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Let Battle Commence: Green ‘Buy America’ Will Kick-Start Carbon Trade Wars

Posted on 12. Mar, 2010 by Ross.

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After the collapse of the Copenhagen conference, there was one prediction which Energy-Saving News felt was easy to make: that a new era of green carbon tariffs in developed countries on dirty imports from developing nations was at hand. After recent comments from UK politicians suggesting a direction towards such steps, the battle in the [...]

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CBI: We Want Energy Efficiency On Driving Tests

Posted on 03. Mar, 2010 by Ross.

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Business lobby organisation the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) has called for mandatory energy efficiency testing as part of the driving test, doing a U-turn on its growing resistance to UK low-carbon legislation in the wake of the failed Copenhagen conference.
Smooth driving and the avoidance of sharp braking or acceleration can reduce fuel use by [...]

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UK Energy Efficiency Home Loans Take A Lesson From The Carbon Trust

Posted on 03. Mar, 2010 by Ross.

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Smart, forward-thinking businesses have been doing it for years. An interest-free Carbon Trust loan of up to £500,000 for new energy-saving machinery, energy efficient lighting or other low-carbon technologies has been a great way to cut costs, whilst lower loan repayments than the achieved savings led to immediate positive cash flow.
Now UK householders are being [...]

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What Is The Best Enterprise Carbon Accounting Solution?

Posted on 02. Mar, 2010 by Ross.

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Enterprise carbon accounting has seen massive growth over the past 12 months, as companies flock to engage with sustainable business practices, comply with new carbon reduction legislation and justify green PR claims.
Numerous companies have set up their stalls in this new emerging marketplace, but which is the best enterprise carbon accounting solution? Here are some [...]

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What is the Carbon Footprint of Whaling?

Posted on 26. Feb, 2010 by Ross.

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The last century of whaling has released as much carbon dioxide into the air as 128,000 Humvees driving continuously for 100 years: and that’s without taking emissions from the whaling fleet into account.
One of the flagship issues of the environmental movement in the 20th century, whaling has long been condemned not just by green groups but [...]

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Dimming Coventry’s Street Lighting Will Save 40%

Posted on 18. Feb, 2010 by Ross.

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Using lighting more efficiently - and using energy efficient lighting - is an obvious way to save substantial quantities of money, energy and carbon. However, it has taken public bodies a long time to finally wake up to the clear sense behind the business case for the adoption of energy efficient technologies and practices.
According to [...]

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UK and India Proves That Not All Of Copenhagen Was All Talk And No Action

Posted on 18. Feb, 2010 by Ross.

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Copenhagen was full of hot air, right? Commitments by developed and developing nations fell short of the mark then and have since been further scaled back, correct? There’s no hope for further progress on the international response to climate change, is there?
Some countries have other ideas.
The Copenhagen agreement was a complicated beast, and although most [...]

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Blue Chip Hits The Jackpot With 500k Carbon Trust Loan For Energy Efficiency

Posted on 15. Feb, 2010 by Ross.

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The Carbon Trust proved today that it means big business in the fight to improve corporate energy efficiency, awarding its first maximum £500k interest-free loan to IT company Blue Chip.
The loan, issued as part of the Carbon Trust’s Big Business Refit, will allow Blue Chip to install energy efficient evaporative cooling technology at its five-acre [...]

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The Low Carbon Economic Area Car Crash

Posted on 15. Feb, 2010 by Ross.

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The UK government concept of Low Carbon Economic Areas is now looking like the ultimate in Whitehall greenwashing, and whilst the first blunder looked like the government had fallen asleep at the wheel, the latest news would suggest that they don’t know how to drive the car at all.
The concept of Low Carbon Economic Areas [...]

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UK Regulator Says Free Market Has Failed And The Lights Will Go Out

Posted on 05. Feb, 2010 by Ross.

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UK energy market regulator Ofgem, once the strongest proponent of applying free market economics to energy companies, has waved a white flag and acknowledged that the system is failing the country, and that UK energy prices will go up by 20%.
In an amazing about-turn, Ofgem is now recommending a new part-nationalisation of the energy markets [...]

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Government Funding Ignores UK’s First Low Carbon Economic Area; Orecon Sinks

Posted on 04. Feb, 2010 by Ross.

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The government has turned a blind eye to a key pledge in the world’s first Carbon Budget by allowing funds for wave power companies to be allocated almost entirely outside of the geographic area designated to see the benefits of the technology. As a result, Cornish wave power company Orecon has been forced to close, [...]