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Net zero carbon: How data is greening UK infrastructure
Better use of data can help achieve net zero goals, as well as better lending rates and improved financial returns, argues Bentley Systems' Mark Coates
BusinessGreen Leaders Awards returns for 2021
UK's largest and most prestigious green business awards is set to return this September as part of the Net Zero Festival
Future Buildings Standard: Building professionals and green NGOs slam 'significant shortcomings'
21 organisations call for new National Retrofit Strategy in letter to top civil servant at housing ministry, warning current standards lack 'vision and ambition’
Kingspan targets net zero carbon manufacturing by 2030
Building materials giant launches inaugural 'Planet Passionate' sustainability report and unveils fresh decarbonisation targets
Energy efficiency: 84 per cent of new homes in England built to EPC grade A and B
Latest EPC statistics reveals percentage of new homes to bag top EPC ratings is on the rise, but top scores remain uncommon for older homes
Engie secures green light for 2,300 low carbon homes at former Rugeley coal plant site
Developer secures planning permission for major redevelopment of Staffordshire site that aims to provide 'tangible articulation of the whole transition to zero carbon'
The UK's dire green skills shortage must be tackled
Ahead of COP26 the government must seize the chance to place green jobs - particularly in home retrofitting - front and centre of its climate pitch, writes Ashden CEO Harriet Lamb
Institute for Government: Green Homes Grant Scheme 'badly undermined' by Whitehall
Think tank argues green homes policy hampered by poor delivery, optimistic timetables, and lack of Whitehall coordination
Ditching Green Homes Grant scheme will hit north hardest, think tank warns
Regions of northern England most likely to miss out on urgently needed upgrade work when Green Homes Grant voucher scheme closes for applications today, ECIU warns
Green Homes Grant: Why was it axed and what happens next?
Amid anger and frustration that yet another green homes policy has died an early death, experts assess the wreckage and explore possible steps forward for the UK's faltering energy efficiency agenda
'A kick in the teeth': Green economy reacts angrily to axing of Green Homes Grant
The government maintains scheme was only ever intended as a short term stimulus package, but green business groups have been left furious at the latest round of stop-start disruption for the energy efficiency sector
'An avoidable tragedy': Government axes Green Homes Grant scheme with four day's notice
BREAKING: Surprise update to energy efficiency plans sees government boost funding for local authority upgrade schemes, but scrap the popular Green Homes Grant scheme at short notice
British Land targets 'stretching' science-based CO2 cuts across £10bn property portfolio
One of the UK's biggest property firms secures approval for science-based targets to more than halve CO2 across its portfolio and value chain by 2030
Green heat: How can the UK drive mass heat pump adoption in the 2020s?
The UK must ramp up heat pump installations at least 25-fold by 2028 to meet current goals, but governance, incentives, and funding support are lacking, a new report argues
Government unlocks £560m for upgrades of UK's least energy efficient homes
Funding boost designed to 'green' homes of low-income families and social housing tenants, but RIBA warns new support is 'simply not enough'
Could the new National Infrastructure Bank help solve the home retrofit challenge?
Ron Cowley of the Active Building Centre argues sweeping changing to our housing stock are essential, and the government's new bank could provide the catalyst that is desperately needed
Green Homes Grant: Only fraction of vouchers issued despite strong demand
Little more than a quarter of vouchers sought by householders have been issued over the past six months, official data shows
'No plan nor meaningful delivery': MPs slam government's 'woefully inadequate' domestic energy efficiency plans
Environmental Audit Committee warns government has underestimated challenge of decarbonising UK’s housing stock, putting net zero goal in jeapordy
'To be or not to be': Shakespeare's Globe among London businesses committing to slash their energy use
New Business Climate Challenge programme launched by Mayor of London aims to help firms across the capital accelerate efforts to curb their emissions
Nuveen sets sights on achieving net zero emissions across $133bn property portfolio
Real estate investment manager vows to decarbonise its assets in line with global climate goals by developing net zero business plan for every building in its portfolio
Industrial Decarbonisation Strategy: Government sets out vision for decarbonising heavy industry
Strategy to set out a number of new targets for the decarbonisation of industry, as government confirms details of nine projects to be awarded funding through Industrial Decarbonisation Challenge - but opposition warns plans lack necessary ambition
Expert bodies call for £5.3bn spending blitz to catalyse national home retrofit push
The Construction Leadership Council publishes a new blueprint for tackling the UK's inefficient housing stock, as Bankers for Net Zero calls for policy interventions to drive green home investment
Reports: PM pushing for domestic insulation programme to succeed embattled Green Homes Grant
Bloomberg reports discussions about a new domestic insulation programme are underway in the top echelons of government as fresh research highlights low-carbon home retrofits could generate hundreds of thousands of jobs
CO2nstruct Zero: UK building industry eyes 250,000 green jobs on journey to net zero
New initiative from the Construction Leadership Council touts opportunity to attract £36bn of private investment in delivering net zero buildings and construction supply chain in UK
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