built environment

Bureau Veritas and NZCBS announce the opening of UK NZCBS verification

The UK NZCBS is a voluntary standard for new builds, existing buildings, and retrofits.

Susan Wright

03 August 2026

Sustainable strategies

Empowering CSOs and their teams to turn climate risk into return on investment

Risilience unveils Riise IQ business unit level analysis empowering CSO and their teams to turn climate risk into return on investment.

Susan Wright

31 July 2026

Climate Targets

SBTi kickstarts development of updated FLAG target guidance with consultation

The standard update process is expected to take at least 12 months.

Melodie Michel

31 July 2026

Food System

Tesco expands sustainable beef investment

"We are giving farmers clearer opportunities to be rewarded for the standards and practices that matter most."

Melodie Michel

30 July 2026

Global Biodiversity Framework

Biodiversity finance emerges as biggest obstacle to global nature goals: UN draft report

Biodiversity finance received the lowest overall implementation score of all 23 GBF targets assessed.

Melodie Michel

30 July 2026

climate change

Britain is sleepwalking into a £100 billion climate adaptation crisis

Britain’s businesses are sleepwalking into a climate adaptation crisis, as extreme heat exposes workplaces that are expensive to cool and increasingly unfit for a warmer climate.

Susan Wright

29 July 2026

Carbon accounting

GHG Protocol’s Scope 2 overhaul moves forward – harmonised standard due in 2027

"This will allow companies to spend more time reducing emissions."

Melodie Michel

29 July 2026

People & Culture

Petrobras names new interim Chief Sustainability Officer

Petrobras’ sustainability governance has been unstable since its first CSO Mauricio Tolmasquim left in May 2025.

Melodie Michel

29 July 2026

Nature Finance

Virgin Media O2 joins Ecologi’s Media in Service of Nature programme

Media in Service of Nature aims to raise £200 million from the media industry to support UK-based nature recovery projects.

Melodie Michel

28 July 2026

Fossil fuels

As world battles deadly heatwaves, oil and gas profits set to nearly double

“Fossil fuel corporations are making a killing, literally and figuratively."

Melodie Michel

28 July 2026

People & Culture

Netflix's first Chief Sustainability Officer departs after nearly six years

"There should come a time in every Chief Sustainability Officer's career when the role no longer needs to exist."

Melodie Michel

27 July 2026

Buildings

Grosvenor backs air sealing technology to scale UK retrofit programme

Improving airtightness can reduce energy demand and lower carbon emissions.

Melodie Michel

27 July 2026