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The government has taken a raft of positive steps to try and escape the Conservatives' economic doom loop, but Heathrow expansion represents a gamble that could quickly backfire

President Trump is back in the White House, and the strategies that largely worked in pushing back against his attempts to derail global climate action feel underpowered this time around

A quarter of the century has passed and progress towards global climate goals remains far too slow - governments and businesses must respond

Donald Trump's victory has triggered fresh calls for a rolling back of climate action, but such arguments are based on lazy and dangerously flawed assumptions - in an end of year essay BusinessGreen editor James Murray asks, what next for the climate...

The government's clean power plans point to a 12-month period of critical policy activity that should unlock a huge wave of green investment

Environmentalism is by far the most popular ideology in the UK, businesses and politicians should build on that natural advantage

The accusations that Labour has U-turned on its clean power target are wide of the mark, but the government needs to be clearer in communicating its genuinely ambitious plans

Green groups have condemned the COP29 finance package as a betrayal of developing nations, but it has the potential to provide a big chunk of the trillions of dollars of climate investment the world needs

Governments will have to recognise eventually that flows of climate finance have to increase and the transition away from fossil fuels is inevitable - it is in their interests to do it now, rather than later

It was only a few years ago that the UK was aiming for an 80 per cent cut in emissions by 2050 - now the goal is an eminently achievable 81 per cent cut by 2035