Month: February 2014

Businesses warned over higher fines for environmental crimes

Businesses face bigger fines for breaking environmental laws due to new sentencing guidelines for courts in England and Wales.

Cola-Cola looks beyond water targets to wider policy challenge

Coca-Cola's director of global water stewardship Greg Koch has revealed that policy engagement is the fastest growing area of the company's work on water as he called for greater government intervention on the issue.

Industry urges Gov to push ahead with zero carbon non-domestic buildings

The Government must urgently push ahead with plans to ensure all new non domestic buildings are built to zero carbon standards from 2019, a report from a UK-GBC industry Task Group warns.

UK residual waste treatment infrastructure facing troubled future, report suggests

Residual waste treatment infrastructure will be unable to cope with waste volumes over the next ten years, according to a new report published by recycling and waste management firm SITA UK.

Food and drink manufacturers ‘making progress’ on landfill reduction

Food and drink manufacturers are making good progress towards meeting their zero waste to landfill goal by 2015, according to a new trade survey.

Man-made climate change is one of the UK’s biggest threats, says David Cameron

Prime Minister David Cameron has said that man-made climate change is one of the greatest threats to the UK and the rest of the world.

GIB alliance makes £50m available for energy efficiency projects

The UK Green Investment Bank (GIB) is putting up £25m in funding for public and private sector organisations wanting to implement energy efficiency projects.

WRAP to work on new research to help improve plastic and metal market transparency

The Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP) and Valpak, an environmental compliance scheme, have announced that they are set to work together on two new projects that will review existing estimates of market flows and recycling levels for plastic and metal packaging in the UK.

IKEA’s FSC certificate suspended for poor forestry practices in Russia

Furniture giant IKEA has had its forest management certificate suspended for its operations in Karelia, Russia, after the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) revealed concerns with poor forestry practices.

Crown Estate’s integrated approach to sustainability result of ‘ripping up strategy’

After ten years, The Crown Estate's award-winning sustainability strategy had become so embedded in operations it was no longer needed. Instead it now simply informs all aspects of one holistic business plan according to head of sustainability Mark Gough.

Virgin Trains achieves environmental management certification

Virgin Trains has achieved ISO 14001, the internationally recognised Environmental Management System standard.

New standards urge financial sector to address sustainability issues

A new set of sustainability accounting standards, addressing the environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues related to the financial sector, have been launched today.

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