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A new global initiative has launched within UK schools aimed at fostering awareness of plastic pollution amongst primary-aged children.
Posted: 21/09/23
A group of 47 investors coordinated by the Investor Alliance for Human Rights has signed a statement in support of BankTrack’s 2022 Global Human Rights Benchmark.
Posted: 21/09/2023
Carbon Streaming will be providing Microsoft with carbon removal credits from its Waverly Biochar project, with the expectation of delivering up to 10,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide removal credits per year towards Microsoft’s carbon negative target.
Posted: 21/09/2023
The pondering s over, and the Prime Minster has decided to shake up the race to net-zero with a mix of delayed stick and carrot.
Posted: 21/09/2023
New partnership will tackle increasing numbers of people needing support while facing cancer in the workplace
Posted: 20/09/23
The Prime Minister is reported to be considering slowing the current progress to net-zero in a major policy shift.
Posted: 20/09/2023
The new and improved Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) has started to accept applications, the Secretary of State for Food and Farming has confirmed.
Posted: 19/09/2023
A new report by Robert Gordon University has found that the UK offshore energy workforce can increase by up to 50 per cent from over 150,000 in 2023 to 225,000 by the end of the decade with new renewable jobs outnumbering oil and gas roles if a successful transition is achieved.
Posted: 19/09/2023
Octopus Energy has grabbed a slice of one of continental Europe’s largest wind farms, the 732 MW Borssele III & IV wind farm in the Dutch North Sea.
Posted: 19/09/2023
The Government has invited industry and consumer groups to discuss the role of hydrogen in the UK’s gas network.
Posted: 18/09/2023
Independent music retailer Rough Trade has announced its partnership with Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM) in support of suicide prevention and mental health.
Posted: 15/09/23
The World Economic Forum’s annual Sustainable Development Impact Meetings are to be held in New York between 18-22 September.
Posted: 15/09/2023
Big Society Capital has published its annual survey showing the amount invested into tackling social issues increased to £9.4bn in 2022, up from £7.9bn in 2021
Posted: 14/09/2023
The Grantham Research Institute at the London School of Economics and Climate Bonds Initiative have partnered to assess the needs for bond instruments for a ‘just transition’.
Posted: 14/09/2023
The Government has launched a £1bn Great British Insulation Scheme for lower council tax banded properties with less energy-efficient homes to be upgraded.
Posted: 14/09/2023
Octopus Energy CEO Greg Jackson has launched a new smart heating system callked Cosy Octopus with the vow: “This paves the way to heat pumps for everyone.”
Posted: 14/09/2023
Bernard Looney, CEO of BP, has abruptly resigned after it emerged he had failed to fully disclose previous relationships with colleagues.
Posted: 13/09/2023
Cross-party think tank Demos has released a new report on the future of UK farming, supported by McCain Foods.
Posted: 13/09/2023
The European Parliament has votes to increase its ambitions for renewable energy, declaring that renewables will have to make up 42.5 per cent of the EU’s energy consumption by 2030, with the aim of achieving 45 per cent.
Posted: 13/09/2023
Amazon has agreed to purchase 250,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) credits over 10 years from 1PointFive. The agreement will see the online shopping giant put its faith in Direct Air Capture (DAC) as a viable carbon removal solution to further climate goals.
Posted: 13/09/2023
The inaugural Africa Climate Summit, held in Nairobi, Kenya, has called for a global carbon tax to tackle climate change.
Posted: 12/09/2023
The IIGCC has launched its Net Zero Standard for Diversified Mining as a tool to help investors assess mining companies’ net-zero transition plans.
Posted: 12/09/2023
Glasgow headquartered global fitness and well-being community app, Truconnect, have announced a partnership with Ronald McDonald House Charities UK.
Posted: 11/09/23
The Government has announced a $2bn pledge to the Green Climate Fund (GCF, HQ pictured) as its second replenishment (GCF-2). The announcement was made by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak at the G20 Leaders’ Summit in New Delhi.
Posted: 11/09/2023
BMW has decided to invest in its Cowley plant in Oxford as it attempts to electrify the brand.
Posted: 11/09/2023
BP Pulse has launched the UK’s largest public charging hub on the NEC Campus in the West Midlands.
Posted: 11/09/2023
The latest round of renewable energy auctions has produced no new bids for offshore projects, with developers citing the price set under the Contracts for Difference agreements as being too low to make economic sense.
Posted: 08/09/2023
Amazon has launched a new volunteer month, which will see employees across the UK helping community groups where they live and work.
Posted: 07/09/2023
Major companies including Coca Cola, Unilever, Salesforce, Velux and Signify, have voiced their support for a new ambitious EU-wide target.
Posted: 05/09/2023
Royal Mail’s net-zero and near-term targets have been validated by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi). The targets are part of Royal Mail’s Steps to Zero strategy which outlines how it will achieve net-zero by 2040.
Posted: 05/09/2023
Octopus Energy Group has signed a deal with Impello, a subsidiary of Shell, to buy Shell Energy in the UK and Germany, taking on two million home energy and broadband customers.
Posted: 04/09/2023
Ikea is trialling car boot sale events in a bid to increase its sustainability by encouraging customers to buy second hand home furnishings.
Posted: 31/08/23
Hundreds of extra volunteers will be recruited and trained by Samaritans over the next few years following funding from Three UK.
Posted: 31/08/23
A 40-year charity partnership isn’t always easy to maintain, but Disney and Make-a-Wish UK have gone from strength to strength
Posted: 30/08/23
A coalition of investors are calling on UK companies to increase efforts to tackle modern slavery, forced labour and human trafficking in their supply chains.
Posted: 30/08/23
The German target of cutting greenhouse emissions by 65 per cent by 2030 and net-zero by a 2045 will probably be missed, according to the German government’s own climate advisers and the Federal Environment Agency (UBA), Reuters has reported.
Posted: 24/08/2023
Germany’s industrial giants in chemical and car making are already criticising the bureaucratic strain expected from the EU’s controversial Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM).
Posted: 24/08/2023
The cost of electricity will inevitably rise for consumers if plans for a drastic overhaul of the market go ahead, say three major trade associations representing over 800 renewable energy companies.
Posted: 24/08/2023
The Hywind Tampen wind farm has opened, creating the world's largest floating offshore wind farm.
Posted: 24/08/2023
A report by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) has considered the implementation of a UK green industrial strategy, concluding that, to be effective, it should include the establishment of a national investment fund.
Posted: 23/08/2023
Secursun has started the construction of the first solar parks, the first of more than 50 utility solar PV parks that will be completed between the end of 2023 and 2026.
Posted: 22/08/2023
Sustainable same-day delivery service Bodo has partnered with all-electric courier Packfleet, to provide carbon-neutral deliveries for London’s eCommerce brands.
Posted: 22/08/2023
SSE Renewables has started construction of a battery energy storage system (BESS) at Ferrybridge, West Yorkshire, the site of a former landmark coal-fired plant.
Posted: 22/08/2023
Polyester textiles have been successfully recycled back into raw material as part of a joint venture between Project Plan B and the Salvation Army.
Posted: 21/08/2023
Sailing ships might be back, with a major marine cargo company testing a new system of folding sails.
Posted: 21/08/2023
The SBTi's fourth report examining progress globally reports that more companies have set targets in 2022 than the entire seven years prior.
Posted: 18/08/2023
The UK's largest opencast coal mine is to close. Planning permission has been withdrawn for the Ffos-y-Fran site by Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council on climate grounds.
Posted: 17/08/2023
India has approved plans for a $7bn plan to electrify its public transport system.
Posted: 17/08/2023
Northumberland County Council has a new solar car port array, and it is one of the biggest of its kind in the UK.
Posted: 16/08/2023
The Government has announced a new multimillion pound investment in Artificial intelligence to transform the way industries cut their carbon emissions.
Posted: 16/08/2023
President Biden has announced funding of up to $1.2 Billion for carbon direct air capture (DAC) prototypes in Texas and Louisiana.
Posted: 15/08/2023
BP is investing in Advanced Ionics, a developer of a new category of hydrogen electrolysers that produce green hydrogen symbiotically with processes to reduce electricity consumption and using widely available steels and other simple materials rather than expensive metals or materials common in other electrolysers.
Posted: 15/08/2023
A media analysis carried out by Cision shows that discussions about ecological and social issues are becoming more heated and politically charged.
Posted: 15/08/2023
Pension funds across the globe need to rise to the challenge of ‘greening’ their investment strategies and portfolio assets to help the world transition to a net-zero economy, a report by the Economics of Energy Innovation and System Transition (EEIST) programme has stated.
Posted: 14/08/2023
In the first half of 2023, the overall economic losses from natural catastrophes amounted to $120bn, 46 per cent above the ten-year average, with climate change the major cause.
Posted: 14/08/2023
The UK is on track for a quarter of a million homes installing certified renewables this year with households installing heat pumps and solar panels in the UK at an accelerating rate.
Posted: 14/08/2023
The Government has announced the launch of a new service to help Britain’s 5.5 million SMEs save on their energy bills while reducing their emissions.
Posted: 14/08/2023
Tesco has outlined a plan for emissions reduction across its own operations and value chain as it becomes one of the first retailers globally to have its net-zero science-based targets validated by the Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi).
Posted: 11/08/2023
The German Government has passed its dedicated climate fund, overruling its own spending rules.
Posted: 10/08/2023
The UK will host a new global energy security conference next year, bringing together countries from around the world to shore up critical energy supplies and make the system more resilient to shocks.
Posted: 10/08/2023
A summit on measures to protect the Amazon basin has failed to put an end to deforestation, with the eight nations involved unable to reach full agreement.
Posted: 10/08/2023
New polling by Survation, commissioned by RenewableUK, shows that nearly two-thirds of people (64 per cent) support the development of new electricity grid infrastructure to enable the decarbonisation of the UK, while only 5 per cent oppose it.
Posted: 09/08/2023
The Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market today released its full global benchmark for high-integrity carbon credits, with the goal of maximising the ability of the voluntary carbon market to support delivery of global climate targets.
Posted: 09/08/2023
A project pairing the world’s biggest companies with social enterprises has hit a £99m spending milestone and created thousands of jobs in organisations tackling social and environmental issues.
