News Analysis

Invest in rainforest protection now or expect future shocks bigger than the 2008 financial crisis, Zero Carbon Analytics report warns

Italy, Ireland, and the UK most exposed to energy bill increases given gas continues to dominate their wholesale power markets, IEEFA claims

Diluting CO2 targets for new cars could result in 49 million fewer EVs on Europe’s roads by 2040, potentially leading to an additional €4bn a year in grid spending

Vast quantities of rice, coffee, and chocolate are imported from developing nations under threat from extreme heat linked to looming El Niño effect, ECIU warns

Booming demand for off-grid solar systems confirmed, the EU advances plans for greener data centres, and Donald Trump moves to protect the ailing US coal industry

BusinessGreen Editor’s Briefing: June part one

National pledges fall short of Paris Agreement warming thresholds by more than five billion tonnes of CO2 per year by 2050, report warns, and carbon removals could struggle to fill the gap

New report argues 'forward-looking' businesses must be more vocal in defending climate and clean energy policies, if they are to resist downgrading of decarbonisation efforts

May temperatures in Saudi Arabia reaching extremes previously confined to summer , report finds countries can ‘dramatically impact’ plastic pollution without global consensus, and Spain earmarks €9bn for energy transition

Some 3,000 SMEs are at the heart of Scotland’s net zero transition, while small firms from the likes of Wrexham, Pembrokeshire, Rhondda Cynon Taf and Newport are among the leading lights in Wales’ green economy, analysis shows