A council has agreed to spend an extra £6m on reducing greenhouse gas emissions at a faster rate. It will bring Dorset Council's target to become a carbon neutral authority forward by five years to ...

Councillor Nick Ireland has written to all of Dorset's ... The bill aims to strengthen the UK's international commitments to tackle climate change and halt nature loss. Councillor Ireland's ...

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Council leader Nick Ireland, who leads the authority's climate change programme, said he was "confident" it could meet its own targets five years early. The decision, made by cabinet on Tuesday ...