To mitigate climate emergency, there is a global race to achieve carbon neutrality.

The modernisation and transformation of Defence Fire and Rescue’s firefighting fleet has been completed with the delivery of the last of 138 new vehicles.

We helped Blackburn with Darwen Council to secure funding and planning permission for a project that will reduce the carbon footprint and electricity bills of 23 council buildings through the installation of sustainable power and heating technologies.

It’s been a few months since the long awaited Williams-Shapps Plan for Rail was published, with some early signs of reform already being introduced, such as the recent launch of new flexible tickets for commuters.

Water efficiency should just be an underpinning activity, you need to save water and not waste it and then you need these extra things on top like reservoirs and water transfers, and even desalination. If you don’t do the water saving bit you just need to build loads more stuff and you do get into a position where you need desalination pretty quickly

To get a better understanding of building energy consumption, we engaged SMS plc to apply metering and data expertise for valuable energy management insights.

Since 2013, the Data Communications Company (DCC), one of our subsidiaries within the Capita group, has been licensed by the UK government to build and manage the central network for smart metering across Britain.

At Cop 26 in Glasgow last October, world leaders pledged to end deforestation, move away from coal and curb methane emissions, amongst many other revised targets.

Energy Day at the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) was dominated by the message: ‘consign coal to history’.

The climate change crisis, caused mainly by emission of greenhouse gases and burning fossil fuels for energy use, is accelerating at a rapid rate and having catastrophic impacts on our weather, environment and the future of our planet.