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The CCC is set to deliver its recommendations to Government by March 2019

UK Government seeks advice from Committee on Climate Change on net-zero emissions goal

Sustainable Business Covered podcast: The Great Green GB Week relay

It's episode 50 of the Sustainable Business Covered podcast, and the edie team undergo a week-long podcasting relay, interviewing an array of sustaina...

It's non-stop for the edie team in this episode, as we embark on a week-long 'podcasting relay', broadcasting from some of the biggest events of Green GB Week

Could a 'no deal' Brexit be a 'golden opportunity' for the UK's green economy?

In light of the Government’s latest wave of 'no deal' Brexit planning updates, resource management experts have claimed that the scenario could force ...

The Government has shed more light on the implications a 'no deal' Brexit could have on the nation's green economy
Two-thirds of our plastic packaging waste is exported by an export industry which was worth more than £50m last year

UK plastics recycling industry under investigation for fraud and corruption
Ministers last summer followed France by pledging to halt new petrol and diesel car sales by 2040 - but BEIS has claimed that this target is not ambitious enough

BEIS Committee: Ban new petrol and diesel cars by 2032, not 2040
The Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has parnered with edie to help drive business action for Green GB Week (15-19 October)

#GreenGB Week Infographic: Clean Growth in the UK
BEIS estimates that nine of the UK's existing heat networks will eliminate the equivalent of 216,324 tonnes of CO2 emissions over the next 15 years

Government launches £320m scheme to help decarbonise UK's heat networks
Past work carried out by the CCC in 2016 showed that reducing emissions to 92% of 1990 levels was feasible

Climate watchdog 'surprised' by carbon budget review restrictions
Science-based targets, single-use plastics bans and the switch to 100% renewable energy all feature among the 50 pledges that are now live on the Mission Possible Pledge Wall

From Amazon to PwC: Meet the 67 companies to have made Mission Possible Pledges so far
During Green GB Week, no single-use coffee cups will be on sale in the coffee bars within the Department's 1 Victoria Street headquarters

BEIS announces green buildings drive and single-use plastics crackdown
Published in July, the Road to Zero strategy has faced criticism from the likes of WWF and Greenpeace

CCC: Government's Road to Zero strategy not ambitious enough

The UK Government's official climate change watchdog has warned ministers that the new Road to Zero strategy will not be sufficient to meet national a...
The first programme will be located in Pakistan

UK Government to invest £26m in tackling modern slavery in Asia
Since 2000, the UK has reduced emissions by 29% while growing the economy by 34%

Report: UK leading G20 in low-carbon transition

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