Budget

Rishi Sunak's 'super deduction' budget announcement represents a massive tax break for fossil fuel companies - just ahead of the COP26 talks.

Taxation - including a carbon tax - can incentivise the transition to a low carbon economy, while reducing inequality and supporting vital services.

The UK budget must be about pouring enough water on climate fires and irrigating resources to those in need - not about plucking geese and ‘maxed-out’ credit cards.

The chancellor must consider all means to raise additional budget to help tackle the coronavirus. 

A new £640 million fund for nature restoration has been welcomed by campaigners - but massive road building plans have come under fire.

Environmental groups cautiously welcome action on plastic waste - which does not go far enough.

Philip Hammond is due in the House of Commons to present a 'make or break' budget after ten years of austerity have led to social inequality and growing despair. But, KATE HUDSON from CND argues, one single cut could result in a debt free public spending bonanza.

As the fiscal dust kicked up by Alistair Darling's 2010 budget begins to settle, experts say they are 'surprised' by how 'un-green' the budget turned out to be

Environmentalists had waited with baited breath for the Chancellor's 2007 Budget. Gordon Brown had intimated that it would be the 'greenest ever'. In fact, it was a resounding disappointment.

A global capitalist economy obsessed with economic growth has plenty of faults, but chances are it's here to stay. Fortunately, there are other types of organisations out there to prove that the limited liability or plc company is not the only way to get business done.

Gordon Brown's Budget was disappointing. But not just because of its economic niceties. It fails to address key issues which have become taboo amongst economists - money, debt and economic growth. Molly Scott Cato, a green economist and Senior Lecturer in Social Economy at the Cardiff School of Management, addresses all three...

'A common price for carbon' has become the soundbite of the forward-looking 'green' politician. It pleases everyone, not least business, which can plan ahead by looking at the carbon 'market'. But is it the best way to proceed?

Environmentalists held their breath in expectation of Gordon Brown's 'green' budget. Was it worth the wait? Miriam Kennet, a director of the Green Economics Institute, looks at where the Chancellor went awry...

Gordon Brown’s ‘green budget’ has met with scorn from the motoring lobby and disappointment from environmentalists.

Wednesday’s Budget is expected to increase taxes on the most polluting cars, but only by £200, some £1,400 short of recommendations made by Friends of the Earth.

The Chancellor's pre-budget report on Wednesday 6th December was a green-washed shambles. Paul Kingsnorth gives Gordon a helping hand with the re-write