Green Recovery Challenge Fund

Report: Government-backed Covid recovery fund creates more than 2,600 green jobs

Biodiversity

Report: Government-backed Covid recovery fund creates more than 2,600 green jobs

Grants from the £80m government-backed Green Recovery Challenge Fund have helped create thousands of jobs in the environmental sector since September 2020, report claims

clock 21 December 2023 • 3 min read
Government faces fresh calls to help local authorities drive net zero transition

Politics

Government faces fresh calls to help local authorities drive net zero transition

Friends of the Earth sets out series of proposals to help councils drive down emissions

clock 16 August 2021 • 4 min read

Policy

Nature recovery and tree planting projects share £40m government funding

Some 90 projects aim to support 2,500 jobs and plant one million trees with grants from Defra's latest funding round

clock 28 July 2021 • 2 min read
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