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Global Briefing: UN calls for rapid acceleration in European CCS deployment
Global Briefing: UN calls for rapid acceleration in European CCS deployment

  • Management
  • 05 March 2021
'COP26 is a few months away': MPs slam UK government's 'lack of plan' for Climate Summit and net zero transition
'COP26 is a few months away': MPs slam UK government's 'lack of plan' for Climate Summit and net zero transition

But government rubbishes 'nonsense' claims from two MP committees that UK lacks coordinated net zero strategy and clear outcomes for UN climate summit

  • Politics
  • 05 March 2021
'23 million 40-tonne trucks': UN study uncovers extent of world's food waste crisis
'23 million 40-tonne trucks': UN study uncovers extent of world's food waste crisis

The findings suggest an urgent need to ramp up efforts to meet UN Sustainable Development Goal 12.3, which aims to halve global food waste by 2030

  • Waste
  • 04 March 2021
'Beyond GDP': UN mulls adoption of green prosperity measure
'Beyond GDP': UN mulls adoption of green prosperity measure

UN Secretary-General António Guterres urges nations to consider the costs of economic profit against damage to the environment

  • Policy
  • 03 March 2021
Could a greener post-Brexit trading policy soon take shape?
Could a greener post-Brexit trading policy soon take shape?

Government confirms the Interim Office for Environmental Protection is to be up and running in July, as independent advisors warn Ministers against 'race to the bottom' on food and farming standards

  • Policy
  • 02 March 2021
Rewriting the green growth rule book: How environmental regulation could help fast track the UK's economic recovery
Rewriting the green growth rule book: How environmental regulation could help fast track the UK's economic recovery

Aldersgate Group makes the case that 'ambitious, well-designed and properly enforced environmental regulations' can drive the UK's economic prosperity in new analysis

  • Politics
  • 02 March 2021
How the world's growing water crisis is endangering $300bn of business value
How the world's growing water crisis is endangering $300bn of business value

Taking action to deal with water shortages and pollution will cost $55bn, just a fraction of the cost of failing to act, CDP estimates

  • Risk
  • 01 March 2021
Global Briefing: Bangladesh drops plans for nine new coal plants
Global Briefing: Bangladesh drops plans for nine new coal plants

SEC climate disclosure plans, hydrogen developments, and climate-committed K-Pop are to the fore in this week's Global Briefing

  • Management
  • 26 February 2021
Could poor flood provisions cause the next major building regulations scandal?
Could poor flood provisions cause the next major building regulations scandal?

With the government already under fire for its handling of the cladding scandal, MPs on the Public Accounts Committee have today warned Ministers must enhance the UK's approach to flood protection and risk management in preparation for escalating climate...

  • Buildings
  • 26 February 2021
Carbon Tracker to government: Clean energy beats gas on every metric - so choose it
Carbon Tracker to government: Clean energy beats gas on every metric - so choose it

Financial think tank Carbon Tracker has urged the government to take its "foot off the gas" when planning future energy supply

  • Energy
  • 25 February 2021
Fairtrade Foundation: UK must clean up food supply chains and stop 'dumping' emissions on poor nations
Fairtrade Foundation: UK must clean up food supply chains and stop 'dumping' emissions on poor nations

The Fairtrade Foundation has called on the UK government to include imported emissions that were generated overseas in the process of meeting UK consumption needs in its carbon targets, in a detailed new report published today

  • Policy
  • 23 February 2021
'Large and persistent skills gaps': Construction bodies urge Chancellor for green skills support
'Large and persistent skills gaps': Construction bodies urge Chancellor for green skills support

Construction industry leaders warn gap in green building skills threatens to undermine the UK's net zero transition

  • Skills
  • 23 February 2021
Global Briefing: US officially rejoins Paris Agreement
Global Briefing: US officially rejoins Paris Agreement

John Kerry declares 'today's the day', as the US rejoins the global effort to avert a climate catastrophe

  • Management
  • 19 February 2021
UN: Covid-19 recovery an 'unmissable opportunity' to invest in nature and net zero
UN: Covid-19 recovery an 'unmissable opportunity' to invest in nature and net zero

Major report warns society is waging a 'war on nature' and calls for all-society push to combat escalating planetary emergency

  • Climate change
  • 18 February 2021
Nuclear question: Are new avenues opening up for the UK's hydrogen roadmap?
Nuclear question: Are new avenues opening up for the UK's hydrogen roadmap?

The energy industry's interest in low carbon hydrogen is building fast, and the nuclear industry reckons it could yet have a crucial role to play

  • Energy
  • 18 February 2021
'Leaving fossil fuels in the dust': How greener firms are outperforming the wider market
'Leaving fossil fuels in the dust': How greener firms are outperforming the wider market

Latest Carbon Clean 200 list companies outperformed average benchmark by 47 per cent over the past year

  • Investment
  • 18 February 2021
As BlackRock calls for full CO2 footprint disclosure, is investor pressure starting to take its toll on polluters?
As BlackRock calls for full CO2 footprint disclosure, is investor pressure starting to take its toll on polluters?

World's biggest asset manager urges firms to set rigorous decarbonisation goals or risk being voted against at board meetings as it sets out shareholder expectations for 2021

  • Investment
  • 17 February 2021
'Opportunity to reset': How MPs are urging the Treasury to use tax policy to drive green recovery
'Opportunity to reset': How MPs are urging the Treasury to use tax policy to drive green recovery

Environmental Audit Committee Chair Philip Dunne talks to BusinessGreen about the need for 'a tax system fit for net zero Britain' and the right time to judge whether the government has delivered on its green recovery promises

  • Taxation
  • 17 February 2021
Global Briefing: Australia and EU flex muscles over carbon border tariff proposals
Global Briefing: Australia and EU flex muscles over carbon border tariff proposals

From G7 rows to giant South Korean wind farms, BusinessGreen rounds up all the news from around the world this week

  • Management
  • 12 February 2021
Taxing questions: How the government's 'limited understanding' of environmental taxes is hampering green goals
Taxing questions: How the government's 'limited understanding' of environmental taxes is hampering green goals

National Audit Office urges government to start measuring impacts of environmental taxes more closely in order to give Parliament a better idea of the role tax can play in meeting green goals

  • Taxation
  • 12 February 2021
Seven commodities continue to fuel the destruction of the world's forests - how can they be stopped?
Seven commodities continue to fuel the destruction of the world's forests - how can they be stopped?

A new analysis by WRI has calculated the precise role of seven major agricultural commodities in driving global tree cover loss, but what can be done to turn back the tide?

  • Supply chain
  • 11 February 2021
Going green: The 11 questions the UK government's net zero strategy 'must answer'
Going green: The 11 questions the UK government's net zero strategy 'must answer'

The UK government has said it will publish a net zero strategy in advance of the COP26 climate conference in November - now a new report from the Tony Blair Institute sets out 11 questions Ministers "must answer" if they are to provide a credible blueprint...

  • Policy
  • 09 February 2021
BP, Total, RWE and others hoover up 8GW of UK offshore wind leases
BP, Total, RWE and others hoover up 8GW of UK offshore wind leases

The Crown Estate calls bids for 8GW of seabed rights 'major vote of confidence in UK's green economy and net zero ambitions'

  • Wind
  • 08 February 2021
Global Briefing: French court rules government breached climate goals
Global Briefing: French court rules government breached climate goals

French court rulings, Australian net zero plans, Michael Bloomberg's latest climate role, and all the green business news from around the world this week

  • Management
  • 05 February 2021
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