Following a budget significantly short of green measures, the government last week announced a new wave of investment to boost the oil and gas industry. Improved...
Asian countries are cutting their emissions faster than many European nations, according to the Climate Institute/GE Low-Carbon Competitiveness Index. The Climate Institute’s report, analysing data from...
The Scottish government has approved an 11-turbine offshore wind farm near Aberdeen, ignoring threats of legal action from US billionaire tycoon Donald Trump. Trump, an ardent...
The government has published its nuclear strategy, which it says will make the UK a “leading civil nuclear energy nation” and bring about the creation of...
Environmental campaign group Friends of the Earth has spoken out in support of the government’s chief scientific adviser Sir John Beddington, who yesterday warned of the...
A number of reinsurance companies – the insurers of the insurance firms – have started to address climate change issues, but many still ignore the importance...
Dedicated ethical bank Triodos has revealed it has reached a financial milestone, after breaking the £500m barrier in its lending to sustainable businesses and organisations. Following...
Shareholders are increasingly feeling disgruntled, and rightly, by the risks fossil fuel companies are taking with their money. Gyorgy Dallos of Greenpeace International writes how investors...
The New Energy & Cleantech Awards 2013 is set to celebrate green energy and clean technology innovators, entrepreneurs and investors in a ceremony at the London...
The Renewable Energy Association (REA) has said it wants George Osborne to say that renewable energy will play a key role in creating jobs and encouraging...
Planning consent was yesterday given to the first new nuclear power station in the UK since 1995 – a decision that environmental groups have condemned. Energy...
Environmental campaign group Friends of the Earth has said that George Osborne is ignoring the vast potential of the UK’s wind, wave and solar resources, by...
The New Energy & Cleantech Awards 2013 take place on Thursday in London, and are preceded this year by a conference for the first time. Alex...
A survey of senior managers from some of the UK’s leading renewables firms has shown that only 4% are confident that the UK can meet its...
Forty-six years ago today, over 10,000 tonnes of crude oil spilled out of the supertanker Torrey Canyon and into waters just off the south-west coast of England...