Can the UK avert a green skills shortage?
The UK's decarbonisation plans will create tens of thousands of jobs, but are businesses doing enough to ensure the country builds the skills base the low-carbon economy demands?
View ArticleMicrogeneration scheme aims for RHI boost with new standards
MCS produces new compliance certificates to help installers ensure technology and staff training are up to scratch
View ArticleHampshire solar park secures planning green light
Welborne Solar Limited has been celebrating this week, after the developer secured planning approval for a proposed 37MW solar park on land within the Southwick Estate, between Winchester and...
View ArticleWind turbine tower market to hit $19.3bn by 2020
Longer term growth may be stalled by poor state of grid infrastructure and skills shortages, analysts say
View ArticleHow social media has changed the way we find a career
The explosion of social media over the last decade has completely changed the way we connect with the world around us. What started out as a somewhat informal way of communicating with friends and...
View ArticleState of Green Business: Employee engagement becomes strategic
Companies including Caesars Entertainment and Unilever are kicking their sustainability up a notch by making motivated employees a key part of the equation
View ArticleInstitute of Environmental Management and Assessment to acquire GACSO
IEMA extends reach with takeover of Global Association of Corporate Sustainability Officers
View ArticleGreen entrepeneurs invited to bid for €500,000 prize fund
Green Postcode Lottery Challenge will also offer four Open University Scholarships to sustainability students
View ArticleBT debuts free online energy saving training tool
Telco giant expands Better Future programme with new training tool designed to help businesses identify energy saving opportunities
View ArticleOffshore wind industry launches student skills competition
Students invited to enter innovative career development competition designed to highlight huge potential for green jobs
View ArticleEU outlines plans for green jobs boost
Commission backs up proposals for new recycling targets with a new initiative to highlight green job opportunities across the continent
View ArticleCould a new professional body transform the sustainability sector?
New Institute of Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability aims to support those professionals tackling the biggest challenges facing business and society
View ArticleReport: US green employment surge takes clean job opportunities past 2.6 million
Ecotech Institute reports that "clean jobs" sector has grown 88 per cent in the past year
View ArticleWanted: The big change mindset
Stephanie Draper of Forum for the Future reveals how systems thinking could help sustainability executives deliver the real corporate transformations they crave
View ArticleRenewableUK Media Training Workshops 2014
If you want to grow your business, increase your brand awareness, enhance your crisis management plan whilst improving your communication skills then RenewableUK's Media Skills Workshops in...
View ArticleGiant £310m wind turbine factory in Hull gets green light
Council says Approval for Siemens and Association of British Ports project will establish Hull as "the UK's Energy Estuary"
View ArticleSurvey: Most businesses unprepared for environmental 'perfect storm'
IEMA launches campaign to increase environmental management skills in the workplace
View ArticleRenewables industry celebrates wind energy jobs surge
Latest RenewableUK study reveals number of people employed by wind energy industry has increased by 6,300 in the past four years
View ArticleMondelēz International brews up sustainable coffee ambition
Coffee Made Happy programme aims to help secure a sustainable future for one million coffee farmers
View ArticleFive tips to help green executives become more resilient
As Forum for the Future's Stephanie Draper warns, sustainability leaders will only deliver on their goals if they look after themselves
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