Policy

A new report from the International Development Committee suggests climate change needs to be tackled to solve issues such as poverty, conflict, disease and starvation

Every year 100,000 tonnes of ‘readily available and perfectly edible’ food – equivalent to 250m meals a year – is thrown away

The move will start by banning polluting buses and coaches from the city in 2022 before moving to cars and motorbikes later

It aims to ensure coherent monitoring of food waste levels for more data to be collated to put the food system onto a sustainable path

The clean energy organisation has called on HMRC not to increase VAT rates for technologies such as domestic solar, biomass boilers and battery storage

A joint consultation has been launched by the UK Government and the devolved administrations in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland

The Office for National Statistics suggests this accounted for around 1.8% of total government expenditure over the year

Within hours of the Committee on Climate Change suggesting it was possible, Scottish Ministers pledged to follow their advice and set a legally-binding target

The CCC has told the UK Government what it must do to tackle climate change – but what does the energy sector think of the announcement?

The Committee on Climate Change has told the government this is necessary to stay in line with the UK’s commitment under the Paris Agreement