The net zero asset managers “doubling down” on oil and gas
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Following the policy that powers the clean energy transition.
The CEO of the Climate Group on working for Doctors Without Borders, the importance of listening, and the UK’s…
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A new approach for investors can complement ESG frameworks.

Ahead of Cop28 in the UAE, the Annual Investment Meting will bring together investors and governments to understand the…
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The chief executive of National Energy Action on the cost-of-living crisis and the UK’s failing benefits system.
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Microsoft is empowering companies with the tools it has developed on its own sustainability journey.
It’s disgusting that the government is allowing companies to continue this unscrupulous practice.
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Fossil fuel use could decline as soon as next year, but G7 proposals risk slowing the green transition.
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Many corporations still use spreadsheets to track their carbon footprint, making it difficult to abide by science-backed emissions targets.
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A third of the money devoted to decarbonising housing and public sector buildings has not materialised.
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Microsoft’s chief sustainability officer, UK, on how the tech giant has made the green transition an integral part of…
What was touted as a “Green Day” instead revealed a refusal to acknowledge painful realities.
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Britain has the lowest heat pump installation rate in Europe.
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Climate action remains a popular policy among the UK population.
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New research argues the long-term solution to volatile fossil fuel prices requires public ownership of energy generators.
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A definitive new IPCC assessment of the climate emergency presses for action over despair.
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Sophie Howe, the nation’s first-ever commissioner for future generations, on what it takes to prioritise well-being over GDP.
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In the wake of the latest warning from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the Pacific island nation renews…
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Polling reveals a lack of knowledge about the environmental harm done by livestock consumption.
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The freedom of expression campaigner on protecting our liberties, supporting Ukraine and rescuing a colleague in crisis.
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Six announcements to look out for in the Chancellor’s spring statement.
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The oil-rich nation’s green surge is not as big as it should be.
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So far, constitutional matters have dominated the debate over key issues like the climate and child poverty.
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Radical local policies can build the Green New Deal.
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Black Mountains College in Wales, and its co-founder Ben Rawlence, is advocating a wartime-style overhaul of the way people…
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A special podcast from Spotlight, the New Statesman’s policy supplement.
Managing our emotional reaction to the climate crisis is as vital as our policy response.
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Instead of investing in renewable alternatives, British oil companies have doubled down on business as usual.
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London has made great strides in growing its electric vehicle charging infrastructure.

We're helping to transition workers to a green economy.
The next ten years will be about which economies are fittest for the net-zero transition.
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Government provision of basic human needs, like healthcare and housing, can fight price shocks and save the planet.
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Climate campaigners are the ones with perspective, no matter the misrepresentations of some Conservative MPs.
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Keir Starmer needs to give SMEs a strong offer on skills, business rates and net zero.
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Will the last wild camper please turn out the light?
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To balanced the nation’s books, the Chancellor needs to accelerate efforts to reach net zero.
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A special podcast from Spotlight, the New Statesman’s policy supplement.
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UK policymakers and experts reveal the legislation and policy initiatives they have their eye on as parliament returns.
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The former UN climate head asks what it will take for the UAE to successfully lead this year’s climate…
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Just under a third of Brits say they are going reducetarian this year, but we need more to meet…
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Climate activists are facing dark times with courage.
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Microsoft’s chief sustainability officer for MEA on why the region is key to growing the green economy.
Burned waste is marketed as “renewable” energy, but it produces more carbon emissions than natural gas and is no…
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“We need more wetlands,” says chair of Natural England, as Chris Skidmore’s review of the government’s climate response is…
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Last year was the UK’s hottest and climate change heralds further destabilising extremes.
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A new party forum including leading MPs wants to build consensus and challenge the Tories’ rural dominance.
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A variety of stakeholders, technologies and initiatives must come together to speed up the energy transition.
Seafarers are having to adapt to new sources of energy.
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Policymakers and experts on their policy highlight – or lowlight – of the year.
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As Cop15 ends, the former Amazon boss turned director of the Natural History Museum wants to make nature count…
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The CEO of the energy consultancy known for its price cap forecasts says reduced government support could be catastrophic…
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The CEO of social change charity Nesta on Mahatma Gandhi, the urgency of home insulation, and why we need…
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Why a fusion power “breakthrough” is a true first, but won’t prevent climate breakdown.
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In uncertain times, entrepreneurs need the right information and support to grow.
The renewable energy transition promises to create tens of millions of jobs, but the UK risks missing out unless…
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Despite recent breakthroughs in nuclear fusion, renewables remain the most important technology for reaching net zero.
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The UK’s stop-start approach to the climate and biodiversity crises makes it hard for industry to act.
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As temperatures plunge and Russia attacks, Kyiv is fighting to keep the lights on.
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Britain’s first new deep mine in 30 years has perpetuated net zero myths that could lead to more fossil…
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New research shows SMEs could contribute 50 per cent to the UK’s total emissions reduction ambition by 2030.
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This month’s UN biodiversity summit is a “last chance” for much of the earth’s nature abundance.
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Localised, low carbon and cost-efficient sources of energy will play a key role in delivering urban decarbonisation strategies.

