Opinion

True climate leadership means using the transition to improve lives through good jobs, protecting communities from climate impacts and reducing inequality, writes Scotland's Cabinet Secretary for Climate Action and Energy Gillian Martin

Plug-and-play solar panels can help democratise energy, but they also add layers of complexity for power grid networks, writes Open Climate Fix CEO Dan Travers

With grid pressures mounting and demand-side flexibility still underutilised, AI-driven optimisation may be one of the most undervalued levers in the UK's net zero transition, writes Centrica's Gunjan Arora

A more resilient textile sector is one where producers are not treated as passive endpoints of risk, but active participants in climate decision-making and investment, writes Cécile Chi from the Climate, Global Organic Textile Standard (GOTS)

Community engagement via projects that cut consumer costs and emissions can build brand loyalty, reduce risk, and create resilience, writes Hubbub's Gavin Ellis

By raising interest rates to tackle inflation the Bank of England is pushing up costs of capital needed to fund clean energy projects and boost UK resilience to the next fossil fuel crisis, writes Prospect's Sue Ferns OBE

As the Iran war sends jet fuel prices skyrocketing, airlines are cancelling flights, raising fares and lobbying against the EU's ETS - but weakening green policies won't protect airlines, it will lock in their vulnerability, writes Aoife O'Leary from...

Thomas Day and Hyunju Ock from the NewClimate Institute set out their key takeaways from the Corporate Climate Responsibility Monitor initiative, which first launched in 2022

The current economic and political climate may tempt some firms to defer climate investment, but the arithmetic points in the opposite direction - inaction risks higher costs, disrupted supply chains, constrained market access, writes Iain Clunie from...

The government has big ambitions for AI and clean power - and reforms required to support data centres could have positive ripple effects on the energy transition, writes techUK's Katie Davies