Day: 13 November 2014

Cameron’s Climate Envoy to head up London Sustainable Development Commission

The Mayor of London Boris Johnson has today (13 November) appointed former DECC Minister Greg Barker as the new chairman of the London Sustainable Development Commission.

£10m boost for community renewables

Ed Davey today announced a £10m funding injection for community-owned renewable energy projects.

Fossil fuel subsidies obstructing renewable energy investment, warns IEA

Fossil fuel subsidies totalled $550bn in 2013 - more than four-times those to renewables - and are holding back investment in efficiency and renewable energy.

UNEP: Protected areas ‘vital’ to global economy and climate

More than six million square kilometres of land has been 'protected' in the past four years, but a new UNEP report has argued that better funding and management would help these areas boost local economies and mitigate the impact of climate change.

Novelis makes new high-recycled content pledge for beverage can sheet production

Aluminium giant Novelis has announced that all of its aluminium can sheet will be under its high-recycled content brand by 2017.

Carlsberg faces up to ‘tough’ circular economy changes

The uptake of a circular economy business model at Carlsberg has been admittedly difficult as the brewing company battles the perfect storm of poor government engagement, a lack of industry collaboration and in-house habitual change.

Mondelez takes ‘bold step’ with third-party evaluation of sustainable coffee programme

Mondelez International has unveiled 'a new way of approaching sustainability in the coffee industry' with the development of a more stringent and transparent supply chain evaluation framework to measure the impact of its global sustainability programme.

Researchers to develop concrete partially replacing sand with plastic

Academics from the University of Bath have teamed up with Indian researchers in a two-year project to create concrete that uses plastic waste as a partial replacement for sand.

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