Posted: 09/08/2023
Bureau Veritas, the testing, inspection and certification organisation has launched its Global Energy Transition Report 2023, adding its voice to those that believe climate calming measures will need to accelerate if the Paris agreement is to be reached.
Posted: 08/08/2023
In a year and a half after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, only 13 foreign banking institutions completely withdrew from the Russian market, while 61 foreign banks are continuing to operate in the country fully or partially, according to KSE Institute.
Posted: 08/08/2023
New Zealand's government and BlackRock are to launch a $1.22bn climate infrastructure fund to invest in solar, wind, green hydrogen and battery storage technology.
Posted: 08/08/2023
The Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs is granting £14m in its latest funding as part of the Farming Innovation Programme which aims to boost sustainability and progress to net-zero in agriculture and horticulture.
Posted: 07/08/2023
ZeroAvia, the company developing hydrogen-electric aviation for commercial applications, has announced the completion of its initial prototype ZA600 flight testing campaign at Cotswold Airport.
Posted: 07/08/2023
Construction is now underway at the site near Evesham of SSE’s first solar project. Littleton Pastures is a 31MW solar project on a 77-acre site and is set to be operational in 2024.
Posted: 04/08/2023
The final convoy of wind turbine components for the Viking Wind Farm in Shetland took place on Thursday, the last of 280 convoys which have seen over one thousand turbine components safely transported from Lerwick Port to Viking Wind Farm site.
Posted: 04/08/2023
Independent recommendations from the UK’s Electricity Networks Commissioner, Nick Winser, have been made on how to accelerate the deployment of electricity transmission infrastructure.
Posted: 04/08/2023
Deployment of distributed solar PV is rising rapidly. In 2022, distributed PV; or small solar PV installations that generate electricity for residential, commercial, industrial and off-grid applications; represented 48 per cent of global solar PV capacity additions, and its annual growth was the highest in history according to the international Energy Agency (IEA) figures.
Posted: 03/08/2023
Extreme weather caused by climate change are among the key risks facing the UK, according to the latest National Risk Register, produced by the Cabinet Office.
Posted: 03/08/2023
The hottest June on record has led to a growth in air conditioners, ironically creating what the International Energy Agency’s (IEA) has warned is a vicious cycle of increased greenhouse gas emissions, and heat.
Posted: 03/08/2023
The Energy Security Secretary today announced a £22m increase in Government backing for renewables through the flagship Contracts for Difference scheme – taking the total budget to £227m for this auction.
Posted: 03/08/2023
Company disclosures on climate change will be based on the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) standards, Business and Trade Secretary Kemi Badenoch has announced.
Posted: 03/08/2023
Usability issues experienced with DNSH in the EU taxonomy, include inconsistent and ambiguous criteria, lack of clarity on definitions and inflexible disclosure. However, the UK can improve this given its “second mover advantage”.
Posted: 02/08/2023
Bath is the UK’s greenest city, followed by Canterbury and Chester.
Posted: 02/08/2023
The world’s largest asset managers are off track to meet their own 2050 net-zero commitments, according to a new study released by think tank FinanceMap.
Posted: 01/08/2023
Jim Skea, the newly elected Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and professor of sustainable energy at Imperial College in London, has said that catastrophising climate change is leading to a sense of hopelessness, and inaction.
Posted: 01/08/2023
A new report Charging Forward to 2030 by RECHARGE UK, which is the EV arm of the REA (Association for Renewable Energy and Clean Technology) highlights the need to rapidly improve grid connections and address the skills gap.
Posted: 31/07/2023
The Prime Minister has confirmed that at least 100 new North Sea oil and gas licences will be issued and the Acorn Project at St Fergus, Aberdeenshire, will be funded in a bid to create a major carbon capture and storage scheme.
Posted: 31/07/2023
New statistics released today by the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero in its DUKES ‘bible’ confirm that renewables generated a record annual amount of electricity in 2022, outstripping fossil fuels for a second year. Onshore and offshore wind also generated their highest annual volumes of electricity ever.
Posted: 28/07/2023
Legal & General Investment Management (LGIM) has collaborated with The National Trust to help charities, institutions and investors meet fossil fuel divestment commitments.
Posted: 27/07/2023
2022 was a record-breaking year for UK weather and is a sign of the changing climate according to the latest Met Office State of the UK Climate report, examining the weather of 2022 in the context of long-term climate records.
Posted: 27/07/2023
Gridserve has announced more than £500m of certified green financing to accelerate the expansion of its UK-wide EV charging network.
Posted: 26/07/2023
UK charities can take ethical and other non-financial considerations into account when deciding how to invest their assets. The progress towards ESG considerations has been long, but now is recognised by the Charity Commission as a legal right.
Posted: 26/07/2023
New analysis by RMI, in partnership with the Bezos Earth Fund, reveals surging solar, wind and battery capacity out to 2030 is now in line with ambitious net-zero pathways.
Posted: 25/07/2023
At its Stuttgart-Feuerbach location, Bosch has started volume production of its fuel-cell power module with the Nikola Corporation as the pilot customer for its hydrogen fuel cell electric truck.
Posted: 25/07/2023
Jaguar Land Rover is to build its gigafactory in Somerset after much speculation as to is location.
Posted: 25/07/2023
New energy provider Fuse Energy is offering the ‘cheapest tariff’ in the UK and ‘real renewable electricity’.
Posted: 25/07/2023
A new record high of global green bond issuance was achieved in the first six months of 2023, reaching $351bn.
Posted: 25/07/2023
The G20 major economies failed to reach consensus on phasing out fossil fuels at its summit at Goa after some producer nations vetoed the moves.
Posted: 25/07/2023
Octopus Energy’s generation arm has announced that it will invest $20bn into offshore wind globally by 2030.
Posted: 25/07/2023
Five London Ikea stores have funded and completed a makeover project in Hackney, East London, which has upgraded a community centre run by Hackney Quest – a local non-profit working with housing and homelessness organisation, Shelter, IKEA’s national charity partner.
Posted: 24/07/23
Climate pressures and net zero goals are hampering efforts to safeguard critical national infrastructure from cyber security threats. This is amongst the conclusions drawn by research carried out by cyber security services firm, Bridewell, whose investigations suggest that eight in ten of the 500 of the are concerned about the cyber/climate agenda clash.
Posted: 24/07/2023
The Drax Foundation has committed £1.5 million to help schools install energy-efficient LED lights and solar panels, and deliver energy saving monitoring and education.
Posted: 20/07/23
Around 30,000 fewer employees took part in payroll giving schemes at work over the last year, official figures have revealed.
Posted: 19/07/2023
The Green Finance Institute’s Nature Programme (GFI Hive) has launched the UK Financial Institutions for Nature Group (G-FIN). With representation from across the financial sector, the Group will support the delivery of investment into UK nature recovery.
Posted: 14/07/2023
According to BBC reports, US climate envoy John Kerry has said that the US would not pay climate reparations "under any circumstances”.
Posted: 14/07/2023
BP has been awarded the rights to develop two offshore wind projects in the German tender round, marking its entry into offshore wind in continental Europe.
Posted: 13/07/2023
Ørsted’s Hornsea Project Four Offshore Wind Farm application has been granted development consent by the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero.
Posted: 13/07/2023
Patagonia has entered a new phase for its initiatives in Europe, making it easier for customers to get their clothing and equipment repaired, and is calling on the apparel industry to do the same.
Posted: 13/07/2023
Tesla is attempting to close the gaps in its energy strategy by becoming an energy supplier and has registered itself as an electricity provider with the intention to launch a retail electricity product.
Posted: 13/07/2023
French customers will be able to claim between €7 to €25 for repairing shoes and clothes from a €154m fund in an effort to encourage people to stop throwing away and buying new.
Posted: 12/07/2023
Countries need to be doing “a lot more” if they are serious about containing global warming, according to Alok Sharma.
Posted: 12/07/2023
Hydrogen heating trials have been called off in Ellesmere Port after protests. Hopes of the UK's first hydrogen-powered community have vanished into the air after residents objected.
Posted: 12/07/2023
In a new move for the energy industry, two network operators from opposite ends of the country have collaborated to help vulnerable customers and support net-zero.
Posted: 11/07/2023
The UK and US will rally efforts to help developing nations tackle climate change and announced $2bn in funding at the Climate Finance Mobilisation Forum in Windsor as part of President Biden visit to the UK.
Posted: 11/07/2023
The Salvation Army has launched a new partnership with Landsec to bring new clothing donation banks to retail destinations to encourage more healthy and sustainable consumption.
Posted: 11/07/2023
Researchers have demonstrated how carbon dioxide can be captured from industrial processes, or even directly from the air, and transformed into clean, sustainable fuels using solar energy.
Posted: 10/07/2023
Sowing rock dust onto grassland can create an effective and natural carbon capture system.
Posted: 10/07/2023
British automotive manufacturing plants reduced CO2 emissions by 2.8 per cent whist producing record numbers of EVs.
Posted: 07/07/2023
Research shows current investment flows into sectors including infrastructure, buildings and agriculture could be leaving the UK vulnerable to climate impacts.
Posted: 07/07/2023
The UN Environment Programme has issued a statement on the relaxed rules of the Net-Zero Insurance Alliance (NZIA), launched two years ago.
Posted: 06/07/2023
BP has expanded its investment in bioenergy, committing $10mof funding to WasteFuel, a California-based biofuels company converting bio-based municipal and agricultural waste into lower carbon fuels, such as bio-methanol.
Posted: 06/07/2023
The US government is considering the concept of placing material between the Sun and the Earth as method of reducing the amount of solar radiation.
Posted: 06/07/2023
The 32 car manufacturers eligible for inclusion in the Government’s proposed Zero Emissions Vehicle (ZEV) mandate will collectively be 44,000 credits short of meeting their regulatory requirements unless they improve performance.
Posted: 05/07/2023
The UK Emissions Trading Scheme Authority has announced a package of reforms to tighten limits on industrial, power and aviation emissions from 2024.
Posted: 05/07/2023
Sea journeys of production material destined for Volvo Cars will now be made with renewable fuel instead of traditional fossil fuel.
