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$5tr investor alliance calls for companies to ditch thermal coal
$5tr investor alliance calls for companies to ditch thermal coal

The Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance, which formed in 2019 at the Climate Action Summit in New York, has today warned companies that failure to respond to its position thermal coal could result in divestment

  • Investment
  • 06 November 2020
Sir David Attenborough: Curb inequality and 'capitalist excess' to safeguard climate
Sir David Attenborough: Curb inequality and 'capitalist excess' to safeguard climate

Veteran broadcaster calls for economic and societal shift in mindsets to avoid catastrophe in interview as £50m Earthshot Prize launches

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  • 08 October 2020
Carbon concentrations still building despite Covid restrictions, UN report finds
Carbon concentrations still building despite Covid restrictions, UN report finds

Record atmospheric concentrations of CO2, continued growth in emissions and rising annual temperatures means the impact of Covid restrictions on overall climate trends is negligible, according to a new report synthesing findings from several scientific...

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  • 09 September 2020
Zoom in on Net Zero with Professor Michael E. Mann
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

  • Policy
  • 04 August 2020
Obituary: Climate science pioneer and former IPCC chair Sir John Houghton
Obituary: Climate science pioneer and former IPCC chair Sir John Houghton

Editor of landmark IPCC reports – who famously called global warming "a weapon of mass destruction" – has passed away in his native Wales at the age of 88.

  • Science
  • 22 April 2020
Half the world's economy now eyeing net zero transition, analysis shows
Half the world's economy now eyeing net zero transition, analysis shows

Almost $39tr of the world's GDP is now aligned, or proposing to align, with net zero emissions targets, according to ECIU

  • Policy
  • 18 February 2020
Food and Drink Federation data reveals emissions and water-saving progress, but food waste challenges remain
Food and Drink Federation data reveals emissions and water-saving progress, but food waste challenges remain

The food and drink industry is on track to hit its emissions and water goals, but efforts to halve food waste by 2030 need to be redoubled

  • Supply chain
  • 29 January 2020
Going green: Just Eat delivers massive spike in vegan orders
Going green: Just Eat delivers massive spike in vegan orders

Just Eat data shows a 50 per cent year-on-year increase in orders of vegan dishes through January to March

  • Marketing
  • 17 January 2020
Be prepared: Energy, food and medicine at risk from rising seas, engineers warn
Be prepared: Energy, food and medicine at risk from rising seas, engineers warn

Sobering report from Institution of Mechanical Engineers warns governments and businesses are ill-prepared for sea level rises expected this century

  • Risk
  • 12 November 2019
IPCC: Rapidly rising seas and warming oceans threatening livelihoods, scientists warn
IPCC: Rapidly rising seas and warming oceans threatening livelihoods, scientists warn

Latest sobering assessment from world's top scientists details the damage being wrought by climate change on the world's oceans, glaciers, and ice sheets

  • Climate change
  • 25 September 2019
Switzerland targets net zero emissions by 2050
Switzerland targets net zero emissions by 2050

Swiss government says net zero goal will put country in line with the most ambitious national targets under the Paris Agreement

  • Policy
  • 29 August 2019
The IPCC's land report shows shipping the potential of sustainable biofuels, but how to get there?
The IPCC's land report shows shipping the potential of sustainable biofuels, but how to get there?

The IPCC says biofuels can play a part in shipping's decarbonisation journey. But with aviation and other sectors circling around a finite resource, shipping needs to invest in exotic options, says Forum for the Future's Will Dawson

  • Biofuel
  • 14 August 2019
IPCC on land use: What do the latest warnings mean for businesses?
IPCC on land use: What do the latest warnings mean for businesses?

The headlines have been filled today with stark warnings from scientists about the state of the world's land masses - how will this impact the business community?

  • Management
  • 08 August 2019
IPCC on diets, land use and climate change: The green economy reacts
IPCC on diets, land use and climate change: The green economy reacts

All the reaction from green businesses, policymakers, experts and campaigners on the IPCC's stirring report on how land use is affecting the climate

  • Climate change
  • 08 August 2019
IPCC: Meat consumption and deforestation is fuelling the climate crisis
IPCC: Meat consumption and deforestation is fuelling the climate crisis

Deforestation and intensive agriculture is accelerating the climate crisis, trapping humanity in a vicious cycle of land degradation, scientists conclude

  • Science
  • 08 August 2019
G20 kicks off with row over climate ambition
G20 kicks off with row over climate ambition

International talks in Osaka and Bonn are marred by continuing divisions over the Paris Agreement and the global response to the escalating climate crisis

  • Politics
  • 28 June 2019
Survey: 70 per cent of UK public want urgent climate action
Survey: 70 per cent of UK public want urgent climate action

As candidates to become Prime Minister reassert support for net zero goal, major survey reveals climate change has become a 'mainstream issue' for the British public

  • Policy
  • 18 June 2019
New guidelines, old loopholes as world's carbon accounting is overhauled
New guidelines, old loopholes as world's carbon accounting is overhauled

A mammoth scientific review of greenhouse gas monitoring methods does not address flaws around bioenergy use, according to campaigners

  • Carbon Accounting
  • 14 May 2019
COP24: 'Progress' on rulebook but tense talks ahead
COP24: 'Progress' on rulebook but tense talks ahead

Negotiators expect talks to run into the weekend, but hopes for finished rule book remain high

  • Climate change
  • 14 December 2018
The scientific case for a climate 'war effort'
The scientific case for a climate 'war effort'

Professor Nick Cowern warns the even the IPCC 1.5C report may be over-optimistic - and businesses and governments need to respond to the 'climate emergency'

  • Climate change
  • 14 December 2018
COP24 Overnight Briefing: Science-Based Targets set a new ambition baseline
COP24 Overnight Briefing: Science-Based Targets set a new ambition baseline

All the news from the last 24 hours in Katowice

  • Management
  • 11 December 2018
'Disgraceful': Anger grows as row stops COP24 Summit from 'welcoming' IPCC report
'Disgraceful': Anger grows as row stops COP24 Summit from 'welcoming' IPCC report

US, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Russia accused of blocking key text fully endorsing findings of historic report on impacts of 1.5C of warming

  • Politics
  • 09 December 2018
Creating a world of 1.5 degree global warming needs radical solutions, but the focus should be on 'gain' not 'pain'
Creating a world of 1.5 degree global warming needs radical solutions, but the focus should be on 'gain' not 'pain'

Thomas Birr, CEO at innogy Innovation Hub, argues businesses need to listen to the 'radicals' who insist deep decarbonisation is possible

  • Technology
  • 06 December 2018
COP24 Overnight Briefing: Major banks align loan portfolios with climate goals
COP24 Overnight Briefing: Major banks align loan portfolios with climate goals

All the latest from the climate summit underway in Katowice

  • Climate change
  • 04 December 2018
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