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| Sourced From This is Hampshire |

MARTIN Tod has joined individuals and groups in Winchester pledging to cut their carbon footprints next year.

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| Sourced From  Green Building |

Public buildings in England and Wales are pumping out 11m tonnes of carbon dioxide a year, more than Kenya’s entire carbon footprint, according to the Guardian. Unpublished findings of an energy efficiency audit of 18,000 buildings including ministerial offices, police stations, museums and art galleries reveal that the 9,000 buildings audited so far produce 5.6m tonnes of CO2, with one in six receiving the lowest possible energy efficiency rating.

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| Sourced From Farming UK |

CARBON EMISSIONS.
Farmers globally are all on alert about the proposed tax for carbon emissions. The propped new tax for farting cows is going to cost the average farmer around AU$6,000 a year.

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The British House of Commons recently passed a climate change bill mandating an 80 percent reduction in carbon dioxide levels over the next 40 years. Ironically, it was snowing outside when the bill was debated during London’s first October snow since 1922.

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If you travel to Unst in Shetland you may come across a worldwide eco-phenomenon – a self-built zero-carbon house has been built on this remote, windy island.

It has been designed, constructed and powered to minimise its impact on the environment. Even the food eaten by its residents is considered.

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A couple of weeks ago I got an email from a PR company suggesting I “forget Christmas trees this year” and instead give as a present a “personalised tree” to be planted by schoolchildren in the Scottish highlands “to reduce carbon emissions”.

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The government is failing to meet targets for carbon emissions, according to its own watchdog.

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A potentially “revolutionary” technology could soon be deployed to trap waste CO2 from large buildings and use it to help produce biofuel on site, according to the UK start up behind the system.

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Allen & Overy (A&O) has been named as the firm with the largest carbon footprint out of of a group of 18 UK firms that have chosen to publicly reveal their environmental impact.

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London - Britain should not rely on using carbon offset credits to reduce its greeenhouse gas emissions by 34 percent by 2020, Britain’s chief climate change adviser said on Monday.

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| Sourced From Renewable Energy Association - UK |

The renewable energy industry welcomes the tighter emissions reduction budgets proposed by the Climate Change Committee in today’s report. But it questioned the wisdom of prescribing the delivery route in such detail.
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|Sourced From Fleet Directory News |

Rental trade body, the British Vehicle Rental and Leasing Association (BVRLA) has launched a new CO2 tool on its website, enabling operators to compare the emissions of different vans.
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| Sourced From Farmers Guardian |

THE Government’s climate change advisor has told Britain to commit to a 34 per cent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 or risk irreversible climate change damage. Lord Adair Turner, chairman of the Government’s new Committee on Climate Change, launched the committee’s first report today (Monday, December 1).
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| Sourced From The Argus |

A council is planning to cut its carbon footprint in a bid to avoid a £700,000 Government fine. West Sussex County Council currently spends £10 million a year on electricity, gas and water services across it’s offices, fire stations, depots and schools.
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