Business Green

JANUARY 18, 2022

The BusinessGreen Leaders Awards are back for 2022, once again providing a unique opportunity to showcase and celebrate the best of the UK's green economy and burgeoning net zero transition. The BusinessGreen Leaders Awards 2022 are open for entries until midnight on 18 March 2022 and the shortlist will be announced in early April.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

org and producer of the Clean Creatives campaign, told BusinessGreen. When contacted by BusinessGreen, the firm declined to comment. I think we've been at that stage for some time, but it is now accelerating partly because it's of huge concern to the people working in the industry," he told BusinessGreen. BusinessGreen.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

The UK Green Business Awards free to enter and are now open for entries across more than 20 categories, each of which seeks to showcase a crucial component of the UK's green economy and the advancing net zero transition.

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Business Green

APRIL 14, 2021

The BusinessGreen Leaders Awards is set to return for 2021, with green companies and executives today invited to submit their entries for the UK's most prestigious sustainable business awards ahead of a glittering awards ceremony on the evening of September 22nd.

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Business Green

MARCH 7, 2022

Just two weeks left to go to submission deadline for the 2022 BusinessGreen Leaders Awards - the UK's biggest and best celebration of the green economy. If so, then BusinessGreen wants to hear from you. Entry Information: All written entries for all categories must be no more than 1,000 words.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

BusinessGreen is proud to announce that registration is now open for the 2022 Net Zero Finance Summit, which this year will be taking place on Tuesday 29 March. The Net Zero Summit forms part of BusinessGreen's third annual Net Zero Festival programme, further details for which will be announced in the coming weeks.

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Business Green

MARCH 25, 2022

You have just a few hours left to submit your entries into the BusinessGreen Leaders Awards. BusinessGreen has today issued a final call for entries for the 2022 BusinessGreen Leaders Awards. However, to be in with a chance of winning at the ceremony this June you must complete your entries today !

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Business Green

MARCH 22, 2023

When it hit Florida in September as a category 4 storm, Swiss Re estimated the hurricane resulted in insured losses of $50 to $65bn, making it the second-costliest natural catastrophe insured loss event on record after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. The insurer also reported that France saw its highest ever annual loss of $5bn from hailstorms.

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Business Green

MARCH 17, 2022

The deadline for entries for this year's BusinessGreen Leaders Awards falls at midnight today, Friday 18 March , giving top green businesses, sustainability executives, entrepreneurs, campaigners, and investors just a few more hours to finalise their submissions.

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Business Green

JUNE 22, 2022

All the winners and highly commended entries from last night's prestigious BusinessGreen Leaders Awards. Last night over 400 top green business leaders, sustainability executives, investors, campaigners, and politicians gathered at The Brewery in central London for the 12th annual BusinessGreen Leaders Awards. Anthesis Group.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Commendation at the AOP Awards follows hugely successful year for BusinessGreen as the wider green economy embarks on critical decade. Murray, who was crowned editor of the year from a shortlist that included editors of Elle, House Beautiful and Digital Spy, co-founded BusinessGreen in 2007 and has led its development ever since.

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2023

BusinessGreen's revamped awards programme aims to provide a bigger and better platform for the best of the UK's burgeoning green economy. Ever since BusinessGreen launched more than 15 years ago, the brand's mission has remained broadly the same.

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Business Green

MAY 1, 2020

BusinessGreen Leaders Awards ceremony rescheduled for October 16th. The official deadline for entries for the 2020 BusinessGreen Leaders Awards is today at 5pm, although given the disruption faced by many businesses as a result of the coronavirus crisis extensions are available on request.

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2022

The deadline for entries for the BusinessGreen Leaders Awards 2022 has been extended by one week to midnight on Friday 25th March, in response to popular demand. With many staff out of the office due to Covid, BusinessGreen received a significant number of requests for deadline extensions last week.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 14, 2020

The annual BusinessGreen Leaders Awards will be broadcast today and tomorrow afternoon, providing a chance to celebrate the best of the British green economy. This afternoon BusinessGreen will kick off the 10th annual BusinessGreen Leaders Awards with the first of two broadcasts announcing all this year's winners and highly commended entries.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

The charity said there was room for improvement across the board, noting the exercise had identified "clear front runners" across different categories who set an example for others to follow. Credit: Which? Want to help celebrate and showcase the best of the green economy?

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

The UK Green Business Awards are free to enter and are now open for entries across more than 20 categories, each of which seeks to showcase a crucial component of the UK's green economy and the advancing net zero transition.

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Business Green

JUNE 23, 2022

Labour’s Shadow Business Secretary hails the social and economic virtues of the net zero transition at last night's BusinessGreen Leaders Awards. And we're in the better lives business.".

