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Health Care Without Harm, in collaboration with Arup, has announced a navigational tool for achieving zero emissions in healthcare by 2050. According to the creators of the 'Global Road Map for Health Care Decarbonization: a navigational tool for achieving zero emissions with climate resilience and health equity', health care’s climate footprint is already substantial, equalling 4.4% of net global emissions. Without...

The UK needs climate-conscious home improvers and influencers if it hopes to get close to Government targets of 600,000 domestic heat pumps by 2028, new research suggests. The University of Sussex Business School researchers compared the stalled heat pump transition in the UK with Finland, where one in three homes have been fitted with a heat pump, concluding that contrasting...

UK could cut CO2e emissions by 100 million tonnes in ten years by using resources more efficiently, according to a new report. Titled 'Net Zero: why resource efficiency holds the answers', the report warns that focusing exclusively on energy is 'only half of the solution' to tackling climate change associated with carbon emissions. The report was produced by environmental charity WRAP...

Water regulator Ofwat is consulting on proposals to allow Tideway to pass a proportion of increased costs in the order of £200 million from COVID 19-related impacts on to customers. The proposed amendments are required to give effect to an alternative sharing rate between Bazalgette Tunnel Limited (trading as Tideway) and Thames Water’s customers for COVID-19-impacted costs on the Thames...

National Grid Electricity System Operator (ESO) outlines its view of the electricity system in Great Britain for the summer ahead in a new Outlook Report, designed to support the industry in its preparations for this period. According to the report, there will be sufficient supply to meet electricity demand and that the ESO expects to have the right tools and...

The current social environment is 'not conducive' to the behaviour change needed for UK's Net-Zero target, according to a new report by the Energy Research Partnership. Titled 'How behaviour change will unlock Net Zero', the report suggests that a key barrier to cutting carbon emissions is the significant changes in behaviour required, with both the public and by businesses needing...

Abundance Investment Ltd, an ethical investment crowdfunding platform, has launched an offer to fund Northern Gas Networks’ (NGN) programme to upgrade its pipelines to help bring hydrogen directly into homes while reducing carbon emissions. As part of NGN’s plans to transition its network to net zero, three quarters of its pipework has already been upgraded from metallic mains to polyethylene and the investment will...

In 2017, energy regulator Ofgem introduced a financial incentive to drive National Grid Electricity System Operator (National Grid ESO) to produce more accurate forecasts. The scheme incentivised the company for producing forecasts that were not systematically over or under GB demand. The Ofgem investigation found that for five months between April and October 2017, National Grid ESO’s forecasts were periodically either...

Water regulator Ofwat seeks information on the current arrangements for protecting customer money held by retailers in the business retail market. In April 2017, the business retail market opened which enables businesses, charities and public sector organisations in England to buy water and sewerage services from retailers, rather than their regional water and/or sewerage companies. To enable the opening of the market, changes were...

Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs) should give equal prominence to metrics for cost, carbon and energy, using the familiar design and the visual approach used in food labelling, according to the UK's largest energy assessor accreditation scheme. Elmhurst Energy is calling on the Government to enable better formulation of future energy efficiency legislation. In its response to the Environmental Audit Committee’s ‘Energy...