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The government is tabling legislation that looks set to result in the UK becoming the first major economy to eradicate emissions.
5 years ago
Rachel Reeves will increase the pressure on the government to move rapidly to adopt the 2050 net-zero carbon emissions goal by presenting a bill to enshrine the target in legislation.
The cabinet has defied its own climate change adviser by carrying forward emission reductions, which have already taken place, into its future carbon budgets.
Ex-Conservative leader Michael Howard has led calls for the government to implement the Committee on Climate Change’s recommendation that a target of net zero emissions by 2050 should be adopted.
Colleagues will be aware that public concern about climate change has grown to levels never
Designing Scotland’s electricity system so that it can run purely on renewable energy would require tens of billions of pounds worth of investment in battery storage or continued reliance on carbon emitting gas plants, according to modelling carried out by EDF.
Energy and clean growth minister Claire Perry has appointed the University of Strathclyde’s professor Keith Bell to the UK’s Committee on Climate Change (CCC).
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has ordered a renewable energy consultancy to remove a “misleading and unsubstantiated” claim about government policy on oil from its website.
Scotland could reduce its net greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2045 and has the potential to play a "pivotal role" in wider UK decarbonisation efforts, according to a new report from the WWF.
Drax has kicked off a six-month pilot scheme to trial carbon capture and storage (CCS) on one of the now four biomass units at its power station in Yorkshire.
"It’s a tough market for everyone out there but it’s only right to ensure that suppliers are properly equipped to meet these challenges"
Claire Perry’s instruction that the upcoming review of the UK’s carbon emissions reduction framework should not cover pre-2032 targets was a “surprise” to the climate change watchdog, its chief executive has admitted.
6 years ago
Labour has pledged to cut emissions to "net zero" by 2050 with new targets to dramatically increase the amount of wind power generation and eliminate fuel poverty.
Scotland is outperforming the rest of the UK on reducing greenhouse gas emissions but needs fresh measures to meet its own recently introduced targets, according to parliament’s climate change watchdog.
