York Hospital have recently been listed as finalists of a building industry award for the Retrofit Project of the Year after completion of their refurbished energy centre last year. The £4.6 million project is set to drastically reduce the York Teaching Hospital Foundation Trust’s carbon footprint while saving them around £60,000 a month.
Gatwick Airport is the second largest airport in the UK and the most efficient single runway airport in the world. It receives more than 40 million passengers a year on short and long-haul journeys to over 200 destinations across 90 countries.
A recent study, published in the scientific journal, Nature Climate Change, has identified the risk that climate change, as a consequence of carbon emissions, will continue to advance for thousands of years unless drastic changes are made to global energy strategies.
Earlier this month, the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) raised concerns with Scottish Government officials following their announcement to reduce spending on climate change mitigation by nearly ten percent.
Last year, Denmark generated over 42 percent of its electricity using wind turbines alone, beating their own world record for wind power generation, set during the previous year, by 3 percent. This is the highest proportion of wind power generation for any country and puts Denmark well on the path to reaching its target of providing at least 50 percent of its energy from wind power generation by 2020.