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Ethstat's Yasmin Halai-Carter: 'Innovation often starts where certainty ends'

Management

Ethstat's Yasmin Halai-Carter: 'Innovation often starts where certainty ends'

CEO of social enterprise Ethstat reflects on how the Covid pandemic showed how quickly systems can move when there is urgency and political will

clock 04 August 2026 • 9 min read
Miatta Fahnbulleh wants to tackle fuel poverty - now she has to deliver

Efficiency

Miatta Fahnbulleh wants to tackle fuel poverty - now she has to deliver

The new Energy Security and Net Zero Secretary has signalled her support for tackling fuel poverty, but she's inherited a Warm Homes Plan that is yet to be finalised - and, as Andrew Warren warns, energy efficiency jobs are being lost as the wait to fill...

clock 03 August 2026 • 6 min read
How Concretene is using biogas from wastewater to create low-carbon concrete

Buildings

How Concretene is using biogas from wastewater to create low-carbon concrete

Alan Beck, head of product at Concretene, discusses the firm's efforts to cut concrete's carbon footprint after success in the Ofwat Innovation Fund’s Water Breakthrough Challenge

clock 03 August 2026 • 5 min read
Global Briefing: Four-in-five countries failed to meet deadline for tackling 'harmful' subsidies

Climate change

Global Briefing: Four-in-five countries failed to meet deadline for tackling 'harmful' subsidies

Just 21 countries met a target to identify all environmentally 'harmful' subsidies, Spain rolls out new EV incentives, and Canberra reveals next stage of strategy to reach net zero by 2045

clock 31 July 2026 • 8 min read
UK drought: Crop harvests at severe risk of collapse

Climate change

UK drought: Crop harvests at severe risk of collapse

clock 31 July 2026 • 5 min read
EU carbon market shake-up, green skills reforms, and the sustainability profession in 2026

Policy

EU carbon market shake-up, green skills reforms, and the sustainability profession in 2026

BusinessGreen Editor’s Briefing – August

clock 31 July 2026 • 2 min read
Conservative environmental leadership can cut bills, reduce emissions and wins votes - the Party must embrace it

Politics

Conservative environmental leadership can cut bills, reduce emissions and wins votes - the Party must embrace it

By once again embracing a pragmatic Conservative environmental tradition we can regain power, keep Britain safe and unleash our country's economic potential, writes Wiltshire Council's Conservative group leader Richard Clewer

clock 31 July 2026 • 3 min read
A hot messy summer

Climate change

A hot messy summer

As the wildfires rage, what passes for climate discourse on the right of British politics is plumbing depressing new depths

clock 31 July 2026 • 9 min read
How the global EV boom just broke records in 50 countries

Automotive

How the global EV boom just broke records in 50 countries

IEA increases EVs forecast market share for 2026, as second quarter sales boost in emerging markets offsets US and China slowdown

clock 30 July 2026 • 5 min read
The world faces economic, political and technological challenges - sustainability professionals are leaning into them

The world faces economic, political and technological challenges - sustainability professionals are leaning into them

Those working in corporate sustainability and environmental roles have a significant role to play in helping to increase organisational resilience and reduce vulnerability, writes Martin Baxter from the Institute of Sustainability and Environmental Professionals...

clock 30 July 2026 • 4 min read