Posted: 04/07/2023
Virgin Media O2 and Hubbub to reward most innovative eco projects that tackle both electronic waste and support digital inclusion.
Posted: 04/07/2023
Climate change and nature loss are exposing homes and businesses to a wide range of risks, such as flooding, that insurers can help manage.
Posted: 04/07/2023
‘Climate-washing’ litigation against companies has increased in many countries, according to an analysis published by the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Posted: 04/07/2023
UKSIF CEO James Alexander has spoken to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak at Policy Exchange about the steps needed to establish the UK as the world’s leading green finance centre, and as part of the reform need to achieve this UKSIF has given its support to a future regulatory regime for ESG ratings providers.
Posted: 04/07/2023
The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, ids giving a £80m cash boost to help companies cut their carbon footprint as part of £1bn drive to back state-of-the-art clean technologies.
Posted: 03/07/2023
There is a “huge opportunity” to harness the tides and help the UK meet its 2050 net-zero goals.
Posted: 03/07/2023
Since 2017, British Lithium has carried out drilling and exploration in Cornwall and developed a unique process to produce battery-grade lithium carbonate. It received financial support from Innovate UK, UK’s national innovation agency, and the Automotive Transformation Fund, a funding programme to support the electrification of vehicles and their supply chains in the UK.
Posted: 03/07/2023
The World Bank Group has announced a new and expanded toolkit for crisis preparedness, response, and recovery that includes pausing debt repayments.
Posted: 23/06/2023
The Church Commissioners for England, which manages the Church of England’s £10.3bn endowment fund, has decided to exclude all remaining oil and gas majors from its portfolio, and will exclude all other companies primarily engaged in the exploration, production and refining of oil or gas, unless they are in genuine alignment with a 1.5C pathway by the end of 2023.
Posted: 23/06/2023
The 2023 Tech4Good Awards have been announced. Created by UK disability charity AbilityNet, the awards celebrate people and organisations using tech to make the world a better place.
Posted: 24/06/2023
The second OPEC Fund Development Forum in Vienna concluded with financing commitments from development partners on food security and climate change.
Posted: 22/06/2023
The Seagreen Wind Farm, a joint venture between SSE Renewables and TotalEnergies, achieved another landmark this week as the 114th and final wind turbine was installed.
Posted: 22/06/2023
Mining the sea for rare minerals is controversial, to say the least. To some it will provide the raw materials to boost the transition to the greener future, to others it is a destruction of so far untouched areas and the wrong approach to sustainability.
Posted: 22/06/2023
Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act put the cat amongst the green pigeons, for better or worse. Good for some tech companies, bad for global cooperation.
Posted: 21/06/2023
Law firm Eversheds Sutherland has a new five-year global partnership with the International Rescue Committee (IRC), the global humanitarian organisation.
Posted: 21/06/2023
Accenture, Amazon, Generali, Marriott International and Microsoft among leading businesses pledging to accelerate the economic integration of over 250,000 Ukrainian refugee women and other refugees.
Posted: 20/06/2023
The 193 Member States of the UN have adopted a legally binding agreement on marine biodiversity, following nearly two decades of fierce negotiations.
Posted: 20/06/2023
Speaking to journalists at UN Headquarters following a meeting with civil society climate leaders from across the world, UN secretary-general António Guterres warned that countries must phase out coal and other fossil fuels to avert climate “catastrophe”.
Posted: 19/06/2023
Vattenfall Heat UK and Midlothian Council are working together to deliver the low-carbon heating to which 3,000 homes, education and retail properties at Shawfair Town in the north of the Midlothian Council area.
Posted: 19/06/2023
Signatories including Atkins, BNP Paribas Real Estate UK and Strutt & Parker, Colliers, Grosvenor Property UK, JLL UK, Landsec and Rockwool UK are supporting a call for the urgent amendment to the Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill currently going through Parliament.
Posted: 19/06/2023
The Sustainable Apparel Coalition (SAC) has announced a partnership with the Apparel Impact Institute (Aii) to provide opportunity to accelerate solutions to tackle climate change and work toward a more responsible textile and apparel industry.
Posted: 15/06/2023
Growth in the world’s demand for oil is set to slow almost to a halt in the coming years, with the high prices and security of supply concerns hastening the shift towards cleaner energy technologies, according to a new IEA report.
Posted: 15/06/2023
The Minister for Energy Security and Net Zero, Graham Stuart, has underlined the commitment to continue to work closely with offshore sector to deliver more jobs and investment into the UK.
Posted: 15/06/2023
A wind turbine has been erected in the William's Green field, and alongside solar and battery systems installed at the same time, will provide 300kWh a day to help power catering stands in the field close to the famous Pyramid Stage.
Posted: 14/06/2023
Current corporate targets disclosed through CDP will not reduce emissions enough to limit warming to 1.5C, with only 24 per cent of disclosing companies, covering 5 per cent of emissions, are on track to meet their targets.
Posted: 14/06/2023
The latest EnergyPulse market intelligence data report from RenewableUK shows that the UK’s pipeline of offshore wind projects has reached 97,944 MW.
Posted: 13/06/2023
The West Midlands Gigafactory is progressing with has appointed EV recruitment CEO Steve Doyle as the project’s skills ambassador.
Posted: 13/06/2023
The Ford Cologne Electric Vehicle Center has officially opened following a $2bn investment to transform the historic plant, founded in 1930.
Posted: 13/06/2023
Thermal imaging satellite HOTSAT-1 will be launched this month on a SpaceX rocket. HOTSAT-1 is the first satellite to be launched by Sat Vu, and once in orbit their space-enabled climate technology will provide insight into economic activity and energy efficiency for a range of industries.
Posted: 12/06/2023
Climate Action 100+ has announced a new phase, running until 2030, that intends to inspire a global scale up in active ownership, markedly shifting the focus from corporate climate-related disclosure to the implementation of climate transition plans.
Posted: 12/06/2023
Data from Ember indicates that wind and solar generated more electricity than fossil fuels in May.
Posted: 09/06/2023
The US started it with Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act, the EU growled a bit then followed suit, the UK sat it out. Perhaps we now know why.
Posted: 09/06/2023
A report by Green Finance Institute (GFI) predicts that UK’s EV transition could be fast-tracked by more than a decade if steps are taken to improve consumer confidence in the second-hand EV market.
Posted: 09/06/2023
The Labour party has retreated over its pledge to invest £28bn a year in green industries should it win the next election.
Posted: 09/06/2023
The latest issue of SEB’s The Green Bond report concludes that as the investment gap between clean and fossil energy is widening and the electrification of energy users is spreading, international climate targets are within reach.
Posted: 08/06/2023
Green Angel Ventures is making an investment in a revolutionary new glass coating that could cut air condition use.
Posted: 08/06/2023
Ofgem has officially welcomed the Government’s amendment to the Energy Bill giving the regulator a statutory net-zero duty.
Posted: 08/06/2023
“Bristol is Ready for Cleaner Energy” proclaimed a under a Shell logo. With text saying that: “In the South West 78,000 homes use 100 per cent renewable electricity from Shell Energy”. Shell also used a 2022 television campaign that opened with a voice stating, “In the UK, 1.4 million households use 100 per cent renewable electricity from Shell” with the same claim of supply, and an internet video with similar claims.
Posted: 07/06/2023
The Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC), in consultation with the Transition Pathway Initiative Global Climate Transition Centre (TPI Centre), has launched a Net Zero Standard for Banks setting out investor expectations on the transition to net-zero.
Posted: 07/06/2023
A ShareAction report uncovers how the world’s 77 largest asset managers lack ambition on net-zero, deforestation and many key climate and biodiversity issues.
Posted: 07/06/2023
A new zero-emission smart heating systems is being trialled that could enable millions of small households to reduce their carbon emissions.
Posted: 07/06/2023
A new report reveals the true scale of uncertainty millions of UK businesses face today in reaching a net-zero objective, whilst existing in a climate where employee retention is difficult post-pandemic and one in five (19 per cent) of employees refuse to join a business that does not prioritise sustainability.
Posted: 06/06/2023
Walkers Crisps owners PepsiCo has announced a £58m investment in its Walkers Leicester factory and bring production of some brands back from the EU to the UK.
Posted: 06/06/2023
National Grid ESO is to launch a series of reforms to speed up the rate at which renewable energy projects can connect to the grid after criticisms that it is slowing progress to net-zero.
Posted: 05/06/2023
The European Academies Science Advisory Council (EASAC) report Future of Gas highlights the extremely high global warming potential of largely unrecorded methane leakages along the whole natural gas supply chain.
Posted: 05/06/2023
Critical metals required for components such as electric motors and electronics face a shortage of raw materials in future, even if recycling increases, finds a major survey led by Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, on behalf of the EC.
Posted: 05/06/2023
The cost of corporate carbon offsetting could double by the end of the decade, as businesses race to meet net zero targets, according to a report by PwC. The study estimates that in 2022, FTSE 350 companies publicly reported purchases of voluntary carbon offsets totalling £38m. Prices are expected to peak in 2037, where the cost of current FTSE 350 purchases would rise to £2.6bn.
Posted: 02/06/2023
Operational risk association ORX has launched a greenwashing toolkit, responding to the rapidly growing regulatory and societal focus on climate-related transition risks. A greenwashing scenario could help firms to assign internal risk ownership, enhance controls and respond to regulator concerns. The Competition and Markets Authority found that 40% of green claims made in the UK could be misleading.
Posted: 01/06/2023
Insurance market practitioners have teamed up with The Sustainable Markets Initiative and Resilient Cities Network to create a secondment programme that will see insurance professionals working with city leadership teams. The Global Risk and Resilience Fellowship Programme will place professionals with individual cities for between three and six months.
Posted: 31/05/2023
Lloyd’s has withdrawn from the Net Zero Insurance Allianz, following a raft of other members that have left recently. High-profile names that have left the alliance include Axa, Scor, Allianz, Sompo, Zurich, Swiss Re, Hannover Re and Munich Re.
Posted: 30/05/2023
Diageo has announced that it has provided funding to establish a plant to roll hundreds of thousands of tonnes of aluminium sheet in the UK, more than enough for over 400 million cans of Guinness and pre-mixed Gordon’s and tonic.
Posted: 26/05/2023
SSE has unveiled an upgraded investment plan alongside strong full-year results.
