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With around three-quarters of existing residential property expected to still be in use by 2050, having builders carry out green retrofits will be “absolutely critical” to meeting the government’s ambitious targets for cutting carbon emissions, an expert has claimed.
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A major study for the UK government has cast doubt over claims that rising temperatures are causing soil to pump greater amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, further fuelling global warming.
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COMMUNITIES in Exmoor are being asked to stake their claim for a share of a pot of up to £500,000 for ‘low carbon’ initiatives.
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David Crane’s article about the low carbon fuel standard, fuel prices and market forces truly represents “misplaced priorities” on behalf of the author. Somehow he connects the dots between high oil prices and the need for a low carbon fuel standard. If the oil market was being truly driven by market forces, their may be an inkling of a connection here. However oil markets are now driven by Wall Street investment decisions and the switching of investment bundles into different classes of products, including oil commodities. Oil prices have very little to do with market forces and very much to do with currently-legalized gambling.
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LONDON (Reuters) – Consumers are still thinking about the price of the electronic goods they buy, rather than saving energy, according to a survey commissioned by energy-saving technology manufacturer Energenie on Monday.
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LONDON -(Dow Jones)- The U.K. government said Monday it is to start its new mandatory scheme for large public and private sector organizations to boost energy efficiency and reduce carbon emissions April 1.
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LONDON (Reuters) – The government aims to spur private lending to households for energy efficiency and low carbon upgrades, under a proposed law to fight climate change and cut fuel poverty, the government said on Tuesday.
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Speaking at a nuclear new build conference in London, Kidney said there was a “strong argument” for driving up the price of carbon, with the renewable energy and nuclear industries lobbying hard for changes to the EU’s Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS).
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When carbon trading becomes commonplace in the UK commencing in less than a month’s time (1st of April 2010) and eventually worldwide in an effort to put climate change in check, companies will have to make large financial decisions. Will companies buy or sell carbon credits or invest in carbon reducing projects or technologies? To make these decisions, companies will need specialised software to track and analyse their carbon emissions and carbon abatement programs, as well as gaining access to carbon trading markets to buy and sell carbon credits.
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Since signing up for 10:10 and pledging up to cut their emissions by 10% this year, PR & Communications consultancy Vivid have been racking their brains to find innovative solutions for cutting carbon at work. They have launched 2 creative new initiatives and hope that other companies across the county will follow their lead.
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It now seems that Brits, living in London, have been doing more than ever before to reduce their city’s carbon footprint and improve their climate. According to the State of the Environment report from the capital, they found that household recycling has increased. The amount of waste sent to landfills has decreased as a result.
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SCOTLAND (Commodity Online):Till now the question was whether a group of currencies would replace the dollar or even gold? Now, here comes the prediction amidst global warming and cllimate change concerns that carbon credit will replace the US dollar as the currency of international trading within five years.
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The drive to cut Britain’s carbon-dioxide emissions has been hit by companies’ reluctance to obey new rules to reveal how much heat and light their buildings waste.
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A proposal by the Freight Transport Association (FTA) to have the carbon emissions of commercial vehicle hire fleets working in the logistics sector recorded has been backed by transport minister Lord Adonis.
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npower has welcomed the Government’s announcement regarding Feed-in-Tariff (FIT) levels and urged consumers to buy now to take advantage of the Government scheme.
The scheme offers financial assistance when installing solar PV panels, potentially earning customers GBP986 per year.
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