New report demands Brexit boost for repair industry
· VAT on labour-intensive activities can make repairing broken items too expensive, frustrating consumers who want to avoid waste
· Once the UK is no...
Women innovators celebrated as C40 tech challenge winners announced
Four women were announced in late September as the winners of C40’s 2nd Women4Climate Tech Challenge 2020. The winners were:
Lorena Gordillo Dagallier from...
Network Rail introduces coffee cup recycling points to busy stations
Coffee-drinking commuters are being encouraged to "Sip, Save and Recycle" their cups in the UK’s biggest and busiest stations, with Network Rail announcing -...
Report reveals hypocrisy of world’s biggest plastic polluters
A new report from advocacy group The Changing Markets Foundation appears to reveal how, behind a veil of nice-sounding initiatives and commitments to address...
Study says traffic congestion increasing in London, above 2019 levels outside city centre
A new analysis released on 15 September by Environmental Defense Fund Europe (EDF Europe), based on data from the Waze for Cities Programme, appears...
Reaching WHO targets for air quality could boost UK economy by £1.6bn annually, says...
3 million working days a year lost to air pollution under current targets, says report
The new study – ‘Breathing Life into the UK Economy’...
Judges to consider legal challenge to new planning laws
A legal bid to halt sweeping changes to planning laws in the UK will be heard in October.
The challenge to the Statutory Instruments (SIs)...
Legal challenge to exclusion of waste incinerators from post-Brexit emissions trading scheme
A legal challenge has been issued to the Government’s decision to exclude municipal waste incinerators from the UK Emissions Trading Scheme - the replacement...
IoT expedites leak detection
Yorkshire Water and partners are nearing completion of the deployment of almost 4000 acoustic, flow, pressure and water quality monitors in what is said to be the UK’s largest smart water network pilot
Up-scaling CO2 capture
Zürich-based Climeworks, a firm developing direct-air capture (DAC) technology, an ambitious approach to removing CO2 from the atmosphere, has signed the agreements with both Carbfix - a firm with a proprietary approach to turning CO2 into stone underground - and ON Power, an Icelandic geothermal energy provider
Keeping track of microplastic
Microplastics seem an ever-increasing blight in waterways, but methods to measure them are evolving, and experts believe no single technology will fill this gap
Preparing for a plastics tax
The proposal was first announced during the 2018 budget, when it was made clear the tax would operate from April 2022 and would apply to the production and import of all plastic packaging with less than 30% recycled content, subject to consultation
Energy storage key to net zero ambitions, says conference speaker
The Ffestiniog scheme in North Wales: Pumped storage can resolve a perceived conflict between boosting economic activity and encouraging a sustainable green agenda, said...
Project aims to reduce the risk of sewer flooding in Argyll and Bute
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVcKT_ZReYI&feature=youtu.be
A £3.4m investment project to help reduce the risk of sewer flooding in Tarbert, Argyll and Bute began on 31 August.
The improvement work...
Drastic planning reforms could destroy nature’s future, says RSPB
The government is approaching a “fork in the road” that could “change the course of the future for nature” as it plans to shake...
Analysis points to role for AI in advancing the transition to greener energy
Artificial intelligence (AI) has already arrived in some areas of the energy industry and has the potential to further advance the integrated energy transition...
80% of oil workers considering career impacts of climate change
New study shows half in oil and gas have considered new role in renewable energy industry – or are already diversifying into it
Eight...
Stop perverse climate impact of biomass by radically reforming CO2 accounting rules, says advisory...
Several European countries who are considered leaders in climate protection owe their apparently good emission reductions to biomass. These might turn out to look...
COVID-19 pandemic should be a wake-up call for water security, say researchers
Urgent action on water security is essential to better prepare societies for future global health crises, say experts at the University of Birmingham in...
Initiative turns marine plastic pollution into reusable PPE
A seemingly world-first collaboration is bringing recycled and reusable PPE visors to UK health workers and NGOs in the Dominican Republic.
The initiative brings...
