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Climate Change Risk Assessment Published

The UK Climate Change Risk Assessment (CCRA) 2012 has now been published. It is the first assessment of its kind for the UK and the first in a 5 year...

 
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Training for Low Carbon Energy Proposals

A training event, to help planners assess landscape issues in relation to renewable and Low carbon Energy Proposals is to be funded through the Climate Change Skills Fund...

 
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Reducing emissions from heritage buildings

Help to make historically important buildings energy efficient while retaining their character by using this new guide. ‘Low Carbon Heritage Buildings: a guide’ has been produced to help people across...

 
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Climate Change Risks for Yorkshire and Humber

To coincide with the publication of the UK CCRA 2012 and given the importance of local adaptation action, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) commissioned the Climate...

 
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Skills for a green economy

This project results from recommendations made in the skills strategy for England, Skills for Sustainable Growth. The work was undertaken with the aims of identifying the skills needed to support...

 
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Tackling fuel poverty during the transition to a low-carbon economy

Are existing fuel poverty policies working or do we need to implement new ideas and approaches now? Since energy prices are expected to carry on rising, this paper assesses some...

 
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Local Enterprise Partnership Capacity Fund

Round 2 of the Government’s Capacity Fund for LEPs is now open. The second round will allocate the remaining £3 million. The application process has been simplified in...

 
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Rural Growth Networks

On 29 December 2011 Defra launched a competition to identify six pilot Rural Growth Networks. Around £15 million is to be invested in the pilots aimed at supporting rural...

 
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Green Incubator

Groundwork Sheffield and its partners Groundwork Wakefield and Heeley Development Trust, are delighted to announce a new project that aims to create 101 jobs and 15 social enterprises to boost...

 
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Green design competition from CO2Sense

You could save thousands of pounds by reviewing your product design. Want £10,000 from CO2Sense to help you to do this? If your new product has an environmental benefit – for example, it...

 
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