Treasury

'Doesn't add up to a cleaner, greener future': WWF warns UK Budget is failing net zero test

Politics

'Doesn't add up to a cleaner, greener future': WWF warns UK Budget is failing net zero test

Green group claims only fraction of Budget 2021 has been directed towards climate change mitigation policies, as pressure ramps up Chancellor Rishi Sunak to step up support for net zero transition

clock 12 August 2021 • 5 min read
'A great opportunity': How reuse, recycling, repair, and remanufacturing could create 450,000 new jobs

Recycling

'A great opportunity': How reuse, recycling, repair, and remanufacturing could create 450,000 new jobs

A more ambitious strategy for building a circular economy in the UK could deliver huge benefits, Green Alliance report argues

clock 04 August 2021 • 6 min read

Carbon Accounting

Government urged to overhaul UK's 'regressive' carbon pricing system

Per-mile road pricing and annual 'carbon budgets' among raft of proposals from think tank Bright Blue to make carbon taxes fair and effective

clock 29 July 2021 • 4 min read

Politics

Reports: Government mulls gas boiler phase out delay amid cost concerns

Ministers reportedly considering pushing back deadline for phase out of fossil fuel heating systems to 2040 following backlash over cost

clock 27 July 2021 • 6 min read

Politics

PM and Chancellor 'on same page' over net zero strategy, government claims

Government denies reports of differences on Downing Street over how to fund much needed policies to deliver net zero

clock 26 July 2021 • 3 min read

Net Zero Now

How much will net zero cost the UK? The OBR tries answering the trillion-pound question

The Office for Budgetary Responsibility has offered some of the most detailed estimates to date on the costs and savings that would result from decarbonising the UK economy by 2050

clock 07 July 2021 • 8 min read

Policy

Rishi Sunak ramps up plans for UK's first green gilt and retail green savings bond

Treasury confirms proceeds from green bonds will go towards renewable energy, climate adaptation, energy efficiency, nature restoration and zero emission transport projects

clock 01 July 2021 • 2 min read

Taxation

The government must get serious with environmental taxes

Broad-based environmental tax reform can drive changes needed to put the economy on a pathway to net zero, writes Bright Blue's Sam Robinson

clock 28 June 2021 • 3 min read

Policy

'Repeated failures': Climate advisors slam UK's net zero policy 'vacuum'

Government's climate agenda marred by uncertainty and delay which risks undermining COP26 and net zero transition, Climate Change Committee warns

clock 24 June 2021 • 9 min read

Climate change

'This is not a scary transition': Six key takeaways from the CCC's net zero progress report

In what is a crucial year for climate action in 2021, there CCC has today given the government much food - but little time - for thought - here are its top takeaways

clock 24 June 2021 • 15 min read