Business groups are urging the chancellor, Rishi Sunak, to keep funding home insulation and other low-carbon measures under the green homes grant, which is under…
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Bill Gates: ‘Carbon neutrality in a decade is a fairytale. Why peddle fantasies?’
Bill Gates appears via video conference – Microsoft Teams, not Zoom, obviously – from his office in Seattle, a large space with floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking…
View More Bill Gates: ‘Carbon neutrality in a decade is a fairytale. Why peddle fantasies?’Digging in: a million trees planted as villages and schools join climate battle
The UK may be in the grip of a winter lockdown but in one village on the edge of the Yorkshire Dales the local climate-change…
View More Digging in: a million trees planted as villages and schools join climate battleUK’s green plan offers mixed hopes for post-Covid-19 jobs boom
Britain’s homes are going green, says Derek Horrocks, who runs a home insulation business in Lancashire that has vacancies for architects, surveyors, administrators and accountants.…
View More UK’s green plan offers mixed hopes for post-Covid-19 jobs boomGlobal heating to blame for threat of deadly flood in Peru, study finds
Human-caused global heating is directly responsible for the threat of a devastating flood in Peru that is the subject of a lawsuit against the German…
View More Global heating to blame for threat of deadly flood in Peru, study findsCourt convicts French state for failure to address climate crisis
A Paris court has convicted the French state of failing to address the climate crisis and not keeping its promises to tackle greenhouse gas emissions.…
View More Court convicts French state for failure to address climate crisisControversy over new UK regulation to protect peatland
Regulations are to be brought in to prevent the burning of heather and other vegetation in a move to better protect peatlands. The protection for…
View More Controversy over new UK regulation to protect peatlandBank of England must do more to secure green recovery from Covid, say MPs
The Bank of England must do more to ensure a green recovery from the Covid-19 crisis, as current emergency finance measures have not carried conditions…
View More Bank of England must do more to secure green recovery from Covid, say MPsBuyers of brand-new homes face £20,000 bill to make them greener
Householders buying brand new homes in the next four years are likely to find an unpleasant surprise awaiting them in the future: homes built today…
View More Buyers of brand-new homes face £20,000 bill to make them greenerOne, two, tree: how AI helped find millions of trees in the Sahara
When a team of international scientists set out to count every tree in a large swathe of west Africa using AI, satellite images and one…
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