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Left in the cold: Why UK homes are still hundreds of years off schedule for delivering net zero emissions
Without a clear and ambitious government plan zero carbon home heating by 2050 remains a pipe dream, a new analysis from the UK Energy Research Centre warns
Green Homes Grant: Demand expected to soar as energy efficiency scheme launches
The government's Green Homes Grant scheme opens for applications today, but demand from homeowners expected to outstrip 600,000 vouchers available
Government opens £6.9m fund for energy efficiency skills training
Funding opens in support of the government's Green Home Grants Voucher Scheme to support low carbon retrofitting of fuel-poor building stock
CBI tells government: Net zero action 'speaks 1,000 times louder than words'
Britain's biggest business group urges government to fast track rollout of host of green technologies, including new CCUS, hydrogen, EV, and renewables projects
Government launches £300m manufacturing R&D funding push
14 projects across the UK clinch funding in first round of government's 'Manufacturing Made Smarter' challenge, geared at streamlining supply chains and slashing waste
Climate Assembly UK demands 'strong and clear' government leadership on net zero
Assembly convened by Parliament of more than 100 members of the public call for urgency, fairness, and leadership to be at the heart of the net zero transition
Alok Sharma: 'There has never been a better time to invest in the green economy'
COP26 President and Business Secretary Alok Sharma's speech at the Online Platform on Sustainable and Resilient Recovery from Covid-19, hosted by the Japanese government
Net zero compatible? Government announces North Sea oil and gas sector review
Review of the UK's oil and gas licensing regime to look at how to align future of the sector with 2050 net zero target
Renewables costs keep on falling fast, but clean energy challenges remain
New reports from the government and the Energy Systems Catapult have today provided further evidence the UK's energy industry is facing a decade of unprecedented and rapid change
UK tots up £6bn in climate finance for developing counties since 2011
International Climate Finance mobilised by UK has helped avoid an estimated 33 million tonnes of greenhouse gases, government estimates
'Britain can lead the world': Government offers glimpse of CCUS vision for the 2020s
Government sets out plan to establish business models and funding mechanisms to deliver carbon capture and storage at scale in the 2020s
UK whisky industry toasts £10m fund to help distilleries go green
Applications open for £10m government funding pot to help distilleries switch to low-carbon fuels such as hydrogen, biomass and repurposed waste
Alok Sharma urges businesses to sign up for £2bn Green Home Grant scheme
Builders, plumbers, and other tradespeople advised to become TrustMark accredited so they can 'crack on' and offer grant-funded services under the government's new energy efficiency scheme
Floating wind, captured mine heat, and net zero transport projects scoop government R&D funding
Latest round of UK Research and Innovation's (UKRI's) Strength in Places Fund delivers boost to 17 projects across the UK, including pioneering clean tech developments
MPs warn UK hydrogen development hamstrung by lack of strategy
Environmental Audit Committee voices fears the UK risks missing out on fast-emerging green hydrogen opportunity
Green Home Grants: Government confirms rules for September launch of £2bn scheme
Chancellor: 'This is going to be a green recovery with concern for our environment at its heart'
Government confirms Climate Change Agreement extension
Response to consultation confirms tax breaks designed to drive energy-saving investments will continue, as government flags plans for longer-term reforms to popular scheme will be revealed 'shortly'
Renewable power sent yet more UK records tumbling in 2019
For the first time ever electricity from wind, solar, biomass and others made up more than a third of UK power last year, government data shows
Court of Appeal to hear legal challenge against Drax gas plant approval
ClientEarth wins right to appeal recent High Court decision which upheld planning approval for 3.6GW project
Government unveils £400m green aviation funding as it touts 'FlyZero' R&D initiative
Winners of BEIS funding round revealed as it launches research initiative to explore and design zero emissions aviation technology
Project aiming to convert CO2 into animal feed bags £3m government funding
REACT-FIRST consortium aims to turn CO2 captured at Drax’s biomass power plant in Yorkshire into sustainable animal feed
Alok Sharma: 'The climate crisis has not taken any time off'
COP26 President Alok Sharma's video address for the COP26 Business Leaders Event, hosted by the Council for Sustainable Business in partnership with Defra
Government unveils £80m energy efficiency innovation push, as fears grow over promised building upgrade plan
Government announces £80m boost to cut CO2 from homes and industry alongside £200m of funding for cutting edge R&D efforts, but fresh reports fuel fears 'boring' multi-billion pound efficiency upgrade programme could be sidelined
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