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REA comments on Labour’s ‘Climate Apprenticeships’
The REA wholeheartedly welcomes Labour’s announcement to dedicate an apprenticeship scheme to climate change specific jobs and, in particular, the focus on upskilling existing workers.
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Opinion piece on the biogas sector and its potential
Malaby Biogas’ Director gives us his perspective on the current biogas sector and its potential
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Biogen acquires anaerobic digestion plant in South West England
Biogen’s latest plant acquisition
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UK Anaerobic Digestion Sites Map
A map of all operational anaerobic digestion plants in the UK
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REA joins European S.O.S. Soil Initiative
We have signed up to this important European initiative to save our soils.
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REA comments on the Green Party’s ‘Carbon Chancellor’ announcement
The REA welcomes the Green Party’s policy announcement today, to appoint a Carbon Chancellor. They have identified a weak link in the UK’s ambitions to decarbonise the country; the Treasury.
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REA 2019 Election Manifesto
REA 2019 Election Manifesto
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REA outlines five manifesto pledges essential to achieving Net Zero
In advance of the upcoming election, the REA is urging all political parties to adopt five manifesto pledges or risk missing the UK’s legally binding Net Zero targets.
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UK Landfill Gas Sites Map
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The state of soils in England
The state of soils in England
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BBC reports PM to Chair Cabinet Climate Change Committee
BBC reports that the Prime Minister is to Chair a newly-formed Cabinet Committee on Climate Change. Committee first mooted by Business Secretary Andrea Leadsom to the BEIS Committee on 15 October.
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Government hint at the creation of a cabinet sub-committee on climate change in response to CCC
Earlier this afternoon Andrea Leadsom MP stated that the Government could ‘potentially’ introduce a new cabinet sub-committee on climate change in the Government’s response to the CCC’s annual progress report.
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REA respond to DEFRA’s Committee inquiry into peatland degradation in England
REA respond to DEFRA’s Committee inquiry into peatland degradation in England
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Prorogation sees Trade and environmentally friendly bills dropped amid Extinction Rebellion protests
On Tuesday evening Parliament was prorogued seeing a number of bills dropped including the Agriculture, Trade and Non-Domestic Ratings Bills.
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SOILS – NATURAL CAPITAL
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Bioenergy Strategy: Phase 3
Bioenergy Strategy: Phase 3
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Ministers must commit to 16% bioenergy to safeguard UK energy security
A new report from the UK’s leading renewable energy and clean technology trade association is urging Ministers to commit to 16% of primary energy supply coming from bioenergy by 2032 or risk jeopardising the UK’s energy security.
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EA to review all 13 Quality Protocols
Quality Protocols (QPs) are end of waste frameworks, recognised by the Environment Agency and used by industry on a voluntary basis to identify the point at which waste, having been fully recovered, may be regarded as a non-waste product. This means the waste derived material can be used in specified markets without the need for waste regulation controls.
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Keep it clean – A composters guide to household garden waste
Since 2017 the UK has been swept up in the Blue Planet effect. A grass roots revolution sparked by one infamous episode has seen awareness of plastics in the ocean sky rocket and contributed to the use of single-use plastic bags in major supermarkets dropping by a third in the past year.
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REA targets plastics in garden waste following 90% slash in plastic bag sales
The Government has today announced that the sale of single-use plastic bags from the largest retailers have fallen 90% following the introduction of the 5p charge on single use carrier bags in 2015.