards 2025

BusinessGreen Editor’s Briefing: October 2025 part one

clock 10 October 2025 • 3 min read
Green Party: Zack Polanski slams 'science-denying' Nigel Farage

Politics

Green Party: Zack Polanski slams 'science-denying' Nigel Farage

In debut conference speech, Green Party leader attacks Labour, Reform UK, and privatisation, as he steps up calls for wealth taxes to tackle social inequality and the climate crisis

clock 03 October 2025 • 4 min read
Study: More than 180 constituencies at risk of 'deeply unpopular' Reform fracking plans

Energy

Study: More than 180 constituencies at risk of 'deeply unpopular' Reform fracking plans

Friends of the Earth publishes new map showing areas vulnerable to shale gas extraction, as Labour promises full ban on fracking projects

clock 01 October 2025 • 4 min read
'Only route to genuinely lower energy costs': Hike in price cap prompts fresh calls to accelerate clean power transition

Energy

'Only route to genuinely lower energy costs': Hike in price cap prompts fresh calls to accelerate clean power transition

Billpayers continue to bear the brunt of the UK's reliance on fossil fuels for heating and electricity, ahead of expected fall in price cap from January

clock 01 October 2025 • 5 min read
Miliband hits back at Reform's 'war' on clean energy workers

Politics

Miliband hits back at Reform's 'war' on clean energy workers

Energy Security and Net Zero Secretary announces full ban on fracking and new 'Fair Work Charter' for the renewables sector, as he accuses Nigel Farage and Elon Musk of stoking division and spreading misinformation

clock 01 October 2025 • 7 min read
'The common-sense, patriotic case for clean energy': GB Energy to expand UK school and hospital solar rollout

Policy

'The common-sense, patriotic case for clean energy': GB Energy to expand UK school and hospital solar rollout

Ed Miliband to confirm plans to double the number of UK clean energy jobs over the next five years to reach 830,000 by 2030

clock 30 September 2025 • 4 min read
'A Britain built for all': Starmer promises 'renewal' can bring end to 'age of insecurity'

Politics

'A Britain built for all': Starmer promises 'renewal' can bring end to 'age of insecurity'

Prime Minister rejects idea Britain is broken, as he hails Labour's support for the 'energy of the future' and slams Reform's politics of division

clock 30 September 2025 • 6 min read
Government confirms 74 per cent of Britain's power generation came from low carbon sources last year

Energy

Government confirms 74 per cent of Britain's power generation came from low carbon sources last year

New figures tracking progress towards Clean Power by 2030 goal suggest UK is on track to become 'clean energy superpower' this decade

clock 30 September 2025 • 4 min read
Reports: Miliband to revive plans for 'green new deal'

Politics

Reports: Miliband to revive plans for 'green new deal'

Energy Security and Net Zero Secretary expected to hit back at 'global network of right-wing billionaires' and launch renewed push for unionisation across the clean energy industry

clock 30 September 2025 • 3 min read
'Abdicating US leadership': Governors hit back at Trump's attacks on climate science and clean energy

Climate change

'Abdicating US leadership': Governors hit back at Trump's attacks on climate science and clean energy

Green groups respond angrily to US President's rambling speech to the UN General Assembly, in which he labelled climate change "the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world"

clock 24 September 2025 • 6 min read