As the UK accelerates its transition to a low-carbon energy system, the question of who owns and benefits from this transformation is gaining prominence on the political agenda. Shared ownership offers a practical and meaningful ways for communities to have a stake in the renewable energy projects that are being developed in their locales. GB
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Energy Security and Lower Bills: Every family and business is currently paying the price of Britain’s exposure to volatile international fossil fuel markets. In an unstable world this leaves us incredibly vulnerable as a country. Families across Britain continue to pay a fossil fuel penalty, with wholesale gas costs for households still 75% higher than
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Awareness has been growing around the distressing state of one of our region’s most important freshwater habitats – the chalk streams. With around 85% of the global habitat occurring in the UK, and most in the south of England, these amazing waterways have been garnering a lot of attention due to very low flows, and
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The UK Government has extended the ban on burning vegetation on deep peat in England. This means three times more peatland is now legally protected from this damaging, outdated practice. Banning burning will help in the work to keep peatlands wet. This not only protects precious peatland habitats but also improves air quality for local communities
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Follow this guide to build a storage cage for all the raked leaves from your garden. Why do it? Leaf-mould is one of nature’s gifts in the garden, so don’t just hoover your leaves up and chuck them in the rubbish. Let’s use them for nature! The fact that they can be a hibernation home
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The Environment Agency are looking for volunteers for citizen science. Citizen science bridges the gap between professional monitoring and community action. While the Environmental Agency work tirelessly to monitor England’s water environment, they can’t be everywhere at once. That’s where citizen scientists come in, providing local insights and real-time observations that help the Environmental Agency
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The findings for the Action for Clean Air (2025) Report have now been published. The second year of Clean Air Night focused on sparking more productive conversations about these health harms of wood burning, focusing much of our campaigning on London – where the vast majority of people have another way to heat their home
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In line with the UK’s ambition to become a “clean energy superpower” and achieve Clean Power 2030 goals, the Department of Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) has published a working paper on “Community Benefits and Shared Ownership for Low Carbon Energy Infrastructure” to facilitate the deployment of low-carbon infrastructure. The paper considers proposals on how to make
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A team of researchers, led by Cambridge University, has now formulated a method to assess whether carbon removal portfolios can help limit global warming over centuries. Research on a ‘portfolio approach’ to carbon removal enables firms to mix expensive tech-based solutions that inject carbon deep underground with lower-cost and currently more available nature-based options, such
Making the connection: Rail and the sustainable growth opportunity highlights both the economic and wider social value of the railways and makes the case for continued capital and revenue investment in all parts of the network to help deliver on the Government’s mission to kickstart economic growth. Click here to download report Click here
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