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Smart, low-carbon homes were once the preserve of one-off grand designs – now there are up to 30,000 projects in the pipeline

Ojok Okello is transforming his destroyed village into a green town where social enterprises responsibly harness the shea tree

95% of £1.5bn set aside to improve houses unspent due to slowness in making grants and paying installers

Only five green jobs on average are created per £1m spent, while most equipment is made abroad

Only five green jobs on average are created per £1m spent, while most equipment is made abroad

In response to articles on the risk of air pollution from wood-burning stoves, Simon Tate tested his own, but was surprised at the results

The government needs to stop subsidising high-carbon heating and use the extra revenue to support low-income homes, writes Libby Peake of the Green Alliance

PM pledges to transform country in keynote address to Conservative party conference

The city plans to build Britain’s biggest zero-carbon housing project, boasting 600 homes in car-free cycling paradises full of fruit trees and allotments...

Government pledges to spend £20m turning canals, mines and rail lines into heat sources

Government pledges to spend £20m turning canals, mines and rail lines into heat sources

UK’s greenhouse gas emissions in 2018 equivalent to total output of Niger, data shows

Watchdog reveals huge sum ploughed into ‘world’s dirtiest fossil fuels’ despite climate vow

Rapidly growing sector could prove lucrative as Britain seeks post-Brexit trade opportunities

It was the decade of austerity, fracking, populism and internet lies. But not everything about the 2010s was terrible