Environment minister Joan Ruddock has given low energy lighting her strong backing answering questions in environment question time in Parliament on 12 June.

Do Dynamic Simulation Modelling (DSM) methods offer a better approach to designing buildings with good energy performance than conventional options, asks Simon Napper?

At the beginning of June, the G8 countries, together with China, India, South Korea and the European Community decided to establish the International Partnership for Energy Efficiency Cooperation. The Partnership will ‘add value’ to existing structures and agreements that tackle energy efficiency, says the European Commission. Its purpose is to facilitate those actions that yield high energy efficiency gains and improvements.

The Scottish Government has rejected calls for it to take a stronger lead on energy and climate change because it says it is already doing so.

Many roads lead Rome, but the route to zero carbon is less clear.

The conference run by Climate Change Solutions was a heady mix of high level policy initiatives aligned with practical examples of how different sectors in their efforts to reduce carbon.

By 2050 there could be as many as a million ground source heat pumps in use. Ben Kochan investigates

One of five key new powers of the Energy Bill, currently under scrutiny in the Lords, is to underpin the roll-out of smart meters to medium-sized business in the first instance, but potentially to the 44 million domestic consumers BERR minister Lord Jones of Birmingham told Conservative environment spokesman Lord Taylor of Holbeach in responding to the debate on the 2nd reading of the bill on 21 May.

Public funding of the Carbon Trust’s advisory role should be based on the Trust clearly demonstrating that its role cannot be undertaken by private sector advisory services instead, the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) says in a new report on the  work of the trust.