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Government ‘must back’ low-cost green measures, says Committee on Climate Change

28 June 2018 12:49 BST

Unless action is taken now, the public faces an unnecessarily expensive deal to make the shift to a low-carbon economy, according to the Committee on Climate Change (CCC).
Lack of access to legal justice flagged by Scottish roundtable

4 June 2018 12:59 BST

The loss of access to environmental justice remains one of the most pressing concerns when the UK leaves the EU, according to Scottish government advisers
The carbon guardian: interview with BEIS committee chair Rachel Reeves

31 May 2018 17:29 BST

Rachel Reeves, chair of the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee, is frustrated by inaction on low-carbon policy. She talks to James Parsons about clean growth, carbon budgets, electric vehicles and women in the energy sector
Drax reveals ‘carbon negative’ biomass CO2 capture project

21 May 2018 13:07 BST

Drax is to fit a demonstration-scale carbon capture system to one of its biomass lines, the firm announced today
Scotland’s climate policy to 2032 revealed

1 March 2018 13:06 GMT

Holyrood has published its climate change plan for the country up to 2032 but previous drafts were more ambitious in scope
Government ‘must shoulder’ CCS infrastructure

1 February 2018 17:26 GMT

Transport and storage of CO2 technologies must be deployed by government to get the sector off the ground, according to new report
Clean growth plan not enough to decarbonise

17 January 2018 13:52 GMT

The Committee on Climate Change (CCC) believes policy action to implement the CGS is needed now or the UK will miss its legally binding emission targets
Beyond the CRC

18 December 2017 16:50 GMT

As 2019 marks the end of the CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme, James Parsons investigates the implications of the new policies the government is seeking to implement to require firms to report on their emissions