The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) just released an online simulation tool that gives the public a chance to make big decisions over the UK’s energy future. Launched Thursday 3 March in London, My2050 is a user-friendly web application that is designed to allow the public to try out a variety of scenarios [...]

The UK’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osbourne, led the announcement of the Comprehensive Spending Review last week, introducing what’s expected to be one of the most challenging economic periods in the history of the UK. Whilst spending cuts were inevitable from any Government, Ed Milliband, Leader of the Opposition, claims that the Coalition’s Government’s ‘slash [...]

It’s been almost a month since the UK’s newly elected, and historic, Coalition Government was formed, introducing an interesting partnership between the Liberal Democrat and Conservative parties. With over 22 bills announced in last week’s Queen’s speech, the Coalition certainly has its work cut out over the next 18 months. Without doubt, the biggest concern [...]

According to UK’s  Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) the North Sea has potential to store over 100 years worth of UK power station CO2 emissions. In the build up to the Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum (CSLF) in London on 13th October, DECC has launched a UK wide consultation to explore the idea to [...]

The G20 has just been and gone, but another London summit last month saw Prime Minister Gordon Brown, business secretary Lord Mandelson and climate change secretary Ed Miliband, talk of the danger that Britain would get left behind in the “global race” towards a low-carbon economy. The flipside, they said, was an opportunity to create [...]

The Climate Change Act 2008 has committed the UK to reach a target of 20% renewables by 2050, whilst at the same time the UK has pledged to achieve 15% of this by 2020 as part of the European climate deal. However, whilst such plans to catalyse the renewables industry are generating further interest from [...]