Public concerns over the environment have risen sharply over the last year, with four fifths of the population backing new government action to combat climate change.
The Environment Agency has committed to becoming a net zero organisation by 2030 – 20 years before the target for the rest of the UK to cut nearly all carbon emissions.
Councils should be doing more to cut carbon emissions and tackle climate change, according to a campaign group, as it released research on local authorities’ green credentials.
A greater proportion of government revenue should be raised through taxes on activities that can have a socially harmful effect, says Bright Blue’s Patrick Hall.
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.
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.
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....
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
