The Government has issued £500m from the Green Homes Grant and £62m from the Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund to improve the energy efficiency of 50,000 UK homes. The £562 million package will see more than 300 local authorities across England and Scotland fund...

Global carbon emissions dropped by 5.8% in 2020 due to slowed economic activity as a result of the pandemic, the largest annual percentage decline since World War II. However, major economies led a rebound in December 2020, when emissions were 2%, or 60 million...

New legislation which aims to cut emissions, end fuel poverty, and create green jobs through the deployment of heat networks has been passed unanimously by Scottish Parliament. Introduced in March 2020, the Heat Networks (Scotland) Bill aims to reduce fossil fuel...

A Paris court has found the French state legally responsible for its failure to meet targets intended to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Billed the “affair of the century”, the case was brought by four environmental groups after an online petition was signed by 2.3...

Latest figures published by Energy UK reveal that six million customers switched supplier in 2020, an average of 496,127 switches per month. Switching levels were down 6.5% on 2019, which was a record year with 6.4 million customers choosing to switch electricity...

Last week, the government published draft regulations aimed to make all new homes ‘zero carbon ready’ by 2025. Launched as the Future Homes Standard in October 2019, the consultation proposed a ban on gas boilers in new builds from 2025, to be replaced by low-carbon...