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Climate Leaders Summit: A day of diplomatic theatre, distracting jokes, and historic turning points
Climate Leaders Summit: A day of diplomatic theatre, distracting jokes, and historic turning points

Ed King argues that when the history of the fifth industrial revolution is penned, this year will mark a turning point.

  • Policy
  • 23 April 2021
'The sky's the limit': How 'cheap, abundant' renewables could boot fossil fuels from the electricity sector by mid-2030s
'The sky's the limit': How 'cheap, abundant' renewables could boot fossil fuels from the electricity sector by mid-2030s

Carbon Tracker study finds solar and wind energy potential is 100 times as much as global energy demand

  • Energy
  • 23 April 2021
Re-skilling to export the UK's Green Industrial Revolution
Re-skilling to export the UK's Green Industrial Revolution

Now is the time for all UK businesses to look to international markets and take British ingenuity to every corner of the planet, writes International Trade Minister Graham Stuart MP

  • Politics
  • 23 April 2021
From sustainable cocoa to solar-powered beer: 10 of the biggest, best, and quirkiest Earth Day announcements
From sustainable cocoa to solar-powered beer: 10 of the biggest, best, and quirkiest Earth Day announcements

Don't have time to cut through the Earth Day noise? We've rounded up some of our favourite announcements from drinks, fashion, consumer goods and tech brands this year

  • Marketing
  • 22 April 2021
'Crucial': EU unveils green finance rules as decision delayed on gas and nuclear
'Crucial': EU unveils green finance rules as decision delayed on gas and nuclear

Leading finance and investment figures hail EU Commission's latest sustainable finance rules as crucial to net zero and fighting greenwashing

  • Investment
  • 22 April 2021
The scandal of calling plantations 'forest restoration' is putting climate targets at risk
The scandal of calling plantations 'forest restoration' is putting climate targets at risk

  • Biodiversity
  • 22 April 2021
We need to move on from the theoretical electric heat pump vs hydrogen debate
We need to move on from the theoretical electric heat pump vs hydrogen debate

With pipes connecting each building, and an individual heat pump in each property, much more than 20 per cent of homes couple be served by a heat network in the UK, writes Kensa Group's Karl Drage

  • Efficiency
  • 22 April 2021
Carbon accounting: Why corporates are increasingly turning to internal carbon pricing
Carbon accounting: Why corporates are increasingly turning to internal carbon pricing

Fresh findings from CDP reveal nearly half the world's largest businesses have internal carbon fees, but warn prices fall short of preparing companies for ever-tightening emissions regulations

  • Carbon Trading
  • 21 April 2021
Why the Sixth Carbon Budget is a BFD
Why the Sixth Carbon Budget is a BFD

The UK's world leading new carbon target for 2035 is worthy of celebration, but there are considerable caveats and growing fears about the government's 'magic decarbonisation tree'

  • 21 April 2021
'We wanted to come up with something that was credible': Environment Agency Pension Fund reveals net zero plans
'We wanted to come up with something that was credible': Environment Agency Pension Fund reveals net zero plans

Influential pension fund lifts the lid on sweeping new climate strategy

  • Investment
  • 21 April 2021
Continuing to fight the fashion revolution
Continuing to fight the fashion revolution

As the fashion sector grapples with issues of sustainability, we have shifted our own investments away from high street retailers, explains Liontrust's Peter Michaelis

  • Supply chain
  • 21 April 2021
'Leading by example': Green economy welcomes stretching target to slash UK emissions 78 per cent by 2035
'Leading by example': Green economy welcomes stretching target to slash UK emissions 78 per cent by 2035

But big questions remain over how the UK will meet hugely ambitious new targets, after government signalled it will not sign off on all the CCC's policy recommendations

  • Policy
  • 20 April 2021
'From field to wardrobe': Inside Mulberry's plans to develop world's 'lowest carbon leather'
'From field to wardrobe': Inside Mulberry's plans to develop world's 'lowest carbon leather'

British fashion brand launches ‘made to last’ sustainability manifesto geared at transforming into a fully regenerative and circular business model by 2030

  • Supply chain
  • 20 April 2021
'Dire warning': Fears grow over net zero 'complacency' as emissions rebound
'Dire warning': Fears grow over net zero 'complacency' as emissions rebound

Three major new reports raise alarm that for all the talk of a green recovery on the national and international stage net zero transition plans remain badly underpowered

  • Policy
  • 20 April 2021
How Defra's post-Brexit statutory instrument spree could weaken UK environmental law
How Defra's post-Brexit statutory instrument spree could weaken UK environmental law

Detailed analysis of more than 100 EU exit statutory instruments laid by Defra prompts campaigners to warn of 'significant governance gaps in the application, interpretation and enforcement of environmental law' post-Brexit

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  • 20 April 2021
How can food companies get on the right track for net zero?
How can food companies get on the right track for net zero?

Companies in the food sector can and must help drive a just transition to a regenerative, net zero future, writes Forum for the Future’s Lesley Mitchell

  • Supply chain
  • 20 April 2021
'The end of Big Oil': Are we heading for $10 a barrel oil?
'The end of Big Oil': Are we heading for $10 a barrel oil?

Influential analyst firm publishes Paris Agreement compatible scenario that would see oil prices plummet over the coming decades

  • Risk
  • 19 April 2021
Zoom in on net zero - with HSBC's Farnam Bidgoli
Zoom in on net zero - with HSBC's Farnam Bidgoli

VIDEO: Head of ESG solutions at the banking giant talks to BusinessGreen's James Murray about the evolving net zero trend in the financial sector

  • Investment
  • 19 April 2021
A beginner's guide to corporate CO2 reporting
A beginner's guide to corporate CO2 reporting

Businesses need a robust emissions reporting system in order to draw up effective strategies to decarbonise, writes WWF UK's Seán Mallon

  • Carbon Accounting
  • 19 April 2021
Global briefing: US eyes sweeping climate risk disclosure rules
Global briefing: US eyes sweeping climate risk disclosure rules

All the top green business news from around the world this week, including China coal fleet concerns, ultra-white paint and Brazil's rainforest funding demands

  • Risk
  • 16 April 2021
Green steel: Three leading innovations worldwide
Green steel: Three leading innovations worldwide

Start-ups and legacy companies across the globe are starting to decarbonise one of the most difficult and significant industries - here are three leading examples

  • Technology
  • 16 April 2021
Diverse voices in sustainable business are crucial to building a green economy
Diverse voices in sustainable business are crucial to building a green economy

A generation of green business leaders from ethnically diverse backgrounds is needed to fix the climate change crisis, writes Liberal Democrat councillor Rabina Khan

  • Politics
  • 16 April 2021
Green remedy: How a net zero global healthcare sector could help cure planetary ills
Green remedy: How a net zero global healthcare sector could help cure planetary ills

Health systems will bear the brunt of the climate-related health emergencies, so bold action needs to be taken to reduce the sector's ever-growing emissions, a new report argues

  • Policy
  • 16 April 2021
Green awards season returns (hopefully)
Green awards season returns (hopefully)

The BusinessGreen Leaders Awards is back for 2021 and keen to make up for lost time in this most crucial of years for the green economy

  • 15 April 2021
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Amazon orders up wave of record-breaking renewables projects
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