Politics

Labour warns Nigel Farage's 'war on clean energy' would threaten almost one million jobs

Energy

Labour warns Nigel Farage's 'war on clean energy' would threaten almost one million jobs

Labour Party publishes new analysis claiming a Reform-led government would put more than 950,000 clean energy jobs at risk

clock 18 July 2025 • 3 min read
Sorry, but Richard Tice is right

Politics

Sorry, but Richard Tice is right

Reform's approach to climate change and clean energy is dangerously reckless and laughably incompetent, but Richard Tice is right to warn it would introduce political risk for businesses and investors

clock 18 July 2025 • 5 min read
Planning and Infrastructure Bill: Government moves to tighten nature protections - but do amendments 'still fall short'?

Legislation

Planning and Infrastructure Bill: Government moves to tighten nature protections - but do amendments 'still fall short'?

Government backs fresh safeguards to strengthen legal tests for Environmental Delivery Plans - but green groups argue welcome moves to bolster nature protections do not go far enough

clock 18 July 2025 • 10 min read
Hard-right MEPs risk doing serious damage to the EU's climate policy agenda

Politics

Hard-right MEPs risk doing serious damage to the EU's climate policy agenda

MEPs in the hard-right Patriots for Europe grouping have been given the rapporteur role that could prove hugely influential in shaping the EU's 2040 climate target legislation, writes Andrew Warren

clock 18 July 2025 • 6 min read
'Clown car economics': Reform rows back on threat to 'strike down' clean power contracts

Politics

'Clown car economics': Reform rows back on threat to 'strike down' clean power contracts

Hours after warning it would strike down new clean power contracts, Reform Deputy Leader Richard Tice admits 'a legally binding contract is a legally binding contract'

clock 18 July 2025 • 4 min read
BusinessGreen Intelligence Whitepaper: Understanding the Planning and Infrastructure Bill

Legislation

BusinessGreen Intelligence Whitepaper: Understanding the Planning and Infrastructure Bill

Exclusively available to BusinessGreen Intelligence members, our latest whitepaper explores the wide-ranging climate and nature implications of the government’s drive to ‘get Britain building'

clock 17 July 2025 • 1 min read
'Putting British jobs in jeopardy': Reform slammed over threats to clean energy companies

Energy

'Putting British jobs in jeopardy': Reform slammed over threats to clean energy companies

Deputy leader Richard Tice writes to leading energy companies to put them ‘on formal notice’ that a Reform government would seek to unpick the upcoming clean power contract auction

clock 17 July 2025 • 4 min read
Water companies urged to 'take action' as more droughts declared across England

Risk

Water companies urged to 'take action' as more droughts declared across England

National Drought Group urged to 'step up' response to drought conditions, after England records driest start to a year since 1976

clock 16 July 2025 • 6 min read
'This isn't just about one bank': HSBC becomes first major UK bank to quit Net Zero Banking Alliance

Risk

'This isn't just about one bank': HSBC becomes first major UK bank to quit Net Zero Banking Alliance

Green finance groups fear HSBC's exit from the net zero industry group could see the banking sector's 'dangerous rollback' on climate action cross the Atlantic

clock 15 July 2025 • 7 min read
UK and Czechia ink landmark deal to drive small modular reactor development

Energy

UK and Czechia ink landmark deal to drive small modular reactor development

Government vows to end 'no-nuclear status quo' with partnership positioning UK and Czechia at forefront of potential £500bn global SMR market

clock 15 July 2025 • 4 min read