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  • Reprieve for mandatory carbon reporting in UK budget announcement

    16 March 2016

    The UK's Chancellor of the Exchequer heeded calls from investors not to scrap mandatory carbon reporting in his budget announcement, but was criticised for "forgetting the climate change" in the rest of his policies.

  • Osborne urged not to scrap UK carbon reporting

    14 March 2016

    UK Chancellor George Osborne is considering scrapping the requirement for listed companies report on their carbon emissions, according to the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC), which has urged him not to take this "valuable" information away from shareholders.

  • UK government slammed for lifting renewable energy tax breaks

    09 July 2015

    Renewable energy consumption will no longer be exempt from tax in the UK, in a government move that has been slammed for discouraging investment in the sector.