Rishi Sunak
Government poised to unveil plans for net zero-focused National Infrastructure Bank
Chancellor reportedly set to launch new bank and reform Green Book to allow increased support for low carbon infrastructure
Rishi Sunak: UK to issue first green bond and require firms to disclose climate risk
Chancellor unveils raft of green finance plans, including green taxonomy proposals and mandatory climate risk disclosure rules for listed companies
'Challenging process': Calls grow for government to extend under fire Green Homes Grant scheme
MCS certification scheme says it is 'fielding calls on a daily basis from installers seeking clarity and expressing their concerns over what they feel are flaws in the scheme'
Government urged to extend Green Homes Grant Scheme as fears grow over shortage of installers
National Insulation Association writes to Chancellor requesting clarity over long term future of the scheme, after reports that many households cannot access grant scheme
If government is serious about net zero, it must implement a UK Emissions Trading System in 2021
The Chancellor is reportedly considering a hike in carbon prices to help raise revenues and accelerate the net zero transition, but as Dr. Danial Sturge and George Day argue, carbon pricing is complex and won't deliver net zero emissions on its own
'Opportunity to reboot': Moderate Conservative MPs serve up green recovery policy menu
One Nation Conservatives group of more than 100 MPs call for 2030 fossil fuel car ban, carbon tax and tree planting funding
Green Home Grants: Government confirms rules for September launch of £2bn scheme
Chancellor: 'This is going to be a green recovery with concern for our environment at its heart'
Councils and mayors call on government to beef up energy efficiency funding
Following confirmation of new £3bn plan, local government leaders team up with Siemens to argue that government should bring forward £5bn of promised long term energy efficiency spending
Waiting for Rishi
The government's commitment to a green recovery is a big step forward, but impatience is growing as green businesses continue to wait for key policies and spending decisions that have been in the pipeline for months
The Chancellor's Green Jobs Plan: The Green Economy Reaction
'We hope that the forthcoming Budget, White Paper and National Infrastructure Plan will provide further momentum'
Chancellor: 'This will be a green recovery with concern for the environment at its heart'
Rishi Sunak confirms £3bn energy efficiency programme and promises to deliver green recovery, but fails to deliver wider stimulus measures
Net Zero: Government faces legal threat as calls for 'green recovery' build
Campaign group Plan B writes to Prime Minister and Chancellor warning legal action is imminent if stimulus package becomes a 'New Deal for Polluters'
Is £3bn a lot?
Chancellor Rishi Sunak's new £3bn energy efficiency programme is a welcome boost to the green economy, but its ability to catalyse the transformation of the UK's building stock depends on what happens next
A green recovery needs green money
E3G's Tom Burke sets out four tests the Chancellor's stimulus package must pass if the government is to deliver on its 'green recovery' promises
'Significant down payment': Chancellor to unveil £3bn green building upgrade package
Chancellor preps one year energy efficiency spending blitz, featuring £1bn to improve public buildings and £2bn to fund vouchers to help households pay for upgrade work
Green light for the green recovery?
After years of campaigning, the government looks poised to turbocharge the net zero transition - but can it deliver on its promise
Reports: Chancellor preps green jobs 'revolution'
As new study suggests net zero transition could create over 350,000 new jobs and deliver £90bn in economic benefits, Rishi Sunak is said to be preparing a green jobs package that promises to go beyond previous manifesto promises
Government pledges £2bn export finance for overseas 'clean growth' projects
Move follows criticism from MPs over levels of support UK Export Finance has given to fossil fuel projects in low and middle income countries in recent years
Budget 2020: All the green plans at a glance
BusinessGreen's all-you-need-to-know guide to the raft of key green tax and spending pledges in Rishi Sunak's first Budget as Chancellor
Rishi Sunak's first Budget provides a down payment on a net zero future
Critics are right to highlight the many gaps in the government's climate plans, but the Budget needs to be seen as part of an evolving and genuinely ambitious strategy
Budget 2020: The green economy reacts
BusinessGreen rounds up all the reaction to Rishi Sunak's tax and spending plans from green businesses, politicians, think tanks and academics
Budget: Chancellor promises green R&D and infrastructure blitz
Funding for CCS, flood defences, and nuclear fusion to the fore in coronavirus stimulus Budget, but continued fuel duty freeze angers environmental campaigners
Report: Fuel duty freeze has cost Treasury £50bn and led to five million tonnes of CO2 emissions
Research by Greener Journey's argues an additional five million tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions having been generated since the fuel duty freeze first took place in 2011
Coronavirus fears, oil price slumps, and net zero pressures: Calls grow for green Budget stimulus
The Johnson administration has promised to put the environment at the heart of its first Budget, but will escalating economic woes curb its green ambitions?
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