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A comprehensive new report by the Climate Change Committee (CCC) demonstrates the scale of the task in achieving the Government’s 2035 goal, with 25 new recommendations to improve the prospects of delivery.

The programme is led by the National Science Foundation (NSF), which has partnered with funding organisations in Australia, Canada, and the UK to support large-scale collaborative research.

RenewableUK has confirmed that 60% of Britain’s energy was supplied by low carbon sources (renewables and nuclear) saving the nation over £15 billion in gas costs.

The UK Government and Devolved Governments are jointly seeking to appoint a new Chair to the Climate Change Committee (CCC), which comprises the Mitigation committee and the Adaptation Committee. The CCC is an independent, statutory body established under the Climate Change Act 2008. The Chair wi...

World Water Day is an annual event aimed at bringing attention to sustainable water management and this year’s theme is “accelerating change”. The article explores how an acceleration in clean energy development can help ease the world’s water crisis.

Despite the drop in wholesale prices, domestic power prices have remained high. The Default Tariff Price Cap is set to fall in the first three months of 2023. The government has extended the EPG at its current rate until July, u-turning on the previous decision to increase it from April.

Lucy Lyons, a graduate of the Oxford Smith School’s MSc in Sustainability, Enterprise and the Environment has secured investment funding from start-up accelerator Carbon13 for her start-up Kestrix, which she co-founded in 2022.

The innovative Clean Heat Streets project to install up to 150 heat pumps in Rose Hill, Oxford, ultimately aims to save time, money, and resources to encourage more people to adopt heat pump technology.