Today the Committee published its advice to Parliament on the level of the Fifth Carbon Budget, covering the period 2028-2032. Carbon budgets place restrictions on the...
On Wednesday afternoon Chancellor George Osborne delivered the first Comprehensive Spending Review of this Parliament. This is the reaction of Friends of the Earth and WWF-UK....
The UK government will allow crowdfunded debt securities issued by companies to be held within Innovative Finance ISAs and is exploring the case for adding equity...
Chancellor George Osborne said today: “Our job is to rebuild Britain. Build our finances. Build our defences. Build our society. So that Britain becomes the most prosperous and...
Scheme to develop “carbon capture and storage” technology at power stations axed. Professor Stuart Haszeldine, SCCS Director: “It has now become clear that announcements made by Chancellor...
Nope, not in the sense of treating with an apparent kindness which betrays a feeling of superiority. Yes, in the sense of supporting an activity, especially...
In a ground-breaking new legal opinion, Christopher McCall QC (pictured), a pre-eminent legal expert on the hotly debated topic of ‘fiduciary duty’, has raised the prospect...
The vision of for Natural Capital is simple – to at least maintain the global level of natural resources in the world. The evidence is compelling...
Leading American companies Proctor & Gamble, Boeing and General Electric fail to mention the risk posed by climate change to their operations in annual filings with...
UK Green Investment Bank plc (GIB) has today announced that it has now committed £2.3bn to 58 green infrastructure projects with a total value of £10.1bn....
On Wednesday afternoon the government will announce the contents of its long-awaited Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR). This document effectively sets the budgets of many departments and...
The transformation of the Congo Basin timber trade into one significantly influenced by twenty key Chinese trading companies offers a golden opportunity to contribute significantly to...
The C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group (C40) and research partner Arup released Climate Action in Megacities (CAM 3.0), a groundbreaking and definitive assessment of how the...
In a briefing sent today to key negotiators at the forthcoming UN Climate Summit in Paris, We Mean Business (WMB) sets out eight key text proposals that...
In the week before governments assemble in Paris to agree a global climate deal, a new report from Chatham House shows that a worldwide shift to...