• Home
  • News
  • In-depth
  • Opinion
  • Energy
    • Wind
    • Marine
    • Solar
    • Biomass
    • Nuclear
    • CCS
    • Infrastructure
  • Policy
    • Politics
    • Legislation
    • Taxation
  • Management
    • Marketing
    • Risk
    • Skills
    • Incentives
    • Carbon Accounting
  • Technology
    • Waste
    • Recycling
    • R&D
    • Efficiency
    • IT
  • Investment
    • Carbon Trading
    • Offsets
    • Venture Capital
  • Net Zero Now
  • Events & Awards
  • SDG Hub
  • Industry Voice
  • Newsletters
  • Sign in
  •  
      • Newsletters
      • Account details
      • Contact support
      • Sign out
     
    • You are currently accessing BusinessGreen via your Enterprise account.

      If you already have an account please use the link below to sign in.

      If you have any problems with your access or would like to request an individual access account please contact our customer service team.

      Phone: +44 (0) 1858 438800

      Email: [email protected]m

      • Sign in
  • Follow us
    • Twitter
    • LinkedIn
    • Newsletters
    • Facebook
    • YouTube
    • Instagram
  • Free Trial
  • Subscribe
  • Events & Awards
    • Upcoming events
      event logo
      NZF Pathway - Finance

      This exclusive half day online event will investigate how all businesses can support and accelerate the transition to low and net zero carbon buildings, while maximising the financial and productivity opportunities that will result.

      • Date: 16 Mar 2021
      • Online Event
      event logo
      Net Zero Festival 2021

      Net Zero Festival is the world's first business festival dedicated to exploring, advancing, and celebrating the global transition to a net zero emission economy. Join us at BusinessGreen's Net Zero Festival – for leaders who won't wait until 2050 to build a better business, and a better world.

      • Date: 27 Sep 2021
      • Worldwide
      View all events
  • SDG Hub
Business Green
Business Green
  • Home
  • News
  • In-depth
  • Opinion
  • Energy
  • Policy
  • Management
  • Technology
  • Investment
  • Net Zero Now
 
    • Newsletters
    • Account details
    • Contact support
    • Sign out
 
  • You are currently accessing BusinessGreen via your Enterprise account.

    If you already have an account please use the link below to sign in.

    If you have any problems with your access or would like to request an individual access account please contact our customer service team.

    Phone: +44 (0) 1858 438800

    Email: [email protected]

    • Sign in
  • Hot topics
  • Green recovery
  • Net Zero Now
  • Net Zero Leadership
  • Net Zero Finance

Green recovery

'Build back greener': Government announces £180m wave of green business funding awards
'Build back greener': Government announces £180m wave of green business funding awards

From pothole fixing robots to retro electric motorcycles, over 1,000 recipients of coronavirus response, clean tech innovation funding have been announced

  • Technology
  • 04 November 2020
'Unique opportunity to catalyse action globally': Business groups urge government to update 2030 climate goal before year end
'Unique opportunity to catalyse action globally': Business groups urge government to update 2030 climate goal before year end

Enhanced climate target for 2030 can put the UK on track to meet its climate ambitions, help deliver a green recovery, and will encourage investment in net zero transition, groups tell government

  • Policy
  • 03 November 2020
CBI: Two thirds of businesses expect to increase support for net zero transition
CBI: Two thirds of businesses expect to increase support for net zero transition

Ipsos MORI poll reveals overwhelming business support for a green recovery and widespread expectation changes to working patterns will become embedded

  • Policy
  • 02 November 2020
G20 stimulus packages 'missed opportunity' to accelerate green energy, analysis finds
G20 stimulus packages 'missed opportunity' to accelerate green energy, analysis finds

The UK could reach a 60 per cent renewable power system by 2025 were it to shift Covid-19 energy sector recovery funds from fossil fuels to green power, report concludes

  • Energy
  • 29 October 2020
Net Zero: RenewableUK launches Member Values Charter
Net Zero: RenewableUK launches Member Values Charter

Trade body's members underscore commitment to climate action and job creation

  • Energy
  • 23 October 2020
Align digital technologies and green policy to deliver net zero, government urged
Align digital technologies and green policy to deliver net zero, government urged

Although crucial to net zero, uptake of digital technologies is being hamstrung by policy shortfalls, underinvestment, and skills shortages, Green Alliance warns

  • Technology
  • 20 October 2020
Study: Green recovery plans can unlock millions more jobs than 'return-to-normal' stimulus
Study: Green recovery plans can unlock millions more jobs than 'return-to-normal' stimulus

Analysis published by We Mean Business coalition recommends policymakers reject traditional stimulus programmes that focus on VAT reductions and boosting household spending in favour of targeted support for green technologies and solutions

  • Policy
  • 19 October 2020
Green jobs: LSE researchers make case for labour-intensive low carbon recovery
Green jobs: LSE researchers make case for labour-intensive low carbon recovery

UK should take immediate steps to boost green innovation and production capabilities in anticipation of growing demand for more environmentally responsible technologies, academics advise

  • Skills
  • 19 October 2020
Net Zero Festival: In conversation with Paul Polman - Climate action in a post-Covid world
Net Zero Festival: In conversation with Paul Polman - Climate action in a post-Covid world

VIDEO: Former Unilever CEO offers his characteristically sage wisdom on corporate sustainability in the wake of Covid-19 in a wide-ranging interview with Gavin Esler

  • Management
  • 15 October 2020
Glaring skills gap risks undermining green recovery, businesses warn
Glaring skills gap risks undermining green recovery, businesses warn

Aldersgate Group urges government to address low carbon skills deficit as a 'national priority' or risk seeing net zero transition derailed

