Scotland
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A motor insurance company that 'offsets’ its customers' carbon emissions by planting trees has posted a 19-fold increase in profits after only three years in business.
A Scottish company has won the contract to build one of the world's most advanced tidal energy turbines.
The cost to the taxpayer of meeting Scotland's climate change target has been put at about £8 billion by 2020.
More than 5,000 jobs could be created by the development of planned wind turbine manufacturing sites around port locations in Scotland, the country's First Minister Alex Salmond said on Tuesday.
The Scottish Government has today unveiled five marine energy projects that are to share £13 million worth of development funding to harness energy from Scotland’s waters.
Scientists have begun research into storing carbon dioxide emissions in sandstone rocks deep beneath the Moray Firth off the coast of northeast Scotland.
The Scottish National Party (SNP) today unveiled its election manifesto, putting green jobs and the economic recovery at the heart of the party’s campaign.
A day after the Government launched its Marine Energy Action Plan, setting out a roadmap for driving the marine energy sector forward, the Crown Estate has announced an unprecedented 1.2 gigawatts (GW) of wave and tidal energy project leases.
Energy companies E.ON and ScottishPower have been awarded a share of £90 million worth of Government funding to compete to build the first commercial-scale carbon capture and storage (CCS) plant in the UK.
Businesses are being invited to bid to share in a £5 million capital grant programme for developing plastics recycling facilities in Scotland.
Inverness-based marine energy technology company, AWS Ocean Energy, has secured £2 million of investment to help it commercialise its floating wave energy system, AWS-III.
The Scottish Government has announced plans to streamline all Government-led, Scottish waste delivery bodies into into a single super body called Zero Waste Scotland.
An old Vestas factory in Argyll is being upgraded to manufacture wind turbine towers for Scotland's offshore wind industry, creating 300 jobs.
The Scottish Government has approved two onshore wind farms and an extension to an existing one – adding up to a combined capacity of more than 215 megawatts (MW) of additional renewable energy.
Fife-based McKinnon & Clarke (M&C) is aiming to "dominate" the global energy and environmental consultancy market following its sale to a private equity firm for £22 million.