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Green economy

August 2024

  • Causeymire Wind Farm in Caithness, Scotland

    Electricity ‘superhighway’ between Scotland and England to go ahead

    £3.4bn subsea cable will transmit renewable electricity from Scottish windfarms to 2m homes in England
  • Wind turbines and electricity pylons.

    Observer business agenda
    Labour go-ahead for march of the pylons promises to spark conflict

    A scheme transporting Scotland’s green power to England is likely to be controversial despite lengthy consultations
  • A hazy, pink and purple sunrise behind electricity pylons in the countryside

    ‘There’ll be no countryside left’: Opposition to pylons puts UK carbon targets at risk

    Infrastructure essential to decarbonise electricity generation by 2030 met with resistance by those affected

July 2024

  • A view of the London skyline which includes tall glass buildings, set behind old brick buildings which are in the foreground along the bank of the river Thames.

    Two City firms team up to invest £20bn of pension funds in UK businesses

  • Women wearing brightly coloured prints walk through rows of solar panels.

    Green economy could generate 3.3m jobs across Africa by 2030 – report

  • Keir Starmer speaking from behind a lectern, with people in high vis jackets standing behind him

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Starmer says Labour finding ‘more mess’ from Tories every day as he launches Great British Energy plan – as it happened

  • Keir Starmer at the Beatrice wind farm off the Caithness coast

    Starmer to take on Labour councils that block pylons delivering clean energy

  • How golf courses preserve vanishing habitats

  • ‘The day it goes wrong? We won’t know about it … ’: life next door to a nuclear power station

  • Buses, trains and bicycle paths: Labour’s mission to decarbonise UK transport

  • Steelmakers fire up to swap centuries-old reliance on coal for electric arc furnaces

  • Brief letters
    Now that’s not what I call a lazy journalist

  • ‘Keir Starmer take note’: UK’s green transition must start now, say experts

  • The alternatives
    ‘It needs to stay in the loop’: German reuse schemes turn shopping upside down

  • Labour is putting its plans for Britain in the hands of private finance. It could end badly

    Daniela Gabor

  • Port infrastructure delays threaten UK’s transition to net zero, industry says

June 2024

  • An artist impression of the Microsoft Park Royal datacentre, now under construction in west London.

    AI drive brings Microsoft’s ‘green moonshot’ down to earth in west London

  • Nils Pratley

    Nils Pratley on finance
    BP has scaled back its green energy plans – don’t be surprised if it happens again

    Nils Pratley
  • huge fields of solar panels next to a field of green crops

    Project Syndicate economists
    It doesn’t make sense: why US tariffs on Chinese cleantech risk the green transition

    Jeffrey Frankel
  • Composite of solar panels, wind turbines, radiator, tractor and tree

    Life under Labour
    Labour wants to make UK a clean energy superpower. Will this help those stuck in fuel poverty?

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