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National Infrastructure Commission asks 'where are the decarbonisation delivery plans'?

Business Green

Annual Monitoring Report adds to calls for government to deliver clearer delivery plans and more stable funding settlements for critical net zero infrastructure.

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Everything you need to know about the UK's landmark Energy White Paper

Business Green

After several delays spanning at least a year, the government has finally unveiled vision for a future net zero energy system - here are the eight things you need to know about the long-awaited Energy White Paper. To describe autumn 2020 as a busy period for green economy policy in the UK would be an understatement.

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What Makes a Successful Company Internship Program?

Green Business Bureau

Investing in young professionals via internships is also a way to give back to the community, an act of social good that every business should partake in. Evaluation and Feedback: Monitor Performance and Offer Guidance. How much of the company budget can be invested into the program? Recruitment: Reach the Right Candidates.

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Only new fiscal rules will avoid a Budget carbon COP out

Business Green

The Budget on Wednesday will be the first real test of this government's commitment on climate and it needs to drive momentum in the decarbonisation of electricity, heat and transport or it will set us up for a failure on the world stage. This Budget is a real opportunity to show leadership on carbon pricing.

COP 59
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The UK's hydrogen strategy must focus on five priority areas

Business Green

At the end of last year, the government announced ambitions to generate 5GW of low carbon hydrogen production capacity by 2030 in its 'Ten Point Plan for a Green Industrial Revolution', while hydrogen was also highlighted as a key net zero technology in the Energy White Paper which emerged several weeks later.

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Will water pricing be the next carbon pricing?

Business Green

Could growing water stress prompt more companies to embrace water pricing policies? It's a strategy similar to the policy of setting internal carbon pricing to account for the "cost" of carbon emissions as part of a product or service. California agriculture lands are straining to access groundwater that used to be plentiful.

Carbon 69
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Meet the startup producing oil to fight climate change

Grist

It had been about a year and a half since he left his job at an aerospace company to found a clean energy startup in San Francisco with three of his friends, but the path to success he’d once envisioned had crumbled. I was just like, ‘I don’t know if I would invest in Charm,’” he recalls telling their investor that day. “I