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Prime Minister Rishi Sunak delivers his keynote speech at the Conservative Party annual conference at Manchester Central convention complex, October 4, 2023
HOUSEBUILDERS and developers have reaped billions of pounds due to the Tories’ delays to building regulations, all while becoming one of the Conservative Party’s largest sources of donations, research found today.
An analysis by The Guardian shows that property developers and construction professionals contribute roughly 10 per cent of donations to the Tory Party. They have donated approximately £40 million since 2010.
Delays to implementing environmental regulations, and green-lighting the building of high-carbon homes, without solar panels and batteries, heat pumps and effective insulation, has benefited the construction industry by at least £15 billion since 2015.
Government's plan means ‘extra cash for war and overseas interventions, but less for schools and hospitals,’ Unison general secretary Andrea Egan warns
Coal-fired stoves in traditional homes are the primary source of extreme levels of air pollution in over-crowded Ulaanbaatar. As more people become climate-displaced, the situation is likely to worsen, write SCIENCE AND SOCIETY
One of the major criticisms of China’s breakneck development in recent decades has been the impact on nature — returning after 15 years away, BEN CHACKO assessed whether the government’s recent turn to environmentalism has yielded results