| Sourced From Hortweek.com |
A grower hailed as a sector champion for fighting climate change is to reveal how he managed to compare the carbon footprints of producing different varieties of a type of fruit.
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UK lagging in progress to low-carbon economy
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Uncertainty about future policy directions is preventing companies from making major investments in efforts to reduce carbon emissions.
Carbon Trust: Green power could generate £70 billion for UK economy
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Embracing wind and wave power could generate up to £70 billion for the UK economy, a report released today claims.
Ford’s scrappage scheme saves 8,700 tonnes of CO2
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Ford dealers have taken over 12,000 orders for new cars under the Government’s scrappage scheme – rising by about 300 a day.
UK firms seek RP partners in CDM projects
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A group of UK-based companies expressed readiness to develop long-term partnerships with Filipino firms to invest in renewable energy and other carbon market-related businesses.
Factfile: nuclear and carbon trading
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The UK boss of EDF, EDF Energy CEO Vincent de Rivaz has called for a ‘level playing field’ for nuclear power, and suggested that the UK government establish a floor on the price of carbon in the publicly-traded European Emission Trading Scheme (ETS).
Shell To Become Most CO2-Intensive Oil Co -Study
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LONDON -(Dow Jones)- Royal Dutch Shell PLC (RDSB.LN) is on track to become the most carbon intensive international oil company because of its focus on unconventional oil resources like Canadian tar sands, said a study published by a coalition of environmental groups Monday.
UK’s Brown proposes $100 billion annual climate fund by 2020
UPDATE 3- LONDON, June 26 (Reuters) - Developed countries must fund a $100 billion a year fight against climate change in the developing world by 2020, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on Friday.
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Trade law no block to carbon tariffs: John Kemp
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LONDON, June 26 (Reuters) - Nothing in international trade law would prevent countries that introduce carbon taxes or cap-and-trade programmes from supplementing them with excise duties, tariffs or other measures on imports from countries that don’t.
Less CO2 means less tac for fleets and employees
| Sourced From Fleetnews.co.uk |
Significant tax savings can be achieved by opting for low CO2 emission cars.
Drivers have been taxed on the benefit of a company car according to CO2 emissions since 2002.
As an example, compare two cars under contract hire arrangements with a list price of approximately £25,000 – a petrol one with emissions of 244g/km and a diesel one of 123g/km.
EU carbon prices steady following sell-off
LONDON, June 23 (Reuters) - Benchmark European carbon futures CFI2Z9 were barely changed in early trade on Tuesday following a sell-off the previous day, down 5 cents at 12.90 euros ($17.88) a tonne at 0945 GMT.
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JLR part of pioneer scheme in low carbon transport
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Jaguar Land Rover is one of six car manufacturers putting their expertise behind a West Midland project to pioneer the development of mass low carbon transport.
The scheme, which is launched in Birmingham today, will see more than 100 battery, hydrodgen-powered and hybrid cars tested on the region’s roads over the next year or so in the biggest programme of its kind so far.
SNP bows to Green lobby and amends carbon emissions cut
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The Scottish Government last night bowed to pressure from political opponents and the Green lobby and increased their target to cut carbon emissions by 42% by 2020.
But ministers made clear that the new target, which will be enshrined in tomorrow’s Climate Change Bill, will have conditions set on it regarding EU and UK measures which could impinge on Scotland’s ability to lead the way in terms of climate change.
Waking up to carbon reality
| Sourced From Blogs.24dash.com |
Up until recently climate change has often been described as the greatest challenge of our time although perhaps the world wide recession and the state of the UKs public finances has started to contest that notion.
Now with the commencement of the Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) looming large for local government these twin phenomena’s may converge to create a perfect financial storm. For authorities who are not at an advanced stage of planning in their response to CRC the monetary consequences maybe about as welcome as a sneezing pig wearing a poncho and sombrero.
Earths sea levels may rise 25 meters by 4000 AD despite CO2 freeze
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London, June 22 - ANI: A new study on the effects of climate change on melting ice sheets has indicated that even if scientists could freeze-frame the atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) as it is today, sea levels would still rise by 25 meters by 4000 AD.
