Sustainability News – Page 21
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NewsLeeds set to bring £80m Green Deal programme to market
Leeds city region to go out to tender next month for Green Deal retrofit programme worth £80m over first three years
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NewsGovernment puts £50m into Green Deal
Funding to back Green Deal Finance company comes as assessment rates soar after second full month of scheme
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NewsBalfour Beatty misses carbon reduction target
Firm makes carbon savings in UK but is dragged down by increases in carbon from work overseas
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NewsMorgan Sindall appoints sustainability director
Graham Edgell will also have responsibility for procurement
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NewsInterserve pledges to halve carbon emissions by 2020
Contractor to increase use of recycled materials
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NewsRIBA slams ‘missed opportunity’ to boost green economy
Budget reaction: President Angela Brady criticises lack of Budget measures on sustainability
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NewsGovernment forced to pay £180k in solar legal costs
Government to pay legal costs of solar firms and campaign group following illegal cuts to solar subsidies
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NewsOsborne chases Hinkley deal for Budget
Government locked in ‘full-tilt’ talks with EDF in bid to announce new-build nuclear funding agreement on Wednesday
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NewsCBI backs VAT cut for refurb
Business lobby joins calls for VAT cut as part of £2.2bn budget wishlist
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NewsDrax biomass project in line for £75m guarantee
£225m project to convert half of Drax coal-fired power station into biomass is set to be the next project to receive UK Guarantee
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NewsHeathrow T2 goes green
Client tells Ecobuild of collaboration with BRE on UK’s first BREEAM-rated airport terminal
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NewsMinister stalls on zero carbon assurance
Building regulations minister Don Foster refuses to allay industry fears that the government is backing away from zero carbon commitment
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NewsFallon says insulation job losses 'inevitable'
Business minister says transition to Green Deal meant there was always likely to be a hiatus in work
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NewsNew scheme to tackle energy efficiency 'performance gap'
Government funds scheme to tackle energy inefficient housebuilding
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NewsMorrell casts doubt on low carbon targets
Ecobuild latest: Former construction adviser says prospect of 80% carbon cut requires “heroic assumptions” to be made
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NewsShuttleworth warns against 'efficient but nasty' design
Make founder says architects need to resist the temptation to design energy efficient buildings that don’t give humans ‘delight’
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NewsGovernment faces legal action over scrapped 'conservatory tax'
Ecobuild latest: Association for the Conservation of Energy says it will seek a judicial review of government decision to scrap changes to building regulations
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NewsGovernment will consider 'tweaks' to Green Deal
Energy secretary Ed Davey has not ruled out changing elements of the Green Deal should the government’s flagship retrofit programme encounter problems
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NewsMinister torpedos Severn Barrage
Energy minister Greg Barker says there is no chance project could get permission in this parliament
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NewsBam tops list of UK's low carbon firms
Contractor knocks rival Skanska into second place in league table of low carbon UK firms