To reach the UK’s net-zero targets education must keep up with the rapidly evolving job market.
The green share of Britain’s power is increasing steadily, but still lags behind Germany, Italy, Spain and Portugal’s.
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Finance is no longer the key constraint on decarbonisation.
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The head of the UK’s third-largest energy supplier on prices and purpose.
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Apprenticeships in sustainable energy can shape the future of the sector.
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The winds of change are blowing in favour of this renewable energy source.
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Rishi Sunak’s plan lacks ambition, say experts.
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Can retail culture ditch the climate cover-ups and focus on getting the planet “out of the red”?
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In South Yorkshire, Emma Bohan is working to save the planet one pump at a time.
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Exclusive Ipsos polling explores how people are coping with rising energy costs.
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Working with farms like the Lakes Free Range Egg Company boosts food quality, local economies and sustainability.

We can’t achieve the NHS’s net zero goals without action on air pollution.
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We’re the clowns, smiling manically as weak pledges are presented as progress, amid mayhem.
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Diplomacy is fraught and slow, but a new pledge on loss and damage shows there may yet be a…
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The British Chambers of Commerce director-general says Hunt has ignored the private sector’s biggest concerns.
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From higher taxes on renewables to inadequate energy efficiency, experts warn Jeremy Hunt’s climate policies are “damaging”.
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The scientist and co-founder of Extinction Rebellion on her working class background, fossil fuels and citizen rights.
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Cop27 is at (article) sixes and sevens over rules governing the trade of carbon credits.
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Poorer countries face mounting debt unless the system changes.
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Broken climate pledges undermine the global order.
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In the second week of fraught talks, negotiators at the UN climate summit need to stay focused.
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Greg Pickstock on how support from McDonald’s is helping him produce quality beef.
The energy watchdog was “too slow” to prevent supplier bankruptcies, MPs said.
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The New Statesman is tracking the progress of the world’s emissions and pledges in the run up to Cop27…
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The world is on course to produce far more gas than is safe.
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Features and analysis on today's risk and resilience issues. With Guy Hands, Walton Webson, Caroline Wagstaff and Charles Walker…
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Not only can climate activism not be silenced, it is amplifying resistance to global injustice.
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The opposition must focus on economic resilience and stay out of “loss and damage” culture wars.
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In this case, semantics do matter.
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Climate finance, offsets rules and indigenous rights all need attention at this year’s UN climate summit.
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The former PM’s call at the conference to “incarnate the spirit of Glasgow” is an attempt to burnish his…
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The UN's annual climate finance target of $100bn is not nearly enough to help poorer countries cope with the…
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Can the authoritarian state, currently building a water-consuming desert capital, host a summit that achieves real change?
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Faced with heatwaves and flooding, the UK needs to invest in resilient infrastructure alongside cutting its carbon emissions.
The chair of the Alliance of Small Island States on the climate finance needs of some of the world's…
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The UK has failed time after time to live up to the climate pledges it made at Cop26.
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This year's UN climate conference could be the most challenging yet.
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Firms are leading the way in reducing emissions and embracing renewables.
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Dr Helgi Johannsson, sustainability lead at the Royal College of Anaesthetists, on reducing emissions in pain relief and surgery.
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