In-depth

Energy

Could wind power the green recovery?

As the industry predicts it can deliver 234GW of offshore wind capacity by 2030, the burgeoning wind energy sector it poised to play a critical role in the global economic recovery, creating around a million jobs in the process

clock 05 August 2020 • 8 min read

Waste

People are better than we think - building back better depends on us making the right choices easier.

clock 05 August 2020 • 4 min read

Energy

Resilient dividends and integrated energy: Five things we learnt from BP's net zero strategy

clock 04 August 2020 • 7 min read

Policy

Zoom in on Net Zero with Professor Michael E. Mann

World-renowned climate scientist and author joins BusinessGreen for a chat about climate justice, US politics, dealing with climate deniers, and the science behind net zero

clock 04 August 2020 • 1 min read

Policy

Alok Sharma: 'I want to urge all businesses to join the Race to Zero Coalition'

COP26 President Alok Sharma's speech yesterday to the Let's Build Back Better event hosted by the British High Commission in Wellington

clock 04 August 2020 • 4 min read

Policy

Whitehall needs to set itself a 'net zero test'

WWF's Gareth Redmond-King argues that the crucial upcoming Autumn Budget and Spending Review has to deliver on promising 'green recovery' rhetoric

clock 04 August 2020 • 5 min read

Biodiversity

Report: England's largest landowners must ramp up tree planting efforts

The Church Commissioners of England and Duchy of Cornwall - two of the largest institutional landowners in England - have tree cover rates below the already 'weak' national average of 10 per cent, according to a new study from Friends of the Earth

clock 04 August 2020 • 5 min read

Transport

Should we treat SUVs like cigarettes and ban advertising?

New report recommends that outright ban on SUV advertising could help accelerate shift towards cleaner forms of transport

clock 03 August 2020 • 8 min read

Buildings

To 'build back greener' we need to turbocharge the market for greenery

If the government is serious about the utilising nature-based solutions, we need to turbocharge the market for urban greening, argues the UK Green Building Council's Philip Box

clock 03 August 2020 • 4 min read

Management

Global Briefing: Irish government ordered to strengthen climate plan

Plus nuclear fusion, French outdoor heating ban, Spanish green hydrogen plant and all the top green business news from around the world this week

clock 31 July 2020 • 6 min read