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  • Diary of a Green Deal Provider: Part 2
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    (author's company) wants to become accredited as an official Green Deal provider. Read the  second installment of how it is going about this daunting task. One of the biggest ...
  • We've Renamed
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    Regular visitors to the ‘Low Carbon Local Authorities and Sustainable Communities’ Group will have noticed a slight change at the top of the page. We’ve ...
  • Europe's future depends on cities resilient to climate change
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    A new European Environment Agency (EEA) report warns that delaying adaptation will be costly in the long-term. Around three quarters of Europeans live in cities. In ...
  • Pilot Global Protocol for Community-Scale Greenhouse Gas Emissions released
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    C40, ICLEI and World Resource Institute have launched a pilot protocol aiming to become the global standard for measuring Green House Gas emissions for cities. ...
  • Guidance: How to translate the National Planning Policy Framework into practice
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    New guidance has been prepared by the Planning and Climate Change Coalition providing advice for local authorities on how to translate the government's new National Planning ...
  • Diary of a Green Deal Provider: Part 1
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    (author's company) wants to become accredited as an official Green Deal provider. Read the first installment of how it is going about this daunting task. As soon as the ...
  • UK Planning Policy: Will all development be sustainable?
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    The UK's National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) has now been in force for two weeks, and much of the furore which anticipated its launch has subsided. But what are the ...
  • An Introduction to Biodiversity Offsetting [Webinar Recording]
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    In its 2011 White Paper, the UK’s Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) outlined the government’s vision for the natural environment for the ...
  • Using the Power of Public Procurement to Encourage Sustainable Innovation [Webinar Recording]
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    SMART SPP is a European project promoting the introduction of new, innovative low carbon emission technologies and integrated solutions onto the European market. This was ...
  • City-by-City Unemployment Across the UK
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    Centre for Cities has published its latest City Tracker, which maps the city-by-city breakdown of today’s Jobseeker’s Allowance claimant count and Jobcentre Plus ...

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