Posted: 25/05/2023
Investment in clean energy technologies is significantly outpacing spending on fossil fuels as affordability and security concerns triggered by the global energy crisis strengthen the momentum behind more sustainable options, according to a new IEA report.
Posted: 25/05/2023
Oxford PV has set a new world record for the efficiency of a commercial-sized solar cell, marking a significant breakthrough in the drive towards a low-carbon global economy.
Posted: 25/05/2023
Analysis by Ember of emissions recorded in the EU-ETS in 2022 reveals that the ten largest emitters are all coal plants, with Germany and Poland dominating the list.
Posted: 25/05/2023
Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden research points to electricity being a cheaper way to run heavy goods vehicles than on diesel.
Posted: 25/05/2023
Regenerate Asset Management, a specialist in regenerative business models will be gaining an major investment from M&G of up to €150m in return for an equity stake.
Posted: 24/05/2023
France has now implemented its proposed ban on short-haul domestic flights where the distance can be covered by a train journey in under two-and-a-half hours. The ban all but rules out air travel between Paris and cities including Nantes, Lyon and Bordeaux.
Posted: 24/05/2023
RWE has announced plans to progress three new carbon capture projects in the UK.
Posted: 24/05/2023
According to a Wall Street Journal CEO Council event in London Tesla will “strongly consider” building its next gigafactory in England.
Posted: 24/05/2023
Electrifying construction equipment is the first part of a longer campaign to redefine how machines are designed and operate.
Posted: 23/05/2023
A working paper from the Grantham Research Institute at the LSE has studied the results of rising climate litigation on the share value of those companies in the dock.
Posted: 23/05/2023
Green Angel Syndicate, the UK’s network of specialist investors for climate change, has announced that it has changed its name to Green Angel Ventures. The change reflects the growing importance to the business of its fund management activities.
Posted: 23/05/2023
Hydrogen powered jets could be cheaper to run than fossil fuel planes from 2035 provided kerosene is taxed adequately, a new study shows.
Posted: 23/05/2023
Volvo Trucks has signed a letter of intent to sell 1,000 electric trucks between now and 2030 to Holcim, a Swiss building solution provider.
Posted: 22/05/2023
At the G7 conference in Japan, EC President Ursula von der Leyen has stated that the rich nations should collaborate in sharing technology and sources of minerals to enable a faster transition to a net-zero world.
Posted: 22/05/2023
Twenty new storage sites for carbon could store 10 per cent of total annual UK emissions as the North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA) has announced the results of the UK’s first-ever carbon storage licensing round. The 20 licences in total are create an area of12,000 square kilometres in size, a little bigger than Yorkshire.
Posted: 19/05/2023
Canary Wharf Group and the Felix Project, a food redistribution charity have agreed a long-term partnership that will see them join forces to tackle food poverty in London. The two organisations aim to deliver long term social impact while prioritising sustainability as they tackle this urgent issue, which sees around 400,000 children in the capital going to bed without eating a proper evening meal.
Posted: 19/05/2023
Octopus has been busy of late and has now added to its global expansion plans with a commitment to invest £1.5bn in the Asia-Pacific energy market by 2027.
Posted: 19/05/2023
Projects such as using low carbon concrete made with waste materials are now part of the electricity firm’s continued drive to eliminate waste, pollution and drive down carbon emissions.
Posted: 19/05/2023
Environmental legislations in the UK mandate that data centres must publicly report on their energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions, heightening the soar in demand for wind and solar farm grid connections.
Posted: 19/05/2023
ClientEarth has been granted a hearing at the High Court to request it reconsiders the dismissal of a landmark lawsuit against Shell’s board of directors over climate risk mismanagement.
Posted: 19/05/2023
The energy regulator Ofgem has published an open letter calling for wholesale reform of the electricity connections process in the UK.
Posted: 17/05/2023
As the calls for transparency and accountability mount from retail investors, a platform is attempting to give such investors an insight into how corporates are achieving their targets for ESG issues and drive positive change.
Posted: 17/05/2023
The UN has said that plastic pollution could be reduced by 80 per cent by 2040 if countries and companies make deep policy and market shifts using existing technologies.
Posted: 17/05/2023
The UK Health Security Agency’s (UKHSA) has issued its ten-year science strategy, setting out how UKHSA’s science can save more lives and use its scientific capabilities – including genomics, vaccine evaluation, surveillance, data science, diagnostics and toxicology – to prepare for future health security hazards.
Posted: 16/05/2023
Octopus Energy’s generation arm and Legal & General Capital are investing £70m in the Kensa Group, a manufacturer and installer of ground source heat pumps.
Posted: 16/05/2023
BNP Paribas has responded to investor pressure led by ShareAction with a new oil and gas policy, but the group says that gaps still remain.
Posted: 16/05/2023
The latest iteration of the European Space Agency’s above ground biomass dataset, which harnesses satellite observations, makes it possible for the first-time to robustly monitor fluctuations in the forest carbon stock.
Posted: 15/05/2023
Zero emissions high-speed ferries could be a reality due to a collaboration between Solent University, Chartwell Marine and Newcastle Marine Services.
Posted: 15/05/2023
British Geographical Society (BGS) geologists have mapped the UK’s potential areas for critical raw materials and thermal heat.
Posted: 15/05/2023
For the first three months of 2023 more electricity in the UK was generated by wind power than gas for the first time figures from Drax Electric Insights suggest.
Posted: 12/05/2023
Latest research finds farmed seafood industry will miss consumer demands by around a fifth by 2050 and drive further biodiversity loss unless it changes.
Posted: 12/05/2023
UK Power Networks is set to deliver more than 400MW of additional electricity capacity, as it announces the results of its latest flexibility tender.
Posted: 12/05/2023
A record-breaking quantity of Earth friendly concrete has been poured for the £1bn London Power Tunnels project.
Posted: 11/05/2023
LeasePlan, a global vehicle leasing company, has analysed several EV-readiness factors to find out which of 22 European markets is best prepared to support and accelerate the electric mobility transition.
Posted: 11/05/2023
The first photovoltaic solar array to connect directly to the electricity transmission network in the UK has been placed into operation.
Posted: 11/05/2023
A report from insurer GCube paints a mixed picture of the recent performance of the offshore wind sector.
Posted: 10/05/2023
Roche has created a social value partnership in the pharmaceutical sector, one of he first of its kind.
Posted: 10/05/2023
Transport’s share of overall emissions will grow from 25 per cent today to 30 per cent by 2050. Currently, transport of passengers and goods accounts for about a fourth of global energy-related CO2 emissions, and 37 per cent of global CO2 emissions from all end-use sectors. It is the sector with the highest dependence on fossil fuels, with more than 90 per cent of its energy stemming from crude oil.
Posted: 09/05/2023
SSE’s Solar and Battery team is joining SSE Renewables to progress the delivery of its near 2GW pipeline of projects in the UK and Ireland and expand into Europe to pursue new development opportunities.
Posted: 09/05/2023
The Church Commissioners, which manages the Church of England’s £10bn endowment fund, will vote against all directors at the upcoming AGMs of Exxon, Occidental Petroleum, Shell, and Total, in response to their failure to meet climate change objectives.
Posted: 09/05/2023
Triodos Bank UK is launching a £2m community renewable energy bond offer on its crowdfunding platform for Empower Community Foundation. This is the second bond offer from Empower and will complete the refinancing of its two 5MW solar parks.
Posted: 04/05/2023
Over 200 global financial institutions have established coal exclusion policies, with divestment momentum away from coal accelerating in the last two years despite record profits being enjoyed by coal companies on the back of the energy crisis.
Posted: 04/05/2023
The likelihood of El Niño developing later this year is increasing, according to a new update from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
Posted: 04/05/2023
TotalEnergies is suing Greenpeace France over claims that the company misreported its carbon footprint.
Posted: 04/05/2023
A new IEA report examines the immediate steps the oil & gas industry needs to take to significantly reduce its emissions footprint and help move the world closer to meeting its international energy and climate goals.
Posted: 03/05/2023
NatWest has announced a new offering to reduce financial barriers to farmers transitioning to sustainable agricultural practices.
Posted: 03/05/2023
The ocean’s twilight zone (200m to 1,000m deep) receives little light but is home to a wide variety of organisms and billions of tonnes of organic matter, but a new study warns that climate change could cause a 20-40 per cent reduction in twilight zone life by the end of the century.
Posted: 03/05/2023
Global Citizen has launched its new global campaign, Power Our Planet: Act Today. Save Tomorrow. Announced during the Global Citizen NOW action summit in New York City, and co-chaired by Prime Minister Mia Mottley of Barbados, Power Our Planet is a global effort from leaders of nations in the Global North and Global South to mobilise critical financing for developing countries to fight climate change and extreme poverty.
Posted: 02/05/2023
The EC and European Investment Bank will provide €18bn of investment in the Global Gateway’s priority areas of climate action, clean energy and connectivity in countries around the world to help bridge the global climate finance gap and support prevention, adaptation and mitigation.
Posted: 02/05/2023
Just Eat’s Winter Meal Appeal has raised funds to provide over 1.2m meals following record customer donations.
Posted: 02/05/2023
SSE Renewables has joined the Global Offshore Wind Alliance (GOWA). The announcement was made at WindEurope 2023 in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Posted: 27/04/2023
BT Group has created a new partnership with the charity AbilityNet to help improve the digital skills of 4,000 older and digitally excluded people across the UK in 2023.
Posted: 27/04/2023
Half (48 per cent) of all UK businesses have reported being impacted by the effects of climate change according to new research by global risk management and insurance broker, Gallagher.
Posted: 27/04/2023
Both the UK and EU face difficulties in realising climate related policies, the UK gambles on CCUS technology developing whilst the EU faces floundering in the courts in recent regulation.
Posted: 27/04/2023
The growth of AI has raised concerns on employment and security, but the intense use of water is an overlooked and worrying element.
Posted: 27/04/2023
The eleventh edition of Z/Yen’s Global Green Finance Index assessed 86 major financial centres around the world, placing London again at the top.
Posted: 26/04/2023
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and the People’s Bank of China (PBC) have announced the establishment of the China-Singapore Green Finance Taskforce (GFTF).
