Action on climate emergency
North Yorkshire Council has launched The Warm Homes: Local Grant (WH:LG), a government-funded scheme to help low-income households improve the energy efficiency of their homes. The scheme may support upgrades such as insulation, low-carbon heating systems, solar panels, and other energy-saving improvements for privately owned homes. The scheme aims to: reduce energy bills; deal with …
Nature recovery needs money if nature recovery strategies are to be delivered as we reported in a post on 1 February. This followed a report in The Yorkshire Post that North Yorkshire Council had not yet received any funding to deliver a nature recovery strategy after being told by the government to prepare the plan. …
EV Tax implications for Settle and other rural areas is a concern as people living in smaller towns and villages would be hit hardest if the Government introduces its proposed ‘pay-as-you-go’ mileage-based tax on electrical car from April 2028, a recent study has shown. The analysis by the vehicle leasing group The Electric Car said …
Warm Homes plan welcomed by The Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE), a Plan that was launched by Energy Secretary Ed Miliband MP on 20 January. CPRE particularly welcomed plans to install rooftop solar as standard on all new homes and the ambition to triple the number of homes with rooftop solar by 2030. Responding …
Norway leading on EVs – as the Guardian reports that Norway, the frontrunner in the take up of electric vehicles, shifted a record low number of new fossil-fuel cars last month, the Norwegian Road Traffic Information Council (OFV) has revealed Only seven petrol, 29 hybrid and 98 diesel cars were registered, while more than 2,000 …
Nature recovery needs money if nature recovery strategies are to be delivered. The Yorkshire Post has recently reported that North Yorkshire Council has not yet received any funding to deliver a nature recovery strategy after being told by the government to prepare the plan. The report, which was approved by the council’s executive committee, established 39 …
Offshore windfarms fuel 12m homes in a major step towards the UK government’s goal to create a clean electricity system by 2030. The government has awarded subsidy contracts to enough offshore windfarms to power 12 million homes as The Guardian reports. Contracts were awarded at an auction to eight new offshore farms after ministers doubled …
Records were broken in 2025 as the UK’s combination of wind, solar and biomass power plants all set new records in 2025, Carbon Brief analysis shows, but electricity generation from gas still went up. The rise in gas power was due to the end of UK coal generation in late 2024 and nuclear power hitting …
Delay Burniston gas decision call from Friends of the Earth. The environmental organisation has written to North Yorkshire Council (NYC) urging it to delay its decision about a controversial new fracking proposal in Burniston, North Yorkshire. It comes after the government published draft changes to national planning policy in mid – December that, if adopted, …
A worsening climate crisis briefing took place in Westminster on 27 November. Ten of the UK’s leading climate and nature experts briefed an invited audience of over 1,200 politicians and leaders from business, culture, faith, sport and the media with the latest implications for health, food, national security and the economy. The worsening climate and …