News you might have missed: 25 March 2009
Looking to keep up with all the news and developments in cleantech this week? Following are some recent headlines you might have missed:
- Defra has launched a “one-stop shop” to help individuals, businesses and other organisations become more resource-efficient;
- Chinook Sciences and European Metal Recycling have formed a commercial-scale joint venture to convert automobile shredder residue into renewable electricity and recover and recycle metal in the process;
- Jonathon Porritt is warning that the UK’s population should be no more than 30 million if the country expects to be sustainable;
- Officials are redrawing the border between Italy and Switzerland to account for melting snow and glaciers caused by climate change;
- The US Environmental Protection Agency has issued a finding that greenhouse gas emissions endanger the public’s health and welfare;
- US insurance regulators have decided that insurance companies must now disclose how climate change is likely to impact their operations.
