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Mitie helps Royal Mail to deliver significant energy savings

In just 12 months, Mitie has worked with Royal Mail Group to achieve energy savings of over 16.69 (GWh), the equivalent to the annual usage of 1,100 UK homes. This is the first year of a five-year partnership which is ...

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Grundon introduces new electric waste collection vehicles powered by customer waste 

As part of an ongoing annual £5 million investment programme in a greener, cleaner collection fleet, waste and recycling specialist, Grundon Waste Management, has unveiled the first two electric vehicles to join its fleet – including one powered directly by ...

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Wates teams up with NHDG to boost social housing retrofit

Building and property maintenance company, Wates, has become one of the first members of the newly formed National Homes Decarbonisation Group (NHDG) in a move that will help accelerate the social housing retrofit challenge. The Group will work together to ...

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Over a third of businesses admit they haven’t begun to actively reduce emissions

Analysis of today’s ONS Business Insights and Conditions Survey (BICS) by Reconomy Group, a leading global circular economy specialist, has revealed over a third of businesses are yet to take meaningful action on reducing emissions. Despite the climate emergency and ...

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Crown UK&I records 38% reduction in CO2e emissions

Crown Worldwide Group in the UK and Ireland (Crown UK&I) has reported a 38 per cent cut in its Scope 1 and 2 C02e emissions since 2019. Revealed in the region’s annual Sustainability Report, the reduction has been driven by ...

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SBTi validates Mitie’s decarbonisation targets

Mitie’s greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets have been validated by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi). Scienced-based targets show organisations how much and how quickly they need to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions in order to prevent the worst effects ...

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UK organisations are ‘sleepwalking’ towards a building retrofit crisis

  This is the warning from a new report The Role of Retrofitting our Non-Domestic Buildings in the Race to Net Zero, by Ridge and Partners LLP, a multi-discipline property and construction consultancy. The report shows that fewer than one in ...

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Mitie publishes e-book on how to overcome the five biggest challenges to reaching net zero

Mitie has released a new e-book which explores the most common challenges faced by organisations looking to reach net zero and offers solutions on how to tackle them effectively. As one of the the UK’s leading facilities management company, Mitie’s ...

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Ground Control announces commitment to net zero by 2038

Biodiversity and land management business, Ground Control, has announced its commitment to becoming net zero by 2038, in line with targets submitted to the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) for validation. The transition includes achieving interim targets in 2030 and ...

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Amey leads military net zero housing retrofit pilot

Amey is working alongside the Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) and SMEs to retrofit service family accommodation with a series of net zero solutions. Planning has recently been approved for nine military homes in Catterick to receive fabric improvements. These include ...

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