The total market for green spending by business will be worth £6.8bn in three years’ time. This new report also says sustainable spending would be better, were it not for weaknesses in the wider economy.
A bunch of European MEPs including the East of England representative Richard Howitt has been meeting to discuss ways to save jobs at the Petroplus firm, which has refinery facilities in the UK as well as France, Belgium, Germany and Switzerland.
The Government has said £197m more money has been pumped into solar feed-in tariffs. Climate change minister Greg Barker confirmed the total budget has been increased to £1,064m.
The French foreign minister told reporters he hoped an agreement could be sorted on an Iranian oil ban at an end-of-month EU meeting. Alain Juppé thought matters would be finalised at a gathering of European diplomats scheduled for January 30.
Hospitals have had to find ways of reducing their steepling fuel bills. Weston General in the West Country has introduced an Energy Champion, a bunch of staff tasked with coming up energy saving ideas.