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Solar cell success – PV turns 60

Friday sees a significant anniversary – 60 years since the first solar cell capable of providing significant amounts of power. At the time, all the solar cells in the world produced about one Watt of...

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Corporate climate soul-searching is real

In the aftermath of the IPCC report on climate change, there has not unexpectedly been a rise in public discussion about  the threats to our ways of life, and the potential in mitigating and limiting...

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European elections: Where do green issues stand?

Following the European election results, work on climate policy issues won’t begin until the autumn, but speculation on political shifts is rife. The focus is based on the  reasonable assumption that...

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Words and actions matter in changing energy behaviour

Actions and words can sometimes be seen as mutually exclusive – but in energy and climate-related behaviour change, they’re both important. A recent Yale study has shown that ‘global warming’ strikes...

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Energy efficiency: A dairy good idea

The UK agriculture industry  is working towards a goal of reducing its greenhouse gas emissions by 11 per cent compared to 2008 levels by 2020 – and dairy farming accounts for around two per cent of...

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Research ranks renewable performance

In spite of occasionally nervous rhetoric from the green energy industry in the UK, growth in renewables is unquestionably happening at some pace – 34 per cent in the last year, in fact. The study...

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Rich pickings in renewable energy

Sometimes the easiest way to see which ideas are making a big breakthrough globally is to simply follow the money – and there have been some significant examples of late that show green energy is no...

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Love your community, get energy fit together

Environmental behaviour change charity Global Action Plan (GAP) is supporting Big Energy Saving Week. In this guest blog, Partner Hugh Goulbourne, explains how to get involved.  Since 2010, the Big...

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Wave of support boosts climate talks

The latest round of UN climate talks have been under way in Peru for more than a week now – and it’s undeniable that there’s a greater mood of optimism about forging a strong, binding agreement in...

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Could 2015 mark a turning point in climate change mitigation?

The year 2015 may be one future generations look back on as either a turning point, or a year when we continue on down the road of irreversible and disastrous climate change. The UN Climate Change...

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