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Communities must be encouraged to lead local renewal projects if UK cities, towns and villages are to be fit for the future, says an SDC report

US president Barack Obama has announced that two solar energy companies will receive a total of almost $2bn in loan guarantees

Baxi Group has attempted to find a silver lining in May’s announcement that the Government was to terminate the Low Carbon Buildings Programme

This year’s round of the Energy Efficient Buildings European Initiative competition, which has €85m available, opens on 9 July

Six UK companies have won funds to conduct technical feasibility studies into more energy efficient lighting for homes

Most of CERT work must now focus on insulation, climate change secretary Chris Huhne has demanded

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

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

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

An assessment of the emergency Budget proposals and their likely impacts on property in particular

Funding for the Warm Front scheme is just over £1.1bn for the current three-year spending period to March 2011

Energy minister Charles Hendry has stated that “tariffs for new installations under the Feed-in Tariffs scheme follow international best practice”

Around two thirds of Americans support signing an international treaty to cut US CO₂ emissions by 90% by 2050=

DECC will make £85m of “savings” this financial year through “further efficiencies”, and stopping some uncommitted programme spend, including stopping all new funding to the Low Carbon Buildings Programme