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Business Green
OCTOBER 6, 2021
Boris Johnson's conference speech contained some encouraging rhetoric for the green economy, but the lack of tangible policies and strange silence on the net zero will leave business leaders feeling nervous. No one comes to a Boris Johnson speech for in-depth policy analysis - and good job too.
Business Green
SEPTEMBER 7, 2021
In a landmark speech delivered this evening at an event hosted by the Conservative Environment Network (CEN), the former Prime Minister claimed net zero "pessimists" on the right of the Party are out of step with the views of the public, including Conservative voters. It is a unifying issue," the former Conservative leader said. "We
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Business Green
FEBRUARY 10, 2020
That is what the massed ranks of business leaders, investors, policy wonks, campaigners, and officials who make up the UK's climate community want to know as the clock ticks down to the globally critical COP26 Summit in Glasgow. What is going on?
Business Green
OCTOBER 2, 2020
Global leaders gathered virtually this week to discuss the environmental crisis that is devastating the world's ecosystems, at the inaugural UN Summit on Biodiversity, a event designed as a primer for the delayed, crucial COP15 Biodiversity Summit in Kunming, China, next year. UN summit confronts Global biodiversity crisis.
Business Green
SEPTEMBER 13, 2021
It is not every day that you find that the UK's biggest business group, most influential trade union bosses, seasoned policy experts, and protestors blocking motorway junctions are in broad agreement. But the UK isn't even putting our toe in the water. It made for damning reading.
Business Green
NOVEMBER 5, 2021
For every potentially transformational net zero pledge, there have been naïve assessments of whether or not any given announcement represents a 'win' for the UK hosts. The UK will be disappointed'. truly multilateral conferences. Whether or not the UK ends up delighted or disappointed is a tiny part of the story.
Terra Infirma
OCTOBER 18, 2021
Being a political nerd, I watch all the major UK party conference speeches to gauge the level and diversity of Sustainability thinking at the top level of British politics. The other big climate pledge from Starmer’s speech was to retrofit every home in the UK in a decade.
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