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The Committee on Climate Change (CCC) today advised that there has been no change in the circumstances upon which the fourth carbon budget (2023 – 2027) was originally set in 2011 that would justify a lowering of ambition. Therefore the budget should not and cannot be changed under the terms of the Climate Change Act. If anything, changed circumstances point towards a tightening of the budget. However, the Committee advises that it would be premature…

New research project will address lean energy efficient retrofit of 1950s solid wall homes. Working in collaboration with BRE, Carillion Energy Services and other key partners, the Northern Ireland Housing Execu-tive (NIHE) is set to launch S-IMPLER, a new research and demonstration project designed to help the refurbishment sector achieve effective and economical retrofit of insulation in solid wall homes. Supported by the UK’s innovation agency, the Technology Strategy Board, the S-IMPLER Project, “Solid Wall…

CICS, the management systems certification and sustainability assurance provider, is pleased to announce that it has certi-fied DECC’s (Department of Energy and Climate Change) energy management system (EnMS) to ISO 50001 The new international energy management standard, ISO 50001 provides a framework and guidance to monitor, manage and potentially reduce energy consumption. DECC works to make sure that the UK has secure, clean, affordable energy supplies and promotes international action to mitigate climate change. One…