The Department for Communities and Local Government has withdrawn £1.9bn of funding from 13 planned Private Finance Initiative housing projects, it was announced today
Should the public sector start drowning its sorrows as the cuts kick in? Doom merchants certainly seem to think so. But perhaps in reality the glass is half full and not half empty. Tony Travers...
Councils have condemned changes to the Carbon Reduction Commitment energy efficiency scheme announced in last week's Comprehensive Spending Review, which could land them with tax bills of up to £1m a...
Almost 2,800 public and private sector organisations have registered for the government's Carbon Reduction Commitment emissions trading scheme, and a further 400 are going through the process, it was...
The Environment Agency has said it will not ‘name and shame’ organisations that fail to sign up to its Carbon Reduction Commitment emissions trading scheme in time for tomorrow’s deadline
The public utility Scottish Water is to be transformed into a 'dynamic' agency with powers to become one of the country's biggest generators of renewable electricity, First Minister Alex Salmond has...
London Mayor Boris Johnson today pledged £4m of funding for sports projects that help tackle crime, unemployment and other social problems in the capital
Investment in Welsh woodland could be at risk after auditors found that the criteria for grants from the Forestry Commission Wales were not sufficiently robust.
Environmentalists have accused the government of ‘not getting’ sustainable development after it announced the abolition of three local green initiatives.
Councils that generate their own electricity from green sources will be allowed to profit from any surplus they contribute to the National Grid, the government has announced
The Welsh Government has published planning guidance for greener new buildings just as the public sector in Wales comes under fire for failing to minimise the environmental effects of its existing...
Plans for environmentally friendly light rail schemes are likely to be shelved in the forthcoming emergency Budget because they are considered unaffordable, Public Finance has been told
Green issues took a back seat in the general election but that’s no reason for town halls and NHS trusts to ignore them. Installing wind and solar power in public buildings will cut both costs and...
The costs of emitting carbon dioxide are unlikely to rise high enough to stimulate green energy production, despite a range of government climate change policies, research has found
The troubled Rural Payments Agency has admitted it will still be ‘some time’ before it fixes the IT systems that have left the £1.6bn Single Payments Scheme for farmers mired in crisis since 2005.
