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A campaign to get landlords to display energy certificates prominently in non-domestic buildings is stepping up its efforts to get the Government to make it a legal requirement – as it already is in the white goods market.
Greenpeace has threatened legal action against the UK Government over its decision to continue to grant licences for deepwater offshore drilling before the causes of BP’s spill in the Gulf of Mexico have been determined.
A global fund to help poorer countries switch to green industrial technology is vital in any new international pact to battle global warming, Switzerland's top climate change negotiator said on Wednesday.
Businesses that have not yet registered for the Carbon Reduction Commitment Energy Efficiency Scheme (CRC) will not be fined if they get in touch with the scheme’s enforcer before the September 30 deadline.
The U.N. panel of climate scientists will look at the costs of "second best" ways of fighting global warming amid doubts that all countries will sign up to UN-led action, a leading expert said on Tuesday.
The UN's climate science body needs stricter checks to prevent damage to its credibility, an independent review concludes.
The Government is to review Oftwat to ensure the water regulator is fit for purpose as the industry and consumers face the growing threat of water scarcity.
The European Union's top climate official proposed on Wednesday new limits on the use of carbon offsets from industrial gas projects, under fire by green groups, in the EU's emissions trading scheme after 2012.
Transocean, owner of the Deepwater Horizon, said Monday it had addressed 90 per cent of recommendations made in a BP audit about systems and equipment in need of upgrade or enhancement on the rig a month before it exploded and sunk in the Gulf of Mexico.
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg today promised the Coalition Government would oversee a "quiet green revolution" that avoids "green gimmicks" and instead focuses on delivering low carbon jobs.
GreenWise editor Louise Bateman shares her thoughts about the latest issues shaping the green agenda.
In an era when everything environmental - incuding biodiversity, waste, and fish stocks - is measured with indicators announcing that you will be the UK's "greenest ever government", begs a number of questions - most obviously, "measured how?".
CBI director-general Richard Lambert described Government policy on energy security and climate change as being on "amber", today, as he reviewed the Coalition administration’s first 100 days in office.
Global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in 2009 fell 1.3 percent to 31.3 billion tonnes in the first year-on-year decline in this decade, German renewable energy institute IWR said on Friday.
GreenWise editor Louise Bateman shares her thoughts about the latest developments shaping the green business agenda.