Environment Matters

August’s Energy Advice Hub roundup: guidance on SECR and Scope 3 emissions

7 September 2020

August’s Energy Advice Hub round up features news from guidance on SECR for academies to scope 3 emissions

Earth Overshoot Day 2020 is here. What is it, and how can business help?

22 August 2020

Earth Overshoot Day marks the date when humanity’s demand for ecological resources and services in a given year exceeds what the Earth can regenerate in that year. This year, due to Covid-19, the date contracted back to August 22 from July 29 in 2019.

“Climate is COVID on steroids”: Mark Carney takes the temperature of our changing world

10 August 2020

The former Governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, has described the COVID-19 pandemic as an “enormous opportunity” for businesses and governments to learn resilience that will help them with the even greater challenge of climate change.

July’s Energy Advice Hub roundup: green policy to carbon insetting

5 August 2020

July’s Energy Advice Hub round up features news from green policy to carbon insetting.

June’s energy advice roundup: homeworking emissions and government green promises

1 July 2020

Our latest look at the government’s green manifesto pledges (and whether they’re being delivered), and how COVID-19 is shaping the low carbon shift.

Why people are the key to energy efficiency

24 June 2020

If your workforce doesn’t understand and engage with your sustainability plans, improving energy efficiency and sustainability is always going to be a losing battle, that’s why technology needs to be in harmony with your people activity.

Battery storage chambers next to wind turbines and solar panels

The key role of storage in future energy

10 June 2020

Alone, renewable energy can’t meet all of our energy needs. Battery storage has the potential to change that.

May’s Energy Advice Hub roundup: the lockdown edition

29 May 2020

As lockdown eases (for some of us), many are looking ahead at the UK’s road to recovery – and ‘build back better’ is the phrase of the moment. How do we seize this once-in-a-lifetime chance to rebuild our economy on greener lines?

A world half blossoming and half fading away

How C-19 shows we can indeed move mountains for climate change

27 May 2020

It’s evident that we can change policy and lifestyles for a virus in just a few weeks. Yet, we have a 30 year goal for our country to take action on climate change.

A distant cityscape with a road leading to it

The race to net zero cities

26 May 2020

For cities and the organisations that work within them, failing to set clear targets and take decisive, quantified action is simply not an option if they value their public perception.