Entries for June 2010

The first report of the Green Investment Bank Commission has recommended that a Green Investment Bank (GIB) be set up as quickly as possible

The detailed report by the Green Investment Bank Commission on how the GIB should function was largely welcomed

The Government has confirmed that it is closing the Infrastructure Planning Commission in favour of a new ministerial system

Local contributions and alternative funding sources will need to play a bigger part in flood prevention in the future, Dr Paul Leinster of the Environment Agency has said

Atkins has been appointed to implement Bahrain’s sustainable National Planning and Development Strategy

A student engineering project that brings renewable energy to rural Rwanda has won the IEEE Presidents’ Change the World competition

The Homes & Communities Agency won't be abolished but will be a "much leaner" enabling and investment body

DECC minister Greg Barker has visited the Mark Group's training academy in Leicester, meeting the 1,000th trainee to graduate

Communities minister Andrew Stunell has refused to make public representations made on the axing of HIPs, regarding them as "sent in confidence."

Waste policy across the UK and beyond needs to change, with a drive for reduction set to be a source of controversy and much needed behavioural change

“The best words are those of the new Green MP, Caroline Lucas, who stated that the Queen's Speech was, on the environment, ‘pretty half-hearted’

A competition has encouraged designers to step back and examine the potential of the many spaces sited in the English capital’s peripheral vision

US President Barack Obama has pledged to establish a more sustainable energy policy in his first address to the nation from the Oval Office on 15 June

The recast Energy Performance of Buildings Directive was published in the Official Journal of the European Union this month