Government warned: put nature ‘at the heart’ of planning reforms

The UK Civil Aviation Authority has authorised the first trial of routine drone flights outside a pilot’s line of sight, which could have significant implications for logistics, construction and retail.

New York City, Denver and Seattle have become the latest US cities to announce plans to limit or ban natural gas connections to buildings.

New York City landlords risk facing more than $10bn of fines per year if they fail to cut carbon...

H&M and Amazon accounted for almost a quarter of data protection and e-privacy fines in Europe last year, as the total amount of penalties issued in 2020 across the region topped €300m.

The government agency will require bidders for its £7.4bn pot for affordable housing supply in the next five years to use modern methods of construction such as off-site manufacturing.

Premium adult electric scooter company, AER Electric has welcomed the UK Government’s plans to fast-track e-scooter trials as part of a national initiative to get people back to work using alternative, sustainable methods of public transport after the lockdown.

“Candle is a challenge to the industry to do better,” says Tijmen Schep, the Dutch inventor behind a privacy friendly smart home concept. “It’s a challenge, like a slap in the face of Google and all those companies like, ‘Hey why don’t do you do it differently?’”

Some of the world’s largest banks and law firms have come together to take part in a global blockchain trial to dramatically speed up property transactions.