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How social entrepreneurship and innovation can help build a more sustainable world

Technology

How social entrepreneurship and innovation can help build a more sustainable world

Social entrepreneurs and innovators show us how to make the green and digital transitions work for people and the planet, argues Daniel Nowack from the World Economic Forum and the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship

clock 26 February 2025 • 4 min read
The CCC's Seventh Carbon Budget advice: Five key takeaways

Policy

The CCC's Seventh Carbon Budget advice: Five key takeaways

From transport and heating to nature and skills, the CCC's vision for the next phase of the UK's net zero transition has implications for all parts of the economy

clock 26 February 2025 • 19 min read
Green economy reacts to Seventh Carbon Budget

Climate change

Green economy reacts to Seventh Carbon Budget

Business leaders, campaigners, and climate experts react to the CCC's official advice on the next phase of the UK's net zero transition

clock 26 February 2025 • 17 min read
Farms must be resilient to future challenges if they are to remain financially viable and strengthen food security

Policy

Farms must be resilient to future challenges if they are to remain financially viable and strengthen food security

Environment Secretary Steve Reed's address to the 2025 National Farmers' Union (NFU) Conference - in full

clock 25 February 2025 • 12 min read
Ellen Jackowski: 'Transformative change often starts with smaller, achievable victories'

Management

Ellen Jackowski: 'Transformative change often starts with smaller, achievable victories'

Mastercard's chief sustainability officer discusses being inspired by 'agile, purpose-driven start ups' and her optimism about solutions coming from communities on the front lines of climate change

clock 25 February 2025 • 7 min read
It's time to get serious on building for a flooded future

Risk

It's time to get serious on building for a flooded future

Flood risk is growing in the UK - improving resilience through nature-based and engineered measures must be a top priority for our built environment, writes Buro Happold's Christine Cambrook

clock 25 February 2025 • 4 min read
Five ways to have more constructive climate conversations

Marketing

Five ways to have more constructive climate conversations

Too much reporting of climate change focuses on denial, delay-ism, and dismissal - but is it possible to better communicate the realities of the climate crisis?

clock 24 February 2025 • 6 min read
Reskilling UK oil and gas workers is vital for both our economy and the clean energy transition

Politics

Reskilling UK oil and gas workers is vital for both our economy and the clean energy transition

Reskilling UK fossil fuel workers is crucial to safeguarding the future of our economy, our energy sector and the communities that are key to it, writes Sam Payne from the Conservative Environment Network.

clock 24 February 2025 • 3 min read
'You can't have growth without green': How net zero is becoming the UK's economic growth engine

Policy

'You can't have growth without green': How net zero is becoming the UK's economic growth engine

Data shows the UK's net zero economy continues to far outpace the wider economy, fuelling calls for further policy clarity and support for green investment

clock 24 February 2025 • 12 min read
Global Briefing: Japan unveils NDC targeting 60 per cent emissions cut by 2035

Energy

Global Briefing: Japan unveils NDC targeting 60 per cent emissions cut by 2035

Plus Northvolt sells heavy industry battery business to Scania, China’s clean energy and fossil fuel funding gap narrows, and EU to loosen state aid rules to boost green projects, in our round up of the world's top green business news this week

clock 21 February 2025 • 9 min read