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Curated by the team at Innovation Zero, every month, we zero in on the latest developments in the low carbon transformation. We're not breaking the news. Instead, we'll bring you exclusive, reflective insights from leaders and innovators and share interesting stories of progress.

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  • As we near the end of the year, we'd like to share a short progress update, and give you a preview of what you can expect from the team in 2026. The Innovation Zero Awards 2026 Returning for a third y ...
  • As the world races to decarbonise, Saudi Arabia is quickly turning itself into an innovation hub for the future energy system. Earlier this month, Dr Thomas Altmann (EVP of Innovation & New Technology ...
  • We were once one of Europe’s most coal-intensive energy companies. Today, we’re one of the world’s most sustainable energy companies and a global leader in the green energy transition. But we’re not s ...
  • Belém, Brazil COP30 has just come to a close in Belém, Brazil, at the edge of the Amazon rainforest. For just under two weeks, governments, businesses and civil society have been locked in discussion ...
  • Introduction The protection of intellectual property (IP), particularly through patents, is key to enabling breakthrough technologies to reach the market and scale while rewarding their originators. A ...
  • The Innovation Zero World Congress returns to London Olympia on 28–29 April, for our annual gathering of global leaders from across policy, investment, innovation, and business for two days of action ...
  • Over the past year, the discourse around the transition has shifted to one of risk versus opportunity, with the themes of jobs, growth and resilience at the forefront climate conversations.   As we tu ...
  • Summer 2025 Climate Review

    28 Aug 2025 Jonathan Mclean
    The Met Office's provisional figures for Summer 2025 show it will ‘almost certainly’ be the UK’s hottest on record, with average temperatures more than 1.5 °C above the seasonal norm. Across Europe, h ...
  • Climate Defense as a Business Imperative: How Innovation Can Turn Resilience Into Profit

    28 Aug 2025 Dr. Dimitrios Terzis, Research Teaching Associate / Founder & CEO, EPFL / Medusoil BiomineralsTM
    From “climate change” to climate defense The language we use shapes the actions we take. For years, discussions about global warming centred on “climate change,” a phrase that conveys a passive, almos ...
  • In this timely webinar, recorded just days after the release of the UK Government’s Clean Flexibility Roadmap, leading voices from Ofgem, Octopus Energy, the ADE, and the UK Digital Energy Taskforce e ...
  • Last month, the UK government unveiled its Modern Industrial Strategy and UK Infrastructure: A 10 Year Strategy, outlining long-term priorities to drive economic growth, foster future industries, crea ...
  • Smart storage on wheels and beyond - essential for Europe’s flexible energy future Europe’s energy system faces a fundamental challenge: efficient integration of rapidly growing renewable power with r ...
  • On Day One of Innovation Zero World 2025, we invited influential voices from across the energy sector to discuss the opportunities present in the UK's energy transformation. Host Natasha Kaplinksy OBE ...
  • This week the global climate community—spanning investors, corporates, policymakers, innovators, and civil society—converged on the UK capital for London Climate Action Week (LCAW).  Doubling in size ...
  • In an insightful session at Innovation Zero 2025, Emma Pinchbeck, CEO of the Climate Change Committee, presented the CCC’s latest recommendations for the UK’s Seventh Carbon Budget for 2038 to 2042. S ...
  • At the Earls Court Development Company (ECDC), we are providing one of the most comprehensive responses to the climate emergency of any UK development project. By operating at the forefront of sustain ...
  • Stephen Smith from National Grid, speaking alongside Chris Stark CBE, DESNZ; Lord Adair Turner, Energy Transitions Commission, and Chris Norbury, E.ON Next   With the UK's ambitious CP2030 target just ...
  • tem has set out to revolutionise the way energy is bought and sold – why is it so crucial for organisations to move away from a reliance on “Big Energy”? "Because the majority of UK businesses aren’t ...
  • Last month, famous tech podcaster, Harry Stebbings, told Sifted: “The world thinks that we can’t build great companies [in Europe] anymore.”  He disagrees; he thinks we can. And he’s launched Project ...
  • In our chat, Chris outlines how E.ON Next are keeping their communities front-of-mind as they work to deliver the energy system of the future. He also shares his perspective on the ways in which stake ...
  • What does it mean for a business NOT to integrate ESG aspects in business growth? According to a 2022 study (updated in June 2024), some 98% of S&P 500 companies issue annual ESG audits  — a number on ...
  • 2 October 2024: Visit by RWE staff and Melanie Onn MP to the Siemens Gamesa blade factory in Hull Renewable energy and a thriving, rich biodiversity in the ecosystems are essential to the future of ou ...
  • He highlights the opportunities presented by the energy transition to workers and the wider economy, and touches on the steps businesses can take to ensure their consumers are factored into the low ca ...
  • The National Wealth Fund has almost £28bn to drive investment and growth across the UK. How will you go about encouraging green investment? "We do this in a number of ways – through our ongoing progra ...
  • What are the biggest challenges in scaling electrification and other decarbonisation technologies across hard-to-abate sectors, and how is Schneider Electric working to overcome them? Hard-to-abate se ...

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