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Business Green

MARCH 31, 2022

Sadiq Khan hails growing numbers of firms committed to delivering net zero emissions, at reception last night co-hosted by The Climate Pledge and BusinessGreen. And I hope all of us are in that last category of doers.". This is what the Climate Pledge is all about," she said.

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2022

Countries in this category produce more than a third of the world's oil and gas but have an average non-oil GDP per person of $50,000 and so can afford to phase out their fossil fuel production, the report argues. The nations in this category supply just one ninth of global demand of oil and gas, it notes.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Overall, UK consumers are now spending almost £60m a week on organic certified products, with growth recorded across all market categories. The wider organic choice available online is bringing new shoppers to the category. The report also highlights how a number of product categories have enjoyed particularly rapid growth.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

The multinational argued it had a "proven track record" with reusable packaging, noting half its product sales in 20 markets were in the form of returnable glass bottles and refillable PET plastic bottles, with such product categories accounting for more than 25 per cent of sales in a further 20 markets.

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Business Green

MAY 24, 2021

Quilter's research also found investors fit broadly into four categories: 33 per cent of investors are 'ESG aware', where they know what responsible investment means but are not actively allocating to investments of this type now. This article first appeared on BusinessGreen's sister site Investment Week.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The UK's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has today set out proposals for a raft of measures to tackle greenwashing, including three new categories of labels to be used for sustainable investment products. A version of this article originally appeared at BusinessGreen's sister site, Investment Week.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

While the advert will no doubt seem enticing to BusinessGreen readers, the final wording of the post came as a disappointment to the digital marketing specialist behind the campaign, who had hoped to entice young people to the event with the more punchy appeal to "discover your role in the fight against climate change".

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Business Green

OCTOBER 25, 2021

BusinessGreen's sister publication Computing sits down with James Robey to discuss the consultancy giant's push towards achieving net zero across its operations, business travel, and supply chain by 2030. This article originally ran on BusinessGreen's sister site Computing. Carbon calculator.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Respectively, Hyfi took home first prize in next-gen technology category, while the Forestry and Fire Recruitment Program came out top in the frontlien community-led solutions section, and Coral Vita took first place in the nature-based solutions award. "Our Want to help celebrate and showcase the best of the green economy?

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Among the recommendations of the action plan are for government to review vehicle regulation to ensure it caters for the roll out of zero emission PLVs, including an assessment of whether an entire new vehicle category is needed. Want to help celebrate and showcase the best of the green economy?

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

You can now enter the BusinessGreen Leaders Awards 2022 and be in with a chance of joining us at the UK's largest and most prestigious green business awards this summer. Want to help celebrate and showcase the best of the green economy?

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Business Green

MARCH 20, 2023

The awards were remarkably competitive with hundreds of brilliant entries and scores of companies and projects competing in many of the categories. The short listed entries will now go before our expert judging panel ahead of the awards dinner and ceremony in the summer. "We

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

The analysis calculates that nearly half of London's 33,200 basement properties in commercial use are exposed to a risk of surface water flooding, with 5,692 identified as facing 'high' or ‘extreme' flood risk, with the greatest number of buildings in this category in Westminster.

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Business Green

MAY 16, 2023

Hosted in association with Equans, the latest BusinessGreen webinar explored how firms can ensure buildings remain safe and productive as climate impacts intensify Climate action is typically cleaved into two broad categories. Here are some of the key takeaways. Want to understand what is going on at the cutting edge of sustainability?

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Business Green

JULY 4, 2021

There are two major categories of workers need to deliver the net zero transition, the report argues: specialist roles for those with STEM degrees and vocational positions that require low and medium level technical qualifications. But the UK's pool of workers in both categories is limited, it says.

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Business Green

JUNE 9, 2020

As BusinessGreen reported last week, the noise around a 'green stimulus' has reached the government. million heat pumps in this category. Investing in an ambitious home energy efficiency drive could generate a £120bn economic boost by 2030, argues Mike Thornton of the Energy Saving Trust.

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Business Green

JANUARY 26, 2022

Fruit and vegetable produce is our second biggest buying category, so to have none of these items air freighted is significant," said Anne Simonnet, head of sustainability and compliance at Foodbuy. "We We have worked hard to find suppliers that are closer to home - with no compromise on quality.

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Seafood Sustainability Electric vehicle Agriculture 36

Business Green

APRIL 6, 2022

The regulations require companies and financiers to disclose material information in their annual reports on all four of the TCFD's core categories: governance, strategy, risk management, and metrics and targets.

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Business Green

APRIL 7, 2020

The comparisons between the coronavirus and the climate crises make a lot of sense, but at their root they are guilty of a category error. A version of this article originally appeared in the BusinessGreen Overnight Briefing email, which is available to all BusinessGreen subscribers.

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