Regulation

House builder Willmott Dixon has outlined its efforts to reach ambitious carbon reduction targets for 2020, including renewed efforts to lower supply chain emissions and paying bonuses to employees if they switch to low emission cars.

Three NHS trusts in Liverpool are to benefit from the first Investor Ready Energy Efficiency-certified funds, and save nearly £2 million each year.

Nissan has successfully breached its target for global emissions from corporate activities after seeing CO2 levels fall by almost a quarter since 2005.

Self-storage company Space Station has cut its energy costs by as much as 75% following a £550,000 investment in clean energy technologies.

Mongoose Energy has recruited Climate Group chief executive Mark Kenber to lead its fledgling energy supply business.

Steve Howard, chief sustainability officer at IKEA, has called on the government to introduce “clear policy signals” which he said could unlock “tremendous amounts of decarbonisation”.

Energy secretary Amber Rudd has claimed that the UK’s vote to leave the European Union will not affect the country’s commitment to clean energy, and revealed the government’s response to the fifth carbon budget will be published as scheduled tomorrow morning.

Private sector businesses could achieve 60% of the cuts in global emissions pledged at last year’s COP21 summit in Paris, a new report issued by We Mean Business has claimed.