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The opening speech at the UK Green Business Awards 2024 - in full

The Prime Minister's attacks on environmental zealots distract from a policy programme that is increasingly unlikely to deliver on legally-binding climate goals

Rishi Sunak wants to reach net zero, he just wants to slow down efforts to get there - politicians and businesses that understand the benefits of climate action need to highlight the absurdity of the Prime Minister's stance

The new Reform Party leader is arguably the UK's most prominent climate sceptic and his party wants to scrap the country's net zero goals - he should be asked what his ideological opposition to climate action means in practice

Ministers' decision not to rollover surplus emissions savings into the next Carbon Budget period is good news, but it also hands a huge challenge to whoever forms the next government

The government's latest attempt to restrict solar farm development will undermine energy security and do next to nothing to improve food security - it amounts to little more than blatant electioneering

Confirmation Extended Producer Responsibility rules are on the way is part of a trend that suggests a wave of decarbonisation policies will be delivered eventually

Outgoing CCC boss Chris Stark fears the term 'net zero' is becoming 'unhelpful', but any alternative framing for decarbonisation would face precisely the same political and structural challenges

The most granular and empirical analysis to date of the projected economic impact of worsening climate damages is so terrifying because the scenarios it explores are so plausible

UK emissions are down 52 per cent since 1990 and fossil fuels last year provided just a third of UK power - change is happening