Liberal Democrat peer, Don Foster, working with the Sustainable Energy Association, yesterday introduced a Bill which will put the government's target for all homes to achieve Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) Band C by 2035 into law.
A BURNING PRIORITY
Responding to reports that the UK will use the 5th carbon budget as the basis of its commitments for climate action at COP26, Acting Leader of the Liberal Democrats Ed Davey said:
In about 25 years time aviation is likely to be the biggest source of UK greenhouse gas emissions, and probably the hardest to reduce.
It is still uncertain what kind of Brexit we will have. Specific areas of UK environmental law will be affected differently depending on the nature of the UK's exit and a complex range of factors (such as the history and origin of the law, how it has been implemented into domestic law, whether it is an area that is directly relevant to access to the single market, wider policy objectives and whether the UK has a history of non-compliance).
No Barrier to the Barrage At last a proposal for a Severn Barrage that ticks all the boxes! The Severn estuary has the second highest rise and fall of tide in the world. For nearly 100 years, since 1925 in fact, people have been proposing that this huge flow of water could be used to generate electricity.
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