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A public consultation on guidance aimed at helping organisations to manage and reduce their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions was launched today by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) and the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC). The guidance, published under the requirements of the Climate Change
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The Postcode Lottery Green Challenge 2009 seeks to identify innovative product and service ideas for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The international competition, sponsored by the Dutch Postcode Lottery, offers a €500,000 award to the top idea and €100,000 each to two possible runners-up. Entries should contribute to an
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Human-caused global greenhouse emissions rose sharply — by 15 per cent — between 2000 and 2005, according to new research from the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) and the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL). By comparison, greenhouse gas emissions rose by 3 per cent between 1990 and 1995, and by
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More than eight out of ten businesses say Government targets to reduce carbon dioxide emissions are unrealistic, according to npower’s Business Energy Index (nBEI), an annual report published today that tracks business opinion on energy use and carbon emissions. The index also finds that significant numbers of firms do
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Carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide, meet some new greenhouse gases to make the climate change “Most Wanted” list. Agence France-Presse reports that UN delegates meeting in Bonn this week want to include more than a dozen man-made gases in the next global climate treaty, which negotiators plan to begin
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The UK’s greenhouse gas emissions fell by 2 percent from 2007 to 2008, according to the latest report from the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC). Provisional estimates put last year’s emissions of six greenhouse gases at 623.8 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent, compared to
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Denmark could meet a “significant proportion” of its EU greenhouse gas reduction targets by focusing on wind-power-based electric cars and heat pumps, according to a new analysis from Energinet.dk. By 2020, the EU aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 20 percent, increase renewable energy use by 20 percent
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Australia’s efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from petroleum use were almost completely offset last year by rising emissions from coal-fired electricity plants, according to a new report from The Climate Group. Across Australia’s eastern states, greenhouse gas emissions last summer dropped by 60,000 tonnes — less than
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Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) today announced they’ve identified a new greenhouse gas with thousands of times more heat-trapping capability than carbon dioxide: sulfuryl fluoride. Used as a fumigant to control insect pests in agriculture and buildings, sulfuryl fluoride “has the potential to contribute significantly to
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The numerous mudslides set off by last year’s devastating earthquake in China pose a new and long-lasting peril: increased carbon dioxide emissions. Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin say the mudslides both ripped away vegetation that normally absorbs carbon from the atmosphere and uncovered buried plant matter
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Following are some of the top headlines yesterday from the world of cleantech: * Technology developed at the University of Chicago might soon land in the marketplace in the form of a new and more efficient plastic solar cell for portable electronics. Solarmer Energy Inc. says it expects to have a
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California officials are hoping the new atmosphere in Washington, DC, will mean a renewed opportunity for them to regulate greenhouse gases in the state’s atmosphere. On Wednesday, Mary Nichols, chairman of California’s Air Resources Board (ARB), asked the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to reconsider a decision that
