iceland

Icelandic startups tackle energy resilience under extreme conditions

Technology

Icelandic startups tackle energy resilience under extreme conditions

Iceland's start-up community is looking to go global with its efforts to bolster the clean energy transition

clock 01 July 2022 • 3 min read
'Crucial and urgent': Why companies have mobilised behind the push to 'green' the Companies Act

Management

'Crucial and urgent': Why companies have mobilised behind the push to 'green' the Companies Act

More than 1,000 firms have come together today to call on government to embed environmental and social responsibility in UK company law - BusinessGreen catches up with the Better Business Act campaign on its first anniversary

clock 20 April 2022 • 7 min read
'Huge regret': Iceland switches back to palm oil after Ukraine crisis renders sunflower oil 'unobtainable'

Supply chain

'Huge regret': Iceland switches back to palm oil after Ukraine crisis renders sunflower oil 'unobtainable'

Managing director Richard Walker blames Ukraine invasion for temporary u-turn, but pledges to go back to using sunflower oil in on-brand products as soon as possible

clock 29 March 2022 • 3 min read
Leading CEOs join PM's rebooted Business Council in bid to 'accelerate net zero'

Politics

Leading CEOs join PM's rebooted Business Council in bid to 'accelerate net zero'

Fresh cohort of CEOs in government's corporate advisory group feature many leading lights of the green economy

clock 05 February 2022 • 5 min read
'Like an Amazon pick-up package service': Inside plans to transform an Icelandic port into a CO2 storage hub for European pollution

Energy

'Like an Amazon pick-up package service': Inside plans to transform an Icelandic port into a CO2 storage hub for European pollution

In part two of a series looking at Icelandic clean energy innovation, BusinessGreen explores mooted plans to turn emissions produced by plants across Europe into Iceland's bedrock

clock 12 October 2021 • 6 min read
Clean heating, carbon storage, and direct air capture: How Iceland could carve out a net zero economy for the world to follow

Energy

Clean heating, carbon storage, and direct air capture: How Iceland could carve out a net zero economy for the world to follow

clock 12 October 2021 • 8 min read
'Beneath the Surface': Nestlé challenges consumers to help tackle sustainable palm oil challenge

Biodiversity

'Beneath the Surface': Nestlé challenges consumers to help tackle sustainable palm oil challenge

Consumer goods giant launches interactive platform to highlight dilemmas facing manufacturers as they work to curb environmental impacts in their supply chains

clock 12 August 2021 • 3 min read

Management

Better Business Act: Top brands lead calls for green reforms to Companies Act

John Lewis, Iceland, Brewdog and Bulb among 400 firms calling on government to amend Companies Act to put environmental responsibilities on statutory footing

clock 15 April 2021 • 3 min read

Technology

Construction begins on pioneering CO2 removal plant in the Icelandic tundra

clock 02 December 2020 • 2 min read

Waste

'Horrific': Iceland details full scale of plastic packaging sold in its stores

Iceland managing director Richard Walker calls on government to make plastic packaging tonnage disclosure mandatory in order to tackle plastic pollution crisis

clock 17 September 2020 • 5 min read