economy
The European Commission today proposed spending €5 billion of unspent funds from the EU’s budget to stimulate the economy while building for longer-term energy security and wider broadband access across the continent. “The EU’s Recovery Plan is all about ‘smart investment’ — a short-term stimulus targeted on long-term goals,
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We always welcome and encourage debate on Greenbang – especially when people are prepared to challenge our position and argue their corner. We posted a piece earlier on in the week giving some stick to the EU’s new ‘green’ data centre code and got an excellent response from the British
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The European Union has finally released it’s ‘Code of Conduct’ for data centres after nearly two years of consultations and other stuff bureaucrats in Brussels have to go through. The code isn’t about the conduct of data centres – stopping them drinking and swearing in public, that kind of
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EU climate change policy will cost the British tax payer £150 each per year, a report claims. The report by think tank Open Europe also warns EU climate change policy will push one million extra people into fuel poverty, increase energy bills by up to 13 per cent and add
china
If carbon emissions rankings are any guide to Olympic medal success, then Greenbang would like to tap her nose knowingly and suggest you could do worse than put a few bob on China. (and if you’ll follow such shoddy betting logic, you deserve to lose your money. Go bet
electricity
Dammit. The EU must be feeling a bit like the superhero battling a supervillian when the energy from the laser weapon he uses is eaten up by the supervillain and only serves to make him stronger than he was to start off with. Sort of. Apparently, the European carbon emissions
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As a kid, did you ever stand around while two of your mates wrestled each other, hair mussed up, satchels flying shouting: “bundle! bundle!”? Well, prepare to relive that moment, albeit in a more grown-up eco business way, for a two NGOs, CEE Bankwatch Network and Friends of the Earth