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Stuart Stone

Stuart Stone

Intelligence editor

Stuart Stone is editor of BusinessGreen Intelligence. He has led the platform's output since it launched in March 2023 by writing case studies, interviews and trend reports designed to help sustainable business leaders in their work. He has also provided news and analysis for the site since joining BusinessGreen in January 2023.

Stuart is particularly interested in green start-ups, culture and behaviour change, nature, the role of clean tech and circular innovation in day-to-day living, and the uphill battle to make sport more sustainable.

Prior to joining BusinessGreen, Stuart spent almost four years covering the hospitality and drinks sector at “pub trade bible” The Morning Advertiser, where he was a head category judge at the Great British Pub Awards on multiple occasions.

He also enjoyed a brief spell covering innovation and technology in the water and energy sectors at Utility Week, has freelanced for British GQ and Telegraph Sport, and written matchday blogs for UEFA’s Champions League, Europa League and international fixtures. Before training as a journalist Stuart spent four years working in commercial media at Men’s Fitness and The Telegraph Media Group’s branded content team.

Stuart studied journalism at City University, a BA in modern history and politics at Royal Holloway, University of London, and is certified Carbon Literate by The Carbon Literacy Project.

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Articles by Stuart Stone

'UK's largest' cathedral solar panel project to launch in Winchester

Solar

'UK's largest' cathedral solar panel project to launch in Winchester

Loganair backs installation of 243 solar panels across Cathedral estate through its GreenSkies Community Fund

clock 02 November 2026 • 3 min read
National Audit Office warns government efforts to track climate risks at 'early stage'

Risk

National Audit Office warns government efforts to track climate risks at 'early stage'

Review of climate risk disclosures from 31 public bodies reveals a 'mixed picture' when it comes to tackling escalating climate-related threats

clock 02 November 2026 • 6 min read
How floating Aquapods are creating 'waterfalls' that can autonomously clean up harbours

Technology

How floating Aquapods are creating 'waterfalls' that can autonomously clean up harbours

Alan Branagh of Net Zero Alchemists reveals how Belfast Harbour became the first in the UK to install water-borne tech to capture and remove litter and microplastics

clock 02 November 2026 • 7 min read
Biodiversity Net Gain: Nationally significant infrastructure projects now subject to nature requirements

Biodiversity

Biodiversity Net Gain: Nationally significant infrastructure projects now subject to nature requirements

Rules requiring major infrastructure projects to deliver 10 per cent biodiversity uplift enter into force

clock 02 November 2026 • 3 min read
Study: Nearly all 'green apprenticeships' lead to jobs that are hard for AI to replace

Skills

Study: Nearly all 'green apprenticeships' lead to jobs that are hard for AI to replace

Workforce 2030: Fewer than one-in-20 green apprenticeship roles linked to occupations most at risk of being replaced by AI, study claims

clock 02 November 2026 • 4 min read
Sea Link: Government approves 2GW undersea power connection between Suffolk and Kent

Energy

Sea Link: Government approves 2GW undersea power connection between Suffolk and Kent

National Grid project capable of powering the equivalent of two million homes via a 138km high voltage electricity link given the green light by DESNZ

clock 30 October 2026 • 2 min read
'A report has to be read to drive change': How to build an award-winning sustainability report

Management

'A report has to be read to drive change': How to build an award-winning sustainability report

Finalists from the UK Green Business Awards' Sustainability Report of the Year category explain how they struck a balance between eye-catching and credible

clock 30 October 2026 • 17 min read
'Obscene': Shell, BP and Equinor post 'bumper' third quarter profits

Energy

'Obscene': Shell, BP and Equinor post 'bumper' third quarter profits

Middle East crisis helps fossil fuel giants more than double year-on-year profits, which campaigners decry as a 'kick in the teeth' for UK billpayers

clock 30 October 2026 • 6 min read
Global Briefing: Solar and wind investment tipped to reach $356bn by 2040 in emerging economies

Climate change

Global Briefing: Solar and wind investment tipped to reach $356bn by 2040 in emerging economies

Plus, record atmospheric greenhouse gas levels, Trump to 'terminate' Biden-era methane rules, Radisson opens its first net zero hotel in Africa

clock 30 October 2026 • 12 min read
COP17: UN bodies estimate $296bn a year needed to reach 2030 nature restoration targets

Biodiversity

COP17: UN bodies estimate $296bn a year needed to reach 2030 nature restoration targets

World witnessing 'the makings of one of the largest movements for nature in recorded history’, but system-wide action still needed to rescue flagship goals, according to UN report

clock 29 October 2026 • 7 min read