Posted: 26/04/2023
Global sales of electric cars are set to surge to yet another new record this year, expanding their share of the overall car market to close to one-fifth.
Posted: 26/04/2023
EU negotiators have come to an agreement on a green fuels mandate for aviation, in an attempt to progress its green aviation fuel market.
Posted: 26/04/2023
The All-Party Parliamentary Group on ESG (APPG) has published its report of the definition of ESG and warns that confusion about the term risks the UK failing to accurately understand engage with the issues.
Posted: 25/04/2023
A major efficiency drive has seen emissions from the government fall by over a third in less than five years according to a new Cabinet Office report.
Posted: 25/04/2023
It may seem counterintuitive, but the US petroleum fest that is NASCAR has announced its first long-term carbon emissions goals, and at their heart is the plan to reduce its carbon footprint to zero across its core operations by 2035.
Posted: 25/04/2023
Without a change in attitudes and government action the UK could face a building retrofit crisis, warns a new report.
Posted: 25/04/2023
Most senior business leaders are planning to adopt hydrogen as part of their energy improvement strategies, according to new research from Centrica Business Solutions.
Posted: 24/04/2023
National Grid is pulling back from its Humber carbon capture and storage project.
Posted: 24/04/2023
More than 740 investors with $136tr in assets have requested companies account for plastic-related impacts via CDP.
Posted: 20/04/2023
Jaguar Land Rover will make its Halewood plant an all-electric production facility as part of a £15bn investment over five years in JLR’s industrial footprint, vehicle programmes, autonomous, AI and digital technologies. The company is set to be carbon net-zero across its supply chain, products, and operations by 2039 with electrification central to this strategy.
Posted: 20/04/2023
Several major pensions funds are calling for the removal of BP chairman Helge Lund over perceived failures of the company to implement promised green policies.
Posted: 20/04/2023
A new programme from Vodafone will incentive its suppliers to increase their environmental performance by unlocking preferential supply chain financing rates to those that score highly against environmental performance criteria.
Posted: 19/04/2023
IIGCC has published a Net Zero Standard for Oil & Gas, a framework for investors to assess alignment of oil and gas companies’ transition plans with a 1.5 climate scenario and support investors’ corporate engagement and understanding of transition risk.
Posted: 19/04/2023
A key amendment to the Energy Bill by the House of Lords will give the energy regulator a statutory duty to assist in the delivery of net-zero.
Posted: 19/04/2023
The EU Parliament is about to vote on its climate policy, including a raft of measures on carbon market reform, climate goals, pollution tax and stell and cement import levies.
Posted: 18/04/2023
OVO CEO Raman Bhatia (pictured) has described greenwashing as “our industry’s dirty secret” and called on energy companies to stop using misleading terms such as “100 per cent renewable tariffs” when these tariffs, and the complicated REGO (renewable energy guarantees of origin) system that sits behind them, aren’t fit for purpose.
Posted: 18/04/2023
An alliance of global corporate donors including Pets at Home, Petplan, Purina Petcare, Lily’s Kitchen, and Mars Petcare and national animal charities have come together to help feed pets in the face of the cost-of-living crisis.
Posted: 18/04/2023
Babcock International has been awarded a one-year contract by the Ministry of Defence to help the British Army explore electric propulsion.
Posted: 17/04/2023
Viking Wind Farm, which when operational will be the most productive onshore wind farm in the UK, has reached another major milestone following the successful installation of the project’s first Vestas V117 turbines which will operate in the 4.3 MW power mode.
Posted: 17/04/2023
The G7 nations have been seeking new targets for solar and offshore wind in order to speed up renewable energy development and phase-out fossil fuels.
Posted: 17/04/2023
Legal & General Investment Management (LGIM) and Christian Brothers Investment Services (CBIS) are co-filing of a shareholder resolution at ExxonMobil’s 2023 AGM, requesting the board to fully disclose the quantitative impact of the International Energy Agency (IEA) Net Zero Emissions (NZE) scenario on all of their asset retirement obligations (AROs).
Posted: 17/04/2023
Oxygen Conservation has acquired 23,000 acres in Scotland using what is believed to be the largest conservation-focused commercial debt package in the UK to date.
Posted: 13/04/2023
The 14th annual Banking on Climate Chaos report, places the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) as the biggest annual financier of fossil fuels, with $42.1bn dollars in 2022, including $4.8bn for tar sands and $7.4bn in fracking.
Posted: 13/04/2023
Gas distribution network SGN has achieved a milestone in its ambition to achieve net-zero by 2045, gaining the Taking Action tier of the Carbon Trust’s Route to Net Zero Standard for its carbon emissions reductions.
Posted: 13/04/2023
BP has taken a 40 per cent stake in the Viking carbon capture and storage (CCS) project, with Harbour Energy continuing to operate the project with a 60 per cent interest.
Posted: 12/04/2023
Fossil fuel use in creating energy will fall this year as a "turning point" is reached for the switch to renewables.
Posted: 12/04/2023
Laing O’Rourke is switching to low carbon concrete on all of its new UK projects. The change will apply to all new projects and will result in a significant reduction in the company’s scope 3 carbon emissions.
Posted: 11/04/2023
South Korea and the UK have made a joint declaration stating their agreement on the need for energy transition from fossil fuels to low carbon power sources, and the prospects for South Korea’s participation in energy exchanges and the UK’s new nuclear power, offshore wind power, hydrogen and clean energy projects.
Posted: 11/04/2023
Several major companies are joining together through the Sustainable Aviation Buyers Alliance (SABA) to purchase sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) certificates at scale. This leap forward from previous individual SAF certificate purchases by corporations dramatically strengthens the demand signal aviation customers are sending to the SAF market.
Posted: 11/04/2023
Plans for the Cwm Ifor solar farm, a 20 MW farm to be built in Caerphilly county, has been submitted for approval next month.
Posted: 06/04/2023
Factories making Andrex, Huggies and Kleenex will be swapping out gas for green hydrogen.
Posted: 06/04/2023
Octopus Energy’s generation arm is taking a stake in Yotsuya Capital, a solar developer in Japan, marking the company’s first step into the Asian renewables generation market.
Posted: 05/04/2023
The chief executive of JP Morgan, Jamie Dimon, has suggested that governments should compulsorily purchase private land to build wind and solar farms in order to meet net-zero targets.
Posted: 05/04/2023
Global sales of heat pumps grew by 11 per cent in 2022, according to the latest IEA analysis, marking a second year of double-digit growth for the central technology in the world’s transition to secure and sustainable heating.
Posted: 05/04/2023
New analysis led by the Green Finance Institute, supported by Defra and the Bank of England, and alongside the UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre and the Universities of Oxford and Reading, will estimate the scale of nature-related financial risks to the UK economy for the first time.
Posted: 05/04/2023
The World Benchmarking Alliance (WBA) and CDP have assessed 50 major companies across the building sector in the first Buildings Benchmark, finding that it does not have emissions targets and climate transition plans in place.
Posted: 05/04/2023
The European Commission given the go ahead for a €450m hydrogen project on brownfield sites.
Posted: 04/04/2023
The Government’s Energy Trends Report shows that the UK’s wind farms set new annual electricity generation records in 2022, generating enough power to meet the needs of 22.8 million homes.
Posted: 04/04/2023
Only five per cent of FTSE 100 have published net-zero plans that would be deemed ‘credible’ under Government’s Transition plan guidance.
Posted: 03/04/2023
The UK Infrastructure Bank (UKIB) has announced it intends to invest up to £200m to accelerate the development and deployment of crucial storage technologies.
Posted: 03/04/2023
Scottish Widows launched its Global Environmental Solutions Fund, focused on directing pension investment into companies that provide solutions to critical environmental issues, such as global greenhouse gas emissions, food security, pollution and biodiversity loss.
Posted: 03/04/2023
An application to build the UK’s largest offshore wind farm has commenced determination
Posted: 03/04/2023
BP and Uber have announced a new agreement which will see the companies work together to help accelerate Uber’s commitment to become a zero emissions ‘mobility platform’ in the US, Canada and Europe by 2030 and globally by 2040.
Posted: 03/04/2023
The Faraday Institution has announced a £29m investment in six key battery research projects aimed at delivering commercial impact.
Posted: 03/04/2023
It’s been a good week for the internal combustion engine. Despite the EU bringing in a ban on fossil fuelled cars, Germany has pressed for, and gained, loopholes for e-fuels. Meanwhile Japanese giant Mazada has joined the Research Association of Biomass Innovation for Next Generation Automobile Fuels an organisation that already has Suzuki, Subaru, Daihatsu and Toyota onboard.
Posted: 30/03/2023
The Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, Grant Shapps, has set out its plans for cleaner energy and green industries as it moves towards the target of achieving net-zero.
Posted: 30/03/2023
The Climate Change Committee has published a new appraisal of the outcomes needed to build climate resilience across the economy – and the extent of policies and delivery to meet them.
Posted: 29/03/2023
The Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC) has launched the Net Zero Engagement Initiative (NZEI), a new initiative to scale and accelerate climate-related corporate engagement. To date, 93 investors have agreed to participate in the initiative including Church of England Pensions Board, Schroders and PGGM.
Posted: 29/03/2023
The Green Finance Institute has published a Defra-commissioned roadmap of recommendations for Government to accelerate the transition to a low-emission and nature-positive agriculture sector – informed by an expert farming, finance and agrifood group.
Posted: 29/03/2023
The Government is set to publish its updated net-zero strategy, and it is expected that as part of the Green Day announcements, the Government will publish the draft regulations to implement the ZEV mandate, for final consultation before they are made law later this year.
Posted: 29/03/2023
WRAP, WWF, and eight supermarkets have announced their collaboration to tackle greenhouse gas emissions and climate impact from UK food and drink sector.
Posted: 29/03/2023
Individuals suffering with Long Covid are experiencing unfair treatment at work, according to a new TUC and Long Covid Support Employment Group report published this week. Their survey of more than 3,000 people with Long Covid found that two in three (66%) said they had been unfairly treated at work – up from half (52%) who responded to a similar survey in 2021.
