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The UK government has announced it will join a US-led carbon removals and abatement challenge, as part of plans to strengthen ties with the White House's energy and climate security efforts. The UK joins a number of other oil and gas…

Renewable energy investor Low Carbon has raised another £310m to support the development of large-scale solar PV projects in the UK and the Netherlands, having secured further debt financing from a host of leading international banking firms, it announced on Wednesday.…

Oil and gas companies are making "no effort to get on the right side of history", with their failure to adequately respond to the climate crisis at risk of being viewed by future generations as "impossible to justify" as the slave…

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has declared that human activity is "unequivocally" the main culprit of climate change - primarily through the emission of greenhouse gases and has...

Hundreds of energy-intensive UK businesses are being encouraged to apply for fresh government support to help them cope with soaring energy costs through a new scheme launched today. Aimed at steelmakers, recycling plants, chemicals factories, and other major manufacturers, the new…

A broad coalition of hotels and resorts have pledged to work towards achieving 'net positive hospitality', promising to take action to protect nature, enhance climate resilience, and reduce the environmental impact of their operations. This morning, the Sustainable Hospitality Alliance, a…

Sainsbury's has today officially opened its new flagship supermarket in Hook, Hampshire, hailing the store as the 'most energy-efficient supermarket ever'. The retail giant said the cutting edge site features a raft of innovations that will mean it uses 25 per…

Major plans to bolster London's flood defences in the Thames Estuary are being accelerated by 15 years in response to heightened climate risk and sea level rise projections, the Environment Agency (EA) has announced today. The EA said flood defences protecting…

Car company spending on sport sponsorship has nearly tripled since 2018, in a trend that activists have slammed as part of the sector's growing attempt to bolster its green credentials in the face of growing...

If there ever was a seminal moment in the rise of plant-based food in the UK, the launch of Greggs' vegan sausage roll in January 2019 might be it. Helped by Piers Morgan's outcry that that the bakery...

The owner of Vauxhall, Peugeot, Citroen, and Fiat has called on the UK government to renegotiate a key part of its post-Brexit trade deal with the EU or risk a string of factory closures, thousands of job losses, and the stalling…

The Coalition for Negative Emissions (CNE) has this week released a new paper, titled Being Positive about Negative Emissions: Incorporating carbon removals into Net Zero strategies, which aims to set out how businesses can help support the development of negative emissions…

A clutch of industrial companies with cement and lime plants in Cheshire, Derbyshire, and Cheshire have teamed up on plans to collectively slash their emissions by deploying new carbon capture and storage (CCS) infrastructure. The initiative, dubbed Peak Cluster, aims to…

European investment in climate tech reached a record $13.2bn last year, but according to new a first-of-a-kind analysis funding needs to hit $4.35tr annually - an increase of 590 per cent - to meet EU and global climate targets by 2030.…

There's no solution to the climate crisis without tackling the nature crisis. They are interdependent. Lots of blogs and speeches start like that, and it is true. But that does not mean that there...

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Water companies in England have today issued a collective apology "for not acting quick enough on sewage spills", as they promised to invest £10bn in a new nationwide storm overflows plan to prevent further pollution of the country's treasured rivers and…

Car makers are indirectly implicated in human rights abuses in battery supply chains in Indonesia and the Philippines, a new report has alleged. Research published yesterday by the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre has attempted to trace the links between…

I've worked across many roles over the last 17 years with the materials science company Dow. No matter what the role, sustainability has been at the core. Specialty plastics and packaging is a significant part of Dow's business, from packaging for…

Climate action is typically cleaved into two broad categories. Efforts to prevent global warming from worsening, known in the jargon as climate mitigation, have long dominated governments' response to the climate crisis. In contrast, strategies to ensure the world can better…

Rishi Sunak has promised to uphold Britain's environmental, food, and animal welfare standards in future trade deals, as he sought to reassure farmers today that their interests would be protected when providing other countries with free access to the UK market.…

Ground source heat pump manufacturer and installer Kensa Group has secured £70m in funding from Octopus Energy and Legal & General, in a major boost to the fast expanding UK green heating market. In an update this morning, the Octopus Energy…

The UK's energy watchdog has indicated it could undertake significant and urgent changes to its grid connection regime, so as to speed up approval times and tackle the backlog of "zombie" projects that has infiltrated the current queue to connect generation…

Drastically reducing plastic pollution worldwide over the next two decades could save countries trillions of dollars, deliver a net increase in jobs, and create a new circular economy for materials that would result in net economic benefits compared to today's wasteful…

The government's latest U-turn on its hugely controversial plan to remove potentially thousands of EU laws from the UK statute books by the end of the year appears to have elicited less of a sigh of relief...

Norwegians have a shared piggybank. Right now, there is $1.3tr in that piggybank - built on Norway's petroleum revenues. The $1.3tr in isn't just piled up inside a humongous money bin similar to that of...

A new analysis of what has been described as the world's most comprehensive set of climate laws has today concluded the EU's green energy transition is now irreversible - and exporters of coal and gas to the bloc should prepare for…

The government has appointed Nigel Topping to the Climate Change Committee (CCC), confirming he will start a five year term on the influential committee from this month. The appointment, which has also been approved by the governments in Scotland, Wales, and…

B Corp certification body B Lab has taken a step forward with plans to update the standards companies must achieve to secure official B Corp status, as it looks to respond to growing concerns around the integrity of corporate sustainability schemes.…

The UK's Transport Secretary Mark Harper has travelled to the US this week for a series of meetings designed to boost co-operation between the two countries in support of the nascent sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) industry. Harper is to meet his…

Wind and solar power have risen from a five per cent share of G20 countries' electricity in 2015 to 13 per cent today, fresh research has found. The latest edition of the Global Electricity Review by think tank Ember charts the…

Labour has given is clearest indication yet that boosting the UK's green economy will sit at the forefront of its offering to voters at next year's General Election, after its draft policy blueprint for...

UK households could be shelling out £500 a year to foreign fossil gas producers by 2035, if the government does not accelerate the roll out of insulation and clean energy projects, the ECIU think tank has today warned. In a new…

The carbon removal market chalked up another high profile deal today, after Microsoft announced it has agreed to acquire 2.76 million carbon removal credits from Danish energy giant Ørsted. The 11 year deal, which was hailed by the companies as "one…

Accelerating efforts to move "beyond net zero" could deliver economic benefits to the tune of £70bn a year by md-century and cement the UK's position as a world leader in fast-growing clean techn markets. That is the headline conclusion contained in…

Tuvalu, along with other atoll nations, is amongst those most impacted by climate change and yet the least responsible for it, so we eagerly await action from the International Maritime Organisation (IMO)...

Green mobility campaigners have called for the "urgent" legalisation of shared e-scooters, after publishing results of a successful and wide-ranging trial roll-out of the increasingly popular zero emission technology.  Collaborative Mobility UK (CoMoUK) last week published an open letter to Transport…

It is hard to imagine a world without coffee - high streets, morning routines, and office kitchens devoid of stimulating aromas and much-needed caffeine kicks. Yet the current and predicted losses...

Coca-Cola's European bottler has announced fresh investment in a pioneering new technology that recycles polyester into high-quality recycled PET (rPET). Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP) announced last week that its venture arm has increased its investment in Netherlands-based start-up Cure Technology. The…