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MSC: Over-fishing depriving 72 million people of food
MSC: Over-fishing depriving 72 million people of food

The Marine Stewardship Council warns that a growing population and increased demand for seafood are set to place even greater pressure on the world's ravaged fish stocks

  • Supply chain
  • 07 January 2021
Blow for climate campaigners as government refuses to block controversial Cumbrian coal mining project
Blow for climate campaigners as government refuses to block controversial Cumbrian coal mining project

Decision not to intervene in planning process for coal mine draws widespread condemnation from politicians and green campaigners amid concerns over project's climate impact

  • Policy
  • 06 January 2021
Latest BusinessGreen webinar confirmed: Net Zero Investment - What role do investors play?
Latest BusinessGreen webinar confirmed: Net Zero Investment - What role do investors play?

Hosted in association with Schroders, latest free webinar will next week explore the role investors can play in accelerating the net zero transition

  • Investment
  • 06 January 2021
'Real risk to wellbeing': UK summer temperatures set to rise faster than global average, study finds
'Real risk to wellbeing': UK summer temperatures set to rise faster than global average, study finds

Research mapping 40 years of future global climate trends has concluded that temperatures in the UK are set to increase faster than other parts of the world

  • Climate change
  • 06 January 2021
UK electric vehicle market enjoys 'best ever year' in 2020
UK electric vehicle market enjoys 'best ever year' in 2020

Electric vehicle market goes from strength to strength even despite Covid-19 pandemic, with UK sales making up more than one in ten new car registrations in 2020

  • Automotive
  • 06 January 2021
Global coffee players brew up 2050 climate plan to slash 1.5 gigatonnes of CO2
Global coffee players brew up 2050 climate plan to slash 1.5 gigatonnes of CO2

Starbucks, Walmart, McDonalds and Nescafe among more than 150 coffee retailers and producers to join collective pledge to invest in forestry protection and smallholder farm efficiency

  • Climate change
  • 06 January 2021
Electrification of harbour crane moves Port of Tyne closer to carbon neutral goal
Electrification of harbour crane moves Port of Tyne closer to carbon neutral goal

Port selected to be maintenance base for massive Dogger Bank offshore wind farm cut 700 tonnes of carbon emissions in 2020 after electrifying its harbour crane and other key assets

  • Infrastructure
  • 06 January 2021
Poll: UK banking customers demanding greener financial services
Poll: UK banking customers demanding greener financial services

Deloitte's Better Banking Survey reveals a public increasingly concerned about the social and environmental credentials of the companies entrusted with their money

  • Investment
  • 06 January 2021
From floating turbines to carbon capture x-rays: UK clean tech research labs gain multi-million pound funding boost
From floating turbines to carbon capture x-rays: UK clean tech research labs gain multi-million pound funding boost

Government announces £213m funding pot to help upgrade UK science and research facilities up and down the country

  • Science
  • 06 January 2021
Veganuary 2021: Record 440,000 commit to plant-based diet challenge
Veganuary 2021: Record 440,000 commit to plant-based diet challenge

More than 440,000 people have so far signed up to the 31-day challenge in the UK, making this year's the biggest yet, according to Veganuary

  • Climate change
  • 05 January 2021
'Getting to Zero': New commission to explore how to manage threat to carbon intensive jobs
'Getting to Zero': New commission to explore how to manage threat to carbon intensive jobs

Analysis highlights how net zero transition could impact 10 million jobs in carbon intensive industries

  • Politics
  • 05 January 2021
Ecotricity strikes landmark deal to secure geothermal power from Cornish plant
Ecotricity strikes landmark deal to secure geothermal power from Cornish plant

Major milestone for emerging renewable energy sector as developers of UK's first geothermal power plant agree to sell 3MW of baseload power to green energy supplier

  • Energy
  • 05 January 2021
Campaigners vow to oppose Gatwick Aiport's 'stealth' second runway following shareholder approval of plans
Campaigners vow to oppose Gatwick Aiport's 'stealth' second runway following shareholder approval of plans

