George Osborne

Craig Bennett warns the Treasury is pursuing a pipe dream as it seeks to bet the farm on UK shale gas

Environmental groups furious as chancellor sets 30 per cent rate for shale gas producers in bid to enhance UK energy security

With key departments already stretched, latest cuts raise fresh fears for green business teams

Energy and climate change is one of seven departments to agree 10 per cent spending cuts, but how will further savings impact the government's green efforts?

DECC signs off spending review plan that will result in cuts of around 10 per cent, but Defra reportedly refusing to find further savings

Bob Ward argues that business leaders need to do more to reject the misguided assertion that green policies hamper the recovery

EEF's Fergus McReynolds argues the Chancellor's carbon floor price is storing up major problems for UK plc

Friends of the Earth wonders why the Chancellor continues to defy his colleagues by opposing a decarbonisation target

Barry Gardiner accuses Chancellor of ignoring businesses' calls for more action on resource and climate risk

Labour's Barry Gardiner argues the Chancellor is right to raise the issue of inter-generational justice, but badly wrong to ignore the impact climate change and resource scarcity will have on our children