News Analysis

Trustee Sustainability Working Group sets out key climate actions for pension schemes

Investment

Trustee Sustainability Working Group sets out key climate actions for pension schemes

Guidance aims to make trustee action 'as effective as possible' in 2025

clock 28 February 2025 • 5 min read
Net zero economic growth and the CCC's latest recommendations

Policy

Net zero economic growth and the CCC's latest recommendations

BusinessGreen Editor’s Briefing: February 2025

clock 28 February 2025 • 2 min read
How the electric lorry, bus, and coach market could hit $320bn by 2035

Transport

How the electric lorry, bus, and coach market could hit $320bn by 2035

Demand for battery electric heavy vehicles is expected to outstrip legacy internal combustion market within a decade, a new analysis predicts

clock 27 February 2025 • 5 min read
'Reckless deregulation': European Commission slammed over plan to gut corporate sustainability rules

Legislation

'Reckless deregulation': European Commission slammed over plan to gut corporate sustainability rules

Businesses face fresh uncertainty as European Commission seeks to renegotiate raft of previously agreed corporate sustainability reporting and due diligence rules

clock 26 February 2025 • 12 min read
Green economy reacts to Seventh Carbon Budget

Climate change

Green economy reacts to Seventh Carbon Budget

Business leaders, campaigners, and climate experts react to the CCC's official advice on the next phase of the UK's net zero transition

clock 26 February 2025 • 17 min read
'You can't have growth without green': How net zero is becoming the UK's economic growth engine

Policy

'You can't have growth without green': How net zero is becoming the UK's economic growth engine

Data shows the UK's net zero economy continues to far outpace the wider economy, fuelling calls for further policy clarity and support for green investment

clock 24 February 2025 • 12 min read
Global Briefing: Japan unveils NDC targeting 60 per cent emissions cut by 2035

Energy

Global Briefing: Japan unveils NDC targeting 60 per cent emissions cut by 2035

Plus Northvolt sells heavy industry battery business to Scania, China’s clean energy and fossil fuel funding gap narrows, and EU to loosen state aid rules to boost green projects, in our round up of the world's top green business news this week

clock 21 February 2025 • 9 min read
Maybelline, Kraft Heinz and P&G join to recycle more plastic caps and other small parts

Waste

Maybelline, Kraft Heinz and P&G join to recycle more plastic caps and other small parts

Food, cosmetics and retail giants team up to prevent small plastic from falling between the cracks of the recycling system

clock 21 February 2025 • 6 min read
'Radical collaboration': How supermarkets sit at the heart of the net zero transition

Supply chain

'Radical collaboration': How supermarkets sit at the heart of the net zero transition

New report from Carbon Trust identifies the biggest challenges and opportunities faced by the global supermarket sector as it seeks to deliver on net zero goals and enhance its climate resilience

clock 19 February 2025 • 9 min read
Can the government deliver a competitive UK green steel industry?

Policy

Can the government deliver a competitive UK green steel industry?

The government insists the UK is 'well positioned to be at the forefront of the global transition to green steel', as it seeks views on its forthcoming Plan for Steel

clock 17 February 2025 • 6 min read