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Time credits harness the ‘renewable energy’ of people

It’s not only banks or governments that have the power to create money. The rise ...

Pollution

Rogue waste operator costs council £20,000 in clean up

A Dorset-based man has been given a suspended prison sentence and a £20,000 fine for ...

Farming and forestry can deliver food security, says UN

Improving co-operation between nations’ farming and forestry sectors will help reduce deforestation and improve food ...

Scientists warn of ‘unsafe’ decline in biodiversity

An international team of scientists has issued a warning that biodiversity is dropping below safe ...

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Abolition of DECC ‘raises urgent questions’

The chair of the energy and climate change select committee has said he is ‘astonished’ ...

Energy

Government axes climate department

The government has axed the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) in a major ...

Housing

Councils must treat planning applications for green belt ‘consistently’

Councils must apply planning rules properly when considering applications for building on the green belt, ...

$County council faces challenge to approval of fracking plans$

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County council faces challenge to approval of fracking plans

A county council is facing a judicial review challenge in the High Court over its ...

Energy

Climate change: advisers warn of climate change domino effect

Climate change could have a domino effect on key infrastructure in the UK, government advisers ...

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Sustainable development and heritage assets

A Planning Court judge has given guidance on the interaction between the presumption in favour ...