The Climate Change Committee (CCC) has offered advice on the level of the country’s 2035 Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) to the UK Government, at the request of Secretary of State for Energy, Ed Miliband.

Renewable energy certification body Lloyd’s Register (LR), has signed an agreement with Scotland-based Orbital Marine Power to start the certification process for what is described as the “world’s largest” tidal energy converter (TEC).

Scottish Water has completed work on a £1.4m solar scheme at a site near Edinburgh which is set to save 221 tonnes of carbon a year.

The areas of Wales best equipped to benefit from innovative mine water heat schemes have been revealed by the Coal Authority in a new open access map, available on the ‘DataMapWales’ website.

A new research study, led and co-authored by scientists at the Joint Research Centre at the European Commission, is warning that in a 3°C warming scenario, projections show there could be a threefold increase in heat-related mortality with respect to today.

Unprecedented wildfires in Canada and parts of Amazonia last year were at least three times more likely due to climate change and contributed to high levels of CO2 emissions from burning globally.

A £516,000 PV project to install over 886 solar panels has been completed at a waste water treatment works in East Ayrshire, supporting Scottish Water’s pledge to reach net zero emissions by 2040.