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Net Zero Festival: Negative emissions - capturing the opportunity

Technology

Net Zero Festival: Negative emissions - capturing the opportunity

VIDEO: Dr Steve Smith from Oxford University's Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment chats to James Murray about the challenges and potential of negative emissions technologies

clock 19 October 2021 • 1 min read
Heat and Buildings Strategy: The Reaction

Policy

Heat and Buildings Strategy: The Reaction

Is the long-awaited plan 'a massive milestone in our fight against climate change' or 'a meagre, unambitious and wholly inadequate response'?

clock 19 October 2021 • 11 min read
Government teams up with Bill Gates and top corporates to catalyse wave of green tech investment

Investment

Government teams up with Bill Gates and top corporates to catalyse wave of green tech investment

Prime Minister announces £9.7bn of inward infrastructure investment, as government launches new £400m public-private clean tech innovation fund

clock 19 October 2021 • 6 min read
Remora is ready to roll with carbon capture for trucks

Transport

Remora is ready to roll with carbon capture for trucks

Could the US start up open up a whole new front for the carbon capture industry?

clock 15 October 2021 • 10 min read
'The marketplace alone won't deliver': Is the UK lagging on net zero tech innovation?

Technology

'The marketplace alone won't deliver': Is the UK lagging on net zero tech innovation?

Think tank Onward calls for 'radical' UK policy push to drive net zero innovation, as World Economic Forum warns a 10-fold increase in tech investment needed worldwide to reach climate goals

clock 14 October 2021 • 6 min read
No longer hard-to-abate? Why experts are saying steel sector decarbonisation could be easier than expected

Net Zero Now

No longer hard-to-abate? Why experts are saying steel sector decarbonisation could be easier than expected

Exclusive: First-of-its-kind report into steel and iron sector decarbonisation concludes net zero by 2050 is entirely possible for the industry

clock 13 October 2021 • 8 min read
Global cement and concrete makers ramp up 2030 emissions target

Supply chain

Global cement and concrete makers ramp up 2030 emissions target

Trade group GCCA touts vision of a zero carbon global economy 'literally built with green concrete'

clock 12 October 2021 • 4 min read
'Like an Amazon pick-up package service': Inside plans to transform an Icelandic port into a CO2 storage hub for European pollution

Energy

'Like an Amazon pick-up package service': Inside plans to transform an Icelandic port into a CO2 storage hub for European pollution

In part two of a series looking at Icelandic clean energy innovation, BusinessGreen explores mooted plans to turn emissions produced by plants across Europe into Iceland's bedrock

clock 11 October 2021 • 6 min read
Clean heating, carbon storage, and direct air capture: How Iceland could carve out a net zero economy for the world to follow

Energy

Clean heating, carbon storage, and direct air capture: How Iceland could carve out a net zero economy for the world to follow

clock 11 October 2021 • 8 min read
Energy Saving Trust: Job of making homes net zero gets harder with every year wasted

Energy

Energy Saving Trust: Job of making homes net zero gets harder with every year wasted

Speaking at Net Zero Festival, Energy Saving Trust boss Mike Thornton argues urgent action is needed to accelerate heat pump roll out by 'an order of magnitude'

clock 11 October 2021 • 3 min read