Posted: 28/03/2023
The UK government has today launched a review of the laws that support workers who blow the whistle on wrongdoing in the workplace. Workers who blow the whistle are entitled to protections, which were introduced through the Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998 (PIDA). It is also intended to provide a route for employees to report unsafe working conditions.
Posted: 27/03/23
Swiss start-up Sun-Ways is installing removable solar power plants between railway tracks.
Posted: 23/03/2023
Surrey County Council and Connected Kerb have agreed a contract to support the rollout of thousands of electric vehicle chargepoints across the county in the coming years.
Posted: 23/03/2023
A new UK standards framework has been developed to help build confidence in nature markets and guard against greenwashing.
Posted: 23/03/2023
Chancellor Scholz is in a stand-off with the EU over his insistence that cars powered by e-fuel are allowed to be sold after a 2035 phase-out date for internal combustion engines (ICEs).
Posted: 23/03/2023
Two-thirds (65 per cent) think individual investors have a responsibility to use their money for good, and 73 per cent of the UK public believe we need to invest in long-term solutions to the issues facing the world.
Posted: 22/03/2023
Blending hydrogen into the UK gas network should be accelerated, as long as safety can be assured, a new report states.
Posted: 22/03/2023
Researchers from the fields of healthcare, the ocean and the environment have collaborated to quantify plastic's risks to the environment. The Minderoo-Monaco Commission on Plastics and Human Health presents the first full analysis, showing plastic is a hazard at every stage of its life cycle.
Posted: 21/03/2023
SSE is providing a £100m investment for exploratory work for the biggest pumped hydro storage scheme in 40 years.
Posted: 21/03/2023
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has made its Synthesis Report, with a note of optimism, stating that there are multiple, feasible and effective options to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to human-caused climate change.
Posted: 21/03/2023
Government has been warned that its current plan for this year’s round of auctions for contracts to generate clean power (CfD) will not maximise investment in wind, solar and tidal projects.
Posted: 20/03/2023
The EU has unveiled two draft laws in response to the US Inflation Reduction Act that might lure European clean-tech companies across the Atlantic by offering significant financial invectives for US produced products.
Posted: 20/03/2023
The Spring Budget has won neither sustained joy or gnashing of teeth, leaving the Opposition with few lines of attack, and the renewables sector with a handful of takeaways.
Posted: 16/03/2023
Over the entire winter period, low carbon power sources (renewables and nuclear) generated over 60 per cent of Britain’s total electricity generation (56.1TWh), reducing the demand for imported gas by over 9.7 billion cubic meters and saving over £15.7bn.
Posted: 15/03/2023
The OPEC Fund for International Development (the OPEC Fund) has approved more than $300 million in new financing in the first quarter of 2023, reflecting the institution's commitment to fulfilling its Climate Action Plan.
Posted: 15/03/2023
A new report by the Floating Wind Offshore Wind Taskforce says up to 11 ports around the UK will need to be transformed as fast as possible into new industrial hubs to enable the roll-out of floating offshore wind at scale.
Posted: 15/03/2023
In 2021, the Bank of England published its Climate Change Adaptation Report (CCAR), which set out early thinking on climate change and the regulatory capital frameworks for banks and insurers. It has now updated this with a new report and key findings from consultation.
Posted: 14/03/2023
A new report says UK is uniquely placed to start national-scale production of nuclear-derived net-zero fuels, helping decarbonise sectors like aviation and shipping.
Posted: 14/03/2023
Ethics & Boards and ecoDa have published the European Gender Diversity Barometer, showing that most UK listed companies have a diverse board. Women make up 40 per cent of the boards of UK FTSE100 companies (compared to 38.9 per cent in the Stoxx Europe 600 index) and 19 per cent of chairs (compared to 11.2 per cent across Europe).
Posted: 14/03/2023
By 2030, manufacturer Daikin expects the EU heat pump market to grow significantly, with 14 million heating systems, of which 10 million will be hydronic heat pumps.
Posted: 14/03/2023
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt is expected to grant £20bn for carbon capture and clean energy in the forthcoming Budget, as well as reclassify nuclear energy as environmentally sustainable in order to help attract private finance.
Posted: 13/03/2023
Project Erebus, a floating wind farm located 40km off the Pembrokeshire coast has been granted planning consent by Welsh Ministers.
Posted: 13/03/2023
Farms could boost food production and achieve net-zero in the next decade if they planted trees between their crops, scientists from the University of Reading believe.
Posted: 13/03/2023
British Gas, part of Centrica, has announced new business unit to support customers with the journey to net-zero and services in solar, home energy efficiency, insulation and electric vehicles to help this.
Posted: 09/03/2023
Researchers at Chalmers University in Sweden have developed an induction technology that makes it more realistic to transmit high power through air.
Posted: 09/03/2023
The Labour Party has again made commitments that it will help finance new battery plants if it wins the next general election.
Posted: 09/03/2023
The Crown Estate and Crown Estate Scotland have started the first round of formal engagement with developers on carbon capture utilisation and storage (CCUS). The two organisations have issued a joint survey to industry stakeholders to explore and understand market requirements for future seabed and subsurface carbon store development.
Posted: 08/03/2023
Following nearly 36 hours of non-stop negotiations, the UN Intergovernmental Conference on Marine Biodiversity has reached agreement on the text for a historic new maritime biodiversity treaty.
Posted: 08/03/2023
Carlsberg is moving towards regenerative farming in the UK, Finland and France, aiming to be using fully regenerative agricultural practices by 2040.
Posted: 08/03/2023
Lidl GB is the first ‘discount’ supermarket to sign WWF's Retailers' Commitment for Nature, joining Co-op, M&S, Sainsbury's, Tesco and Waitrose in cross-sector sustainability push.
Posted: 07/03/2023
The Sustainable Apparel Coalition (SAC) has created a new guide to support the textile and apparel industry in committing to science-based targets and delivering against validated SBTs.
Posted: 07/03/2023
Annual damage caused by flooding in the UK could increase by more than a fifth over the next century due to climate change unless all international pledges to reduce carbon emissions are met, according to new research led by the University of Bristol and Fathom.
Posted: 07/03/2023
Dr Fatih Birol, executive director of the International Energy Agency, has been assessing the state of the global energy crisis one year after the Russian attempt to invade Ukraine.
Posted: 06/02/2023
World War II-style rationing could be an effective way to reduce carbon emissions, according to new research from the University of Leeds.
Posted: 06/03/2023
A Royal Society report has been looking at the alternatives to emissions producing aviation fuels, and finds that the options are limited.
Posted: 02/03/2023
ClientEarth, dedicated to using law to tackle climate change, has announced its intention to ramp up its global efforts.
Posted: 02/03/2023
The growth of renewables has offset Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, with an increase in wind and solar generation since the war began creating a €12 bn savings on gas for the EU.
Posted: 01/03/2023
For 50 hours over the last quarter, Britain had enough clean electricity to meet the entire country’s demand and export low-carbon power.
Posted: 01/03/2023
The BSI has released guidance designed to ‘demystify’ sustainability principles for financial sector organisations.
Posted: 01/03/2023
Companies are increasingly using carbon targets as part of executive pay outcomes, according to a joint study by PwC UK and the London Business School (LBS) which analyses the carbon targets in executive pay at the STOXX Europe 50 constituents.
Posted: 28/02/2023
Research using pioneering radar and artificial intelligence technology to track bird flight at the European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre (EOWC) at Aberdeen has revealed the flight behaviour of seabird species.
Posted: 28/02/2023
Payment solution Tyl, a product of NatWest, has partnered charity Pennies and raised a cumulative total of over £500,000 to support national and local charitable initiatives across the UK through its Giveback Community Fund.
Posted: 28/02/2023
The Australian Securities & Investments Commission (ASIC) has launched its first court action against alleged greenwashing conduct, commencing civil penalty proceedings in the Federal Court against Mercer Superannuation (Australia) for allegedly making misleading statements about the sustainable nature and characteristics of some of its superannuation investment options.
Posted: 28/02/2023
Global Water Partnership (GWP) has expressed concern at recent events in Venice and is warning that the global water crisis due to the effects of extreme weather could destroy the iconic city as we know it.
Posted: 28/02/2023
The amount of plastic the world has manufactured between 1950, when mass production started, until 2015 is estimated at 8.3 billion tonnes. Yet, the world makes and uses more plastic each year, with 367 million tonnes manufactured in 2020, most of which is used in packaging and construction, and production is forecast to double by 2040.
Posted: 27/02/2023
With the US and EU raising the stakes through massive green subsidy push, the UK will need to significantly raise its game to attract capital through strengthened global investment credentials.
Posted: 27/02/2023
Researchers from the University of Cambridge have calculated the carbon footprint for the full life cycle of fertilisers are responsible for approximately five per cent of total greenhouse gas emissions.
Posted: 27/02/2023
Predictions from DNV’s hydrogen forecast see Europe likely to have the gas as 11 per cent of its energy mix by 2050.
Posted: 23/02/2023
Global marketing agency Team Lewis Foundation has taken a novel approach to supporting charities around the world. The company incentivises its 600 staff across 24 offices throughout Asia, Europe and North America to donate at least £1,000 to a cause of their choice on behalf of the Foundation.
Posted: 23/02/2023
In the world's first climate lawsuit against a commercial bank, Friends of the Earth (Les Amis de la Terre) France, Notre Affaire à Tous and Oxfam France, who had given BNP Paribas formal notice to comply with its due diligence obligations on 26 October, has sued the bank over its support to fossil fuels and for its contribution to climate change.
Posted: 23/02/2023
IKEA has expanded its renewable electricity programme to ten new markets: The Czech Republic, Germany, Italy, Lithuania, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Sweden, Türkiye, and Vietnam. The combined electricity consumption for production in these markets stands for 0.27 million tonnes CO2, or 13 per cent of the climate footprint from production.
Posted: 22/02/2023
GeoPura has secured £36m investment from GM Ventures, Barclays Sustainable Impact Capital, SWEN CP through its fund SWEN Impact Fund for Transition 2 and Siemens Energy Ventures for the manufacturing and deployment of Hydrogen Power Units throughout the UK.
Posted: 22/02/2023
The Lords Environment and Climate Change Committee has concluded from its inquiry into the Government’s Boiler Upgrade Scheme that the scheme is failing to deliver on its objectives, following a disappointingly low take-up of grants.
