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UK universities need to set carbon targets UK universities should commmit to reducing carbon emissions by 80 per cent by 2050, according to a joint consultation between the Higher Education Funding Council for Education, Universities UK and GuildHE. Doosan Babcock launches world’s largest OxyCoal™ firing demonstration Doosan Babcock today
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September 2009 16 – 18 September World Bioenergy Clean Vehicles & Fuels 2009 Stockholm, Sweden 17 – 18 September Platts European Smart Grid Strategies: Achieving a Successful Transition Berlin, Germany 21 September Ernst & Young Global Renewable Energy Awards London 21 – 22 September Renewable Energy Finance Forum (REFF) London Millenium Gloucestershire, London
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Mayor’s energy- busting building makeover helps ‘boys in blue’ go green Wembley police station has become the first building to get an eco-makeover from the Mayor of London’s scheme to make public buildings greener and save taxpayers’ money on fuel bills. Energy bills ‘need to be simplified’ A
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UK government urged to focus on energy efficiency for low-carbon switch The Cumbria Green Business Forum says the Government’s Low Carbon Transition Plan will require a much greater emphasis on business energy-efficiency measures. The plan plots out how the UK will meet the cut in emissions set out in
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East End London could soon be much more than the subject of West End put-downs and soap-opera drama a la “EastEnders,” thanks to London Thames Gateway’s major plans to make it the UK’s first “Eco Region.” The biggest regeneration area in Europe, the Thames Gateway region has for
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Clean technologies and renewable energy — especially offshore wind and wave — could generate up to £70 billion for the British economy, according to new analysis from the Carbon Trust. The study quantifyies for the first time the economic benefits of investing in a range of clean technologies. By taking a bold
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Outside of the dismal finance situation at the moment, the daily news from the world of cleantech tends to sound overwhelmingly positive: Researchers here have made a breakthrough that could lead to super-batteries. Scientists there have found a way to potentially produce hydrogen fuel cheaply and easily. A startup here
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Cleantech news as it happens — check back for regular updates: * European researchers have developed novel concept devices using ferromagnetic semiconductors. Spintronic devices have created enormous advances in microelectronics, leading to faster, instant-on start times and orders-of-magnitude increases in data storage capacity; * The largest space telescope ever constructed in Britain is
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Trying to keep up with all the latest cleantech news and headlines? Here are some developments you might have missed: * Trinity College Dublin and University College Dublin have signed a transatlantic collaboration agreement with the Silicon Valley-based Irish Technology Leadership Group to drive innovation and create new business on the
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Cleantech news as it happens — check back for regular updates: * SINTEF ICT and a group of industrial companies from Ireland, Sweden and Norway are currently forming an alliance that will help to give the aviation industry greener and more rapid routes across Europe; * Geologists at the University of Leicester have
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Looking to catch up on all the headlines now that the work week’s back in swing? Here’s Greenbang’s daily roundup of cleantech news and developments: * England’s first large-scale development to be built to Level 6 of the Code for Sustainable Homes, has been given the green
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Cleantech news as it happens — check back for regular updates: * For the first time scientists and technicians from the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences in Kiel, Germany, successfully used an offshore observing system to study environmental changes — in particular, acidification — in the oceans; * Space researchers and enterprise experts from the
