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Net Zero Tracker: Companies 'leading' governments on drive to strengthen climate targets

Net Zero Now

Net Zero Tracker: Companies 'leading' governments on drive to strengthen climate targets

Major assessment of net zero targets of leading firms and countries reveals robust net zero pledges cover 10 per cent of global GDP

clock 26 October 2021 • 3 min read
In the dark: Poll reveals limited public understanding of boiler emissions

Buildings

In the dark: Poll reveals limited public understanding of boiler emissions

Findings come as Nationwide Building Society and ITV team up on new series designed to enlighten Brits on how they can 'green' their homes and Ministers gear up to publish long-awaited Heat and Buildings Strategy

clock 18 October 2021 • 4 min read
Reheating the shale gas debate will not solve the gas crunch

Energy

Reheating the shale gas debate will not solve the gas crunch

Don't listen to the fossil fuel enthusiasts pushing fracking as a solution for the UK's currently volatile energy market, argues ECIU's Dr Simon Cran-McGreehin

clock 05 October 2021 • 5 min read
'Wasteful and baffling': Government urged to stop funding gas boilers through fuel poverty grant scheme

Policy

'Wasteful and baffling': Government urged to stop funding gas boilers through fuel poverty grant scheme

All subsidies for heating systems that undermine the UK’s climate goals must come to an end, analysts warn

clock 14 September 2021 • 4 min read
Hot or not? What to make of the Heat and Buildings Strategy rumours

Policy

Hot or not? What to make of the Heat and Buildings Strategy rumours

Jess Ralston from the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU) attempts to cut through the noise swirling around around the long-awaited Heat and Buildings Strategy

clock 25 August 2021 • 5 min read
Putin's laughing now

Risk

Putin's laughing now

Delaying net zero will not only increase costs, but keep us vulnerable to Putin and Co's every whim

clock 06 August 2021 • 5 min read

Supply chain

'Stuck on the starting line': Is the UK lagging behind Europe in the race for clean steel?

Report from Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit warns the UK is failing to match its European peers in its development of pioneering green steel projects

clock 25 May 2021 • 3 min read

Biodiversity

Peatlands and trees could be cornerstones of Defra's net zero strategy

ECIU's Matt Williams assesses the government's recent trees and peat action plans, and how they might fit into the government's wider net zero strategy

clock 19 May 2021 • 6 min read

Policy

Green Homes Grant: How to turn a mess into a marvel

clock 30 April 2021 • 4 min read

Energy

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

clock 30 March 2021 • 7 min read