Green recovery
'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
'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
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
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
Net Zero: RenewableUK launches Member Values Charter
Trade body's members underscore commitment to climate action and job creation
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
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
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
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
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
'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
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
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+
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
'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
'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
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'
'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
'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
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
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
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
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
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