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New UK air pollution plan must be drawn up urgently, rules Supreme Court

The UK’s Supreme Court has ruled that the Government must formulate new plans on cutting air pollution as a matter of urgency.....

Added on: 01/05/2015

Shell lobby for gas undermined key EU renewables targets, documents reveal

Shell successfully lobbied to undermine European renewable energy targets ahead of a key agreement on emissions cuts reached in October last year, newly released documents reveal.....

Added on: 01/05/2015

Labour pledges to make energy efficiency a "national infrastructure priority"

Labour has promised to retrofit five million homes over the next decade, making them warmer and cheaper to heat, and to create a million new green jobs.....

Added on: 24/04/2015

Election 2015: Tories right to buy is bad news for our sustainable homes crisis

Ignore the mudslinging. The problem with right to buy is that it’s a distraction we can ill afford from the real housing crisis – creating enough affordable, energy efficient homes in Britain – ....

Added on: 24/04/2015

Top scientist release Earth Day statement: "COP21 is the moment of truth"

Three-quarters of known fossil fuel reserves must be kept in the ground if humanity is to avoid the worst effects of climate change, a group of leading scientists and economists have said in a stateme....

Added on: 24/04/2015

Conservative's housing right to-buy pledge attacked for being unsustainable

The Conservatives have come under fire after David Cameron pledged to give people the chance of a "good life" by extending Margaret Thatcher’s right-to-buy scheme to 1.3 million families in housing ....

Added on: 17/04/2015

Election 2015: can we trust Ed Miliband on the green economy?

Ed Miliband wants to convince the voting public that he can be trusted to reduce the deficit, but can he be trusted to steer a green, as well as stable, economy if he becomes Prime Minister, Louise Ba....

Added on: 17/04/2015

Greens pledge action on climate change and end to austerity in party manifesto

The Green party will launch its manifesto calling for a "peaceful political revolution" to end austerity.....

Added on: 17/04/2015

US pledges to cut carbon emissions by 28 per cent ahead of climate talks

The White House pledged to cut carbon pollution by up to 28 per cent on Tuesday, boosting the prospects for an international agreement on climate change at the end of the year.....

Added on: 02/04/2015

UN Green Climate Fund can invest in fossil fuels

The UN fund to help developing countries fight climate change can be spent on coal-fired power plants – the most polluting form of electricity generation – under rules agreed at a board meeting.....

Added on: 02/04/2015