The Autumn Budget 2017 has announced that the government will set Climate Change Levy (CCL) main rates for the years 2020/2021 and 2021/2022 at the Budget in 2018, with the exception of the rate for Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) which will be frozen at the 2019/2020 level.
ISO 50001 is a global standard for Energy Management. It is known as the standard practice framework for managing energy performance and addressing energy costs, while helping companies reduce their environmental impact to meet emission reduction targets.
With the rate of extreme weather increasing the likeliness of wildfires this year, we have also seen an increase in the number and intensity of hurricanes, not only in the USA but also in Ireland. This year alone we have seen three major hurricanes, one in category 5 and two in category 3, all taking place within just three short months.
Earlier this year we interviewed Dr Phillipa Coan, an expert in workplace environmental behavioural change. Dr Coan has a PhD that broadly looked into different strategies for changing employee behaviour to become more environmentally sustainable, while winning a number of national and university awards along the way.