News you might have missed: 9 June 2009
So what else is happening in the world of cleantech? Here are some headlines and developments you might have missed:
- The Government’s new packaging strategy, “Making the most of packaging,” looks at the packaging of the future and what our shop shelves and kitchen cupboards should look like if we cut the amount of packaging produced, used and thrown away, and increase the amount recycled;
- A new World Bank study examines fuel switching in electricity production following the introduction of the European Union’s Emissions Trading System, a cap-and-trade regulatory framework for greenhouse gas emissions;
- Environment and health issues faced by people in poorer communities around the world will be discussed at a conference this month hosted by the University of East Anglia;
- Australia has given the green light for the country’s biggest-ever wind farm in the outback town of Silverton, New South Wales;
- Environment Minister Jane Kennedy has left her position at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs amid the continuing row over Gordon Brown’s leadership. She has been replaced by Jim Fitzpatrick, MP for Poplar and Canning Town, based in East London;
- A prehistoric complex including two 6,000-year-old tombs representing some of the earliest monuments built in Britain has been discovered by a team led by a Kingston University archaeologist.
