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
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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...
Researchers identify human influence as key agent of ocean warming patterns in the future
The oceans play an important role in regulating our climate and its change by absorbing heat and carbon. Scientists from the Department of Physics...
Selfridges unveils ambitious initiative incorporating new retail models and an attempt to shift shopping...
Department store Selfridges has launched a new sustainability initiative, Project Earth, with a declared commitment to "change the way we shop by 2025."
The retailer...
Lost revenue is biggest Covid risk facing utilities
Non-payment of customer bills poses the biggest Covid-19 threat to water utilities worldwide, one of several water industry issues discussed at a technology consultancy's...
Five local authorities selected by Defra for nature recovery pilots
Cornwall, Buckinghamshire, Greater Manchester, Northumberland and Cumbria local authorities were selected by the government on 14 August "to help kick-start nature recovery on a...
Urgent action needed to save ‘shovel-ready’ renewable heat projects, say UK biogas firms
Renewable energy projects in the agri-food sector excluded from BEIS’s RHI Covid-19 Extension
Includes 20MW of previously-eligible renewable heat projects on farms and...
IoT project will assess impact of climate change on forests, and inform UK policymaking
A trial is underway in forests in Surrey and Northumberland to assess the potential for Internet of Things (IoT) technology to monitor tree growth...
Water industry still needs to address exclusion, says OFWAT chief
A glass ceiling is still “looming over” women working across the water industry and despite some progress, the sector is being held back by...
