Green Growth
Jun 18 2024
Loughborough University development to improve solar panel efficiency
A new development at Loughborough University could fix a “significant problem” within the solar panel industry.
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Natural Capital Monitor
Natural capital is the elements of nature that directly or indirectly produce value to people including ecosystems, species, freshwater, land, minerals, air and oceans, as well as natural processes and functions.
The Midlands Engine has natural assets that bring many benefits to our region’s people and businesses. By valuing our Natural Capital we can protect the natural world, our economy and residents. Protecting and enabling the recovery of our natural world will help avert both the climate crisis and the decline of biodiversity. The Natural Capital Monitor places a value on our region’s natural assets so that we can better protect them.
The Monitor is supported by Environment Agency, Natural England, Woodland Trust and the National Trust.
Ten Point Plan for Green Growth in the Midlands Engine
Our Ten Point Plan for Green Growth in the Midlands Engine sets out, with a unified voice, the actions to be taken in partnership which will accelerate our region’s and the UK’s path to net zero.
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Transport
May 23 2024
Freeport East and East Midlands Freeport Sign Green Freight Corridor Initiative
Freeport East and East Midlands Freeport have announced a new partnership to support a green freight corridor that will help decarbonise transport and drive enhanced skills and employment initiatives along the length of one of the UK’s most important transportation routes.
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Green Growth
May 13 2024
UK-EU Hydrogen Summit advances international Net Zero collaboration
The Energy Research Accelerator (ERA) and HyDEX recently held the UK EU Hydrogen Summit at the Institute for Mechanical Engineers in London.
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