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Net Zero Finance: Hiro Mizuno on discovering ESG, shifting baselines, and an age of opportunity
Net Zero Finance: Hiro Mizuno on discovering ESG, shifting baselines, and an age of opportunity

In a BusinessGreen exclusive we bring you the directors' cut of Hiro Mizuno's conversation at last week's inaugural Net Zero Finance Summit

  • Investment
  • 22 March 2021
Could the new National Infrastructure Bank help solve the home retrofit challenge?
Could the new National Infrastructure Bank help solve the home retrofit challenge?

Ron Cowley of the Active Building Centre argues sweeping changing to our housing stock are essential, and the government's new bank could provide the catalyst that is desperately needed

  • Buildings
  • 22 March 2021
Global Briefing: Study warns countries could face credit rating downgrades by 2030 as climate risks escalate
Global Briefing: Study warns countries could face credit rating downgrades by 2030 as climate risks escalate

All the green business news from around the world this week

  • Management
  • 19 March 2021
How clean energy investments are lagging, despite returns outshining fossil fuels for 10 years
How clean energy investments are lagging, despite returns outshining fossil fuels for 10 years

Study from IEA and Imperial highlights decade of clear evidence that renewables firms are performing better than fossil fuel-focused businesses

  • Energy
  • 19 March 2021
Should you swap plastic for aluminum packaging? It's complicated
Should you swap plastic for aluminum packaging? It's complicated

Jesse Klein explores how some leading businesses are navigating the complex choices that shape efforts to deliver more sustainable packaging

  • Waste
  • 19 March 2021
Retrofitting green skills
Retrofitting green skills

Mapping the UK's skills gaps against occupations that will likely see a contraction in demand in coming years could help identify new talent to support the green industrial revolution, writes AECOM's Robert Spencer

  • Skills
  • 19 March 2021
Green bonuses: How ESG criteria are increasingly informing executive pay
Green bonuses: How ESG criteria are increasingly informing executive pay

Nearly half of FTSE 100 companies currently have an ESG measure in either annual bonus targets or long-term incentive plans, research from PwC has found

  • Management
  • 18 March 2021
Industrial Decarbonisation Strategy: The six key takeaways from the government's latest green policy blitz
Industrial Decarbonisation Strategy: The six key takeaways from the government's latest green policy blitz

The government has set out a raft of new ambitions in its 117-page Industrial Decarbonisation Strategy, but how will the new proposals impact the green economy?

  • CCS
  • 18 March 2021
Advancing plastics recycling and reducing CO2: Driving transformational change
Advancing plastics recycling and reducing CO2: Driving transformational change

Today we celebrate Global Recycling Day, March 18th. It is a day for the world to come together and put the planet first. But it is also a significant moment for us at Dow, as a plastics manufacturer, to reflect on what recycling means for us and our...

  • Recycling
  • 18 March 2021
Industrial Decarbonisation Strategy: All the key policies at a glance
Industrial Decarbonisation Strategy: All the key policies at a glance

An all-you-need-to-know guide to the green measures unveiled in the government's plan to cut CO2 from industry, schools and hospitals

  • Technology
  • 17 March 2021
Making climate a UK foreign policy priority is a start: Delivering it will be tough
Making climate a UK foreign policy priority is a start: Delivering it will be tough

  • Politics
  • 17 March 2021
'Forceful and accelerated': Top investor body predicts global climate policy response
'Forceful and accelerated': Top investor body predicts global climate policy response

Principles for Responsible Investment analysed policy trends to formulate detailed predictions on the likely extent of government intervention in key sectors of the economy as the net zero transition progresses

  • Policy
  • 17 March 2021
Zoom in on Net Zero - with explorer and solar-powered flight pioneer Bertrand Piccard
Zoom in on Net Zero - with explorer and solar-powered flight pioneer Bertrand Piccard

VIDEO: Pilot and chairman of the Solar Impulse Foundation joins BusinessGreen's Michael Holder to discuss circumnavigating the globe, clean technologies and his passionate environmentalism

  • Technology
  • 17 March 2021
'Legacy of weakening': Is the government failing on its 'green Brexit' pledges?
'Legacy of weakening': Is the government failing on its 'green Brexit' pledges?

Greener UK claims many UK protections on chemicals, nature, waste and air quality are weaker now than they were under the EU

  • Politics
  • 16 March 2021
Capacity Market: Are the UK's £350m of gas power subsidies compatible with net zero goals?
Capacity Market: Are the UK's £350m of gas power subsidies compatible with net zero goals?

1.4GW of new gas power won £350m of funding in the government's latest Capacity Market auction, held last week, sparking concern among campaigners

  • Energy
  • 16 March 2021
'Now we're into delivery': Adaptation and resilience champion Anne-Marie Trevelyan on her COP26 priorities
'Now we're into delivery': Adaptation and resilience champion Anne-Marie Trevelyan on her COP26 priorities

Minister provides BusinessGreen with a behind-the-scenes look at her work on leadership team for the COP26 climate conference

  • Policy
  • 16 March 2021
Living in a digital world
Living in a digital world

Harriet Parker from Liontrust's Sustainable Investment team offers an investment managers perspective on the search for more efficient IT systems

  • Investment
  • 16 March 2021
Missing the hot stuff: Where the Budget failed on heat decarbonisation
Missing the hot stuff: Where the Budget failed on heat decarbonisation

A 'super deduction' for low carbon home heating technologies could have enthused householders and markets alike, argues Seahorse Environmental's Lizzy Roberts

  • Policy
  • 15 March 2021
Digitalise to survive: Microsoft energy chief Darryl Willis on how data could drive the clean tech transition
Digitalise to survive: Microsoft energy chief Darryl Willis on how data could drive the clean tech transition

  • Energy
  • 15 March 2021
'British wind'
'British wind'

Last week delivered yet another impressive milestone for the world-leading UK offshore wind industry, but for the rest of the green economy it is a reminder of what might have been

  • Wind
  • 15 March 2021
Global Briefing: Germany cuts ribbon on hydrogen steel project
Global Briefing: Germany cuts ribbon on hydrogen steel project

  • Management
  • 12 March 2021
Can C-suite paychecks save the world?
Can C-suite paychecks save the world?

Joel Makower asks if the growing popularity of sustainability-linked bonuses is making a difference to corporate sustainability efforts

  • Management
  • 12 March 2021
Net Zero Finance: Financial innovation and how to bridge the green investment chasm
Net Zero Finance: Financial innovation and how to bridge the green investment chasm

Mobilising billions of dollars of low carbon investment is a huge challenge, but it is also a massive opportunity for those financiers willing to innovate in pursuit of net zero emissions

  • Investment
  • 12 March 2021
'Nothing' is not as straight forward as it seems
'Nothing' is not as straight forward as it seems

Basil Demeroutis, managing partner at real estate investor FORE Partnership, offers a whirlwind guide to the complex world of net zero carbon

  • Investment
  • 12 March 2021
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