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Green policy

Here, we recap a week of major green policy announcements. 

From carbon chancellors to CCS: What green election pledges have major parties made this week?

Investment in UK renewables 'picking up pace' despite Brexit concerns

The UK has risen up the top 10 in a ranking of the world's most attractive national markets for renewable energy investment, with offshore wind progre...

Pictured: The world’s largest operational offshore wind farm, Walney Extension (659MW). Image: Orsted

UK Government's spending on trees 'has plummeted by £20m since 2015'

The UK Government spent almost £20m less on tree planting in the financial year 2017-18 than it did in 2014-15, according to an analysis of offi...

Pictured: Roydon Common Nature Reserve 
Heat currently accounts for 15% of the UK's annual greenhouse gas emissions

ENA calls for mandatory hydrogen boilers as CBI outlines new sustainability vision
The Sustainability Leaders Awards ceremony will take place on the evening of 5 February 2020 at the Park Plaza London Westminster

Sustainability Leaders Awards 2020: Shortlist of finalists revealed
The survey results will form the basis of a major new report which will be launched at edie’s Sustainability Leaders Forum on 4-5 February 2020

Business leadership in 2020: edie readers called upon to take annual sustainability survey
The IEA cited the growth of coal in nations such as China as a key concern. Image: Kleineolive/ CC-BY-3.0 

Strengthen climate policies now or risk catastrophe, warns energy agency

Yeo served as the Minister for the Environment and Countryside from 1993-1994; the Shadow Secretary for Environment and Transport from 2004-2005 and chair of the Energy and Climate Change Select Committee from 2010-2015. Image: Policy Exchange

Tim Yeo: We have to take cost risks on low-carbon projects
A target of 2030 or sooner was supported by a majority of people in every age group

General Election: Majority of UK public calls for net-zero target to be pushed forward
edie is calling on energy managers to take the survey

Energy managers wanted to take quarterly Business Barometer survey
According to the IPCC, farming has been the driver of 75% of deforestation by area size to date. Stock image of a farm in Bavaria

2,500 scientists urge EU to reform environmentally 'damaging' agriculture policy

More than 2,500 European scientists have joined forces and reached out to the EU parliament in a letter urging it to "act on the science and unde...
Sajid Javid's Review will be published in autumn 2020. Photo: Foreign and Commonwealth Office [CC BY 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)]

Treasury launches Net-Zero Review to measure costs of decarbonisation
The energy companies have called for the CET to be set for 2020 and that it is comparable with recent EU ETS pricing

Energy giants call for post-Brexit carbon price certainty in 'Net-Zero Budget'