Day: 8 November 2017

Health and wellbeing: the next frontier for the built environment

Food and drink manufacturing sustainability: edie launches new sector insight report

The key sustainability drivers, challenges and opportunities facing UK businesses are being explored in a series of industry-focused edie insight reports, with the third sector summary investigating the state of sustainability in food and drink manufacturing published today (8 November).

US isolated as Syria signs the Paris Agreement

The US, the world's second largest emitter, is "out in the cold" as the only nation outside of the Paris Agreement on climate change, after Syria became the latest and last signatory to the global accord.

EU and California to discuss linking carbon markets

The EU and California are beginning talks to potentially create a common carbon market that could also include China.

Government faces fresh air quality legal case

The Government is being taken to court for the third time by environmental lawyers over the UK's illegal levels of toxic air pollution.

Nearly half of all fresh potatoes thrown away daily by UK households

Nearly half of the edible fresh potatoes bought by UK householders each day are thrown away - nearly 2.7 million of them per day, and at a "staggering" annual cost of £230m, figures show.

Renault unveils ‘industry-first’ autonomous driving safety feature

French car maker Renault has developed an "industry first" autonomous control system that can match professional test drivers on road obstacle avoidance scenarios, bringing the car makers self-driving vision closer to reality.

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