News Analysis

Supply chain

How school food can serve a climate solution

Could new legislation help normalise more climate-friendly diets?

clock 09 July 2021 • 5 min read

Offsets

'Trade with confidence' or 'get-out-of-jail'? Carney-led Taskforce plots legal standards for 'unified' carbon offset market

Carney-led carbon market Taskforce has sets out plans to establish legal standards and governance body to bolster integrity of CO2 offsets, but environmental campaigners remain unconvinced

clock 08 July 2021 • 5 min read

Biomass

How limited is the planet's capacity for supplying 'sustainable' biomass and biofuel?

Energy Transitions Commission provides guidance on availability and use of biomass, warning sustainable sources are limited in volume worldwide

clock 07 July 2021 • 4 min read

Supply chain

How the UK's clean energy project pipeline could offset 90 per cent of pandemic job losses

Around 625,000 jobs could be created if UK’s existing clean energy project pipeline is realised, according to new analysis from EY

clock 07 July 2021 • 5 min read

Management

How sustainability is climbing up the global shopping list

New survey results highlight how consumers are more environmentally-aware than ever, and engagement with sustainability concerns is only growing

clock 07 July 2021 • 6 min read

Carbon Trading

Investors managing $6tr of assets call for global carbon price corridor

Current piecemeal approach to carbon pricing threatens progress towards global climate goals, Net Zero Asset Owner Alliance argues

clock 06 July 2021 • 5 min read

Skills

'Woefully prepared': How can the UK plug its looming net zero skills gap?

New report from think tank Onward warns that without a major revamp of the UK's skills strategy its net zero goals and economic competitiveness will be at risk

clock 05 July 2021 • 7 min read

Automotive

Global Briefing: Canada sets 2035 target to make all new car and van sales zero emission

clock 02 July 2021 • 4 min read

BusinessGreen

Waste not, want not: How the waste and recycling industry could prove integral to the net zero transition

Major new report from the Environmental Services Association urges government to seize opportunity to slash emissions from waste and mobilise £10bn of green investment

clock 01 July 2021 • 7 min read

Automotive

'Full throttle': Inside the SMMT's vision for decarbonising the auto indusrty

The car industry body has warned millions more EV charging points and a dramatic ramp up in battery production capacity are required to secure the future competitiveness of the UK's auto sector

clock 30 June 2021 • 7 min read