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All The Green Eggs In One Basket: Why China Is Not The Bottom Line Of Offshoring Climate Change

Posted on 14. May, 2010 by Ross.

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Worried about China’s inexorable financial growth and exploding levels of carbon dioxide emissions?
Worry less about China and more about everyone else, as the most populous country on Earth starts to see the effects of one of global capitalism’s least popular phenomena: offshoring.
The growing strength of the yuan is starting to destroy the margins of domestic [...]

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Carbon Dioxide Becomes A Resource, Not A Risk

Posted on 30. Apr, 2010 by Ross.

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In the future, chemistry teachers will regale their pupils with stories of how people used to think that the biggest threat to civilisation was carbon dioxide, and that it was once thought of as a pollutant. About how nations dithered and delayed in their actions to deal with the threat, and how developing countries fought [...]

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After Copenhagen, The Carbon Tariff Trade Wars Begin

Posted on 05. Jan, 2010 by Ross.

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In the aftermath of the global economic collapse, the industrialised world looked back at the lessons of the 1930s and realised that the fastest way out of recession was to avoid protectionist trade wars and to keep international markets as open as possible, in order to try to keep trade flowing as freely as possible [...]

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Carbon Trust Helps Manufacturing Slash Costs With Industrial Energy Efficiency Accelerator

Posted on 05. Nov, 2009 by Ross.

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Capitalising on the tsunami of companies now looking to maximise their profits by cutting energy costs, the Carbon Trust is now investing an extra £15 million in funding to help manufacturers become more energy efficient.
The new scheme, called the Industrial Energy Efficiency Accelerator, is designed to spark a ‘low carbon industrial revolution’ by helping manufacturers [...]

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Carbon Trust’s £40m Big Business Refit Is A Scrappage Scheme: Theo Paphitis

Posted on 09. Sep, 2009 by Ross.

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Businesses around the country are laying off staff in order to save money through the recession, despite millions of pounds in interest-free loans being available from the Carbon Trust to reduce bottom line costs through energy efficiency.
Making do with old, inefficient equipment or replacing it when it finally breaks down is costing businesses £3.3bn every [...]

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Manufacturing Succumbing To Energy-Efficiency Inertia: Workers Choose To Lend A Hand

Posted on 31. Mar, 2009 by Ross.

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Energy efficiency is seemingly the big corporate issue for 2009, with companies aware of the need to save money by reducing energy costs, but many in the manufacturing sector are failing to make the sort of improvements necessary to help ride out the current recession and emerge stronger in what is likely to be a [...]