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Climate risk rules, plastic taxes, and heat pump grants: Businesses face April deluge of new green policies

Business Green

A string of policy reforms, tax tweaks, and grant schemes designed to support the green economy have come into effect in the UK this month, all of which could play a sizeable role in accelerating the development of a greener economy.

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COP27: 10 things businesses have learnt from the Sharm El Sheikh Summit

Business Green

he COP27 Climate Summit finally closed early on Sunday morning , delivering both an historic deal to introduce a new Loss and Damage fund and recriminations over governments' continuing failure to accept unabated fossil fuels need to be phase out in the coming decades. A major new fund really could be up and running in a little over a year.

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Insights and Excitements from Our 2020 Pipeline

Elemental Excelerator

It’s about halfway between closing our application cycle in April and announcing our next cohort in October, which marks the time for our annual pipeline report. It also gives us a wide lens for the trends that are shaping the climate tech world. So, who applied to be a part of Cohort 9?

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Net Zero Nature: Can business and nature join forces in the climate fight?

Business Green

Just a couple of decades ago, the notion of a major company investing in nature might have seemed absurd – today it is mission critical to the future of the economy. It is, certainly, a compelling counterweight to the gloomy catalogue of our failures that dominates television screens, smartphones, and social media streams.