Posted: 22/02/2023
The Government has launched an energy efficiency taskforce that will help reduce the country's energy consumption.
Posted: 21/02/2023
New research shows that the UK’s pipeline of offshore wind projects at all stages of development now stands at 99.8GW across 130 projects – an increase of 14GW over the past 12 months. This includes 13.7GW of fully operational capacity and a further 13.6GW under construction or with support secured for a route to market.
Posted: 20/02/2023
Retailer Currys has announced that it is trialling sales of refurbished technology on its website.
Posted: 20/02/2023
A majority of workers cite their employers’ values (80 per cent) and commitment to the environment (76 per cent) as key criteria, reveals a survey commissioned by Paul Polman, ex-CEO of Unilever.
Posted: 20/02/2023
Investment company AllianceBernstein has launched the AB Diversity Champions Equity Portfolio. The fund will use the UN Sustainable Development Goals to help identify opportunities, and will invest in global companies that are aligned to at least one of three SDGs.
Posted: 17/02/2023
A report published this week by the Geneva Association has outlined how insurers are boosting their efforts in addressing mental health issues. Incidents of mental illness soared during the pandemic as a result of social restrictions, isolation and, in some cases, financial insecurity. Poor mental health can lead to loss of wages, gaps in employment and increased risk of mortality.
Posted: 16/02/2023
Chaucer has updated its ESG strategy, including plans to decarbonise its business and embed ESG into the underwriting decision-making process. The global specialty re/insurance group announced last year that it intended to achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 or sooner, and aims to be carbon neutral across its operations by 2030 or sooner.
Posted: 15/02/2023
Co-op is making a £100,000 donation to DEC in support of its appeal following the earthquakes that hit Turkey and Syria. In the early hours of 6th February, a series of strong earthquakes occurred in southern Turkey and shook the Turkish-Syrian border region, resulting in thousands of fatalities and tens of thousands of injuries.
Posted: 14/02/2023
Risk Solved is partnering with GWTInsight to bring the latter’s real-time commercial property data to the risk management platform provider’s suite of tools. GWTInsight uses patented technology to capture a range of real-time data sources helping users mitigate risk, reduce cost and carbon usage, and actively address ESG commitments across property portfolios.
Posted: 13/02/2023
Developers plan to add 54.5GW of new utility-scale electric-generating capacity to the US power grid in 2023, according to the Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory of the Energy Information Administration (EIA) with more than half of this capacity solar power (54 per cent), followed by battery storage (17 per cent).
Posted: 09/02/2023
Norway’s Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM), which is responsible for the investments of the Government Pension Fund Global, is stepping up is scrutiny of financial disclosures that relate to climate change.
Posted: 09/02/2023
Dutch pension fund ABP has sold a “large part” of its liquid investments in fossil fuel energy producers, totalling €9bn.
Posted: 09/02/2023
In response to CDP’s 2022 Climate Change Questionnaire, over 18,600+ organisations replied, 4,100 saying had already developed a 1.5C-aligned climate transition plan, and only 81 of them reporting in sufficient detail to all 21 key indicators in the climate change questionnaire that align with a credible climate transition plan.
Posted: 08/02/2023
Richard Hebditch, director of Transport & Environment UK, has warned that: “Plug-in hybrids are sold to drivers and governments as part of the climate solution. The truth is they pollute far more than advertised and are a dangerous distraction from full electrification."
Posted: 08/02/2023
The Government and industry are investing in hydrogen and all-electric flight technologies to unlock guilt-free flight.
Posted: 07/02/2023
A new Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, has been created in Rishi Sunak’s reshuffle. The separation of the old BEIS into parts recognises the need to form secure energy supplies from domestic nuclear and renewable sources as well as focus on net-zero. The new department will be headed by Grant Shapps.
Posted: 07/02/2023
After entering administration, UK-based gigafactory Britishvolt is to continue under the ownership of Recharge Industries.
Posted: 07/02/2023
Octopus Energy has launched its Max Power tariff enabling multi-site businesses to share the green energy they generate on one site with the other locations.
Posted: 07/02/2023
The European Central Bank (ECB) is to start running down its €5tr portfolio of bond holdings but will favour bonds issued by greener companies.
Posted: 06/02/2023
Researchers have developed a system that can transform plastic waste and greenhouse gases into sustainable fuels and other valuable with solar power.
Posted: 06/02/2023
The Ellen McArthur Foundation’s Plastics Initiative is joining forces with the World Economic Forum’s Global Plastic Action Partnership (GPAP) and international climate action NGO WRAP, to ensure more efficient knowledge sharing across their combined network.
Posted: 06/02/2023
New research by RenewableUK shows that more than ten times as much UK offshore wind capacity was installed in 2022 than was built onshore.
Posted: 06/02/2023
In SEB’s latest The Green Bond report, the forecast for transition investment has been significantly raised, to above $600bn in 2023 and to more than $1tr by 2025.
Posted: 02/02/2023
Shell’s headquarters have been targeted by Greenpeace UK activists in parallel with an ongoing Greenpeace climate justice protest at sea, as Shell posted record annual profits of £32.2bn.
Posted: 02/02/2023
Companies including Unilever, BASF and Tata Steel will embark on first ever cross sector collaborative programme to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Posted: 02/02/2023
Mapping The Net Zero Economy, a report by Confederation of British Industry (CBI) sees the UK’s drive to net-zero creating nearly a million new jobs and aiding areas of the UK that have experienced industrial decline.
Posted: 01/02/2023
Zurich UK has 100 new apprenticeship places on offer across the UK, as the insurer continues to increase the overall number of apprenticeships, including creating new placements in HR, marketing and data protection.
Posted: 01/02/2023
In a new report, the Climate Change Committee (CCC) offers new analysis of the UK’s adaptation investment priorities, finding that new investment of the order of £10bn per year will be needed to prepare the UK for expected climate change. That figure could rise further with more dangerous levels of global warming.
Posted: 01/02/2023
The UN-convened Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance, with over $11tr in assets under management, has released a significant update to its Target Setting Protocol, ratcheting up scope and coverage for its 84 members in its third edition of the document and explicitly asking its members to consider Just Transition impacts, ensuring the benefits of the low carbon transition are widely and fairly shared, to their decarbonisation targets.
Posted: 31/01/2023
The EU’s response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 has accelerated its electricity transition, and now there is a predicted massive scale-up in clean energy, according to Ember.
Posted: 31/01/2023
In future roads could be built using asphalt made from grass cuttings and ‘carbon capturing’ cement, supported by £30m Government funding awarded to seven innovative, net-zero projects.
Posted: 30/01/2023
The largest aircraft in the world to be powered by a hydrogen-electric engine, a 19-seat Dornier 228, has flown with a full-size prototype hydrogen-electric powertrain on the left wing of the aircraft.
Posted: 30/01/2023
The Greater Manchester Pension Fund (GMPF) has invested a further £100m into Gresham House’s Sustainable Infrastructure (BSIF) strategy to help accelerate the deployment of new solutions to address key environmental and societal challenges in the North West.
Posted: 26/01/2023
Annual UK car production has fallen to the lowest level for 66 years (falling 9.8 per cent to 775,014 units) but has also recorded a new high of electrified vehicle production with almost a third of all cars made fully electric or hybrid.
Posted: 26/01/2023
Nest and Cushon have invited fund managers to share views on ways in which the two pension schemes can invest in natural capital, with an initial focus on forestry, with a market warming exercise already underway.
Posted: 26/01/2023
Edelman Trust Barometer reveals that business is now viewed as the only global institution to be both competent and ethical.
Posted: 26/01/2023
A new vehicle-to-everything (V2X) bidirectional charging programme has been created to allow EV users to use the battery power for other uses.
Posted: 25/01/2023
Major global banks used only 7 per cent of their financing for energy companies on renewables between 2016 and 2022.
Posted: 25/01/2023
Europe could end its reliance on China for lithium-ion battery cells by 2027, Transport & Environment (T&E) has forecast.
Posted: 24/01/2023
BP has installed six public charging locations with ultra-fast 300kw charge points aimed at e-trucks have been launched along a 600km stretch of the Rhine-Alpine corridor across Germany. The corridor is one of the busiest road freight routes in Europe connecting key North Sea ports in Belgium and the Netherlands with the Mediterranean port of Genoa in Italy connecting through a network of roads stretching in total 1,300km.
Posted: 24/01/2023
Artificial intelligence (AI) will accelerate action on sustainable energy and ensure that in the next five years the tipping points for crucial green technologies will be reached, according to a report published by the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Systemiq.
Posted: 24/01/2023
Climate finance is in a “ditch” and incentives are needed to attract more private capital, the head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said.
Posted: 23/01/2023
Labour has called for an “inverse OPEC”, an alliance of countries that could supply green energy.
Posted: 23/01/2023
The world is at the dawn of a new industrial age that will create major new markets and millions of jobs, but also raise new risks, prompting countries across the globe to devise industrial strategies to secure their place in the new global energy economy, according to a major new IEA report.
Posted: 23/01/2023
Currys has collected almost 750,000 tonnes of e-waste since 2011, recycling over 15 million individual products in the process.
Posted: 23/01/2023
After demise of Britishvolt, a new battery plant will be built in Oxfordshire by Andrew Forrest, founder of Australian mining concern Fortescue, and Fortescue subsidiary WEA Technologies, formerly a part of Williams Grand Prix Engineering.
Posted: 19/01/2023
The Government’s record on protecting the environment is "far short" of what is required according to Office for Environmental Protection (OEP) chair Dame Glenys Stacey (pictured).
Posted: 19/01/2023
President Biden’s controversial Inflation Reduction Act it, that would see $369bn of investment on climate and energy policies, has been the target of much anger among the 27 EU nations.
Posted: 19/01/2023
SSE is concerned that as a country the UK is not moving fast enough to deliver sustainable energy independence.
Posted: 17/01/2023
Nearly half (41 per cent) of chief sustainability officers (CSOs) do not use carbon offsets due to trust issues, with an additional 43 per cent seeking assurance from rating agencies for validation.
Posted: 17/01/2023
Troubled electric battery manufacturer has held an all-staff meeting during wihich the majority were made redundant before collapsing into administration.
