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Government ‘excited’ by the potential of green gas to support its clean energy transition mission Miatta Fahnbulleh addressed the ADBA conference on 11 December.
Green gas will play a critical role in helping the government deliver energy, climate and economic security, Miatta Fahnbulleh MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Minister for Energy Consumers) at DESNZ told around ...

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Failure to meet green targets could raise power prices by 50% New analysis published by Montel Analytics appears to show that power prices could jump by 50% across Europe if countries fail to meet their stated goals for decarbonisation. This highlights just how crucial the expansion of renewable energy is for ...

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Nature-friendly planning reform needed as over half of English Local Authorities missed legal deadline on... Image credit: mouli choudari, CC BY 2.0 license
New research, released today (13 December) by Wildlife and Countryside Link, reveals that overstretched and under-resourced English Local Authorities have been struggling to meet legal deadlines to consider the nature recovery action they ...

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Research aims to better understand how the ocean “breathes” Autonomous profiling float deployed in the ocean (image credit: University of Southampton).
A new £2.5 million project led by the University of Southampton and the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) has set its sights on improving our understanding of how the ocean ...

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Scottish Water served £6,000 civil penalty for polluting Dunfermline burn Scottish Water has been served a civil penalty of £6,000 by Scotland’s environmental regulator for breaching a condition of their licence after a discharge of untreated sewage caused pollution of the Crossford Burn in Dunfermline.
The Variable Monetary penalty (VMP) ...

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Comment: The misleading spin surrounding net zero Andrew Normand is business development director at Encora Energy.
Andrew Normand of Encora Energy, explains why he believes talk of blackouts and rationing of energy use are being misused to stigmatize the opportunities of the energy transition
In the latest round of ...

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Probing human serum for unknown and hazardous chemicals A groundbreaking method of detecting unknown chemicals in human serum is proposed in a study by a group from Chiba University. The approach answers a call for better ways of conducting non-targeted chemical analysis (i.e., that undertaken without prior knowledge ...

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Global shipping finance portfolio moves closer to alignment with net zero climate goals Data from financial institutions appear to show that the global finance portfolio for shipping has moved closer to alignment with ambitious decarbonisation trajectories set by the International Maritime Organization (IMO), which aim to remove emissions from international shipping by 2050.
The ...

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Bicycle tyres recycling scheme aims to double collection points by 2026 Velorim, “the UK’s simple solution to recycling bicycle tyres and inner tubes”, has announced its ambition to double collection points across the UK by 2026, as it continues its mission to make cycling greener.
With over 600 locations across the country ...

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Work concludes on AI-powered flood risk digital twin prototype QuantCube Technology and French space agency, CNES, have announced the successful delivery of a flood warning and risk mapping prototype, the SCO FloodDAM Digital Twin.
The prototype, which can detect, monitor, assess and predict the financial and socio-economic risks related to ...