Day: 1 May 2015

GALLERY: Top 10 sustainability stories in April 2015

It was the month of the big party pledges, zero energy coffees and smartphones made from food waste. Take a look back at April's most-read sustainability news stories in our gallery round-up.

M&S embarks on new behaviour change plan

UK retailer Marks & Spencer has launched a new behavior change campaign to help it cut energy use by 50% across UK operations by 2020.

Church of England ends investments in heavily polluting fossil fuels

The Church of England has pulled its money out of two of the most polluting fossil fuels as part of what it called its moral responsibility to protect the world's poor from the impact of global warming.

Green energy jobs grow 7 times faster than national average

Employment in renewable energy increased by 9% across all sectors last year, with biomass heating emerging as the best-performing sector in terms of recruitment.

UK leaps to third in world for large-scale solar

The UK now boasts the third largest utility-scale solar capacity in the world after a flurry of first quarter installations.

Tesla’s foray into energy storage could ‘revolutionise energy system’

The news that Tesla is launching a battery energy storage pack is 'another nail in the coffin of conventional utilities', according to a professor of energy policy at the University of Exeter.

London leads charge towards sustainable megacities

London is the only 'megacity' in the world where electricity use per capita is going down while GDP is going up, according to a new University of Toronto study.

Sustainability stats: This week in numbers

The biggest news of the week came from the highest court in the land, when the Supeme Court ruled in favour of ClientEarth and ordered the UK Government to clean up its act on air pollution.

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