The government has confirmed changes to the Capacity Market which are designed to remove barriers for demand side response (DSR) and energy storage, making it easier for clean technologies to compete.
Yesterday’s budget has received a largely mixed response, with the government’s commitment to a provisional carbon price in the result of a no-deal Brexit unable to offset those miffed at a lack of concrete low carbon commitments. Here’s what the UK’s clean sectors have had to say.
The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has written to the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) seeking its advice on a possible new zero emissions target for the UK economy.
Every building in the world must attain ‘net zero carbon’ status by 2050 if the effects of global warming are to be limited to below 2 degrees Celsius, a new report has claimed.
Businesses across the world are being urged to embrace and accept third party sustainability standards in order to properly contribute towards Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) agreed at COP21.
Six more companies have been fined a combined total of £41,480 for failure to comply with the requirements of the Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC), with -99p Stores and ALS Testing both hit with the biggest penalties.
The IKEA Group has effectively halved the carbon emissions from its global operations since 2010 due to increased use of renewables, energy efficiency initiatives and reductions in waste.
Walkers Crisps has successfully reduced the water and carbon emissions used in the growing of its potatoes by 50% since 2011 after implementing a series of measuring techniques to identify where savings could be made.