WRAP will launch a new recycling campaign on waste, with research showing 79 per cent of UK households still throw away items that could be recycled.

Recycling of materials has been going on for, well since ever, but more recent concerns have focussed on industrial scale recycling of metals, plastics and other items. However, there are the unloved things that are harder, and more expensive to recycle.

New analysis from the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU) has found that the UK’s electricity supply has become ever more British in the last year, with a higher proportion of the energy used to supply power coming from UK-based sources and a growing independence from foreign fuels such as gas imports for gas power stations.

A £380m Government boost will support the building of one of the largest gigafactories in Europe.

Great British Energy and the Government are to invest £86.5m in a UK-first hydrogen project in South Yorkshire.

The UK's largest solar farm has gained approval from DESNZ after a planning inquiry and despite local objections.

“Never let a good crisis go to waste,” may or may not have been said by Churchill, but the idea remains the same in energy, with a new IEA report exploring the recent unprecedented wave of global energy policy making and government spending.

Tony Blair Institute for Global Change has issued a paper, warning that the UK is currently in a “self-reinforcing high-cost, low-electrification trap”.

The National Energy System Operator (NESO) has reported that two solar records were broken this week, with the highest generating 14GW.

New data shows sustained growth in science-based and net-zero targets through 2025, leading to 10,000 companies with validated targets globally in January 2026.

The European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) and the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) have published a paper on natural catastrophe risk management with a proposed a shared backstop of €10bn to €65bn.

EV registrations have risen 24.2 per cent to reach record high, in a UK new car market that overall grew by 6.6 per cent in March, typically the busiest month of the year, with 380,627 new vehicles registered, according to the latest figures published by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT).