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'Like an Amazon pick-up package service': Inside plans to transform an Icelandic port into a CO2 storage hub for European pollution

Energy

'Like an Amazon pick-up package service': Inside plans to transform an Icelandic port into a CO2 storage hub for European pollution

In part two of a series looking at Icelandic clean energy innovation, BusinessGreen explores mooted plans to turn emissions produced by plants across Europe into Iceland's bedrock

clock 12 October 2021 • 6 min read
Clean heating, carbon storage, and direct air capture: How Iceland could carve out a net zero economy for the world to follow

Energy

Clean heating, carbon storage, and direct air capture: How Iceland could carve out a net zero economy for the world to follow

clock 12 October 2021 • 8 min read
Energy Saving Trust: Job of making homes net zero gets harder with every year wasted

Energy

Energy Saving Trust: Job of making homes net zero gets harder with every year wasted

Speaking at Net Zero Festival, Energy Saving Trust boss Mike Thornton argues urgent action is needed to accelerate heat pump roll out by 'an order of magnitude'

clock 11 October 2021 • 3 min read
The leverage effect: How the car industry can be a 'catalyst' for fossil-free steel

Automotive

The leverage effect: How the car industry can be a 'catalyst' for fossil-free steel

Volvo Cars and steelmaker SSAB outline exciting progress for the fledgling green steel industry at BusinessGreen's Net Zero Festival

clock 07 October 2021 • 8 min read
Public engagement: The missing link to a net zero world?

Policy

Public engagement: The missing link to a net zero world?

Net Zero Festival: Author Kim Stanley Robinson and experts from BritainThinks, Hubbub and Lancaster University debate the challenge and opportunity of securing public support for climate action

clock 01 October 2021 • 5 min read
Can employees lead the charge on climate action?

Workplace

Can employees lead the charge on climate action?

A new guidebook aims to help employees become climate activists - can it work?

clock 01 October 2021 • 4 min read
Net Zero Festival: Top financiers warn key barriers have to be overcome to unleash 'wall of private finance'

Investment

Net Zero Festival: Top financiers warn key barriers have to be overcome to unleash 'wall of private finance'

Panel of experts at Net Zero Festival argues that despite encouraging momentum, major funding gaps remain in the pursuit of net zero targets

clock 30 September 2021 • 4 min read
'Indispensible': Can the carbon offset market bolster its credibility?

Offsets

'Indispensible': Can the carbon offset market bolster its credibility?

Ahead of tomorrow's Net Zero Festival, Toby Hill explores how carbon offset standards are evolving in a bid to assure clients and campaigners that promised carbon savings can be delivered

clock 28 September 2021 • 11 min read
Tackling climate change, clause by clause: Inside one non-profit's push to rewire contract law to 'change the world'

Management

Tackling climate change, clause by clause: Inside one non-profit's push to rewire contract law to 'change the world'

The Chancery Lane Project is building a library of free-to-use contractual clauses that companies can integrate into their every day operations to meet net zero goals

clock 27 September 2021 • 6 min read
Green remedies: Why boosting public health should be a cornerstone of corporate net zero strategies

Management

Green remedies: Why boosting public health should be a cornerstone of corporate net zero strategies

In a virtual roundtable ahead of this week's Net Zero Festival, business leaders and NGOs discussed how public health issues and climate change must be tackled together

clock 27 September 2021 • 8 min read