Action on climate emergency
Green economy a big employer has been revealed by a new report published yesterday – with more than one million workers nowemployed as part of the UK’s green economy, where earnings are 11% higher than the national average and they contribute a combined £105bn in Gross Value Added (GVA) to the UK economy. The report …
Are your data centres green? Is a question being posed in Scotland as green data centres are at the heart of the Scottish governments ambitions to develop economically
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 …
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 …
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 …
Shares drop as Drax investigated by the City watchdog over “historical statements” made about the sourcing of wood pellets for its Yorkshire biomass power station. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has confirmed the investigation which will cover a period of more than two years from January 2022 to March 2024, and will examine whether the company …
From new town to power station as The Guardian reveals that one of Britain’s first all-electric towns to be built with almost no reliance on fossil fuels could soon help to power the grid with renewable energy. The developers of a new garden town in Kent, just a few miles from Folkestone and Hythe and …
Boost for onshore wind as the government has launched major onshore wind plan to reverse near decade of sector stagnation in England. It aims to boost its aim to become a clean energy superpower and protect households from global gas price spikes. It also introduces measures to revitalise industry by unlocking up to 45,000 jobs …
Their profit – our loss is clear as the Norwegian state owner of the Rosebank oilfield off Shetlands has announced that it made £24 billion in global profits last year and plans to cut billions from its spending on green energy. At the end of January a Scottish court ruled that the earlier consent for …
Crunch time for climate says UN as a massive global mobilisation of renewable energy, forest protection and other measures is needed to prevent the world reaching a catastrophic temperature rise of 3.1C, a report from the UN environment programme (Unep) has found. It says that current carbon-cutting promises by countries for 2030 are not being …