With all that has happened in Westminster since September, it is perhaps easy to forget we're at a significant turning point in our net zero transition. Political and economic turmoil have side-lined the...
Shipping companies will have to purchase carbon allowances to cover emissions from voyages within the EU from 2024, under proposals agreed by the European Union this week. On Tuesday evening, EU legislators reached a landmark deal to bring maritime transport into…
Environment Secretary Thérèse Coffey has confirmed the government's post-Brexit agricultural subsidy regime is to roll out as originally planned next year, as she sought to alleviate widespread concerns among farmers about the government's ability to deliver the sweeping reform package. Speaking…
UN environment summits are increasingly about money. Namely, which countries are responsible for mobilising 'green' finance, and under what terms, which nations qualify to be on the receiving end of this...
Biodiversity is in crisis. The figures are deeply depressing. Globally, wildlife extinction rates are running at about 1,000 times the average historic rate, with somewhere in the region of 150 to 200...
The housing market may be facing its first serious headwinds in decades, but the cost-of-living crisis means buyers are still willing to pay a sizeable premium for low carbon homes, according to new research published yesterday by financial services provider Legal…
Projects designed to spur the decarbonisation of shipping, healthcare, industry, and aviation are among the latest cohort of recipients of the government's Regulators Pioneer Fund, which aims to support initiatives that remove regulatory barriers to innovation. Some £961,650 of the £12m…
Essar Oil UK has this morning announced plans to build a £360m carbon capture plant at the Stanlow oil refinery in Cheshire. The company said it had hired engineering company Kent to develop the plant at the refinery, which is one…
The government has announced it will directly invest money raised from fines imposed on water companies for polluting rivers into projects that improve the environment and water quality. In an announcement this morning, the government confirmed funds raised from sewage pollution…
With the culmination of COP27 in Sharm El Sheikh grabbing the media's attention this month, it is important to remember that climate change is not the only pressing environmental issue on the global agenda....
As governments prepare to weigh proposals for mandatory corporate nature disclosure rules at the COP15 Biodiversity Summit next week, the latest data from environmental disclosure platform CDP has highlighted...
Rishi Sunak is facing mounting pressure to attend the critical COP15 Biodiversity Summit which is set to kick off next Wednesday in Montreal, with campaigners calling on the Prime Minister demonstrate...
Having just returned from COP27, my inherent hope is now firmly rooted in an energised anger about the voices that are missing. And the knowledge that not only can we correct that loud silence, but we...
As the world waits to see the outcome of COP27, where global leaders have gathered for over two weeks in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, those of us engaging directly with developing countries know - the path...
As pavilions and coffee machines start to be dismantled across the COP27 site in Sharm el-Sheikh, it looks set to be a long night for already exhausted negotiators tasked with thrashing out the terms of...
The success of the COP27 Climate Summit in Sharm el Sheikh looks set to hinge on whether a compromise deal on loss and damage funding and countries' willingness to ramp up decarbonisation efforts can be reached, after the EU declared it…
As the latest round of United Nations climate change negotiations draws to an end in Egypt this weekend, you could be forgiven for feeling pessimistic. Countries' emissions targets have hardly changed...
The headline rules for UN-approved carbon markets may have been officially finalised at the COP26 Climate Summit, but the headache is not yet over for negotiators tasked with hashing out the finer details...
The leaders of the world's biggest economies - the G20 - have reiterated at the highest level a message of agreement on the need to limit warming to 1.5C and accelerate measures to deliver. Amid multiple...
A slew of initiatives designed to accelerate the electric vehicle (EVs) transition in emerging and developing markets has been launched this morning by the UK, as fresh figures have highlighted the transition...
It is now a year since UK Presidency launched the breakthrough declaration on accelerating the shift to zero emission vehicles (ZEVs) in leading markets by 2035 on the sidelines of the COP26 Climate Summit...
The French government has become the latest to publicly back a proposal by the Indian government to ensure any final agreement at the COP27 Climate Summit in Sharm El Sheikh includes a reference to phasing...
In the 12 months since the energy and bustle of COP26 in Glasgow and now the expectation of COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh, the case for a deep and urgent response from business to our climate crisis has grown stronger than ever.…
Net zero targets at the world's largest publicly listed companies are largely failing to meet the new integrity standards set out by the United Nations, a new analysis has warned. The Net Zero Tracker initiative assessed thousands of climate plans against…
Egypt has declared the focus of the COP27 Climate Summit currently underway in Sharm El Sheikh is on "implementation", indicating it wants to move on from lofty statements of ambition from world leaders...
