Day: 5 June 2015

Its Not You, Its S-ME: Why Current Standards Are Holding Small Businesses Back

The debate on how best to tackle the issues of climate change often regurgitates familiar concepts of resilience building, risk management and opportunities to improve efficiency across industry. It has been suggested however that we should bypass these ideas and instead innovate our way out of trouble. Here in the UK, we are certainly not short on blue-sky thinkers, with small-medium sized enterprises (SMEs) constituting the majority of the environmental technology sector. However, as technologies become more advanced, it raises the question of whether the current regulatory environment can keep up with this increasingly innovative and fast-moving market, and if not, what alternatives can SMEs turn to.

Major offshore wind power deal struck for East Anglia ONE

The biggest ever deal for a consented project in the UK's wind energy sector has been agreed for what will be one of the world's largest wind farms when it's built off the Suffolk coast.

Scotlands first ‘recycling superstore’ opens in the Highlands

Zero Waste Scotland has launched its first recycling superstore in the Scottsih Highlands

World Environment Day: 10 things we should ALL be thinking about

The 2015 edition of World Environment Day is surrounded, fittingly, by a maelstrom of debate around climate change.

£75m low-carbon power deal for giant EfW plant

One of the UK's biggest ever low-carbon power purchase deals has been signed ahead of the opening of a £300m energy-from-waste (EfW) plant in Yorkshire later this year.

Report: Coal and oil investors will lose money on 2C planet

Investments in the coal and oil sectors will see annual losses up to 2% over the next 10 years, if the world's governments commit to limiting global warming to 2C at Paris later this year.

Defra outlines duties for new waste minister

The Department for Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has confirmed the responsibilities that will be given to the new Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State Rory Stewart.

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