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'That is the point of our exit': Johnson raises prospect of UK environmental rules diverging from the EU
Prime Minister insists government remains committed to 'world-class' environmental standards, but insists laws and regulations to deliver them 'will potentially diverge from those of the EU'
Rafiki Power: E.ON offloads African off-grid venture in PowerGen deal
Leading African micro-grid specialist PowerGen acquires Rafiki Power from European energy giant
UK Climate Investments ramps up support for South African renewables projects
Joint venture between Green Investment Group and UK government to invest £14m in development of 254MW of South African renewables projects
Essential AI: Top business groups call for creation of International Centre for AI, Energy and Climate
Leading trade bodies, clean tech start-ups, and green campaigners join forces to put forward proposal for a new AI-focused research centre
Plastics crisis: Sainsbury's ditches plastic tampon applicators
No own-brand tampons will use plastic applicators as supermarket bids to 'remove unnecessary plastic' from its product lines
OVO Energy powers up sustainable marketing strategy
Company promises to prioritise digital marketing, carbon offset any print-based messaging, and end all door drop marketing
Study: 10.5 million patients visiting UK hospitals in areas with dirty air
Study by UK100 and British Lung Foundation prompts calls for action to reduce transport and industrial emissions in cities
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
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'
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