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Dietary, travel and energy choices are only achieving 10 per cent of their potential impact – but a new study claims policy support can offer a much-needed boost

Ember analysis indicates growth in clean power generation is on track to outpace rising power demand, paving the way for a decline in fossil generation at global level

Helsinki shutters its last utility scale coal power plant, Brazil appoints its COP30 champion, and Apple ramps up China renewables investment

Rival camps in the debate over proposals for zonal electricity pricing are once again at loggerheads over whether reforms would deliver promised cost savings

A group of unnamed executives from across the food industry has today published a memo for investors warning the sector’s response to escalating environmental risks is inadequate and based on 'wishful strategies'

IEA highlights how clean energy innovation is 'more promising than ever', but the sector risks being denied the investment needed to deploy new technologies at scale

Around 25,000 UK jobs are considered at risk due to new US auto tariffs, but a new report claims a burgeoning domestic green transport sector could help make up for any losses

Conservative Environment Network unveils paper that aims to inform Kemi Badenoch's policy review, following Party's controversial decision to ditch support for UK's net zero target