The chief executives of 27 of the world’s largest businesses have called on the G20 to formally accept and act on recommendations set out by the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TFCFD) last year.
The government’s long awaited strategy for meeting the UK’s carbon budgets currently “sits in a holding pattern” following the announcement of a general election in June, according to climate change minister Nick Hurd.
A High Court judge has ruled against a request for a judicial review of the government’s sale of the Green Investment Bank (GIB), paving the way for the deal to be completed with preferred bidder, the Australian bank Macquarie.
Northern Ireland’s Department for the Economy (DfE) has had to issue apologies to a number of companies it mistakenly said had claimed considerably more from the botched RHI scheme than they had.
Kingspan has beaten its target of using renewable energy to meet at least half of its aggregate energy use by 2016, keeping it on track to become a net zero energy company by 2020.
The UK will have to adhere to the European Union’s environmental and climate change-related policy if it is to have any future agreement with the trading bloc, according to the first EU response to the triggering of article 50.
The National Health Service celebrated NHS Sustainability Day yesterday by announcing that its deployment of energy efficiency systems and on-site generators had helped it save more than £300 million in costs.
Nominations for the Solar Power Portal Awards 2017 are now open, and once again this year we will hand out one of the most prestigious awards of the evening, the outstanding achievement award.
Nothern Ireland’s Department for the Economy (DfE) is to launch an eight month examination of all installations under the botched Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI), having launched a tender to procure inspection services.
Liam Stoker wonders whether the chancellor will embrace the green economy’s potential as a good news story when he delivers his budget later this week.
The Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has disputed comments made by a Conservative MP last week that the government’s carbon plan would be published as late as June.
A House of Lords report calling for decarbonisation of the energy system to be relegated in favour of security of affordable supply has been slammed by green industry critics, who have called its conclusions ‘out of touch’ and ‘backward-looking’.
Nominations for the Solar Power Portal Awards 2017 are now open, and product innovation will once again return as a category.
Claimants of Northern Ireland’s non-domestic Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) remain safe from being named publicly ahead of a hearing, a high court has ruled.
The Republic of Ireland is to launch its own Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI), with minister for communications, climate action and environment Denis Naughten unveiling plans for a scheme with specific measures to avoid the mistakes made north of the border.
Gateshead Energy Company, owned by Gateshead Council, is to bolster its coffers by up to £1 million by entering into a demand response partnership with Flexitricity.