News Analysis

BusinessGreen Editor’s Briefing: May 2025

New analysis explores how governments and businesses could build a sustainable ocean economy that creates over 180 million jobs worldwide by 2050

New report warns human rights and environmental abuses linked to mining for minerals critical to the switch to clean energy are threatening to undermine the net zero transition

Government impact assessment claims Planning and Infrastructure Bill could unlock multi-billion-pound economic boost over 10 years, but admits it only has 'limited data' on potential environmental risks

Plus Kenya's new national climate plan, Equinor's row with the Trump administration over US wind farms, and all the top green business news from around the world this week

Hefty US tariff hikes on Indonesian and Malaysian palm oil imports could serve to drive up demand for more land-use intensive soybean oil production, reports Anthony Harwood

Office for Environmental Protection warns current iteration of Planning and Infrastructure Bill would weaken environmental protections, further fuelling nature campaigners' fears landmark legislation lacks sufficient safeguards

Opponents of climate action have had a field day, but those businesses and entrepreneurs working to accelerate the net zero transition remain undaunted

Local Government Association proposes series of policy and funding interventions to enable councils to fulfil their role as central players in tackling climate change

A new report from BloombergNEF reveals the true scale of China's dominance of clean tech manufacturing, and asks what it means for a global economy on the brink of a trade war