The petrol stations giant founded by two Blackburn-based brothers is closing in on a $300m US acquisition, the latest in a string of purchases aimed at expanding its foodservice operations.

Financial firms that control around 40% of global assets will align themselves to the Paris Agreement 1.5 degree warming limit, Chancellor Rishi Sunak will say on Wednesday at critical UN climate talks.

Amazon drivers are being given $60m in tips that were illegally withheld by the online retailer, America's consumer watchdog said.

Facebook's facial recognition system will be shut down and faceprints will be deleted for over a billion people, the social media giant has announced.

Three of Britain's biggest high street lenders will this week join an alliance aimed at phasing out the world's dependence on coal power amid a blizzard of efforts by multinationals to demonstrate their green credentials at the COP26 summit.

The frontlines of this climate crisis are well-known: low-lying nations like the Seychelles, Grenada, Bangladesh which face such catastrophe and of course the many weather-battered regions of our planet.

Four more energy suppliers have collapsed amid the crisis enveloping the sector as a result of surging wholesale gas prices.

It may strike some as deeply ironic that, while heads of state, scientists, charities and environmental activists rub shoulders at the COP26 summit, some of the biggest players involved in the transition to net zero are not in Glasgow.

Morrisons has apologised after facing threats of a boycott from some Twitter users for labelling a chicken product as containing "non-EU salt and pepper".

Maersk, the world's biggest shipping company, has warned there is "little visibility" about when bottlenecks in global supply chains will end.

Ian King speaks to Sky's Adam Boulton about a pledge made by world leaders to end deforestation by the end of the decade, and how much of a difference this will make.

Ian King speaks to Sky's Adam Boulton about a pledge made by world leaders to end deforestation by the end of the decade, and how much of a difference this will make.