A review of the fiscal arrangements between Scotland and the rest of the UK may be needed to address the “asymmetric shock” of climate change across the country, according to Scotland’s official...
Minimising the effects of extreme heat could improve sleep, prevent billions of pounds in lost productivity a year, the Environmental Audit Committee has said.
Could ideas from Victorian times help solve pressing problems like climate change or factory sweatshops? We’ve found the early adopters who think they can.
Many councils want the government to give them funding and powers to deal with climate change, but there are big variations across the country between what action the authorities have already taken...
The absence of a clear plan to build and fund new nuclear plants could put the government’s carbon neutral goals at risk, a parliamentary committee has warned.
Ambitious Labour and Conservative plans to decarbonise the UK power sector will fail without a substantial increase in investment - and the money needed could be “politically infeasible”, a former...
The government will fail to accelerate the transition to net zero without the devolution of funding and additional resources to boost local authority capacity, city leaders have warned.
Public sector standards-setters should look to industry when developing sustainable reporting rules or risk lagging even further behind on climate reporting, CIPFA has warned.
A county council is set to begin releasing details about its carbon emissions together with its annual budget in order to monitor its impact on the environment.
Local authority net zero objectives are being hampered by a lack of funding, relevant skills and supportive government framework, delegates to the opening session of Public Finance Live 2021 heard...
Councils will get just £300m extra to help low-income households make their homes more efficient after the government abandoned a £1.5bn grants scheme with a similar aim after just six months.
