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Houses with low energy efficiency will lose value in government plans
Houses with low energy efficiency will lose value under government plans to intervene in the property mar ...
Wednesday, March 3,2010
Ed Miliband unveils loans scheme for green home improvements
Under the scheme loans will be attached to the property in order to overcome the financial barriers house ...
Tuesday, March 2,2010
POWER TO THE PEOPLE: GREEN ENERGY BONANZA ANNOUNCED TODAY
The feed-in tariff, a government backed financial incentive that pays owners of small scale renewable ene ...
Tuesday, February 16,2010
White House climate adviser offers hope after Copenhagen
White House climate adviser offers hope after Copenhagen. More considered verdicts of what was -- and wha ...
Tuesday, January 12,2010
Review of the Year 2009: Climate change
Fortunately, there is now a US President who sees the dangers posed by climate change. Sweeping away year ...
Monday, January 4,2010
Copenhagen Climate Summit
Ed Miliband: climate change deniers are 'profoundly irresponsible' As the Copenhagen summit begins, energ ...
Wednesday, December 16,2009
Gordon Brown says climate change deal must be legally binding in six months
• PM urges world to make historic agreement• Obama acts to cut US emissions Gordon Brown raises the b ...
Monday, December 7,2009
Obama and Hu aim to agree greenhouse gas targets
Statement by leaders of world's two biggest polluters could breathe new life into Copenhagen climate chan ...
Tuesday, November 17,2009
No global climate change treaty likely for up to a year, negotiators admit.
World's key industrialised nations say they have abandoned hope of legally binding deal at Copenhagen sum ...
Friday, November 6,2009
European leaders edge closer to agreement on global climate change fund
European leaders were edging towards agreement today on a massive international fund for developing count ...
Wednesday, November 4,2009
Barack Obama must attend climate change talks to avoid 'catastrophe' for the planet
More than 190 countries are due to agree a deal to tackle global warming at the UN Climate Change Confere ...
Wednesday, November 4,2009
China Expected to Announce Positive C02 Targets
President Hu Jintao is expected to announce that China, the world's biggest emitter of greenhouse gasses, ...
Monday, October 19,2009
Carbon Capture Plans to Go Ahead Say UK GOV
Energy and climate secretary Ed Miliband has insisted that the delay to the new coal-fired power plant at ...
Monday, October 19,2009
US Green Guru Hails Clean Coal
Environmentalists have said that coal deposits must be "left in the ground" rather than burned in order t ...
Friday, October 16,2009
Obama says the US Green Agenda is stronger than ever
"The journey is hard. And we don't have much time left to make it," Mr Obama said in brief remarks at a h ...
Monday, September 28,2009
The Conservative Dane, Thinking Green
COPENHAGEN — Connie Hedegaard, Denmark’s minister of climate and energy, feels little kinship with th ...
Wednesday, September 23,2009
Russia to Ban Snow
It defeated Napoleon and Hitler, but the legendary Russian winter is facing a formidable new challenge fr ...
Monday, September 14,2009
New Japanese PM promises aggressive carbon cuts
Japan's new prime minister, Yukio Hatoyama, has promised to make ambitious cuts in greenhouse gas emissio ...
Monday, September 14,2009
Thinking outside the box
'Green Guru' Sir Jonathan Porrit has issued 19 Planet Saving Suggestions in light of UK Government failin ...
Monday, September 14,2009
We can do it, but its not going to be easy
"Limiting global warming to 2C above preindustrial levels is absolutely crucial, says the G8 and most of ...
Monday, August 24,2009
Oil Lobby to Fund Staged Protests
The US oil and gas lobby are planning to stage public events to give the appearance of a groundswell of p ...
Monday, August 24,2009
Early Farmers Started Global Warming
The US scientists believe that small populations released carbon emissions as they cleared large tracts o ...
Monday, August 24,2009
Australia Senate Block to Impact Copenhagen?
If Australia cannot agree, how will more than 90 countries with opposing views possibly thrash out an agr ...
Monday, August 17,2009
UK Needs to Plan for Food Shortage
A "radical rethink" of the way the UK produces and consumes food is needed, environment secretary Hilary ...
Wednesday, August 12,2009
Secetary of State Clinton's Visit to India highlights differences
India and US have struggled to find a happy medium in negotions leading up to Copenhagen. GURGAON, ...
Tuesday, August 11,2009
Fish stocks improving in parts of the world
Global efforts to combat overfishing are starting to turn the tide to allow some fish stocks to recover, ...
Thursday, August 6,2009
Porritt parting shot at ministers
The government has been accused of failing to develop a green economy for the 21st Century by its own out ...
Monday, August 3,2009
G8 Summit Italia leads to historic agreement
President Obama and other leaders backed historic new targets for tackling global warming last night in a ...
Wednesday, July 29,2009
G8 Addresses Wider Group of Nations
Barack Obama said today there was still time to overcome cynicism and close the gap with developing power ...
Monday, July 27,2009
Exxon still funding Lobbyists
The world's largest oil company is continuing to fund lobby groups that question the reality of global wa ...
Friday, July 3,2009
Brown announces 400,000 new 'green' jobs.
Among the many jobs proposed in Gordon Brown's statement today, 400,000 will have a green tinge by 2017. ...
Tuesday, June 30,2009
Obama addresses energy reform critics
Barack Obama put his presidential prestige on the line to urge Congress to pass climate change legislatio ...
Monday, June 29,2009
Republicans Give Obama Nuclear Reaction
America's nuclear industry and its supporters in Congress have moved to hijack Barack Obama's agenda for ...
Monday, June 22,2009
It's not Emerald It's Green
Of all the world's developed nations, Ireland is on the verge of economic depression, so does it really ...
Monday, June 15,2009
China Taking Renewable Targets Seriously
China is planning a vast increase in its use of wind and solar power over the next decade and believes ...
Monday, June 15,2009
Japanese Targets Unimpress Critics
Japanese Targets are so low that some believe they could threaten Copenhagen Summit. Japan's target to cu ...
Friday, June 12,2009
The Big Question: Is America finally getting real about climate change?
Barack Obama has launched a policy revolution which will ensure that, if successful, his presidency will ...
Wednesday, June 10,2009
US Pledges Leadership in Climate Change Meeting
A meeting has taken place in Washington between some of the world's most polluting nations, in order to s ...
Friday, June 5,2009
Energy Fund too Popular
Government fund runs dry Environmental campaigners say they are astonished at the government's decisio ...
Friday, June 5,2009
Budget Includes Renewables Funding
Green funding continues Chancellor Alistair Darling is expected to include a further £500m of funding ...
Friday, June 5,2009
Energy Efficiency could increase fuel consumption
IMPROVEMENTS in energy efficiency will lead to greater use of fossil fuels, according to research publish ...
Wednesday, June 3,2009
Australia delay emissions scheme
Due to the Australian Government focusing on economic recovery, plans to limit emissions have been shelve ...
Monday, May 11,2009
Obama to Silence Critics?
Whilst the talk coming out of President Obama's administration certainly sounds genuine, can they convinc ...
Monday, May 11,2009
Crowded Earth
Tackling Overpopulation Uncontrolled population growth threatens to undermine efforts to save the planet, ...
Wednesday, May 6,2009