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Veolia: Ban peat-based compost to help hit 'net zero'
Waste and water giant argues UK must stop using peat for garden compost
Industrial giant Thyssenkrupp sets 2C Science-Based Target
German industrial engineering and steel making conglomerate has promised to cut direct emissions by 30 per cent by 2030, as it aims for net zero by 2050
Baffled by bins? Students design AI rubbish sorting assistant to boost recycling quality
A zoo near Winchester is trialing a recycling solution that scans rubbish and tells visitors what bin to put it in
Co-Op urges councils to fast-track food waste collection rollout
Councils should seize opportunity to cut plastic waste and boost green gas production, supermarket says
Turkish investor eyes 'clean steel' opportunity, as it closes in on British Steel takeover
Oyak, the Turkish pension fund giant, claims to be close to finalising the proposed takeover of troubled British Steel, which fell into liquidation in May
The power and the glory: Catholic churches and schools ink major green energy deal
British Gas to provide renewable gas and electricity to over 4,500 Catholic churches and schools in one of the UK's biggest ever green energy contracts
Waste electronics: £3.5m boost for reuse and collection of small electricals
WEEE Fund aims to make it easier for people to reuse small electricals which too often end up in bins or are recycled incorrectly
'Preparing to rise to this challenge': Claire Perry hails potential of COP26 to deliver 'cooperative and ambitious action'
As UK steps up efforts to secure COP26 Summit for Glasgow, prospective Summit President Claire Perry offers her first take on what is at stake
'A positive and disruptive force': WWF Scotland exec Sam Gardner joins ScottishPower
Gardner is named as ScottishPower's first ever head of climate change and sustainability
Faraday Grid enters administration, dashing hopes of UK pilot project
High profile energy technology company calls in Grant Thornton as administrators after failing to secure project funding
University of Liverpool to ditch all fossil fuel investments
Institution commits to selling its remaining £2.8m holdings in fossil fuel companies by 2022 following pressure from student campaigners
Scrapping of insulation scheme in 2013 has cost households £3.7bn, Labour claims
Installation of home insulation has plummeted since Warm Front Scheme was scrapped in 2013, which may have led to millions of tonnes of additional CO2 emissions
Banks Group revealed as firm behind clean energy auction Judicial Review application
Developer Banks Renewables lodged application for formal review of Contracts for Difference subsidy scheme over the exclusion of onshore wind projects from current auction
Northern Ireland: Barr Cregg Wind Farm given green light
RES claims seven turbine project just outside Derry will provide enough electricity for more than 12,200 homes
Softbank makes first energy storage play with $110m investment in Energy Vault
Energy Vault claims its energy storage system will deliver baseload renewables at a lower cost than fossil fuels
As long as two Angels of the North: World's longest wind turbine blade to arrive in UK
GE Offshore Wind will today dock the first 107 metre long blade for its Haliade-X 12MW turbine at the Blyth testing facility near Newcastle
Study: Europe has enough untapped onshore wind capacity to power entire world
New study from the University of Sussex and Aarhus University finds Europe could produce 100 times more wind power than it does currently
Treasury kicks off review into 'economics of biodiversity'
Secretary to the Treasury Simon Clark eyes plans to build a 'sustainable economy in harmony with nature'
Water companies promise to plant 11 million trees by 2030
Pledge will help water suppliers towards meeting their goal of operating a carbon neutral industry in 11 years' time
Transport Secretary Grant Shapps casts doubt on Heathrow expansion
Shapps questions whether third runway 'stacks up' on financial grounds and promises to take 'really, really close look' at case for expansion
ITV News at Ten places spotlight on climate crisis
'Earth on the Edge' series kicked off this week with segment on deforestation, as broadcaster promises to beef up coverage of the climate crisis
Molson Coors joins Science-Based Targets with 1.5C goal and new plastics strategy
Beer giant is promising to cut emissions by 50 per cent and ensure all packaging is 100 per cent reusable, recyclable, compostable or biodegradeable by 2025
Solarplicity energy supply business collapses amid Ofgem row
Clean electricity specialist was reprimanded earlier this year by Ofgem for unpaid renewable energy subsidies and poor customer service
MPs launch probe into UK green trading standards amid no-deal Brexit fears
International Trade Committee to look at how UK trade policy can drive high environmental standards and tackle climate change
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