New Oxford Smith School analysis finds changes to seabed leasing by The Crown Estate (TCE) have severely affected offshore wind financing costs and risk delaying the clean energy transition.

The business that manages the King’s land has put wind farm projects at risk with move away from capped fees for developers, a University of Oxford study warns

Nick Hay is communications lead at the Net Zero Tracker, and Preslav Tonkov is a senior adviser at Gallup Governments must learn what kind of climate action builds trust

A summer of relentless heatwaves, spiking mortality and wildfires brought home the reality of climate change to many Brits. Just how hot must it ge...

AI promises to dramatically reduce the time sustainability teams spend on data, analysis, disclosure and reporting. But that raises a much more consequential…

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Geologically Balanced Fuels (GBFs) represent a novel approach to aligning fossil aviation fuel use with net-zero objectives as a complementary strategy to sustainable aviation fuels. By pairing conven...

Dozens of academics, environmental professionals and members of civil society have this week published an open letter to the Secretary of State at the Department of Energy Security and Net Zero, Miatt...

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Having funded the rise of the bodies that set corporate climate rules, philanthropy now faces a less glamorous bill: the governance required to keep them honest. As the world heats up, so too does the...

Matilda Becker and Alexis McGivern reflect on a first-of-its kind governance review of five leading sustainability and climate standards setters that identifies opportunities to strengthen transparenc...

As climate and sustainability standards become increasingly central to achieving global net zero objectives, the governance of the organisations that develop and maintain these standards has emerged a...

Dozens of academics, environmental professionals and members of civil society have this week published an open letter to the Secretary of State at the Department of Energy Security and Net Zero, […]

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Air con is increasingly seen as a lifeline not a luxury. What about its climate impact?

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The Global Youth Climate Training Programme (GYCT) is a free, fully online capacity-development programme for people aged 16–35 who want to strengthen their understanding of international climate poli...

How can companies contribute to global net zero beyond reducing their own emissions? (Hint: you might be already!) And how do we recognise and measure…

ISO 14060 is set to become the first independently verifiable international standard for net zero transition planning, aligned with the Paris Agreement.…

Energy project licences should be conditional on carbon dioxide disposal