environment

• Councils awarded £11m for green buses

  Local authorities and bus companies have been awarded more than £10m to help them purchase low emission buses.

  

• Local authority pension funds ‘ratcheting up’ climate change engagement

  Local authority pension funds are going to ‘ratchet up’ their efforts to encourage companies to be more aware of climate change and how it will impact the value of their stocks.

  

• Bristol named ‘green capital’ of the UK

  Bristol has been named the greenest city in the UK as part of research into the country’s most environmentally friendly cities.

  

• Experts say more hedges in cities could cut pollution

  Low hedges should be planted along roads in built-up areas of cities to help tackle pollution, a new study has urged.

  

• Whitehall’s clean air proposals ‘passing buck’ to councils

  The Government is ‘passing the buck’ to local authorities with ‘weak’ proposals to tackle air pollution, environmental lawyers say.

  

• Campaigners urge metro mayors to ‘green’ city regions

  Environmental campaigners have called on the incoming metro mayors to take urgent action to improve the environment in their city regions.

  

• Local authorities urged to protect bees

  Councils have been urged to help save bees by cutting grass less often - and claim 'huge' public support for the policy.

  

• London mayor blasts Heathrow expansion plans

  Sadiq Khan has accused the Government of not providing answers to ‘fundamental questions’ about the impact the third Heathrow runway will have on London.

  

• Government announces nearly £300m investment into green vehicles

  The Government has announced a £290m investment plan to support green vehicles as part of it's target for cars and vans to be zero emission by 2050.

  

• Report shows green buses are saving 55,000 tonnes of emissions per year

  Greener buses are saving 55,000 tonnes of emissions and delivering £8m in health and environmental benefits every year, according to a new report.