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Responding to today’s Climate Change Committee report, which warned that the government could fail to meet emissions reduction targets, Greenpeace energy campaigner Vicky Wyatt said:
"For far too long, politicians in government have been all talk and no trousers when it comes to climate change. And that’s what this report is saying.
"If this new [...]
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What lies behind BP’s very public sponsorship of the arts, I wonder? Is it a selfless desire to spread a little cultural enlightenment down into the ranks of the great British public? Or could it be simply a cynical mechanism to distract attention from the company’s terrible [...]
Improved energy efficiency needs to be made a desirable prospect for every householder, like broadband or satellite TV, according to Energy Minister Chris Huhne. He compared not tackling energy efficiency in private homes to burning ?50 notes outside our doors and said that the Government’s Green Deal would make it easier for householders to make [...]
SYDNEY (Reuters) – A group of major investors on Friday urged Australia’s new Prime Minister Julia Gillard to take swift action to fight climate change and cut carbon emissions blamed for heating up the planet. “We consider that climate change presents real risks to the Australian economy, which must be addressed,” the group said in [...]
We’ve seen a flurry of CSR reports released over the last week from high-profile companies touting their social and environmental achievements, including AT&T, Ball, Baxter, EMC and SABMiller. Though they hail from a wide variety of sectors, the metrics used to report environmental performance fall along familiar lines, includes carbon footprint, energy use, water, waste [...]
While the global community is fighting wars on many fronts, the Commonwealth Secretary-General has said that there is no greater fight than climate change, “where the battle for the forest represents the front line, and the very thick of the action.” “We know that by protecting forests from deforestation and degradation, and by restoring forests [...]
Although climate change does not pick and choose its victims, some groups are more affected than others. In developing countries, women are often the main water transporters and agricultural producers, one of many examples illustrating the way in which women are more likely to feel the consequences of climate change than men.
Without urgent regulation, the rapid growth of biofuels risks causing more harm than good – diverting valuable resources away from food production
Storing the gas safely and in sufficient quantities for real-world applications could simply be a matter of storing it in carbon “nanoscrolls”