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COP26: Five key questions for a crucial year of global climate diplomacy
COP26: Five key questions for a crucial year of global climate diplomacy

Much is at stake in 2021 to deliver the much needed framework for the global net zero transition, with all eyes on the UK, USA, China and Covid-19

  • Politics
  • 08 January 2021
Fiat teams up with Kaluza to design smart EV charging service
Fiat teams up with Kaluza to design smart EV charging service

The two firms to test new charging service next year on Fiat 500 electric vehicles in drive to cut down on emissions and costs for drivers

  • Technology
  • 19 November 2020
Ban on plastic straws, stirrers and cotton buds comes into force in England
Ban on plastic straws, stirrers and cotton buds comes into force in England

The long-delayed ban on single-use plastic items in England is aimed at stemming the rising tide of plastic waste entering environment and oceans

  • Policy
  • 01 October 2020
Reform VAT to help drive green home upgrades, campaigners urge
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

  • BusinessGreen
  • 25 September 2020
Next stop hydrogen for new rail project
Next stop hydrogen for new rail project

Three British companies unite to develop new hydrogen fuelling infrastructure that could soon allow for the roll out of zero emission trains on the UK rail network

  • BusinessGreen
  • 21 September 2020
Poll: Most Europeans view climate change as more pressing issue than pandemic
Poll: Most Europeans view climate change as more pressing issue than pandemic

Of seven counties surveyed by Vattenfall, however, UK was the only outlier, where residents now view epidemics as a bigger threat than the climate crisis

  • Climate change
  • 19 August 2020
Met Office: 'Undeniable warming trend' impacting UK weather
Met Office: 'Undeniable warming trend' impacting UK weather

Climate study reveals average UK temperature in 2019 was 1.1C higher than between 1961 and 1990, with evidence of seasonal shifts already impacting the natural world

  • Climate change
  • 31 July 2020
Octopus Renewables snaps up 9.1MW UK rooftop solar portfolio
Octopus Renewables snaps up 9.1MW UK rooftop solar portfolio

Purchase of solar assets spread across 2,700 rooftops touted as the 'logical next step' by the growing clean energy investor

  • Solar
  • 21 July 2020
Construction starts on UK-Denmark Viking Link interconnector
Construction starts on UK-Denmark Viking Link interconnector

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  • 13 July 2020
'Sensible incentives' and 'plumbing reforms': Leading figures mull pathway from Covid-19 crisis to net zero economy
'Sensible incentives' and 'plumbing reforms': Leading figures mull pathway from Covid-19 crisis to net zero economy

A new essay collection from Bright Blue argues that net zero will not require vast amounts of public spending, due to the momentum delivered to date on decarbonisation in the UK.

  • Policy
  • 18 May 2020
CCC urges government to craft climate-resilient Covid-19 recovery plans
CCC urges government to craft climate-resilient Covid-19 recovery plans

Letter to the Prime Minister by government climate advisers adds further weight to cross-sector calls for coronavirus stimulus packages to eschew carbon-intensive practices in favour of low-carbon, climate-resilient industries and projects

  • Policy
  • 06 May 2020
Coronavirus: How falling power demand is impacting green energy
Coronavirus: How falling power demand is impacting green energy

With the pandemic spurring a dramatic drop in economic activity across Europe, electricity, renewables and carbon prices have also plummeted

  • Energy
  • 25 March 2020
Going electric could help long-distance lovers re-connect this Valentine's Day
Going electric could help long-distance lovers re-connect this Valentine's Day

The UK's average long-distance lover could save more than £200 on fuel costs by switching from an ICE to an electric vehicle, research from Peugeot shows

  • Transport
  • 14 February 2020
Could Brexit Britain let EV manufacturing opportunites slip through its fingers?
Could Brexit Britain let EV manufacturing opportunites slip through its fingers?

Major new report urges policy-makers to embrace demand- and supply-side incentives to drive EV innovation and manufacturing in the UK, or risk trade frictions driving economic and environmental opportunities overseas

  • BusinessGreen
  • 13 February 2020
Electric dreams? How electrifying transport, buildings, and industry can drive deep CO2 cuts
Electric dreams? How electrifying transport, buildings, and industry can drive deep CO2 cuts

But BloombergNEF analysis highlights gaping holes where supportive policies are needed to spur widespread decarbonisation towards net zero

  • Energy
  • 11 February 2020
EDF charges up £110m Pod Point bid
EDF charges up £110m Pod Point bid

Offer would support French-owned utility's ambitions of becoming leading player in e-mobility in the UK

  • Energy
  • 10 February 2020
Boris Johnson promises high green standards - but no alignment on EU rules
Boris Johnson promises high green standards - but no alignment on EU rules

PM gears up for clash with Brussels in free trade deal talks, as EU insists level playing field needed for close future relationship

  • Policy
  • 03 February 2020
Green Brexit: What the hell happens now?
Green Brexit: What the hell happens now?

BusinessGreen rounds up the crucial green questions and issues which will need resolving before the UK exits the EU at the end of 2020

  • Policy
  • 31 January 2020
Global Briefing: Trump rolls back clean water rules
Global Briefing: Trump rolls back clean water rules

All the news from around the world this week

  • Management
  • 24 January 2020
Wild solutions: Public bodies back CCC call for expansion of forests, peatlands, and wetlands
Wild solutions: Public bodies back CCC call for expansion of forests, peatlands, and wetlands

The Environment Agency, Forestry Commission and Natural England have voiced strong support for several key recommendations outlined in today’s Committee on Climate Change land use report

  • Policy
  • 23 January 2020
National Trust promises to go net zero by 2030
National Trust promises to go net zero by 2030

"We need to step forward and leave our own legacy" says director general Hilary McGrady on charity's 125th anniversary

  • Work
  • 09 January 2020
Challenging decade ahead as low carbon energy progress stalled in 2019, new analysis shows
Challenging decade ahead as low carbon energy progress stalled in 2019, new analysis shows

2019 set another record high for green energy generation in the UK but according to a new Carbon Brief analysis low-carbon electricity output rose by just 1 per cent

  • Energy
  • 07 January 2020
Octopus Renewables snaps up nine wind farms from RES in €100m deal
Octopus Renewables snaps up nine wind farms from RES in €100m deal

Green energy investor to add 130MW to its growing portfolio of renewables in UK, Ireland, and France

  • Venture Capital
  • 15 November 2019
Global wind energy capacity growth slows as 51.3GW added in 2018
Global wind energy capacity growth slows as 51.3GW added in 2018

Global Wind Energy Council data shows growth rate for new wind capacity slowed slightly last year, despite uptick in offshore projects

  • Wind
  • 26 February 2019
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