Cleantech ticker: 24 April 2009
Cleantech news as it happens — check back for regular updates:
- Stephen Carter, Minister for Communications, Technology and Broadcasting, is visiting Edinburgh today to examine the digital challenges facing Scotland and consider how the Government’s plan to close the digital divide and accelerate growth in the creative industries can strengthen the Scottish economy;
- The Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research has received £4.5 million from the UK Research Council and University of East Anglia to support its ongoing studies;
- More species might suffer from habitat losses rather than benefit from a doubled biofuel target in the EU, while abolishing the biofuel target would mainly have positive effects, according to research from the European Forest Institute;
- International scientists are meeting in Norwich to highlight ways in which the food industry could make money from food grade material that is currently wasted;
- New figures show that greenhouse gas emissions from industrialised nations, in particular the US, rose by nearly 1 per cent in 2007, and even countries committed to the Kyoto Protocol saw their emissions increase.
