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The COP26 UN climate change conference, set to take place in Glasgow in November, has been postponed due to COVID-19.
The decision was taken by the COP Bureau of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), with the UK and its Italian partners. New dates have yet to be confirmed, however, the UNFCCC has said that the event will still take place in Glasgow as…
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The UK Parliamentary Pension Fund has increased its investments in renewable energy, although it still partly relies on fossil fuel companies.
According to the annual report from the Parliamentary Contributory Pension Fund, the total assets amount to £733 million (€806 million). The report states that Trustees introduced an allocation to renewable infrastructure investments. It reads:…
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Recycling and waste sector employees have been granted 'key worker' status in the UK.
Key worker status means that the children of designated sectors can still go to school during the Covid-19 pandemic. Other key workers include those in healthcare and food distribution.
The announcement follows calls from the Environmental Services Association (ESA) to keep vital waste services moving. In…
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The owners of one of the UK's biggest recycling and residual waste businesses, Viridor, have entered into an agreement to sell the company.
Pennon Group announced it is planning to sell Viridor to Planets UK Bidco, a newly-formed company established by funds advised by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, at a value of £4.2 billion (€4.47 billion).
In a statement, Pennon Group said it will now be…
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The UK Government's export credit agency, UK Export Finance (UKEF), saw its direct lending facility increase by £5 billion (€5.49 billion), with £2 billion (€2.19 billion) allocated for clean growth projects.
Through its direct lending scheme, UKEF provides overseas buyers of UK goods and services with financing support in the form of long-term, fixed-rate lending.
An additional £2…
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Bioenergy events across the globe are being postponed in light of the recent Covid-19 (or coronavirus) outbreak. While many events have been rescheduled for later in the year, others have yet to confirm a new date. The following events have been affected:
Value of Biogas East, Toronto, Canada
Postponed - New dates TBC
"The 2020 Value of Biogas East events will be postponed due to…
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UK renewable electricity generation increased by 16% in Q3 2019, compared with the same period in 2018.
According to the latest figures by the UK Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), the share of total electricity generation from renewables – 38.9% - is the highest ever recorded and marginally exceeds the share of electricity generation from gas for the first…
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SUEZ recycling and recovery UK has joined over 180 businesses in signing up to the Food Waste Reduction Roadmap, led by WRAP and IGD.
The initiative was launched to help businesses reduce food waste by 50% by 2030. Suez has joined the initiative as an enabling partner to use its skills and resources as a UK waste and water recycling and recovery business to help customers to meet their…
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UK entrepreneurs are invited to apply to win up to €500,000 and a place on a six-month bespoke accelerator programme through the Postcode Lotteries Green Challenge (PLGC).
The competition is one of the world’s largest in sustainable entrepreneurship and is open to green-start-ups and entrepreneurs based in the UK. PLGC rewards start-ups from the UK, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden that…
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A local councillor has warned over a potential breach at a digestate lagoon in the UK. Heavy rainfall from Storm Dennis has fuelled concerns that the lagoon, filled with digestate resulting from the anaerobic digestion process, could collapse and 'contaminate' the area.
A report by the Chichester Observer said that councillor Gareth Evans warned that Lagoon 3 was at an 'absolute critical…
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Finnish firm Valmet Oyj will supply a flue gas condensing plant to Helen Ltd’s Vuosaari C bioenergy heating plant in Helsinki.
The new bioenergy heating plant will be very energy efficient, according to Valmet, as the heat from the flue gases will be recovered to increase district heat production by 69MW, using its advanced technology.
“Our company’s target is to be carbon neutral by…
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The US Department of Energy (DOE) will invest nearly $300 million into the research and development of sustainable transportation resources and technologies.
At the Washington Auto Show, Under Secretary of Energy Mark W. Menezes announced the investment will be split between three separate funding opportunity announcements (FOAs), supporting the DOE’s goal of ensuring that as the transport…
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The share of energy from renewable sources in the European Union (EU) - including biomass - reached 18% in 2018. Renewable energy sources, in this case, include solar thermal and photovoltaic energy, hydro (including tide, wave and ocean energy), wind, geothermal energy and all forms of biomass (including biological waste and liquid biofuels).
According to Eurostat data, the increase in the…
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The US Department of Energy (DOE) will provide up to $75 million (€67.4 million) over five years for research to develop sustainable energy crops that are “tolerant of environmental stress and resilient to changing environmental conditions”.
According to the DOE, the research will focus on better understanding the genetic and physiological mechanisms influencing plant productivity and…
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Waste management firm Amey has been fined £500,000 by Cambridgeshire County Council for sending too much of the region’s biodegradable waste to landfill.
According to a report by letsrecycle.com, the target for biodegradable waste to be sent to landfill was exceeded by 29%. Amey blamed the missed target on damage to its Mechanical Biological Treatment (MBT) facility caused by a big storm.…
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