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Advises how to identify suitable mitigation and adaptation measures in the planning process to address the impacts of climate change.
Climate change is happening and is due to human activities; along with warming, many other changes are occurring such as melting polar ice, rising sea levels and more frequent floods, droughts and heatwaves.
Guidance for emissions reporting in the public and higher education sectors in England 2018 to 2020.
UK’s over-delivery on reducing emissions provides space to take a more pragmatic, proportionate, and realistic approach to reaching net zero.
Sets out new measures to clean up road transport and lead the world in the developing, manufacturing and using zero emission road vehicles.
How the UK supports the use of combined heat and power (CHP) or 'cogeneration', which avoids network losses and reduces emissions.
Increase sustainability throughout the lifecycle of your technology.
Defence emissions come from all areas of defence, and some areas do create significantly larger emissions than others (for example in military aviation).
Public and higher education sectors signed up to a target to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions by 30% by 2020 to 2021.
The latest figures released today in the government’s annual State of the Estate report, highlight the significant progress being made to make the public estate more sustainable and efficient.
We're seeking evidence and views about the action required to deliver an ambitious decarbonisation programme across the public and higher education sectors, in England over the next 10 years.
How the maritime industry should treat waste at sea and in ports, reduce oil and air pollution, and control ozone-depleting substances.
This report has reviewed the evidence behind carbon offsetting looking at a wide range of different offsetting approaches which could be used in the UK.
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