A new net zero guide has been launched to help consumer-facing companies reduce their emissions in line with their ambitious climate goals. The Consumer Goods Forum unveiled the guide late last week on the sidelines of the COP27 Climate Summit, hailing…
Climate denialism is out. We know that we've won the war of words when even the big fossil fuel giants are using our language. But the new frontier we're facing is ‘climate delayism'. "You're right…but we need to do a measured…
The 1.5C temperature goal is reportedly a key point of contention between negotiating parties at the Sharm El Sheikh Summit, with China and other large emerging markets understood to be pushing for any COP27 cover text to stick to the Paris…
Zenobē has announced it has begun construction on a sweeping portfolio of utility-scale battery storage projects in Scotland that could deliver a major boost to the UK's drive to deliver a zero carbon grid. The power storage company announced this morning…
Countries in Europe need to embrace the circular economy if they want to protect their transition to a low-carbon economy from geopolitical risks and supply chain volatility. That is according to the latest report from sustainability consultancy Systemiq, which looked at…
The rapid deployment of clean energy should see the world's largest emitting countries and trading blocs meet their emissions targets ahead of schedule, according to a new analysis published this morning by the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU). In a…
In recent years a trickle of occasional corporate climate pledges has turned into a flood of commitments, aspirations and targets. But for the public and investors alike, it's often hard to tell whether...
Plans have been announced to build one of the UK's largest low carbon hydrogen production facilities at a decommissioned gas storage site in Bradford with a view to providing low carbon fuel to transport operators and industrial plants in the region.…
Regardless of how interesting face-to-face meetings with heads of state may be, their speeches still are nothing more than empty words as they follow one another to the podium during the first formal plenary...
As the COP27 Summit nears its halfway point, attention has inevitably turned to the draft 'cover decision' text and what provisions the document will set out to help deliver a new mechanism for Loss and...
The UN has today announced the launch of a new satellite-based methane detection system designed to help governments and businesses identify major sources of the second most abundant greenhouse gas in the atmosphere. The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) said the…
The chance that global average temperatures will exceed 1.5C above pre-industrial levels within nine years now stands at 50 per cent, after the latest stocktake of global carbon emissions confirmed they are continuing to rise. The 2022 Global Carbon Budget, which…
The International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) has today published new guidelines for all actors and organisations working to deliver net zero pledges. The guidelines are intended as a "single core reference text" for the influential ISO platform, which provides standards for…
Dozens of governments from around the world have pledged to work together on a series of initiatives over the coming year that aim to accelerate the decarbonisation of the power, road transport, steel, hydrogen, and agricultural sectors. At a side event…
Women are less likely to survive when disasters strike. As a woman working in the effort to tackle the climate crisis, the way it intertwines with other crises- particularly inequality - is at the front...
After a few days on the ground at the COP27 Climate Summit in Sharm El Sheikh it's clear that this is a very different experience to Glasgow in 2021. Whereas COP26 Climate Summit focused on raising ambition,...
The net zero transition has been dubbed the world's most ambitious engineering project by the UK's leading trade body for mechanical engineers. In a report published this morning, the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) looks at the engineering challenges that must…
Aviva Investors has this morning called for a radical shakeup of the financial architecture that underpins the global economy to stop financial players channelling funds into activities that are driving the climate crisis and divert capital towards measures that tackle climate…
Despite being on the ground here in Egypt, I understand that many businesses back home in the UK feel COP27 is taking place in a distant land where anything discussed or decided falls outside their immediate,...
The building and construction sector's energy consumption and carbon emissions have reached an all-time high, presenting a major challenge to the global effort to stabilise global temperatures. That is according to a new report from the Global Alliance for Buildings and…
A vertical farming company has announced it has successfully grown wheat indoors using no soil, no pesticides, and limited water. Amsterdam-headquartered start-up Infarm announced today on the sidelines of the COP27 Climate Summit in Egypt that initial trials of its indoor-grown…
The US has announced a new initiative that aims to leverage surging corporate demand for carbon credits to help bankroll developing countries' transition away from fossil fuels and towards clean energy....
This year's climate event comes at a time of uncertainty like no other. The pillars of the energy trilemma - affordability, security and sustainability - look precarious. Governments are struggling to...
2022 has been a year of economic highs - high commodity prices, record energy prices, and rocketing inflation. This has been due in no so small part to the war in Ukraine and the significant disruption...
Money continued to dominate the agenda on the final day of the World's Leaders Summit at COP27, with heads of state using their moment in the spotlight to hammer home the need to deliver more financial...