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Retailers & landlords must work together to reduce carbon
It is crucial that retailers and landlords work together to ensure that shopping centres play their part in hitting the UK’s legally binding targets to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions by 80% by 2050,...
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Let’s not undervalue the importance of embodied carbon
A report published last week by Low Carbon Workplace Ltd, claiming that a disproportionate focus on the carbon in building materials threatens to distract the property industry from the urgent...
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Construction SMEs must cut carbon
Construction firms must take the initiative and prepare for the Green Revolution as the UK pushes forward to meet stringent carbon emissions targets. That was the call from the sector skills council...
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Performance League table ranks UK companies’ carbon emissions
The Environment Agency has published the largest ever public disclosure of UK companies’ carbon emissions. The Performance League Table ranks the carbon performance of over 2000 organisations that...
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Homes responsible for one quarter of European greenhouse emissions from energy
Home energy use is responsible overall for 25% of energy-related greenhouse-gas emissions in the European Union (EU), according to a new analysis from the European Environment Agency (EEA). The report...
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Cal Bailey, Sustainability Director at NG Bailey, believes that businesses can dramatically reduce energy consumption by looking specifically at their estate carbon emissions. Here he highlights the...
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Red card for the ‘carbon bootprint’ of watching football
New research revealed by the Carbon Trust unveils the ‘carbon bootprint’ of watching football. The research finds that when watching on your own then the lowest carbon way to watch football is by...
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Pay per view?
The TV and film industry’s carbon footprint has kept a low-profile – but not any more, says Aaron Matthews, industry sustainability manager at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Can our...
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Something in the air…
The problem of worsening air quality will require big-picture thinking to solve, says Philippa Ward, a partner at environmental charity Global Action Plan which specialises in behaviour change I am...
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Embodying change
Developers should embrace the embodied carbon challenge, and look at reducing whole life emmissions, argues Neil Pennell, Head of Sustainability at Land Securities. Those of us working in the property...
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