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After a 20 year ban, local authorities are once more free to sell surplus renewable electricity to the National Grid

Recent research has shown that the impacts of climate change will present opportunities for UK businesses across a range of sectors such as construction and retrofitting, water management, tourism, transport and food production

A number of recent reports examine cities and their moves to a low carbon future, and places the findings in the context of the new UK coalition government’s aspirations towards a green agenda

Owners of furnished holiday lettings face a tightened tax regime from April 2011, following the launch of a Government consultation in July

Felipe Cavalcante, president of ADIT Brasil, gives his views on likely future developments for the market in Brazil, one of the few major countries to have escaped the repercussions of the worldwide recession

Speak to most estate agents these days and they are as perplexed as most of us when it comes to reading the tea leaves with regard to prospects for the residential market in their areas of operation

Many housing associations and their tenants are not reaping the full benefits of installing renewable energy technologies

Why will prime property investment be one of the best asset classes to own in the next few years, while non-prime may prove to be a financial disaster?

The buy-to-let market is feeling rather hard done by after the recent rise in Capital Gains Tax (CGT) to 28%

On 6 July the coalition Government moved to revoke regional strategies (RSs), with immediate effect

Sustainable electricity from solar photovoltaic (PV) installations will help the UK to cut annual CO₂ emissions by 80% of 1990 levels by 2050

There have been wholesale moans following the demise of the Sustainable Development Commission and the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution

A new document from the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology highlights the potential benefits of ‘biochar’

The proposal to create a Green Investment Bank has been broadly welcomed, but questions remain