Posted: 17/01/2023
Global CEOs have made a pledge to reduce their real estate emissions by half by 2030 and reach net-zero carbon no later than 2050.
Posted: 16/01/2023
Rolls-Royce has announced that it has conducted successful tests of a 12-cylinder gas variant of the mtu Series 4000 L64 engine running on 100 per cent hydrogen fuel.
Posted: 16/01/2023
The average electric car remains cheaper to run than an equivalent petrol car despite new data from the RAC that reports on charging costs rising over 50 per cent in the past eight months, now costing an average of 70.32p per kW, up from 44.55p this time last year.
Posted: 12/01/2023
Client earth and French organisations Surfrider Foundation Europe and Zero Waste France are taking Danone to court over its global plastic pollution.
Posted: 12/01/2023
Octopus Energy is moving into the domestic solar photovoltaic installation industry, targeting 5,000 installations in 2023.
Posted: 12/01/2023
A study of 505 senior executives from the world’s largest companies, each employing more than 10,000 people, shows that 98% of companies making progress on targets and nearly two-thirds (62 per cent) of those surveyed have now made some form of public commitment or target to address carbon emissions reduction within their organisation.
Posted: 11/01/2023
Oil majors are investing eight times more in biofuels than hydrogen, drawing criticism that European oil refiners in particular are favouring an unsustainable biofuel option over green hydrogen.
Posted: 11/01/2023
With current approaches, the UK might miss its net-zero ambitions, but still achieve an 85 per cent reduction from 1990 levels by 2050, the first edition of DNV’s UK Energy Transition Outlook (ETO) predicts.
Posted: 11/01/2023
The UN believes that the Earth’s ozone layer is on track to recover within four decades, due to success of Montreal Protocol.
Posted: 10/01/2023
The Government has launched a new fund to help SMEs to develop greener and more efficient solutions for freight.
Posted: 10/01/2023
Solar thermal design and engineering company Naked Energy is expanding again after partnering with two leading European engineering-led firms.
Posted: 09/01/2023
The Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy has launched a consultation on the reform of the UK’s Capacity Market, the Government’s main mechanism for ensuring security of electricity supply.
Posted: 09/01/2023
There is considerable public suspicion about corporate ESG claims, with less than a quarter (23 per cent) of the public take ESG claims at face value.
Posted: 06/01/2023
Equinor and RWE have agreed on a strategic energy partnership between their companies. The agreement includes significant acceleration of the hydrogen economy in Germany.
Posted: 06/01/2023
UK start-up Notpla has been declared one of the Earthshot Prize 2022 winners, developing a seaweed-based biodegradable alternative to plastic.
Posted: 06/01/2023
Latest UK electric car sales data shows that one in three new cars sold in December 2022 were electric.
Posted: 05/01/2023
Car maker Stellantis has agreed to significantly expand their partnership with Archer to produce electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft.
Posted: 05/01/2023
Polling shows 45 per cent of the UK and 61 per cent of under 35s are looking to move to a skilled job where they can help tackle the climate crisis.
Posted: 05/01/2023
The Prime Minister has made his New Year’s speech, placing innovation at the heart of positive change.
Posted: 05/01/2023
National Grid ESO has confirmed that a new wind energy generation record has been set, and on 30 December wind generated 20.918 GW of electricity in the half-hour period between 6 and 6.30pm.
Posted: 04/01/2023
Tesla says that it produced over 439,000 vehicles and delivered over 405,000 vehicles in the fourth quarter of 2022, with vehicle deliveries growing 40 per cent year on year to 1.31 million while production grew 47 per cent 1.37 million.
Posted: 03/01/2023
Banking group SEB is forecasting that 2023 will end a decade of stagnation in renewable energy investment, with an expected jump of 25 per cent in global investments to $600bn.
Posted: 03/01/2023
Extinction Rebellion (XR) has said it has taken a “controversial” resolution to temporarily shift away from public disruption as a primary tactic.
Posted: 03/01/2023
Most of the UK’s electricity is being generated by low carbon energy sources this winter.
Posted: 22/12/2022
The Japanese capital Tokyo has passed laws that will require all new houses to have solar panels.
Posted: 22/12/2022
The NatWest Group is publishing targets validated by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi).
Posted: 21/12/2022
The 1.5 million Bulb customers have now been officially transferred to Octopus Energy.
Posted: 21/12/2022
Stellantis has announced its partnership with Octopus Energy to support electric vehicle drivers across the UK.
Posted: 20/12/2022
The first ever net-zero transatlantic flight is scheduled for 2023, using solely sustainable aviation fuel (SAF).
Posted: 20/12/2022
The three sites from which Rolls-Royce small modular reactor (SMR) will select the location of its first factory have been announced. The heavy pressure vessels (HPV) factory will produce components for a fleet of small modular reactors (SMR) designed and built in the UK.
Posted: 20/12/2022
EU member states have reached agreement on the world’s first major carbon border tax.
Posted: 19/12/2022
At COP15, a significant plan to protect the world’s land and oceans and provide financing to save biodiversity in the developing world has been agreed.
Posted: 19/12/2022
Virgin Atlantic has announced the purchase of 10 million US gallons of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) per annum to be produced by Gevo and supplied by Virgin Atlantic’s joint venture partner, Delta Air Lines.
Posted: 19/12/2022
The UK has signed an agreement with the EU and North Seas countries on developing renewable energy. UK Minister for Energy and Climate Graham Stuart (pictured) signed the landmark agreement between the UK and the North Seas Energy Cooperation (NSEC) setting the framework for greater cooperation with North Seas neighbours and it is expected to boost the UK’s targets to increase offshore wind fivefold to 50GW by 2030.
Posted: 19/12/2022
Belgium is set to follow France and impose measures to reduce the use of private jets and short-haul flights.
Posted: 15/12/2022
Barclays’ investment in climate-tech start-ups is to be ramped up to £500m by end of 2027.
Posted: 15/12/2022
The UK Government has today announced a delay in the implementation of the country’s green taxonomy.
Posted: 15/12/2022
The Government has floated the idea of banning all new gas boilers in homes from 2026 in favour of boilers that can also run on hydrogen.
Posted: 14/12/2022
The EU is moving to implementation of a tax on foreign companies that want to import products that do not meet the EU’s own climate-protection standards.
Posted: 14/12/2022
HSBC will no longer finance new oil and gas fields, following a shareholder resolution asking HSBC to update its oil and gas policy, which was coordinated by ShareAction and institutional investors earlier this year.
Posted: 14/12/2022
Energy company Hygen is to develop its pipeline of more than 300MW of projects across the UK in advance of a second round of funding scheduled for the second half of 2023.
Posted: 12/12/2022
New analysis by the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit has found that the area of land that could be affected by onshore wind farms in future is just 0.02 per cent of the UK's total land.
Posted: 12/12/2022
Under a new Batteries Regulation law agreed by EU, batteries destined for EVs are set to become significantly cleaner and greener.
Posted: 12/12/2022
The Sustainable Apparel Coalition (SAC) has launched a new decarbonisation programme which will support and drive the sector to work towards emissions reduction, with a focus on collaboration, member support and delivering tools and guidance to make achieving these targets possible.
Posted: 09/12/2022
The Keadby 3 Carbon Capture Power Station has been granted development consent by the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.
Posted: 09/12/2022
Marks & Spencer and BP have signed an agreement to bring high-speed electric vehicle (EV) charge points to its stores across the UK.
Posted: 08/12/2022
A broad business coalition of 44 companies have signed a letter to the EC, including Siemens, Maersk, Unilever and PepsiCo, calling for a 2035 deadline to fully replace fossil-powered truck fleets.
Posted: 08/12/2022
An estimated $20tr of climate damage is being linked to massive gas expansion in Qatar.
Posted: 08/12/2022
A proposed mine in Cumbria, near Whitehaven, has been approved by The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities.
Posted: 08/12/2022
A more ambitious EU renewables target could save €200bn and halve fossil gas imports by 2030. Failing to do so would result in continued over-reliance on imported fossil gas and exposure to the many associated economic, political, reputational and climate risks.
Posted: 08/12/2022
Electricity demand in the UK will increase by a factor 2.5 by 2050 compared to today’s levels, and require, 250 GW of new generation capacity, mainly offshore wind and solar, to support the UK’s net-zero ambitions.
Posted: 07/12/2022
The Government will relax restrictions on building onshore wind farms in England, with an existing rule that requires new turbines to be built on pre-designated land to be scrapped.
Posted: 07/12/2022
A completely production standard Mazda MX-5 using zero fossil fuel sustainable fuel has driven 1000-miles around the UK from circuit to circuit.
Posted: 07/12/2022
One in five new cars bought in November 2022 was an electric car.
Posted: 06/12/2022
The global energy crisis is driving a sharp acceleration in installations of renewable power, with total capacity growth worldwide set to almost double in the next five years, overtaking coal as the largest source of electricity generation along the way the IEA says in a new report.
Posted: 06/12/2022
A new study shows that some areas are at risk of being more negatively affected as society moves towards a fossil-free future. In addition, the positive health effects of climate change do not benefit them to the same extent as other social groups.
Posted: 05/12/2022
The EC is proposing new rules on packaging, saying that without action, the EU would see a further 19 per cent increase in packaging waste by 2030, and for plastic packaging waste even a 46 per cent increase.
Posted: 05/12/2022
France is set to ban short-haul domestic flights, insisting that travellers use rail alternatives where possible in a move that is likely to be repeated across the continent.
Posted: 05/12/2022
Shell is buying Nature Energy Biogas for nearly $2bn. Denmark-based Nature Energy is a producer of Renewable Natural Gas (RNG) from agricultural, industrial, and household wastes.
Posted: 05/12/2022
Octopus Energy Group’s generation arm announces the acquisition of UK solar developer and asset manager Zestec Renewable Energy to build cheap solar power on commercial roofs.
Posted: 02/12/2022
Hydrogen-powered commercial vehicle company Hydrogen Vehicle Systems (HVS), has announced a £15m grant from the Government’s Advanced Propulsion Centre (APC) as part of a wider funding package to support zero emission transport.
Posted: 02/12/2022
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