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Answers must change as quickly as the problems do, according to Sir James Bevan, chief executive of the Environment Agency who has insisted all companies in the utilities sector must realise the value of investing in resilience.
5 years ago
New figures show the UK’s 10 warmest years on record have occurred since 2002, a stark reminder of the challenge for utilities adapting to climate change.
Economist Richard Green assesses the options for sharing out the costs of decarbonisation fairly.
This week’s 50th anniversary of the first Moon landings has sparked an outpouring of memories
6 years ago
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.
A new report has backed burning or creating liquid fuels gas from biomass and then capturing the resulting carbon dioxide emissions.
Theresa May has signed up the UK to the coalition of nations working to support the Paris Agreement’s goal to eradicate net carbon emissions by 2050.
Leon Flexman, corporate affairs director at Hitachi-backed Horizon Nuclear Power said that cost reductions in the Wylfa project are having a knock-on impact on the strike price, the guaranteed floor for the sum it will be paid for generating electricity.
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.
A total of 131 MPs, which forms about one-fifth of the 646-strong House of Commons, have signed a letter to Theresa May, calling on the government to to adopt a net zero greenhouse gas emissions target before 2050.
One of the UK’s leading energy academics has cast doubt on whether carbon capture and storage (CCS) can be relied upon to facilitate the mass conversion of the heating system to hydrogen.
The government should agree support for only one more new nuclear power station before 2025, the National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) has advised.
The UK can cost effectively slash the carbon intensity of its electricity generation by 2030, according to a new report from the climate change watchdog whose chair has called for an acceleration of the mooted sales ban on petrol cars.
The Scottish government has raised its carbon reduction target to 90 per cent of 1990 levels by the middle of this century.
Drax has announced plans to trial carbon capture and storage (CCS) on one of the three biomass units at its power station in Yorkshire.
The Clean Growth Strategy is key to translating the government's ambitions to tackling emissions, but many worry the document is short on practical plans for how to do this. David Blackman reports.
