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'Huge potential': Report makes case for reviving plans for Severn tidal energy project
20 March 2025
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5 min read
'A national embarrassment': UK imports goods linked to the destruction of a Liverpool-sized forest each year
Global Witness analysis reveals UK is continuing to import a raft of goods that are directly driving deforestation around the world
20 March 2025
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4 min read
Populism won't solve Europe's problems, resilience will: Here is how we get there
20 March 2025
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4 min read
The Nature Restoration Fund: A government black hole disguised as environmental progress
The Nature Restoration Fund is a 'smoke-and-mirrors' distraction that risks deepening the very problems it claims to solve, argues Burlingtons Biodiversity Solutions CEO Henry Mills
20 March 2025
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5 min read
National Wealth Fund: Solihull secures £9m for town centre heat network
20 March 2025
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3 min read
National Wealth Fund instructed to focus on clean energy and defence
19 March 2025
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6 min read
BSI launches consultation on proposed changes to flagship environmental guidelines
19 March 2025
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2 min read
Carbon Data Open Protocol: Businesses join forces to launch carbon markets standards drive
19 March 2025
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3 min read
New BYD charging tech promises to match refuelling speeds for petrol and diesel cars
19 March 2025
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3 min read
Josh Pitman: 'We oversimplify everything to greenhouse gas emissions when they're only part of a wider picture'
Josh Pitman, managing director of sustainable packaging firm Priory Direct, discusses the potential of AI and chemical recycling, and how he is a 'big believer' in apprentices
B Corp successes, stranded asset fears, and woolly mammoth mice
BusinessGreen Editor’s Briefing: March 2025
How Drift 'energy ships' aim to harness ocean wind to produce clean electricity at sea
Ben Medland, founder and CEO at Drift Energy, explains the company's vision for energy harvesting at sea, and why the firm's vessels aren't a 'moonshot'
How can creative industries help green businesses achieve cut through on climate and nature?
Creatives behind the latest 'Agency for Nature' campaign share lessons in climate comms, as they seek to engage new audiences with the importance of nature
Harriet Lamb: 'Focus on building the positive alternative'
WRAP CEO Harriet Lamb explains why bringing the circular economy into every home and boardroom deserves more serious attention, and how she's learned to love her freezer
How Matter's filtration technologies aim to take a bite out of the micropollutant crisis
Next in the BusinessGreen Intelligence Spotlight, Adam Root, founder and CEO of Matter, debunks the myth that sustainable solutions aren't commercially viable
SBTi's Corporate Net Zero Standard: Three key outstanding questions
The SBTi's long-awaited draft standard points to a potential compromise between corporates and green groups, but several important issues are still yet to be resolved
19 March 2025
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11 min read
Climate impacts may be starting to spiral, but a sub-1.5C world is 'still possible'
World Meteorological Organisation report shows CO2 in atmosphere has reached its highest level in 800,000 years, but the world can still avoid a climate catastrophe
19 March 2025
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6 min read
Kemi Badenoch is wrong - Net zero by 2050 is difficult, it's not impossible
The Tory leader has just torched the political consensus on ambitious climate action - the electoral calculus is likely to prove as deeply flawed as the economic analysis behind the move
18 March 2025
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10 min read
'The price will be electoral oblivion': Green groups respond to Kemi Badenoch's attack on net zero targets
The Conservative leader has declared the UK's net zero by 2050 target "impossible", sparking fury among climate campaigners, business groups, and some of her own party
18 March 2025
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11 min read
'Disastrous for our health and for the planet': How the rise of ultra-processed foods is harming nature and food security
New report from Food, Farming, and Countryside Commission urges government to act now to fix food system as costs to nature and health are 'piling up'
17 March 2025
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6 min read
Have carbon emissions from buildings 'decoupled' from construction growth?
Last year marked the first time building-related emissions appeared to decouple from growth across the sector, although it remains far off track to meet global climate goals, according to UNEP
17 March 2025
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5 min read
Kemi Badenoch is wrong - Net zero by 2050 is difficult, it's not impossible
The Tory leader has just torched the political consensus on ambitious climate action - the electoral calculus is likely to prove as deeply flawed as the economic analysis behind the move
18 March 2025
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10 min read
'Scrap net zero?' OK, but then what?
Attacks on the net zero transition are ratcheting up, but what would happen if the critics of decarbonisation actually got what they wanted?
28 February 2025
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9 min read
The egregious assault on net zero nuance
Influential journalists on the right of British politics are responsible for egregiously misleading reporting on climate policy and the green economy - could the climate movement do more to defend itself?
21 February 2025
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6 min read
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