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Carbon Trust Not Axed - Yet

Posted on 24. Sep, 2010 by Ross.

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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.

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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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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

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Energy Saving & Climate Business A $2 Trillion Industry By 2020: HSBC

Posted on 21. Sep, 2009 by Ross.

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Looking at getting into a green business opportunity? The timing couldn’t be better, with revenues for energy efficiency and related green business products blowing other markets out of the water!
In 2008, climate change-related business sectors worldwide grew 75% to $530 billion. By 2020, energy efficiency and other such businesses are projected to be worth $2 [...]

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South Korea Invests $85 Billion In Green Technology

Posted on 07. Jul, 2009 by Ross.

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South Korea has whole-heartedly taken the opportunity to join the industrial scramble for domination of the world’s green technologies by announcing its plans to invest 107 trillion Won ($85 billion) in renewable energy, energy efficiency and other environmentally-friendly innovations.
The massive government funding is scheduled over the next five years and represents 2% of the country’s [...]

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Energy Investment: Today’s Delays are Tomorrow’s Disasters

Posted on 11. Feb, 2009 by Ross.

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As the global downturn continues, demand for energy has dropped as manufacturers reduce production or go under. Talking to energy executives in Houston this week though, BP Chief Executive Tony Hayward warned of the dangers of complacency in failing to invest despite the recession.
In response to turbulent oil prices, OPEC has recently embarked on significant [...]

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Faith, Funds and the Environment: How Religious Investors are Turning Green

Posted on 10. Feb, 2009 by Ross.

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One of the world’s leading faith-based investment groups, the Interfaith Centre for Corporate Responsibility, announced last week that it would begin to use an index measuring just how green the credentials of publicly traded companies were as part of its’ investment decision-making process, primarily to help push for more environmentally friendly business practices.
The index, based [...]