As Gatwick kicks off planning permission process for plans to convert an emergency runway into functioning second runway, campaigners accuse airport off being 'disengenuous' by understating scale of upgrade

  • Aviation
  • 05 January 2021
Tesco toasts removal of one billion pieces of plastic from its shelves in 2020
Tesco toasts removal of one billion pieces of plastic from its shelves in 2020

Supermarket claims to have met its pledge to remove one billion pieces of plastic, working with suppliers to remove unnecessary and excessive packaging of products

  • Waste
  • 05 January 2021
Firms pledge to showcase Scotland's 'first' hydrogen-powered train at COP26
Firms pledge to showcase Scotland's 'first' hydrogen-powered train at COP26

Train to be developed by retrofitting an old passenger car with hydrogen fuel cell technology over the coming months, in the hope the model can feature at the COP26 climate conference set to be held in the autumn in Glasgow, according to project lead...

  • Rail
  • 05 January 2021
Tyne and Wear village to tap blended hydrogen from gas grid in green heating pilot
Tyne and Wear village to tap blended hydrogen from gas grid in green heating pilot

Plan for 10-month hydrogen heating trial near Gateshead comes as WWF Scotland urges major energy efficiency investment programme to slash emissions from leaky and carbon-intensive homes

  • Buildings
  • 04 January 2021
Reports: Sharma offers to quit BEIS for full-time COP26 focus
Reports: Sharma offers to quit BEIS for full-time COP26 focus

Business Secretary offers to leave departmental role in order to concentrate fully on leading the UK's climate diplomacy efforts in run up to crucial Glasgow summit

  • Politics
  • 04 January 2021
Ørsted secures green light for mammoth 2.4GW Hornsea Three offshore wind farm
Ørsted secures green light for mammoth 2.4GW Hornsea Three offshore wind farm

UK's Planning Inspectorate grants consent for major wind farm despite concerns over potential impact on local seabird populations

  • Wind
  • 04 January 2021
Government unveils £8m to advance plans for six net zero industrial hubs
Government unveils £8m to advance plans for six net zero industrial hubs

Latest funding to be split between six regional industrial decarbonisation projects across the UK in support of hydrogen, carbon capture and renewable energy technologies

  • CCS
  • 04 January 2021
'Disastrous extremes': Christian Aid catalogues $145bn cost of 2020 weather disasters
'Disastrous extremes': Christian Aid catalogues $145bn cost of 2020 weather disasters

Most costly floods, windstorms, tropical cyclones and fires in 2020 killed thousands of people across the globe and displaced millions, charity finds

  • Climate change
  • 29 December 2020
'Move from ambition to action': Government urged to ramp up green policies and spending in 2021
'Move from ambition to action': Government urged to ramp up green policies and spending in 2021

Green Alliance warns that major decarbonisation policy gaps must be filled next year if government is to achieve its bold 2030 carbon reduction target

  • Policy
  • 29 December 2020
'A huge relief': Historic UK-EU trade deal avoids cliff-edge Brexit for green businesses
'A huge relief': Historic UK-EU trade deal avoids cliff-edge Brexit for green businesses

Brexit deal finally brokered on Christmas Eve, but big questions remain over long term ramifications for environmental standards and green trade

  • Politics
  • 24 December 2020
Fintech start-up turns to algorithms and sensors to scale nature-based solutions investment
Fintech start-up turns to algorithms and sensors to scale nature-based solutions investment

Cultivo aims to facilitate flow of private finance to nature-based solutions, by using cutting-edge technologies to identify projects with potential for strong natural capital returns

  • Technology
  • 23 December 2020
'Gold standard': Bankers draft net zero rules for financial services sector
'Gold standard': Bankers draft net zero rules for financial services sector

Bankers for Net Zero alliance convened by All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Fair Business Banking unveils framework for sector's role in accelerating UK decarbonisation

  • Investment
  • 22 December 2020
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