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20 Sep 19
Government should spend 2.5% of GDP on improving air quality, London public health leaders have urged.
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16 Sep 19
Housing minister Esther McVey has committed £2m to help local authorities ‘crack down on illegal developments’ on green belt land.
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5 Sep 19
Councils need more information on funding arrangements behind the government’s waste strategy, MPs have said.
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5 Sep 19
The Scottish Government has announced plans to become a country with net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2045.
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3 Sep 19
HS2 could cost as much as £88bn and faces a seven-year delay, transport secretary Grant Shapps told parliament in a statement today.
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2 Sep 19
Lawyers from an environmental charity are writing to 100 councils in England to remind them of their legal obligations to include carbon reduction targets in their Local Plans.
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30 Aug 19
Local authorities in the North and Midlands are still counting the cost of the heavy rains that have fallen across the region over the past few months, they have explained to PF.
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26 Jul 19
Local authorities in England will have to collect the main types of recyclable materials by 2023, the government has announced.
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25 Jul 19
Between 2010 and 2017 60% - £4.6bn - of the UK’s support for energy in developing countries went towards fossil fuel sources, according to analysis by the Catholic Agency for Overseas Development....
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17 Jul 19
Local authorities must be given the “freedom to tailor their approach” to comply with the government’s waste strategy, the local government minister has been told.
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11 Jul 19
Public sector bodies must band together to tackle climate change as it is them who will pay the price for the effects of a climate disaster, delegates at CIPFA’s annual conference have been told.
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20 Jun 19
Local authorities are being urged to restrict traffic around schools after a study in London found “relatively high levels” of air pollution inside classrooms, posing a risk to children’s health.
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14 Jun 19
Greater Manchester’s goal to become carbon neutral by 2038 has been enshrined in an ambitious industrial strategy for the region.
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12 Jun 19
The UK has committed to eradicating its net contribution to climate change by 2050, in a plan that will see it become the first major economy to set its zero emissions target in law.
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7 Jun 19
A government agency has been accused of undermining emissions targets by handing out billions in support of foreign fossil fuel projects.
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3 Jun 19
Subsidising fossil fuels does not improve people’s lives and will ultimately prove more costly to economies, says the WWF’s Vanessa Perez Cirera.
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3 Jun 19
Local authorities are likely to miss recycling targets set out in the government’s waste disposal strategy, say academics.
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9 May 19
The international development select committee has urged the government to put climate change at the heart of UK aid strategy.
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2 May 19
An environment body the government proposes to take over functions currently carried out by European Union bodies could leave a “governance gap”, according to MPs.
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19 Feb 19
Local authorities will be given £13m to renovate and restore parks and green spaces, the communities secretary has announced.
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14 Jan 19
The government has been accused of shunting its responsibility for tackling air pollution onto cash-strapped councils.
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4 Jan 19
The number of landlords prosecuted by London boroughs for providing substandard accommodation has fallen sharply over the last three years, research has shown.
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5 Nov 18
Plastic pollution is a real problem and one the public cares passionately about. The Budget offered a partial solution, says Peter Maddox, charity director at WRAP.
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22 Oct 18
Councils are calling on manufacturers to “play their part” in meeting the rising cost of recycling after China banned the importation of certain materials.
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21 Aug 18
Allowing councils to buy agricultural land at ‘fair market value’ could ease the housing crisis, housing groups and think-tanks have said.
20 Sep 19Government should spend 2.5% of GDP on improving air quality, London public health leaders have urged.
16 Sep 19Housing minister Esther McVey has committed £2m to help local authorities ‘crack down on illegal developments’ on green belt land.
5 Sep 19Councils need more information on funding arrangements behind the government’s waste strategy, MPs have said.
5 Sep 19The Scottish Government has announced plans to become a country with net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2045.
3 Sep 19HS2 could cost as much as £88bn and faces a seven-year delay, transport secretary Grant Shapps told parliament in a statement today.
2 Sep 19Lawyers from an environmental charity are writing to 100 councils in England to remind them of their legal obligations to include carbon reduction targets in their Local Plans.
30 Aug 19Local authorities in the North and Midlands are still counting the cost of the heavy rains that have fallen across the region over the past few months, they have explained to PF.
26 Jul 19Local authorities in England will have to collect the main types of recyclable materials by 2023, the government has announced.
25 Jul 19Between 2010 and 2017 60% - £4.6bn - of the UK’s support for energy in developing countries went towards fossil fuel sources, according to analysis by the Catholic Agency for Overseas Development....
11 Jul 19Public sector bodies must band together to tackle climate change as it is them who will pay the price for the effects of a climate disaster, delegates at CIPFA’s annual conference have been told.
14 Jun 19Greater Manchester’s goal to become carbon neutral by 2038 has been enshrined in an ambitious industrial strategy for the region.
12 Jun 19The UK has committed to eradicating its net contribution to climate change by 2050, in a plan that will see it become the first major economy to set its zero emissions target in law.
7 Jun 19A government agency has been accused of undermining emissions targets by handing out billions in support of foreign fossil fuel projects.
9 May 19The international development select committee has urged the government to put climate change at the heart of UK aid strategy.
19 Feb 19Local authorities will be given £13m to renovate and restore parks and green spaces, the communities secretary has announced.
4 Jan 19The number of landlords prosecuted by London boroughs for providing substandard accommodation has fallen sharply over the last three years, research has shown.
22 Oct 18Councils are calling on manufacturers to “play their part” in meeting the rising cost of recycling after China banned the importation of certain materials.
21 Aug 18Allowing councils to buy agricultural land at ‘fair market value’ could ease the housing crisis, housing groups and think-tanks have said.
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