Global Underwater Hub (GUH) and Scottish Enterprise (SE) have signed a memorandum of understanding which will see them work in partnership to establish a subsea supply chain ecosystem as a global centre of excellence for floating offshore wind.

Net-zero by 2050 is “sinister” according to US Energy Secretary Chris Wright, who has cited the UK’s wind farm and solar panel plans as evidence that renewables offer poor value, inflated pushed energy prices and hurt manufacturing.

Battery energy storage sites are facing a logjam in attempts to connect to the grid, meaning that many may never actually be built.

Ofgem has announced a new connections system, which could be in place in spring 2025, would end the first-come, first-served system where clean energy generation or storage projects that we need cannot get plugged into the grid quickly enough, with some waiting a decade or more.

Government offers offshore bonus per GW
The Government has launched new investment to support clean energy manufacturing, and highly skilled jobs, with offshore wind developers now able to bid for financial support if they drive investment in UK’s most deprived regions, build low carbon factories, or support net-zero supply chains.

At the request of DESNZ, the National Energy System Operator (NESO) analysed the impact on Great Britain's electricity system covering the period 2027 to 2031, if bespoke support for large-scale biomass generation at Drax (2.5 GW capacity) and Lynemouth (0.4 GW capacity) was withdrawn from 2027.

Cities house more than half of the world’s population and without timely action from cities, achieving net-zero emissions and the goals of the Paris Agreement will be impossible.

ShareAction research shows that asset managers’ support for shareholder resolutions aimed at tackling social and environmental issues has reduced in 2024, with only 1.4 per cent of the shareholder proposals assessed in Voting Matters 2024 receiving majority support, down from 21 per cent in 2021.

As greenwashing legal action moves from a legal risk to a regulatory reality there are new risks on the horizon for all advertising agencies according to ClientEarth.

Increase in electricity consumption through 2027 expected to average around 4 per cent annually, driven by growing use for industry, air conditioning, electrification and data centres.

A coalition representing investors of £1.2tr of assets have endorsed the Asset Owner Statement on Climate Stewardship.

The 2024 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) by Transparency International shows that many of the countries most heavily involved in international climate action, including climate-vulnerable nations and hosts of international summits such as the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP), have low and/or declining CPI scores, obstructing effective climate action.