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Speaking to the Royal Geographic Society, Chris Huhne, Britain’s secretary for energy and climate change, said the UK urgently needs to make its housing stock smarter and rapidly develop affordable, low-carbon electricity to ensure its energy security. “A quarter of the UK’s carbon emissions come from the home,
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If you believe in the importance of shifting to a low-carbon economy, reading through the WikiLeaks’ US embassy cables about climate change conjures up the quote (misattributed to Otto von Bismarck but actually spoken by US poet John Godfrey Saxe) about laws and sausages: “Laws, like sausages, cease to inspire
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In its Spending Review announced today, the UK government outlined a programme of deep and wide-ranging budget cuts across every department, including those dealing with energy and climate change, environment, transport and business and innovation. So do these slashed budgets spell doom for Britain’s aspirations of becoming a world-leading
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Preventing dangerous climate change and building a low-carbon economy go hand-in-hand with economic recovery from the recession, agree leaders from both union and environmental organisations. Government, business, trade unions, community groups and financial institutions all have a role to play in speeding up the transition to a low-carbon economy, according
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So the game is back on then. A combination of events this week has lead to a surge in enquiries (well, emails) around the promotion of “green” topics. We should really build a “green fashionometer” as it’s such a fickle industry. First of all — the rise in petrol prices
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Energy- and carbon-minded British officials are keeping busy this week: on the eve of a rollout of new feed-in tariffs that will pay homeowners to generate their own renewable power, the UK is also outlining plans for reducing the government’s carbon footprint and spearheading an effort to revive global
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If European and North African power markets worked together, both regions could generate 100 per cent of their electricity from clean, renewable sources by 2050, according to a new study. The report — prepared by PricewaterhouseCoopers in collaboration with the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), the International Institute for
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A new government forum has begun working to make sure the transition to a low-carbon economy will benefit workers, businesses and consumers in the UK. The Forum for a Just Transition, which met for the first time today, is chaired by Business Minister Pat McFadden and includes representatives from government,
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Scotland’s Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Sustainable Growth is inviting Japanese companies and universities to work with their Scottish counterparts to find new ways to meet renewable energy goals, move toward a low-carbon economy and tackle climate change. Speaking at Tokyo University, John Swinney told an audience of business
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Speaking at the Low Carbon Industrial Summit in London today, Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Peter Mandelson said, “Low carbon is not a sector of an economy — it is an economy.” The shift to a low-carbon society, Mandelson said, is more than a way to create
