The government’s upcoming Carbon Plan should include a specific strategy for promoting microgeneration, efficiency, storage and demand response across the UK small business community, according to the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB).
Barking and Dagenham Council has secured a £6.8m loan from the Green Investment Bank to finance the replacement of nearly 15,000 traditional streetlights with energy-saving LED alternatives.
Lord Prior of Brampton has replaced Baroness Neville-Rolfe at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy after she moved department to become the new Treasury minister.
E3G has heralded the new report from the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosure (TCFD) as a major step forward in the effort to manage a changing climate, but added that its recommendations should become mandatory.
Procter & Gamble (P&G) has successfully reduced energy and water use at its facilities by 20% per unit of production four years ahead of schedule, according to the company’s latest Citizenship report.
The future success of UK SMEs lies in the adoption of energy efficiency, on-site generation and energy storage, according to global financial solutions firm DLL.
Business and energy secretary Greg Clark has failed to guarantee that intensive energy users will be made exempt from paying renewable energy levies attached to bills when the existing compensation scheme expires next year.
The governor of the Bank of England Mark Carney has warned major corporates that disclosing their exposure to climate change is “essential” to the emergence of a market-based solution.
Devon has become the latest county in the UK to launch a public sector company, designed to supply homes and businesses in the area with environmentally-friendly energy.
