Treasury
Reports: Sharma offers to quit BEIS for full-time COP26 focus
Business Secretary offers to leave departmental role in order to concentrate fully on leading the UK's climate diplomacy efforts in run up to crucial Glasgow summit
Treasury: Net zero transition 'essential for long term prosperity'
Treasury publishes interim Net Zero Review outlining approach to estimating costs associated with decarbonising UK economy
The clock keeps ticking
Climate change and the green recovery was notably sidelined by Rishi Sunak in a speech that added little to the 'Build Back Better' vision the government touted over the summer
Spending Review and National Infrastructure Strategy: Five key takeaways
BusinessGreen rounds up the top green headlines from government's latest slew of fiscal and policy announcements
Chancellor unveils plan for National Infrastructure Bank, as Treasury hints at new net zero test
But speech provides little new support for green recovery, as Rishi Sunak details bleak economic outlook and controversially cuts overseas development aid
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
CBI calls for business rates exemption for green building upgrades
Britain's biggest business group urges Treasury to exempt green building upgrades and technologies from business rates to help drive decarbonisation efforts
From National Parks to Zero Carbon Clusters: What will make it into the 10 point green recovery plan?
It is the most eagerly anticipated green announcement since the UK set its net zero target, but will Treasury intransigence ensure Boris Johnson's 'reset' gets off to a false start?
Treasury mulls road-charging plan, as Number 10 preps early phase out date for fossil fuelled cars
The Treasury is reportedly exploring how to tackle the £40bn budget hole that will result from the shift away from the internal combustion engine
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
Net Zero Festival: Provide tax breaks for climate-friendly dishes, Treasury urged
Sustainable Restaurant Association argues diners should pay less for climate-friendly dishes, arguing tax breaks could support the hospitality sector post-Covid-19 and help drive more sustainable diets
Reform VAT to help drive green home upgrades, campaigners urge
Green Alliance calls on government to end £2bn VAT subsidy on gas, which benefits well off, to help fund warm homes for poorer households
We want to build back not only better, but sustainably
Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury, Kemi Badenoch, stresses that the net zero transition remains central to the government's long term strategy for the UK
Green Budget? Treasury reportedly considering fuel duty hike
The Sun reports that Chancellor Rishi Sunak is considering a 5p a litre increase in fuel duty, as he seeks to improve public finances in wake of the coronavirus crisis
Which plastics tax? Policymakers face fresh pressure over plastics tax and compostable packaging
Environmental arguments are continuing to be made both for and against the inclusion of compostable plastics in the government's planned plastics tax
'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
'Golden opportunity': MPs urge government to 'supercharge' a green recovery for aviation
Cross party group of 35 MPs call on Chancellor to invest £500m towards developing green aviation fuels and technologies in wake of Covid-19
How best to solve a problem like carbon pricing?
A new OECD report weights up the pros and cons of a host of carbon pricing options, from cap and trade systems to flat fuel taxes
'No shortage of investors': Zouk Capital raises £80m in second close of Charging Infrastructure Investment Fund
The government has matched a £40m investment anchored by the Church Comissioners for England, bringing the fund's total deployable capital to £150m.
'Fearful for the future': Environmental charities urge government to beef-up £750m aid package
The Wildlife Trusts and Green Alliance among groups warning aid package not enough to protect the struggling sector amid urgent climate and environmental crises
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
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
Only new fiscal rules will avoid a Budget carbon COP out
The Treasury should set in stone a new fiscal rule for an annually-increasing carbon price in the UK, argues SSE chief executive Alistair Phillips-Davies
Budget: Chancellor urged to unleash net zero infrastructure boom
New LSE study argues Budget should mark the beginning of massive and long-term investment in zero-carbon infrastructure, as reports suggest Treasury is still considering fuel duty hike
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