How Labour’s £28bn green pledge could deliver beyond climate
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Following the policy that powers the clean energy transition.
The CEO of the Climate Change Committee on public speaking, planning reform, and Gordon Brown.
ByThe UK may be missing opportunities for green jobs, warns a new report by the independent body.
ByThis technology, vital for reaching net zero, is misunderstood.
ByThe CEO of the Climate Group on working for Doctors Without Borders, the importance of listening, and the UK’s…
ByA 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…
ByThe chief executive of National Energy Action on the cost-of-living crisis and the UK’s failing benefits system.
ByMicrosoft 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.
ByFossil fuel use could decline as soon as next year, but G7 proposals risk slowing the green transition.
ByMany corporations still use spreadsheets to track their carbon footprint, making it difficult to abide by science-backed emissions targets.
ByA third of the money devoted to decarbonising housing and public sector buildings has not materialised.
ByMicrosoft’s chief sustainability officer, UK, on how the tech giant has made the green transition an integral part of…
Rishi Sunak’s latest net-zero proposals mean the UK would still exceed its carbon budget by 2037.
ByWhat was touted as a “Green Day” instead revealed a refusal to acknowledge painful realities.
ByBritain has the lowest heat pump installation rate in Europe.
ByClimate action remains a popular policy among the UK population.
ByNew research argues the long-term solution to volatile fossil fuel prices requires public ownership of energy generators.
ByA definitive new IPCC assessment of the climate emergency presses for action over despair.
BySophie Howe, the nation’s first-ever commissioner for future generations, on what it takes to prioritise well-being over GDP.
ByIn the wake of the latest warning from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the Pacific island nation renews…
ByPolling reveals a lack of knowledge about the environmental harm done by livestock consumption.
ByThe freedom of expression campaigner on protecting our liberties, supporting Ukraine and rescuing a colleague in crisis.
BySix announcements to look out for in the Chancellor’s spring statement.
ByThe oil-rich nation’s green surge is not as big as it should be.
BySo far, constitutional matters have dominated the debate over key issues like the climate and child poverty.
ByRadical local policies can build the Green New Deal.
ByBlack Mountains College in Wales, and its co-founder Ben Rawlence, is advocating a wartime-style overhaul of the way people…
ByA special podcast from Spotlight, the New Statesman’s policy supplement.
Minette Batters, head of the National Farmers’ Union (NFU), doubles down on food security in the face of green…
ByManaging our emotional reaction to the climate crisis is as vital as our policy response.
ByInstead of investing in renewable alternatives, British oil companies have doubled down on business as usual.
ByLondon 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.
ByGovernment provision of basic human needs, like healthcare and housing, can fight price shocks and save the planet.
ByClimate campaigners are the ones with perspective, no matter the misrepresentations of some Conservative MPs.
ByKeir Starmer needs to give SMEs a strong offer on skills, business rates and net zero.
ByWill the last wild camper please turn out the light?
ByTo balanced the nation’s books, the Chancellor needs to accelerate efforts to reach net zero.
ByA special podcast from Spotlight, the New Statesman’s policy supplement.
ByUK policymakers and experts reveal the legislation and policy initiatives they have their eye on as parliament returns.
ByThe former UN climate head asks what it will take for the UAE to successfully lead this year’s climate…
ByJust under a third of Brits say they are going reducetarian this year, but we need more to meet…
ByClimate activists are facing dark times with courage.
ByMicrosoft’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…
By“We need more wetlands,” says chair of Natural England, as Chris Skidmore’s review of the government’s climate response is…
ByLast year was the UK’s hottest and climate change heralds further destabilising extremes.
ByA new party forum including leading MPs wants to build consensus and challenge the Tories’ rural dominance.
ByA 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.
ByPolicymakers and experts on their policy highlight – or lowlight – of the year.
ByAs Cop15 ends, the former Amazon boss turned director of the Natural History Museum wants to make nature count…
ByThe CEO of the energy consultancy known for its price cap forecasts says reduced government support could be catastrophic…
ByThe CEO of social change charity Nesta on Mahatma Gandhi, the urgency of home insulation, and why we need…
ByWhy a fusion power “breakthrough” is a true first, but won’t prevent climate breakdown.
ByIn 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…
ByDespite recent breakthroughs in nuclear fusion, renewables remain the most important technology for reaching net zero.
ByThe UK’s stop-start approach to the climate and biodiversity crises makes it hard for industry to act.
ByAs temperatures plunge and Russia attacks, Kyiv is fighting to keep the lights on.
ByBritain’s first new deep mine in 30 years has perpetuated net zero myths that could lead to more fossil…
ByNew research shows SMEs could contribute 50 per cent to the UK’s total emissions reduction ambition by 2030.
ByThis month’s UN biodiversity summit is a “last chance” for much of the earth’s nature abundance.
ByLocalised, 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.
ByFinance is no longer the key constraint on decarbonisation.
ByThe head of the UK’s third-largest energy supplier on prices and purpose.
ByApprenticeships in sustainable energy can shape the future of the sector.
ByThe winds of change are blowing in favour of this renewable energy source.
ByRishi Sunak’s plan lacks ambition, say experts.
ByCan retail culture ditch the climate cover-ups and focus on getting the planet “out of the red”?
ByIn South Yorkshire, Emma Bohan is working to save the planet one pump at a time.
ByExclusive Ipsos polling explores how people are coping with rising energy costs.
ByWorking 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.
ByWe’re the clowns, smiling manically as weak pledges are presented as progress, amid mayhem.
ByDiplomacy is fraught and slow, but a new pledge on loss and damage shows there may yet be a…
ByThe British Chambers of Commerce director-general says Hunt has ignored the private sector’s biggest concerns.
ByFrom higher taxes on renewables to inadequate energy efficiency, experts warn Jeremy Hunt’s climate policies are “damaging”.
ByThe scientist and co-founder of Extinction Rebellion on her working class background, fossil fuels and citizen rights.
ByCop27 is at (article) sixes and sevens over rules governing the trade of carbon credits.
ByPoorer countries face mounting debt unless the system changes.
ByBroken climate pledges undermine the global order.
ByIn the second week of fraught talks, negotiators at the UN climate summit need to stay focused.
ByGreg 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.
ByThe New Statesman is tracking the progress of the world’s emissions and pledges in the run up to Cop27…
ByThe world is on course to produce far more gas than is safe.
ByFeatures and analysis on today's risk and resilience issues. With Guy Hands, Walton Webson, Caroline Wagstaff and Charles Walker…
ByNot only can climate activism not be silenced, it is amplifying resistance to global injustice.
ByThe opposition must focus on economic resilience and stay out of “loss and damage” culture wars.
ByIn this case, semantics do matter.
ByClimate finance, offsets rules and indigenous rights all need attention at this year’s UN climate summit.
ByThe former PM’s call at the conference to “incarnate the spirit of Glasgow” is an attempt to burnish his…
ByThe UN's annual climate finance target of $100bn is not nearly enough to help poorer countries cope with the…
ByCan the authoritarian state, currently building a water-consuming desert capital, host a summit that achieves real change?
ByFaced with heatwaves and flooding, the UK needs to invest in resilient infrastructure alongside cutting its carbon emissions.