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UK Budget 2011 - What’s Green And What’s Greenwash
Posted on 23. Mar, 2011 by Ross.
Here’s all the key green (or really-not-so-green!) changes in UK government policy in today’s 2011 Budget.
Fuel Duty.
Green policies? Run away!
Previous Labour governments declared war on motorists, consistently and unashamedly increasing fuel tax with an aim not just to make more money (although this was hardly a happy accident) but to also drive down the escalation [...]
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Carbon Trust Survives The Spending Review: Waits For Another Review
Posted on 20. Oct, 2010 by Ross.
After months of speculation, the Carbon Trust learnt it’s fate today in the UK coalition government’s Spending Review: that it was up for review.
Firstly, the fears that the Carbon Trust would be axed today proved unfounded, as recently predicted here at Energy-Saving News. With a raft of business support services all axed from the Department [...]
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Carbon Trust Not Axed - Yet
Posted on 24. Sep, 2010 by Ross.
Want to know if you can still apply for those fantastic Carbon Trust interest-free loans for your business’s energy efficiency projects? Need to know if the Carbon Trust is facing the axe under the UK government’s planned spending cuts?
Today a list of quangos facing the axe was leaked by the Cabinet Office, showing almost half [...]
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Carbon Trust Cuts To Fund Green Investment Bank?
Posted on 29. Jun, 2010 by Ross.
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.
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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UK’s Carbon Budget 2010 Is Gone With The Wind
Posted on 24. Mar, 2010 by Ross.
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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Posted on 24. Mar, 2010 by Ross.
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
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UK Carbon Budget 2010: Winners and Losers
Posted on 24. Mar, 2010 by Ross.
You win some and you lose some, especially in a recession, but is your company one of 2010’s Carbon Budget winners or losers?
The Winners
The biggest winner was offshore wind power. Seen as the ultimate anti-nimby renewable energy source due to being located out to sea (getting around local planning obstacles and community protests), wind [...]
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What The UK Carbon Budget 2010 Means For Small & Medium Businesses
Posted on 24. Mar, 2010 by Ross.
Did Alistair Darling leave anything sweet for your business in 2010’s Carbon Budget? Probably not.
There was plenty for small and medium businesses to digest in this year’s traditional budget, especially regarding the new National Investment Corporation, doubling the annual investment allowance and the Enterprise Finance Guarantee Scheme, but there were little in the Carbon Budget [...]
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Little Christmas Cheer For Green Business In UK’s Pre-Budget Report; Broken 10:10 Promises
Posted on 09. Dec, 2009 by Ross.
Back in April 2009, the UK broke new ground in releasing a Carbon Budget to work in tandem with the conventional economic budget. Stocked full of investments for energy efficiency and renewable energy for both households and businesses alike, the move garnered wide praise and managed to generate greater levels of publicity for measures largely [...]
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UK Government On Energy Efficiency Defensive
Posted on 01. May, 2009 by Ross.
The UK Government has sprung into action today to counter growing disillusionment with their plans to counter climate change as laid out in last week’s first Carbon Budget, as highlighted by npower’s latest survey of business opinions on energy efficiency. More criticism surfaced today from charity Business in the Community, whose latest survey revealed that [...]
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