In a significant new commitment on climate change, Ed Miliband has announced that Britain will reduce its CO2 emissions by 80% by 2050. President-elect Obama has recently made a mirror-image commitment for the United States, and underlined it by his announcement this week that his energy secretary will be Steve Chu and his chief scientific adviser will be John Holdren. Both are strongly committed ...
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Guardian on 21st Dec 2008 (via guardian.co.uk)
The unexpected scrapping of the WEZ (unexpected, that is, by anyone who hadn’t noticed that Boris was a Tory petrolhead) provoked a number of questions along the lines of ‘hang on, how will this affect the proposed cut in CO2 emissions by 2025, amounting to 60% reduction from 1990 levels?’. Well, at the time, there
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BorisWatch on 16th Dec 2008 (via boriswatch.co.uk)
A deal on financing coal power plants equipped with technology to capture and store CO2 emissions deep underground edged closer today (12 December) after the European Council decided to give substantial backing to the technology.
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EurActiv on 12th Dec 2008 (via euractiv.com)
This time its coming from British Airways and not us. You'd have to assume that BA and BAA simply can't see the irony in this video - but showing Terminal 5 under water (given the amount of emissions their short haul flights are causing) looks like a glimpse of the underwater future that we'll all be swimming in if we don't start cutting back on CO2 emissions - starting with av...
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Greenpeace on 10th Dec 2008 (via greenpeace.org.uk)
EU transport ministers have reached agreement on the technical details of Europe's next-generation air traffic management system, paving the way for shorter flights and reduced CO2 emissions from air traffic.
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EurActiv on 10th Dec 2008 (via euractiv.com)
I really wonder about some of the green movement. You can debate the science behind global warming, but some things they come out with are just plain ignorant. Specifically I received a letter yesterday from some government body about energy efficiency. Fine, energy efficiency can be a good thing, reducing CO2 emissions and saving you money.
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LibertyAlone on 9th Dec 2008 (via eridu.org.uk)
A compromise agreement to reduce CO2 emissions from new vehicles was reached yesterday (1 December) amid pressure from the car industry, which is currently being weighed down by the economic recession.
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EurActiv on 2nd Dec 2008 (via euractiv.com)
Delegates from 186 nations are in Poznan, Poland today (1 December) to launch 12 days of talks designed to bring forward an international deal to tackle climate change. But the conference is currently overshadowed by an EU internal row over how to share the 'effort' of reducing CO2 emissions.
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EurActiv on 1st Dec 2008 (via euractiv.com)
The EU is getting closer to reaching an agreement to reduce CO2 emissions from cars, amid speculation that the bloc's car-making countries have struck a deal to lower fines for manufacturers that fail to meet their CO2 targets.
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EurActiv on 25th Nov 2008 (via euractiv.com)