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A new study shows a fast transition to clean energy is cheaper than slow or no transition, and concludes the idea that going green will be expensive is 'just wrong' because green technology costs have fallen significantly over the last decade, and are likely to continue falling.

A Coventry-based transport co-ordinator has called on women to recognise the career opportunities available to them within the sector.

Green growth and tax recommendations are included in the CBI's submission to the UK Government's Chancellor, Rishi Sunak MP, as the business organisation reveals how it feels the UK can escape a low-growth trap with net £100bn prize for the economy.

The Good Law Project has launched a case to force Government to strengthen its Net Zero strategy. Its new legal challenge is against the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, Kwasi Kwarteng MP, to force the department to make the UK's Net Zero climate strategy fit for purpose by 30 June of this year.

Scandinavian type drink deposit schemes should be adopted in Ireland two prominent Senators believe. Fianna Fáil Senator Erin McGreehan and Sinn Féin's Paul Gavan have urged Environment Minister Eamon Ryan to learn from best practice examples of existing schemes in countries where recycling rates are over ninety percent and litter pollution has fallen.

Bram Miller, a Director in engineering and design firm Ramboll, offers his insights.....

The UK Government raised only £40.8bn through 'green taxes' last year which is just 6% out of the £633bn raised through taxes overall, down from 8% of all taxes a decade ago, says Pinsent Masons, the multinational law firm.

Reacting to the Prime Minister's 10-point plan on the UK reaching net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, Environmental Audit Committee Chairman Philip Dunne MP said: "The Prime Minister's 10-point plan to build back greener, and supporting 250,000 green jobs, is an important commitment a year out from hosting COP26. But it is disappointing that of the £12billion funding in the plan, only £4billion is new.

Following Prime Minster Theresa May's announcement in the House of Commons yesterday that amendments to the UK's Climate Change Act will set the country on a course to eradicate its net contribution to climate change by 2050, the move has been broadly welcomed by a range of interest groups - many pleased at the scale of its ambition to set the UK on a path to become the world's first major economy to set net zero emissions target in law, but others disappointed that the law will be reviewed every five years. Here's the range of comment received that Environment Times has received ......

Sarah Winne, Principal Consultant and Emma Green, Consultant in Ramboll's Environment & Health team predict the challenges facing the UK of adapting to climate chaos....

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