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Project designer for £7m council minewater district heating project set to heat “fuel-poor homes” was appointed last week.

The coronavirus lockdown may have led to a fall in emissions, but assumptions that home-working automatically cuts carbon could prove to be wide of the mark

Offices, shops, and hotels are still using roughly 84 per cent of their typical energy demand during lockdown, according to findings from energy performance consultants Carbon Intelligence

The scale of state intervention to help economies recover provides a once in a lifetime opportunity to stimulate low carbon industries, argues Julie Hirigoyen of the UK Green Building Council

Review will root out "systemic issues" in the provision of flood insurance in the UK, zeroing in on the Doncaster region that was most affected by catastrophic downpours in November.

Decarbonisation plan focuses on reducing the city's energy consumption, ramping up renewables, electrifying public transport, reducing waste and sustainable travel and healthier living.

The clean energy milestone comes just weeks after Hackney Council revealed plans to open a 'library of things' where citizens can borrow useful items in a bid to reduce household waste.

Scottish building optimisation specialist teams up with Centrica and secures government funding to undertake three pilot projects across the UK

If businesses want to be sustainable, they must know what that means for their assets and real estate, argues AECOM's Robert Spencer

The government must deliver on its promises to tackle the UK's woefully inefficient housing stock, argues Andrew Warren