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RESEARCHERS from King’s College London Business School have published a paper urgently calling for a new deal for health and care employees that acknowledges and reflects their worth to our individual and communal well-being. The paper says that the sector needs a new model of employment, characterised as fair care work, to tackle the challenges to working lives exposed by...

LEGAL & General announces that it is to make all of its new homes operational net zero carbon enabled by 2030. This will be implemented in a phased approach across all homes invested in or built by the Group including Build to Rent, Build to Sell, later living and affordable housing. Housing is a major contributor to carbon emissions so requires...

DIVERSE views from urban, town, rural and island communities must be heard if town centres are to be revitalised and renewed in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, according to Scotland's Communities Secretary Aileen Campbell. Experts in town planning, public health, transport, and business will take on board views of local communities to build on the progress of the Scottish...

BRITS are largely unaware that climate change disproportionately affects black, Asian and Arab people, new poll by Christian Aid reveals. Only a third of British adults (33%) recognise how disproportionately climate change affects people across the world, despite evidence that the poorest people in Africa, Asia and Latin America, along with small island states, are bearing the brunt of climate...

A LARGE-SCALE new tree planting initiative, which forms part of Leeds’ programme to make the city carbon neutral by 2030, has been launched today with the first potential sites identified. The first saplings will be planted this winter, with the woodland creation programme set to see 5.8 million trees planted across the city in the next 25 years. The programme is...

POTENTIAL and confirmed victims of modern slavery will be able to access more flexible support under an improved service. The new Modern Slavery Victim Care Contract, awarded to The Salvation Army, will provide a service that better meets the needs of each victim, including those with specialist and complex needs. As part of the National Referral Mechanism (NRM), it will ensure...

A NEW scheme by co-founder of Comic Relief wants to 'transform the financial system to put people and planet on a par with profit.' Film writer and director Richard Curtis, who is responsible for films such as Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill and Love Actually, has co-founded Make My Money Matter, which aims to drive systematic change in...

SMART energy technologies hold a 'significant positive impact' in the home, including carbon reductions, energy bill savings, and improved system resilience, new study by Loughborough University, the Solar Trade Association and Advance Further Energy reveals. The report examines both the individual household benefits of installing smart energy technologies, and the contribution they can make to the whole electricity system, when...

WELSH Government welcomes a ‘team Wales’ approach across the whole public sector to realise the ambition of becoming a low carbon economy and help to tackle climate change. The ‘team Wales’ approach will be headed by the Partnership Council for Wales (the Partnership Council), made up of representatives of local authorities, NHS, Fire and Rescue Authorities (FRAs), town and community...

STRENGTHENING climate policy signals beyond the energy sector and reducing regulatory uncertainty can help to open up and drive investments into new markets for green goods and services. These are the findings of new research by the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science. The research finds that energy sector...