Councils given £175 million more for cycling and walking
Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has given councils across England a further £175 million to create safe spaces for cycling and walking.
The new funds, part...
NatWest to disclose climate impacts of projects it finances in new scheme
NatWest Group has become the first major UK bank to sign up to the Partnership for Carbon Accounting Financials.
Partnership for Carbon Accounting Financials is...
Net zero is achievable for the built environment sector by 2050 but only with...
The UK Green Building Council (UKGBC) has launched a Net Zero Whole Life Carbon Roadmap for the UK Built Environment (The Roadmap), detailing the...
UK firms expect their closer sustainability focus to result in growth, new research shows
The majority of UK companies expect greater focus on sustainability to result in a growth of sales over the next year, according to new...
Government set to support a new five-year review aimed at increasing opportunities for women...
The government has announced that it would back a new five-year review to monitor women’s representation in the upper rungs of FTSE companies, namely...
Climate change is affecting Scotland’s lochs and reservoirs, research shows
Climate change has already caused a rapid and extensive warming of Scotland’s lochs and reservoirs with impacts expected to intensify, research has revealed for...
Nearly 680,000 trees to be planted as two funds open for applications
Hundreds of thousands of trees are set to be planted in communities across England as applications for the Local Authority Treescapes Fund and the...
Communities ‘teetering on the edge of starvation’ in Madagascar due to climate change, says...
The island nation of Madagascar is close to experiencing a climate-change induced famine, which has left families eating leaves and insects for survival.
According to...
New building safety plans in Wales at the centre of consultation
As part of plans to give Wales 'the most comprehensive building safety regime in the UK', a new white paper has been launched for...
New consultation seeks consistency in household and business recycling in England
A new consultation seeks views on government plans to increase the consistency in materials collected for recycling in England.
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