Efficiency

Plan to change timeline for energy use reduction puts Paris targets at risk, say MEPS

EEF's Brad Deane argues the government should properly streamline energy and carbon reporting requirements and focus on the real barrier to efficiency progress - long payback periods

Following the publication of Labour's new domestic energy efficiency strategy, Alan Whitehead takes aim at the scandalous loophole that will allow landlords to keep renting the coldest and most inefficient homes

Airponix technology uses a nutrient-rich 'fog' instead of soil to grow vegetables, promising yields up to 50 times higher than commercial growers

Andrew Warren welcomes the new Housing Secretary with a reminder that the government's plans for Display Energy Certificates remain remarkably opaque

Ministers aim to make UK an AI research hot spot as clean tech firms seek to exploit machine learning opportunities

Slowly, but surely, purple pipes are becoming more common in commercial and industrial settings

AECOM's Robert Spencer warns that businesses deploying circular economy models need to remember to make the case for the approach, even once it is successfully up and running

Andrew Warren reveals the low-down on the decades-spanning work of the British Energy Efficiency Federation

Trewin Restorick asks if the real sharing economy could tackle the social, economic, and environmental challenges the UK faces