India

Global Briefing: July 2021 was hottest month ever recorded, scientists warn

Management

Global Briefing: July 2021 was hottest month ever recorded, scientists warn

Plus all the top green business news from around the world this week, including China ETS forecasts, India's infrastructure blitz and Germany's CO2 rise

clock 20 August 2021 • 5 min read
'Far from satisfactory': 80 countries miss UN deadline for delivering beefed-up climate pledges

Politics

'Far from satisfactory': 80 countries miss UN deadline for delivering beefed-up climate pledges

15 nations submitted fresh climate plans in support of Paris Agreement last week, but just under half of signatories have missed UN deadline

clock 02 August 2021 • 5 min read

Policy

COP26: UK and India pledge to 'deepen work on climate change'

Virtual meeting between Prime Ministers Boris Johnson and Narendra Modi sees UK and India agree joint roadmap to combat climate change by 2030

clock 05 May 2021 • 3 min read

Policy

Reports: India mulling net zero emissions target for 2050

Bloomberg reports that Indian government is considering a 2047 net zero target to coincide mark a century of independence

clock 17 March 2021 • 3 min read

Carbon Accounting

The carbon choreographer: Mahindra Group's Anirban Ghosh on building a carbon neutral business empire

The chief sustainability officer tells BusinessGreen how the Indian business group is steering more than 150 companies behind a 2040 carbon neutrality goal

clock 01 February 2021 • 9 min read

Solar

Total to snap up stake in Indian solar giant Adani Green Energy

Announcement of deal to acquire 20 per cent stake in world's largest solar developer comes just days after oil giant quits American Petroleum Institute over climate policy differences

clock 18 January 2021 • 4 min read

Transport

Could emerging market EV boom herald the 'end of the oil era'?

Latest Carbon Tracker report explores how surging demand for EVs in China and India are set to make a massive dent in forecast oil demand throughout the 2020s

clock 20 November 2020 • 6 min read

Energy

UN chief António Guterres: 'The coal business is going up in smoke'

UN Secretary-General offers starkest criticism yet of the outlook for the coal sector, as he calls on India to end support for fossil fuels

clock 28 August 2020 • 4 min read

Management

'There is no business case for not being sustainable': Inside Capgemini's bold transformation plan for net zero by 2030

Consultancy giant's head of corporate sustainability James Robey explains how the firm plans to tackle 'the biggest business change problem we've ever seen'

clock 20 August 2020 • 7 min read

Efficiency

Unilever steps up water conservation efforts

Consumer goods giant unveils latest commitments from its recently announced €1bn 'nature and climate fund'

clock 30 July 2020 • 2 min read