  • Skills
  • 15 October 2020
'The future isn't something that just happens to us': Why 2021 marks a crucial crossroads for sustainability
'The future isn't something that just happens to us': Why 2021 marks a crucial crossroads for sustainability

Business leaders, investors and policymakers have a narrow 6-18 month window to set a path to net zero or a breakdown of the planet's biosphere, according to Forum to the Future

  • Management
  • 14 October 2020
IEA signals peak oil in next decade as renewables take upper hand
IEA signals peak oil in next decade as renewables take upper hand

IEA's World Energy Outlook confirms dramatic drop in emissions in 2020, but warns delivery of promised green recovery depends on urgent action from governments

  • Energy
  • 13 October 2020
Net Zero Festival: Mobilising finance for a green recovery
Net Zero Festival: Mobilising finance for a green recovery

VIDEO: Gavin Esler chats to Schroders' Andrew Howard, Dr Rhian-Mari Thomas from the Green Finance Institute, Scottish Widows' Maria Nazarova-Doyle, and Lord Barker from En+

  • Investment
  • 12 October 2020
Boris Johnson: 'We are progressing with gale force speed on the green economy'
Boris Johnson: 'We are progressing with gale force speed on the green economy'

Prime Minister takes swipe at 'people used to sneer at wind power 20 years ago' in speech that majors on green economy ambitions

  • Politics
  • 06 October 2020
'Decarbonisation by stealth is not possible': Aldersgate Group steps up calls for fast-tracked net zero policies
'Decarbonisation by stealth is not possible': Aldersgate Group steps up calls for fast-tracked net zero policies

Ahead of the Prime Minister's promised new green recovery package, a new report from the business advocacy group outlines a raft of near-term policy interventions that could put the UK on track to reaching net zero emissions

  • Policy
  • 06 October 2020
'Our seas hold immense potential': PM pledges to power all UK homes with offshore wind by 2030
'Our seas hold immense potential': PM pledges to power all UK homes with offshore wind by 2030

Boris Johnson trails first stage in '10-point plan' for a green industrial revolution, as government confirms new £160m wind turbine manufacturing investment

  • Wind
  • 05 October 2020
Octopus Energy to create 1,000 clean tech jobs and new tech hub
Octopus Energy to create 1,000 clean tech jobs and new tech hub

Clean energy technology firm touts plans to double its workforce by the end of 2021 and make the UK the 'Silicon Valley of energy'

  • Energy
  • 05 October 2020
'The UK will lead by example': Boris Johnson urges nations to ramp up Paris climate pledges
'The UK will lead by example': Boris Johnson urges nations to ramp up Paris climate pledges

Prime Minister to announce plans for joint UK-UN 'launchpad' event in December aimed at encouraging nations to enhance Paris Agreement commitments ahead of next year's COP26 Summit in Glasgow

  • Politics
  • 23 September 2020
'Race to win': Olympians call for UK to lead sprint against climate change
'Race to win': Olympians call for UK to lead sprint against climate change

Paula Radcliffe and Mo Farah among hundreds of athletes to warn Prime Minister that the 'acute threat from climate change' threatens future Olympic and Paralympic games

  • Politics
  • 23 September 2020
UK green recovery: Making it 'just' and making it happen
UK green recovery: Making it 'just' and making it happen

The UK is on the cusp of the biggest economic restructuring since the 1980s - but this time it must be managed far more fairly, writes WSP's Jim Coleman

  • Management
  • 17 September 2020
We want to build back not only better, but sustainably
We want to build back not only better, but sustainably

Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury, Kemi Badenoch, stresses that the net zero transition remains central to the government's long term strategy for the UK

  • Policy
  • 15 September 2020
Reports: Boris Johnson preps wave of net zero announcements
Reports: Boris Johnson preps wave of net zero announcements

  • Politics
  • 14 September 2020
Rebooting Britain: Creating a sustainable, resilient, low carbon economy
Rebooting Britain: Creating a sustainable, resilient, low carbon economy

As the world rebuild from the Covid-19 pandemic, we have a unique opportunity to create a fairer, more resilient, low carbon society, writes BT's chief digital impact & sustainability officer, Andy Wales

  • Net Zero Now
  • 14 September 2020
Peak oil and CO2? How Covid-19 may have accelerated the green energy transition
Peak oil and CO2? How Covid-19 may have accelerated the green energy transition

DNV GL assesses the short and long-term impacts of the pandemic on the energy transition – and its forecasts are startling

  • Energy
  • 08 September 2020
123

Most read

Back two-way EV charging technology to slash costs and emissions, white paper urges
Back two-way EV charging technology to slash costs and emissions, white paper urges
Terra Carta: Prince of Wales launches green recovery charter for business
Terra Carta: Prince of Wales launches green recovery charter for business
Distilleries receive first phase of £10m green whisky fund
Distilleries receive first phase of £10m green whisky fund
Unilever and Alibaba launch 'world first' AI-powered closed-loop recycling system
Unilever and Alibaba launch 'world first' AI-powered closed-loop recycling system
Exxon for the first time reveals CO2 impact of oil and gas products
Exxon for the first time reveals CO2 impact of oil and gas products
  • Contact Us
  • Marketing solutions
  • About Incisive Media
  • Terms and conditions
  • Policies
  • Careers
  • Twitter
  • LinkedIn
  • Newsletters
  • Facebook
  • YouTube
  • Instagram

Incisive Footer Logo

© Incisive Business Media (IP) Limited, Published by Incisive Business Media Limited, New London House, 172 Drury Lane, London WC2B 5QR, registered in England and Wales with company registration numbers 09177174 & 09178013

Digital publisher of the year
Digital publisher of the year 2010, 2013, 2016 & 2017
Loading