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'No winners in a trade war': Green industries brace for Trump tariff impact
03 April 2025
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8 min read
Octopus Energy Generation acquires 10 per stake in 714MW East Anglia One offshore wind farm
Deal marks Octopus' seventh offshore wind acquisition, taking its total investment in the sector to $2bn
03 April 2025
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2 min read
Tinkering with environmental regulation won't deliver UK housebuilding goals
The government's proposed bonfire of regulators and stripped back ecological reforms misses a growth opportunity to embrace private sector expertise to tackle the real bottlenecks in the system, writes Arbtech CEO and founder Robert Oates
03 April 2025
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4 min read
Could EVs help offset impact of Trump's 'Liberation Day' auto tariffs?
Around 25,000 UK jobs are considered at risk due to new US auto tariffs, but a new report claims a burgeoning domestic green transport sector could help make up for any losses
02 April 2025
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8 min read
EP100: Top corporates defy global trend by doubling down on energy efficiency
03 April 2025
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3 min read
Lift off: Low emission drones and flying taxis allocated £20m of government funding
02 April 2025
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4 min read
EU Omnibus: MEPs back 'stop-the-clock' proposal to delay CSRD and CSDDD
02 April 2025
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3 min read
'Our current system lets down both nature and growth': Defra preps green regulation shake-up
02 April 2025
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8 min read
BusinessGreen Intelligence Whitepaper: Everything your business needs to know about CSDDD
Exclusively available to BusinessGreen Intelligence members, our latest whitepaper explores the challenges and opportunities presented by the EU's new Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive requirements
Josh Mihill: 'Making a few mistakes and helping one another along the way is all part of the process'
Josh Mihill, co-founder of Honest Mobile, discusses how some of most exciting green ideas come from young entrepreneurs disrupting outdated industries
How Bcomp's biomaterials are making race cars and snow sports safer and more sustainable
Christian Fischer, CEO at Bcomp, tracks the firm's journey from lightweight skis to motorsports, and reflects on the challenge of getting companies to move away from traditional materials
Labour's Spring Statement, the Tories' net zero u-turn, and BYD's EV charging breakthrough
BusinessGreen Editor’s Briefing: March 2025
Kristin Hughes: 'What excites me most is seeing innovation in places you might not expect'
Diageo's global head of sustainability discusses the 'inspiring shift' in green leadership and lessons from the on-going Plastics Treaty negotiations
Balancing prestige with accessibility, and urgency with optimism: Rebranding The Earthshot Prize
Justified Studio's Joshua Ogden lifts the lid on efforts to reposition Prince William's Earthshot Prize as a 'global movement'
'A market-led, conservative plan': Green Tories publish alternative climate strategy
Conservative Environment Network unveils paper that aims to inform Kemi Badenoch's policy review, following Party's controversial decision to ditch support for UK's net zero target
01 April 2025
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10 min read
Sustainability Disclosure Requirements are having a 'positive impact', but focus should not be on labels alone
Investors are finding that securing a new SDR label is helping funds 'stand out in what was once a crowded market'
01 April 2025
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4 min read
Revealed: Is the UK public convinced net zero can benefit the economy?
EXCLUSIVE: Fresh polling carried out in wake of Spring Statement last week lifts the lid on UK public's views on net zero, clean technologies, and environmental policies
31 March 2025
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8 min read
Can the UK be both a clean energy and defence industrial 'superpower'? Of course it can
The attempts to set up a binary choice between defence spending and climate action is dangerously flawed
28 March 2025
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8 min read
Demand for cooling is eating up our energy - it is time for ice to come out of the cold
As global warming increases, demand for refrigeration and air conditioning is eating up more and more of the world's precious energy resources - and low carbon cooling solutions are being overlooked, writes Roger Harrabin
28 March 2025
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3 min read
Global Briefing: China moves to expand national emissions trading scheme
Reports reveal Beijing intends to extend carbon market to cover steel, cement, and aluminium plants, Indonesia hopes to advance $20bn clean energy fund, and BYD celebrates latest milestone
28 March 2025
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4 min read
Can the UK be both a clean energy and defence industrial 'superpower'? Of course it can
The attempts to set up a binary choice between defence spending and climate action is dangerously flawed
28 March 2025
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8 min read
Rachel Reeves' net zero waiting game
Labour's hugely ambitious climate plans are advancing, but the Chancellor could have provided clearer assurances they will soon reach fruition
27 March 2025
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8 min read
Kemi Badenoch is wrong - Net zero by 2050 is difficult, it's not impossible
The Tory leader has just torched the political consensus on ambitious climate action - the electoral calculus is likely to prove as deeply flawed as the economic analysis behind the move
18 March 2025
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10 min read
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