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CRC Deadlines: 4 Weeks To Register, 7 Months To Escape

Posted on 02. Sep, 2010 by Ross.

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The green media has been reporting that, a month before D-day for CRC registration, 1698 organisations of the 3-4000 CRC participants have already registered, putting the energy-efficiency scheme’ on course’ for the vast majority to register before heavy fines kick in.
What they remain unaware of, is that the same companies only have 7 months left [...]

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International Climate Negotiations Are Dead (Thanks America), But That’s Not Stopping China

Posted on 28. Jul, 2010 by Ross.

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Whatever lingering hopes the most blindly optimistic of climate negotiators had of finding further progress in the wake of the Copenhagen disaster was extinguished by the announcement that the US Senate was to abandon its attempts to pass some form of carbon emissions regulation. However, other countries including China are continuing with their decarbonisation strategies [...]

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Carbon Trust Cuts To Fund Green Investment Bank?

Posted on 29. Jun, 2010 by Ross.

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According to the Sunday Times, the Carbon Trust is now facing the axe as part of efforts to fund the new green investment bank that successive governments have touted. Whilst green start-ups will be initially excited at the prospect of less red tape and quangos, businesses around the UK look set to lose a vital [...]

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What’s Green In The UK Coalition’s Emergency Budget?

Posted on 22. Jun, 2010 by Ross.

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Today’s emergency budget from the UK’s Conservative-Liberal coalition government has been pre-empted in the press as many things. The austerity budget. The bloodbath budget. The brutal budget. A game-changing budget.
But with the coalition parties having most in common with each other on environmental matters, one question begs to be asked: was today’s budget a green [...]

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Carbon Trust Escapes Lightly From UK Budget Cuts

Posted on 25. May, 2010 by Ross.

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The Carbon Trust, which helps fund research into low carbon technologies as well as providing interest-free loans to businesses for energy efficiency, has escaped the worst of the UK government’s spending cuts but still will see a reduction in funding.
Since being elected to power this month, the Conservative-Liberal coalition government has been taking a much-needed [...]

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When Hydroelectric Meets Climate Change: Lessons For Renewable Diversity

Posted on 20. May, 2010 by Ross.

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Reliance on hydroelectric power can lead to drought, famine and turmoil when not combined with other power sources and when future climate projections are ignored.
Around the world, governments which rarely agree on anything all agree with one thing: that climate change is a real danger to civilisation. Developed and developing nations are pursuing greater levels [...]

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Italy And Spain Aim For Energy Efficient Cities

Posted on 05. May, 2010 by Ross.

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Whilst the rest of the world continues to be locked in inaction in the aftermath of the failed Copenhagen Conference, Europe is still forging ahead with its plans to forward with greater energy efficiency and renewable energy.
Now, 500 European cities, particularly from Italy and Spain, have pledged to take this even further and do even [...]

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Australia Dumps Carbon Trading Scheme

Posted on 27. Apr, 2010 by Ross.

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In the face of intensified political opposition and a hostile Senate, the Australian government has been forced to backtrack on one of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s key election promises: the creation of an Australian emissions trading scheme to help the country stop being one of the world’s most polluting nations.
With the highest emissions per capita [...]

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Immigrants Hold Climate Change Hostage In US Senate

Posted on 26. Apr, 2010 by Ross.

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Just when the road seemed clear for America to finally hop on board the global clean energy agenda, domestic xenophobic politics has created a new crisis for climate change’s lethargic legislationary laggards.
10 months after the US Congress passed the Clean Energy and Security Act, the tri-partisan Senate coalition of Democrat John Kerry, Republican Lindsey Graham [...]

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UK’s Carbon Budget 2010 Is Gone With The Wind

Posted on 24. Mar, 2010 by Ross.

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A new green investment bank and a new port to service offshore wind farms are some of the only measures announced as part of UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling’s second Carbon Budget, which includes a weaker public sector commitment to emissions cuts than is expected of the private sector.
Last year saw the creation [...]

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New £2bn Green Investment Bank Revealed By UK Carbon Budget

Posted on 24. Mar, 2010 by Ross.

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Alistair Darling’s 2010 Carbon Budget has announced the creation of a new green UK investment bank to help finance investment in the new low-carbon economy, but will the £2bn pot be big enough to fund the necessary projects?
With growing need to invest in low-carbon energy generation in the face of imminent decommissioning of existing power [...]