BusinessGreen Overnight Briefing

The net zero transition is a finance problem. The requirement for significant sums of upfront capital that will unlock massive long term benefits is the challenge at the heart of the climate crisis.

Yesterday, a major new report emerged that sought to question the credibility of many leading corporate net zero targets. Such reports are both increasingly frequent and broadly welcome. If net zero strategies are to be of any use it is vital they are...

Those pesky young people made headlines again over the weekend thanks to their pig headed refusal to listen to Kirsty Allsopp, cancel their £7 a month Netflix subscription and magically afford the £70,000 deposit for a studio apartment

Can we trust Larry Fink? It is a proxy for one of the biggest questions in the world right now. Can capitalism reform itself to avert a rolling climate catastrophe or is a fundamentally different economic model urgently required?

There is so much uncertainty attached to almost every aspect of the net zero transition - the pace at which it will proceed, the balance of different technologies, the role of offsets, the political challenges it will face - that when you find a genuinely...

There has, quite understandably, been an increasingly heavy focus on the role of human diets in climate change. After all, around a third of total greenhouse gas emissions come from the world's food system,

Barely a week now seems to go by now without another major automotive or energy firm significantly scaling up its targets for electric vehicle or clean energy production in the 2020s.

The history of the renewables industry is littered with technologies and innovations that didn't quite work. The leviathan offshore turbines and low cost, mass manufactured solar panels that are rapidly remaking the global energy market

I often look at the results of a survey and find myself wondering, 'is that good or not?' This week's study from PwC on executive pay and its links to ESG performance is a case in point.