Business Green

'This must be the final chapter for North Sea drilling': Jackdaw approval sparks calls for strengthened plan to end fossil fuel reliance

Energy

James Murray

21 October 2026 • 7 min read

Legislation

'Overshoot is not surrender': Policymakers urged to 'pull out all the stops' to tackle widening emissions gap

Annual UNEP Emissions Gap report warns urgent action is needed to limit the 'overshoot' beyond the 1.5C warming threshold set under the Paris Agreement

Stuart Stone

21 October 2026 • 8 min read

Buildings

Keepmoat's Hannah Needham: 'No matter how much experience you have, there's always another challenge'

Housebuilder Keepmoat’s sustainability coordinator reflects on her start as a 'green champion' in the NHS, and how AI is playing an increasingly important role in crunching green numbers

Stuart Stone

21 October 2026 • 7 min read

Management

Equans' Amelle Mestari: 'The green transition will need diverse talent and fresh thinking from every background'

The winner of Corporate Sustainability Lead of the Year at the 2026 Women in Green Business Awards explains the need to move beyond mentoring and place greater emphasis on sponsorship

BusinessGreen staff

20 October 2026 • 9 min read

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Analysis

Risk

Slowing the flow: Why flood resilience is becoming nature's first investable asset

Partner Insight: Environment Bank, operator of England's largest network of Habitat Banks and Nature-based solutions, sets out how business and sustainability leaders can turn upstream nature restoration into an investable natural infrastructure asset...

19 October 2026 • 4 min read

Energy

How plans for new coal projects are outpacing 'shelved' schemes at a rate of three-to-one

The COP31 co-hosts are still expanding coal production, while 95 per cent of coal companies lack phase-out plans, a new study has warned

20 October 2026 • 9 min read

Automotive

'Fleets are the engine of change': How to shift corporate EV fleets into the fast lane

BusinessGreen's latest webinar explores the best practices helping businesses to embrace fleet electrification, unlocking significant cost savings and emissions reductions in the process

20 October 2026 • 13 min read

Automotive

Spotlight on EVs: How to develop an effective zero emission fleet strategy - On demand

WATCH NOW: Experts discuss how businesses can work to decarbonise their fleets and accelerate the roll out of EVs and other low carbon transport technologies

20 October 2026 • 1 min read

Climate change

Global Briefing: EU seeks one-year delay to fossil fuel methane reporting rules

Plus France emissions projected to fall this year, Engie plots a major new biomethane plant, and Inter Milan's publishes its first sustainability plan

16 October 2026 • 7 min read

Biodiversity

COP17: Nature knows no boundaries - neither can our solutions

To protect nature and livelihoods in a changing climate, consider both systems together and listen to local people, say local government leaders

16 October 2026 • 4 min read

Opinion

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Editors blog

Policy

In defence of heat pump grants

Government insiders are briefing they want to cut heat pump grants that disproportionately go to wealthier households, but there is a strong case for a universal roll out of a technology that cuts emissions and enhances energy security

James Murray

13 October 2026 • 6 min read

Politics

What does true pragmatism look like in an age of climate crisis?

Andy Burnham has promised a 'pragmatic' approach to North Sea drilling, but who gets to decide what that word even means?

James Murray

01 October 2026 • 8 min read

Politics

Change agent: Burnham's support for clean energy is welcome, but tough choices await

The Prime Minister is serious about climate action and has the political ability to sell his vision, but imminent decisions on North Sea drilling and electric vehicles could undermine his green ambitions

James Murray

30 September 2026 • 4 min read

'This must be the final chapter for North Sea drilling': Jackdaw approval sparks calls for strengthened plan to end fossil fuel reliance

'Overshoot is not surrender': Policymakers urged to 'pull out all the stops' to tackle widening emissions gap

Keepmoat's Hannah Needham: 'No matter how much experience you have, there's always another challenge'

Equans' Amelle Mestari: 'The green transition will need diverse talent and fresh thinking from every background'

Government to approve controversial Jackdaw gas field project

Cornish Metals launches £135m funding round to reopen UK tin mine

'Our Geothermal Nation': How the UK could unlock 10GW of geothermal heat by 2050

BloombergNEF: Copper mines need $300bn investment to avoid supply deficit

'Too hot to work': Extreme heat threatens 'substantial drag on global economic output'

CBAM: UK sets out rates and guidance for forthcoming carbon border levy

Slowing the flow: Why flood resilience is becoming nature's first investable asset

How plans for new coal projects are outpacing 'shelved' schemes at a rate of three-to-one

'Fleets are the engine of change': How to shift corporate EV fleets into the fast lane

Spotlight on EVs: How to develop an effective zero emission fleet strategy - On demand

Global Briefing: EU seeks one-year delay to fossil fuel methane reporting rules

COP17: Nature knows no boundaries - neither can our solutions

In defence of heat pump grants

What does true pragmatism look like in an age of climate crisis?

Change agent: Burnham's support for clean energy is welcome, but tough choices await

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