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Policy

Could Gove's 'green Brexit' change the very nature of the country?

Michael Gove's speech to the Oxford Farming Conference confirms he has sided with green campaigners in the debate on the future of agricultural subsidies, but can he now deliver on his bold vision?

clock 04 January 2018 • 8 min read

Climate change

2017: A year of dark hours and green optimism

James Murray reviews a year in which terrifying climate impacts wrestled with heartening green business breakthroughs

clock 22 December 2017 • 18 min read

Policy

We'll always need Paris

The message to business leaders is once again clear: time has been called on the fossil fuel economy and 'those who fail to bet on a green economy will be living in a grey future'

clock 12 December 2017 • 7 min read

Technology

The power of innovation and the innovation of power

James Murray's speech to the BusinessGreen Technology Awards 2017

clock 01 December 2017 • 8 min read

Policy

Where's a Green Investment Bank when you need one?

The Budget was the first real test of the government's decision to privatise the Green Investment Bank - it only served to highlight the short-sightedness of the decision

clock 23 November 2017 • 5 min read

Policy

Is this simultaneously the greenest and dirtiest budget in recent history?

Pledges on EVs and plastic pollution are welcome, but Hammond has failed to accelerate a coal phase-out while gambling on further renewables' cost-reductions

clock 22 November 2017 • 8 min read

Policy

The lesson from COP23: The green economy has won the argument, but what next?

The backdrop for the annual UN Climate Summit was bleak - progress now needs to accelerate as the logic of the Paris Agreement is applied

clock 20 November 2017 • 8 min read

Skills

The sustainable soul of society

James Murray's speech to the National Sustainable Schools Conference

clock 13 November 2017 • 13 min read

Climate change

COP 23: It's time for the annual planetary crisis meeting, the world must heed its warnings

Last week's flurry of terrifying climate reports demands a stronger response - the next two weeks in Bonn must point the way to the next climate crunch point

clock 05 November 2017 • 9 min read

Management

BusinessGreen 10 Years On: Are we seeing the end of the beginning for the green economy?

It's been an eventful decade for BusinessGreen, and if anything the coming years promise to be even more exciting

clock 23 October 2017 • 8 min read