News Analysis

BusinessGreen Editor’s Briefing: October 2024 – Part One

Over 100 CEOs from many of the world’s largest companies have set out their wish list for the Baku Climate Summit - but are governments listening?

Ride hailing giant reveals 'first of a kind' partnership with Octopus and BYD, a mentor matchmaking initiative for the 'EV curious', and the search for London's greenest Uber user

Latest round-up of exciting clean tech investments features MiAlgae, Sunswap, Solasta Bio, and Amazon's Sustainability Accelator

New draft metrics are designed to standardise process for businesses to assess progress towards halting and reversing biodiversity loss from 2030

Environment Ministers signal support for Brazilian plan for new forest funding, ClientEarth launches French legal challenge over trawling, and Colombia unveils green investment plan

Green Alliance criticises government's 'disappointing' Port Talbot deal and calls for more co-ordinated approach to supporting communities reliant on carbon intensive industries

Survey of 1,000 former Conservative voters finds a third would be more likely to support the Party again if it adopts more ambitious climate policies

WWF publishes tracker assessing quantity and quality of national nature plans submitted by governments ahead of upcoming Biodiversity Summit - and finds just 20 nations have submitted updated plans

COP29 negotiations, US biochar deals, and Indonesian recycling plants all feature in this week's round up of green business stories from around the world