Sir Jim Ratcliffe: Act now or five million jobs will be lost Business Sir Jim Ratcliffe has called on Europe’s leaders to save the continent’s chemicals industry or risk losing millions of jobs. The founder and chairman of Ineos has urged politicians to make an “eleventh-hour intervention” at what he has described as a “moment of reckoning” for the industry. Sir Jim, who is also known as a [...]
Converge AI: Meet the UK tech decarbonising concrete with AI Transport and infrastructure Concrete is everywhere; It’s in the roads we drive on, the buildings we work in, and the infrastructure that shapes the UK’s cities. Yet despite its ubiquity, it’s also one of the hardest materials to make environmentally friendly. This is the challenge that British construction tech scale-up Converge AI, founded in 2014, is trying to [...]
Co-op boss urges Miliband to support small firms Business The boss of the Co-op has urged Ed Miliband to rectify the host of “far-reaching challenges” impeding small businesses’ net zero efforts, warning that a paucity of cheap finance and planning red tape were getting in the way of firms’ ambitions. In a letter seen by CityAM Shirine Khoury-Haq said Britain was at a [...]
Net Zero: weak economic growth, high energy prices and stagnant productivity? March 5, 2025 How many times have we heard the argument that there is no trade-off between pursuing Net Zero and economic growth? The argument lies at the heat of the country’s economic, climate and environmental policy debate. The energy secretary, Ed Miliband, repeats the mantra at every opportunity – “clean energy and Net Zero equals good jobs [...]
Will National Grid’s £7bn fundraise be enough for its ambitions? May 23, 2024 The new £60bn plan is ambitious, with just over half of the investment being spent in the UK, and the rest going to National Grid's US operations.