The many new and expanded strong policy initiatives and green targets in Chinas 12th Five year Plan, released on 5 March 2011, provide
Rising oil prices transform low carbon economics, says UK Energy Secretary
UK Energy and Climate Change Secretary Chris Huhne laid out his blueprint for the countrys energy future in a speech yesterday to CentreForum in London.
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Recession helps meet carbon targets
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Britain’s carbon emissions are set to fall again slightly this year after the recession drove dramatic declines of around 10 per cent last year, analysts say.
Low carbon policies on the cards as Lib Dems edge towards coalition decision
Environmental and climate change policy has emerged as one of the areas where a prospective Conservative-Lib Dem coalition could work constructively together, according to reports over the weekend.
As the two parties’ negotiating teams met to try to thrash out a deal that could result in either a Con-Lib coalition or informal Lib Dem support for a Conservative minority government, senior figures on both sides suggested the two parties could cooperate to drive forward low carbon policies.
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Opinion: All is flux for the low-carbon agenda
First the good news: Caroline Lucas’ victory in Brighton Pavilion marks a genuine watershed in the annals of Britain’s environmental movement.
The election of the country’s first Green MP has understandably failed to dominate the headlines on a day when the British political scene was thrown into an historic period of flux, but Lucas’ victory represents a remarkable breakthrough that will only help to drive environmental issues ever further up the political agenda.
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Opinion: Industry attack campaign way off base on tar sands and low carbon policies: Part 2
In my blog last week on the attack campaigns against the Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS), an innovative policy tool for reducing the global warming pollution in our fuels, I wrote about the Consumer Energy Alliance (CEA) and its affiliated