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'There is no upside to delay': How a renewables-based energy system could save Europe $1.6tr
New study reveals how generation mixes with high shares of renewables will save money for consumers and businesses, even when grid upgrades, energy storage, and back-up power costs are considered
08 December 2025
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9 min read
The Green Gap: Why our sustainable start-up is struggling against a broken system
Trewin Restorick's new start-up Treasure Gardening is delivering truly sustainable peat-free compost, but has found itself facing delays to promised policies and the entrenched power of unsustainable incumbents
08 December 2025
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3 min read
How Flybox is harnessing the power of insects to tackle organic waste
Larry Kotch, chief operating officer at Flybox, explains how the company is converting food waste into insect protein and fertiliser
08 December 2025
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4 min read
'Once in a generation reforms': Revamped grid connection pipeline to end 'zombie projects'
08 December 2025
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4 min read
'Atlantic Bastion': UK beefs up undersea defence to project crucial cables and pipelines
08 December 2025
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4 min read
European Parliament and Council agree one-year delay to flagship deforestation regulations
08 December 2025
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4 min read
Study: Over 60 per cent of Britons willing to buy refurbished devices
08 December 2025
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3 min read
Great British Energy - Nuclear names Simon Roddy as new chief executive
08 December 2025
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2 min read
'People are still treating cheap vapes as disposable': Is the government's vape ban failing?
Six months after the ban on disposable vapes came into force, waste companies warn behaviour has not changed with consumers continuing to discard vapes that lead to fires, lost resources, and millions of pounds of damage
05 December 2025
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8 min read
Global Briefing: Trump administration ramps up war on US climate policies
White House rejects climate science in new National Security Strategy and strips 'renewable' from National Renewable Energy Laboratory, as deadly floods hit Asia, and Thailand advances plans for its first climate law
05 December 2025
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5 min read
How Smart Green Shipping is charting a course for fleet decarbonisation
Smart Green Shipping CEO Diane Gilpin and BusinessGreen editor-in-chief James Murray discuss the future of low carbon shipping and what it could mean for broader corporate emissions reduction efforts
03 December 2025
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1 min read
What we told UK leaders about climate and nature at a national emergency briefing
I joined eight other experts to deliver a National Emergency Briefing in late November on the climate and nature to around 1,200 of the UK’s leaders — across politics, business, faith and culture — in Central Hall Westminster.
04 December 2025
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4 min read
The biggest climate stories often aren't labelled 'climate' - so newsrooms miss them
Last week's Budget provided a perfect example of how the mainstream media has a huge blindspot when it comes to the climate crisis and the policies that are shaping it
03 December 2025
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5 min read
Can the government deliver its promised environmental improvements?
The government's new Environmental Improvement Plan is an impressive document, but big questions remain over whether Number 10 and the Treasury will give Ministers the tools they need to deliver
02 December 2025
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4 min read
Can the government deliver its promised environmental improvements?
The government's new Environmental Improvement Plan is an impressive document, but big questions remain over whether Number 10 and the Treasury will give Ministers the tools they need to deliver
02 December 2025
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4 min read
Budget: There was good news for climate action, but it was hidden among the chaos
Rachel Reeves sent a series of mixed signals to the green economy, which could have been avoided if only there had been a clearer narrative
26 November 2025
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7 min read
COP30 delivered mix of success and failure, but that is no success at all
Belém Summit provided important progress, but the market signals were compromised by petrostate wrecking tactics - the onus is now on leading governments and businesses to deliver the climate action that is so desperately needed
23 November 2025
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9 min read
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