Net zero emission economy

Long-awaited 'European Green Deal' aims to ramp up Paris Agreement targets and take radical action to decarbonise economy - but will member states back the plan?

Parties may all now agree UK must hit net zero emissions by mid-century, but disagree on how to get there. BusinessGreen reports from last night's debate hosted by the Aldersgate Group, where party representatives thrashed it out

Richard Howard sets out a centre-right blueprint for hitting net zero

Party proposes a '10 year emergency programme' to slash emissions and put UK on track for net zero by 2045

Local authorities should be given greater powers and funding to shape clean growth policies, think tanks argue in a new report

People who criticise the group's lack of ethnic diversity, the lifestyles of its activists, their 'unrealistic' aims, are missing the point, argues WWF UK's Gareth Redmond-King

In an exclusive interview, BusinessGreen quizzes the Energy and Clean Growth Minister on the government's decarbonisation plans

Plans to withdraw local authorities' ability to set tighter building standards than Westminster could derail London's plans to become a Zero Carbon City

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Social housing should be pathfinder to net zero for rest of housing sector, according to new report