Work is beginning this month to build a programme of sustainable classrooms in rural Uganda, designed by a Gifford team as part of an international architecture competition

Another year and the Presidency of the Council of Ministers rotates, with Spain taking the role in the first half of 2010

The Government plans to launch a consultation on proposed revisions to the Code for Sustainable Homes shortly

Full text of Chancellor Alistair Darling's pre-budget report statement

Just three days after the Government published Feed-in Tariffs for low carbon renewable energy incentives, it suddenly closed its Low Carbon Buildings Programme grant scheme

Conservative shadow environment spokesman, Nick Herbert, has told a meeting of representatives of over 50 Conservative controlled councils: “Our green agenda isn’t an optional extra.”

Shadow chancellor George Osborne has set out eight benchmarks for economic growth, including the need to build a “greener economy”

Net UK emissions of the six greenhouse gases covered by the Kyoto Protocol fell by 1.9% between 2007 and 2008

Following the heavily criticised conclusion of the Copenhagen climate change talks, the UNFCCC has received national pledges to cut carbon emissions from 55 countries, including the EU

The Government has said it accepts the recommendations of a new Zero Carbon Task Force report on making new schools zero carbon by 2016