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Net Zero Festival: Free passes now available to flagship climate event

Business Green

Thanks to the support of BCG, Schroders, SNC Lavalin, ENGIE, Bank of America, Drax, Derwent London, and Energy Saving Trust a limited number of free passes to attend the three day Net Zero Festival virtual summit are now available. Meanwhile, BusinessGreen members will be able to access an exclusive VIP experience as part of the Festival.

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Is this it? Are we at risk of over-estimating the neo-climate sceptics?

Business Green

The reality is this campaign against climate action is less about tactical policy victories now, and more about positioning net zero and climate scepticism to try and secure dominance under the next Conservative leader, whoever they may be and whenever they succeed Johnson.

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Can a tiger change its stripes? Meet the pulp and paper giant bankrolling a huge Sumatran rainforest reserve

Business Green

Similarly, while Indonesia was one of 141 countries at COP26 to sign the Glasgow Leaders' Declaration on Forests and Land Use, which sets out a pledge to end and reverse deforestation by 2030, it later appeared to distance itself from the commitment with Environment Minister Siti Nurbaya Bakar branding the pledge "inappropriate and unfair".

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'A climate-shaped hole at its heart': The green economy reacts to the Spring Statement

Business Green

BusinessGreen rounds up all the reaction from the green economy to the Chancellor Rishi Sunak's mini-budget. The price tag is almost identical - £2.7bn for a world-leading bus service against £2.5bn cutting a few pence off fuel duty - but the difference to real people's lives would be immeasurable.".