Policy

Heat Strategy aims to reduce UK demand, as ETI seeks partners for £3m consumer behaviour study into UK heat use

Friends of the Earth claims CO2 from fossil fuels that would not otherwise have been burned dwarfs 2011 total emissions

Government urged to abandon nuclear power in favour of renewables after Horizon joint venture shelves 6GW of new reactors

Lib Dem MP Jo Swinson urges confectioners to set a good egg-sample to help cut plastic packaging waste

London mayoral candidate for Labour secures backing from Green Party for second preference votes

Party urges supporters to make Labour's Ken Livingstone their second-choice candidate

Environment Minister tells businesses to develop specific adaptation plans for climate change impacts

New rules to cut carbon dioxide emissions will make it nearly impossible to build new coal power plants

Presumption in favour of developments meeting five defined principles is "golden thread" running through streamlined framework

Consultation promises to save organisations £330m, but businesses call for unpopular scheme to be replaced