Environment Agency unveils five-year plan for ‘greener, healthier future’
RETURNING to business as usual after the coronavirus pandemic won’t be enough to address the challenges of the future, warns Sir James Bevan, chief...
First phase of Industrial Energy Transformation Fund launched
THE DEPARTMENT for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), in collaboration with Innovate UK, has launched Phase 1 of the Industrial Energy Transformation Fund...
Ofgem proposes £25 billion to make networks greener
OFGEM has unveiled proposals for a five-year investment programme of around £25bn to transform Britain's energy networks to deliver emissions-free green energy for GB.
Investment...
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development unveils plan to be majority green bank by...
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has unveiled its plan to scale up even further its climate and environmental finance and its...
New guidance puts social, environmental and community benefits at heart of land development
Guidance published this week by the Scottish Land Commission places well-being as a central consideration when assessing the business case for developing vacant or...
Net Zero Transport Board to meet for the first time today
TRANSPORT Secretary Grant Shapps will today launch the first meeting of the Net Zero Transport Board to help guide the decarbonisation of UK transport.
The board...
American investment firm KKR acquires Viridor for £4.2bn
KKR, a global investment firm, has successfully acquired recycling, renewable energy and waste management company Viridor for £4.2 billion today.
Phil Piddington, who has been...
We are ready to provide 40,000 green-collar jobs in the next two years, says...
TODAY the Chancellor of the Exchequer backed a green recovery from the coronavirus pandemic in today's emergency 'mini-budget', which should support thousands of jobs,...
Work progresses to create Exeter’s first solar farm and storage project
WORK is well underway to create Exeter City Council’s own solar farm and battery storage project.
The scheme is one way in which the authority...
4 in 5 UK energy professionals urge resilient green recovery
BRITAIN'S energy professionals have added their voices to growing calls to ‘build back better’ post COVID-19, according to the Energy Institute’s Energy Barometer 2020.
They...
