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From floating turbines to carbon capture x-rays: UK clean tech research labs gain multi-million pound funding boost
From floating turbines to carbon capture x-rays: UK clean tech research labs gain multi-million pound funding boost

Government announces £213m funding pot to help upgrade UK science and research facilities up and down the country

  • Science
  • 06 January 2021
Government funds five 'state of the art' circular economy R&D centres
Government funds five 'state of the art' circular economy R&D centres

Innovation centres in London, Loughborough and Exeter secure £22.5m to develop waste-cutting techniques for textiles, metals, electronics, construction and chemicals

  • R&D
  • 12 November 2020
Belfast zero emission ferry project among £400m UK government funding winners
Belfast zero emission ferry project among £400m UK government funding winners

Ferries using 'electric hydrofoil propulsion' technology and capable of carrying 350 passengers to be developed in Belfast Harbour

  • Shipping
  • 26 June 2020
Scientists hail plastic-eating enzyme as 'breakthrough' for recycling
Scientists hail plastic-eating enzyme as 'breakthrough' for recycling

Demonstration plant to open next year for lab-engineered enzyme researchers claim can break down 90 per cent of PET plastic in 10 hours

  • Recycling
  • 09 April 2020
Living Lab: UK smart home energy test centre takes step forward
Living Lab: UK smart home energy test centre takes step forward

SysMech's digital cloud system to support Living Lab 2.0 test centre for low carbon heating, EVs and smart home energy innovations

  • Technology
  • 06 April 2020
Scientists reveal promising results for fertiliser pellets made from captured carbon
Scientists reveal promising results for fertiliser pellets made from captured carbon

Pellets made with captured CO2 could be used as a lower carbon fertiliser

  • Technology
  • 05 July 2019
A very public message to get serious about combatting climate change
A very public message to get serious about combatting climate change

UK industry must prepare for the radical supply chain changes deep decarbonisation will bring, argues Victoria Sinclair of ScottishPower Renewables

  • Supply chain
  • 13 June 2019
COP24 Overnight Briefing: Sports industry joins race against climate change
COP24 Overnight Briefing: Sports industry joins race against climate change

Ready, steady go! All the news from Katowice, including a new framework for greener sports

  • Climate change
  • 12 December 2018
Green catapults: BEIS steps up investment in cities and transport innovation
Green catapults: BEIS steps up investment in cities and transport innovation

UK's Future Cities and Transport Systems R&D Catapults to merge as BEIS announces additional £215m in support of innovation research centres

  • Policy
  • 25 October 2018
Green innovators sought for £60m of climate resilience and clean air funding
Green innovators sought for £60m of climate resilience and clean air funding

Government unveils four research programmes totaling £60m in funding that aim to support new ideas for tackling air pollution and climate impacts

  • Investment
  • 19 October 2018
'Failure to see it has consequences': Is a green transport utopia closer than we realise?
'Failure to see it has consequences': Is a green transport utopia closer than we realise?

Businesses should not underestimate the scale and pace of imminent disruption from electric, autonomous vehicles, warns Jamie Arbib, co-founder of think tank RethinkX

  • Automotive
  • 20 February 2018
Range anxiety? Major project aims to double distance EVs can travel
Range anxiety? Major project aims to double distance EVs can travel

Battery research project led by UK firm Nexeon aims to pave the way for electric cars capable of traveling more than 400 miles on a single charge

  • Automotive
  • 04 January 2018
UK ORE strikes offshore wind collaboration deal with China's Tus
UK ORE strikes offshore wind collaboration deal with China's Tus

EXCLUSIVE: Deal will offer UK businesses a route into the offshore wind market in China, forge research links and secure UK role in 500MW demonstrator project in Shandong Province

  • Wind
  • 15 December 2017
Government announces plans for new nuclear, large and small
Government announces plans for new nuclear, large and small

Three-year funding programme announced for small modular reactors, alongside proposals for large power stations across the UK and £86m for nuclear fusion research

  • Nuclear
  • 07 December 2017
Bon appétit: France bags top spot for sustainable eating
Bon appétit: France bags top spot for sustainable eating

Annual food sustainability index ranks countries on their performance on food waste, sustainable agriculture, and tackling nutritional challenges

  • Supply chain
  • 05 December 2017
Gateshead's £30m integrated clean energy research facility takes shape
Gateshead's £30m integrated clean energy research facility takes shape

InTEGReL - the Integrated Transport Electricity Gas Research Laboratory - unveiled with view to helping UK develop a fully integrated, zero carbon energy network

  • R&D
  • 11 September 2017
Fallen leaves could be used to make high-tech electronics
Fallen leaves could be used to make high-tech electronics

Rather than burning dead leaves, scientists suggest they can be used to make supercapacitors to rival even those made from wonder material graphene

  • Waste
  • 05 September 2017
Breakthrough in algae production could usher in desert farming, claim scientists
Breakthrough in algae production could usher in desert farming, claim scientists

Researchers from Abu Dhabi and the UAE pioneer new strain of algae that can thrive in ultra-bright desert environments - opening the door for algal farming in the Middle East

  • Science
  • 04 September 2017
Sustainable energy: 20 years in three questions
Sustainable energy: 20 years in three questions

E4tech's David Hart argues that nothing shows the sustainability sector's evolution better than shift in questions asked about it

  • Management
  • 02 August 2017
President Macron defies Trump with drive to 'Make Our Planet Great Again'
President Macron defies Trump with drive to 'Make Our Planet Great Again'

In direct riposte to Donald Trump and US exit from Paris Agreement, French leader launches campaign to lure US scientists to France

  • Climate change
  • 09 June 2017
Green Brexit: Bordering on a skills crisis?
Green Brexit: Bordering on a skills crisis?

How is the UK green economy likely to fare if EU freedom of movement comes to an end?

  • Work
  • 10 April 2017
Clean tech R&D boost from £15m Innovate UK funding competition
Clean tech R&D boost from £15m Innovate UK funding competition

Robot inspection of wind turbines, rapid charging for multiple EVs and zero emission cremation among winning projects

  • R&D
  • 03 February 2017
Gaining traction: Imperial College London to investigate using solar to directly power trains
Gaining traction: Imperial College London to investigate using solar to directly power trains

University partners with charity 10:10 on Renewable Traction Power project to investigate using track-side solar panels to power trains

  • Rail
  • 10 January 2017
UK Green Building Council seeks fresh ideas with launch of 'Innovation Lab' workshops
UK Green Building Council seeks fresh ideas with launch of 'Innovation Lab' workshops

Marks and Spencers and Land Securities are lead partners on new initiative, which aims to spark innovation in green building sector

  • Buildings
  • 06 January 2017
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