Interview

Management

Green Lunch with… Chivas Brothers' Sandrine Ricard

Head of sustainability at Chivas Brothers, the drinks firm behind spirits such as Ballantine's and Plymouth Gin, sits down with BusinessGreen for a vegan lunch at Notting Hill's Farmacy

clock 17 July 2018 • 10 min read

Management

In the Green Room with... Whitbread's James Pitcher

Whitbread's director of sustainability on fast cars, coloured bins, and why green business must disprove the 'churn and burn' model

clock 10 July 2018 • 4 min read

Management

Why we set a Net Zero goal: Tesco's Kene Umeasiegbu on 1.5C goals, costed plans, and giving high carbon sectors more 'head room'

Tesco's head of environment reveals how the supermarket giant is working to deliver on its ambition to become a zero carbon business by 2050

clock 04 July 2018 • 5 min read

Climate change

Why we set a Net Zero goal: Unilever's Jeff Seabright on climate risks, becoming carbon positive, and the moral case for action

Unilever's Chief Sustainability Officer provides an insight into why the consumer goods giant was one of the first multinationals to set a net zero emission target

clock 29 June 2018 • 5 min read

Solar

SolarAid: 'Without universal access to electricity, most of the SDGs won't be met'

Charity Partner for this year's BusinessGreen Leaders Awards warns universal access to clean, affordable electricity by 2030 remains a far off prospect without an investment surge

clock 26 June 2018 • 7 min read

Biomass

'Government must provide more certainty': Drax, biomass CCS, and the end of coal

Drax Power CEO Andy Koss talks to BusinessGreen about the firm's new carbon capture project and why new gas is needed to balance the ever cleaner power grid

clock 19 June 2018 • 10 min read

Investment

Cubico Sustainable Investments plots global renewables push

London-based clean energy investor reveals why it is seeking to tap into some of the world's most exciting renewables markets

clock 18 June 2018 • 13 min read

Automotive

'Competition is really fierce right now': General Motors sets sights on electrified, autonomous future

David Tulauskas, GM's sustainability director, talks to BusinessGreen about the US car giant's drive towards 'zero crashes, zero emissions and zero congestion'

clock 12 June 2018 • 9 min read

Skills

In the Green Room with.... Smurfit Kappa's Steven Stoffer

Packaging giant's group vice president of development Steven Stoffer on milking cows, working in 'for-profit sustainability', and why his superpower would be to have 'frosty breath'

clock 11 June 2018 • 4 min read

Management

M&S's Mike Barry on sustainability in a tough retail climate: 'It's doubly important to be doing it now'

Marks & Spencer's director of Plan A and sustainable business talks to BusinessGreen about High Street retail challenges, plastic waste, palm oil, and net zero emissions

clock 08 June 2018 • 20 min read