News Analysis

BusinessGreen brings you this week's green business news from around the world

Investments in the world's fastest growing cities face the biggest risk from climate change, according to analysis by Verisk Maplecroft

Peak coal, electric vehicle take-off and green power growth - everything you need to know from the International Energy Agency's annual bumper report

Green lawyers claim plans to convert Selby coal units to gas power risk locking in high carbon infrastructure that could undermine UK's climate commitments

New Inenco report highlights how business energy costs are facing upward pressure once again - savvy firms need to respond

Official survey confirms fall in public backing for fracking after summer of bitter protests

Government stops short of making climate risk reporting mandatory for large firms, but a raft of other green finance reforms are in the pipeline

Sustainability of packaging increasingly impacting purchasing decisions amid growing social media scrutiny of brands, survey suggests

With sea levels rising, Committee on Climate Change urges major overhaul of government's management of coastal flooding and erosion

Europe-wide ban could be in place on certain items by 2021 - but is the war on plastics a distraction from the climate fight?