MORE renewable energy plants and diverting waste from landfill could all help London follow in the carbon ‘footsteps’ of Copenhagen, Europe’s greenest city.
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UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) today told 170 small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) how they could exploit the fastest-growing low carbon markets in the world as it produced figures showing that the low carbon sector is already worth some £112 billion and employs 900,000 people in the UK.
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Every morning Mike walks into his London office and logs on to the Intercontinental Exchange, where he and most of his colleagues do all their work. He surveys the news for major political developments related to greenhouse gas emissions, then checks current and forward prices of fuels, and throws an eye on the weather. Finally, he sells or buys a few hundred thousand tons…of carbon.
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* EU carbon prices to rally later this year
* Nordic power prices seen rallying in 3rd quarter
* Higher natural gas prices to boost coal
LONDON, March 11 (Reuters) – European carbon futures CFI2Zc1 could rally as much as 30 percent by the end of the year, according to the manager and senior analyst of a Stockholm-based energy hedge fund.
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- Simple steps to address five core products would save the UK 8 million tonnes each year in carbon equating to 19.9 billion road miles -
If manufacturers were to adopt simple ecodesign principles and re-evaluate the production process of just five staple consumer products (kettle, television, mobile phone, fridge,
laptop), the UK would save over 8 million tonnes of C02 each year – the equivalent of taking over 19.9 billion road miles off the roads.
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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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The UK’s current housing stock needs to be retrofitted in order to meet increasingly important CO2 targets, according to an expert at Whatgreenhome.com.
Gordon Miller, founder of whatgreenhome.com, made the comments after the government announced a series of initiatives to make Britain’s homes greener.
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Nick says, “I was delighted to be informed that Exmoor National Park has been selected to participate in the Low Carbon Community Challenge. This is a prestigious Government research programme looking at the way ahead for cutting carbon emissions.”
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It was with bewilderment that I listened to the RTE news last Friday about what science boffins working for the EU had to say about Ireland’s carbon dioxide emissions.
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Firms need a standard method of reporting their contribution to greenhouse gas emissions, one environmental publication has suggested.
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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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With the introductory phase of the Carbon Reduction Commitment Energy Efficiency Scheme due to begin in April, large businesses with high CO2 emissions are already setting about reducing their carbon footprint. By becoming more energy efficient, they can reduce the amount of CO2 emission allowances they need to purchase and increase the likelihood that they will be repaid more than they pay out. Smaller businesses that will not be affected by the mandatory scheme can also reap rewards by going green.
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* Carbon emissions pipe could serve up to five power plants
* E.ON to submit final pipe plans by end of year
LONDON, March 1 (Reuters) – E.ON UK’s (EONGn.DE) initial carbon dioxide pipeline plans for the Kingsnorth clean coal power station would be able to take emissions from other sources to be buried too, the German utility said on Monday.
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