Carbon credit integrity and -15C freezers: SBTi rows and low carbon laundry: BusinessGreen's most read stories of the week

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Carbon credit integrity and -15C freezers: SBTi rows and low carbon laundry: BusinessGreen's most read stories of the week

From the latest debate over carbon offset credits to the ASA's on-going greenwash crackdown, BusinessGreen rounds up the most widely read stories on the site this week

'Insufficiently rigorous': Millions of carbon credits fail to secure high integrity label approval

Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market rejects eight assessment methodologies for renewable energy carbon credit projects over 'additionality' concerns.

 

'Move to -15C': Leading UK frozen food trade bodies join campaign to cut freezer emissions

Cold Chain Federation and the British Frozen Food Federation join drive to slash emissions and energy bills by raising freezer temperatures to minus 15CHow Labour's planning reforms aim to unlock 'a net zero future'.

 

How Labour's planning reforms aim to unlock 'a net zero future'

Proposed changes to the National Planning Policy Framework extend far beyond the Green Belt and promise to turbocharge green energy development across the country.

 

Rachel Reeves advances plans for UK International Investment Summit

Plans to become 'Clean Energy Superpower' set to feature prominently at October 14th summit.

 

Are Sustainable Aviation Fuels really 'sustainable'? The ASA has its say

Advertising Standards Authority rules that Virgin Atlantic radio advert promoting '100 per cent sustainable aviation fuel' gave misleading impression it emitted zero emissions.


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