Founders Factory and G-Force launch Seed program for climate-focused startups

UK tech accelerator Founders Factory is joining forces with a European counterpart to launch the Founders Factory Sustainability Seed program. Launched in partnership with G-Force (the G is for Green) based out of Bratislava, Slovakia, the program will look to invest in and accelerate climate-tech startups. The program will invest in entrepreneurs with startups that […]

The Guardian view on saving forests: when trees are at risk, so are we | Editorial

Plantations are no replacement for biodiverse forests that have evolved over thousands of yearsPeople need trees. A world without ilex, cinnamon and rosewood trees, a world devoid of magnolias, hornbeams and maples would be much the poorer. We rely on …

Climate change deniers are as slippery as those who justified the slave trade | Nick Cohen

Global warming sceptics should be hiding in corners. But still some defend the indefensibleNo one seems as defeated as the global warming “deniers” who dominated rightwing thinking a decade ago. Like late 18th-century opponents of abolishing the slave …

Shell aims to install 50,000 on-street EV charge points by 2025

Oil firm sets out plans to provide a third of Britain’s network needed to hit climate targetsShell has announced its aim to install 50,000 on-street electric vehicle (EV) charging points in the UK over the next four years, in an attempt to provide a th…

Millions of electric car batteries will retire in the next decade. What happens to them?

The quest to prevent batteries – rich in raw materials such as cobalt, lithium and nickel – ending up as a mountain of wasteA tsunami of electric vehicles is expected in rich countries, as car companies and governments pledge to ramp up their numbers –…

Retrofitting: why carbon-reducing renovations are going to be big business

Draughty homes contribute to 14% of the UK’s greenhouse gas emissions, but a wave of eco-refurbs is changing thatUK government ‘failing to help local leaders achieve net zero’When Boris Afinogenov moved to Liverpool from Lithuania in 2011, he knew that…