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BusinessGreen Editor’s Briefing: July

Ed Miliband describes upcoming Contracts for Difference auction as 'critical test' for new government's climate plans in his first Parliamentary statement as Energy Security Secretary

Business groups and environmental campaigners react to the Climate Change Committee's verdict on progress towards UK decarbonisation targets

The Climate Change Committee has offered a scathing assessment of green policy under Rishi Sunak's government - but also presents a clear pathway forward for the new Labour administration

Former CCC boss to head up 'first of its kind' Mission Control to co-ordinate action to deliver on Labour's clean power goal

Over 400 experts from leading research institutions warn a new government that lacks a bold pledge to ramp up climate action would be 'shirking its international responsibilities'

DESNZ announces it will not rollover surplus emissions achieved during the last Carbon Budget

New manifesto from Conservative Environment Network comes amid fears government could break promise on peat compost ban and relax UK emissions targets

Outgoing CCC boss Chris Stark fears the term 'net zero' is becoming 'unhelpful', but any alternative framing for decarbonisation would face precisely the same political and structural challenges

The Scottish Government is to ditch its goal to reduce emissions by 75 per cent by 2030, but reiterates its commitment to reaching net zero