Posted on September 17th 2008
An action plan spelling out how the London theatre industry can achieve a 60% reduction in its emissions by 2025 was launched last week at the PLASA annual conference, at Earl’s Court. The plan is a joint initiative between Mayor Boris Johnson and leading theatre groups, including the Society of London Theatre, National Theatre, the […]
Posted on July 18th 2008
An independent report commissioned by Centrica, which owns British Gas, has warned that gas prices could rise by up to 700% over the next two years. See Julia Kollewe’s article in The Guardian today for more.
Meanwhile across the Atlantic, Al Gore threw down the gauntlet on renewable energy in the US, in a speech given […]
Posted on July 16th 2008
By Hannah Strange, from Times Online, July 15 2008
US government scientists have warned of a rising death toll from heat waves, wildfires, disease and smog caused by global warming, in a study the White House repeatedly tried to bury to avoid regulating greenhouse emissions.
In a 149-page analysis released last night, experts for the first time […]
Posted on July 1st 2008
George Monbiot writing in The Guardian, Tuesday July 1
Oil-dependent countries are focused on growth at all costs, and the pale green political consensus looks unlikely to hold.
Almost everyone seems to agree: governments now face a choice between saving the planet and saving the economy. As recession looms, the political pressure to abandon green policies intensifies. […]
Posted on June 29th 2008
From The Sunday Times, June 28
Tony Blair
The problem of climate change is almost universally understood and acknowledged. This is in itself an achievement. Now is the moment to get serious about the solution.
Such a solution has to be global. It must include America and China. It has to be radical. It must put the world […]
Posted on June 23rd 2008
Nicholas Watt, chief political correspondent The Guardian, Saturday June 21, 2008
Gordon Brown will today plead with Saudi Arabia and other oil producers to channel some of their $3trn profits from the worst “oil shock” in history into wind, tidal and nuclear power in Britain and other western countries.
On the eve of a visit to a […]
Posted on June 23rd 2008
John Vidal, environment editor The Guardian, Saturday June 21, 2008 http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/jun/21/renewableenergy.carbonemissions
Revealed: UK’s blueprint for a green revolution· Massive increase in wind power planned
· One in four homes to have solar heating
· Owners may be forced to insulate homes
3,500 turbines would be built across the UK in the next 12 years under the government’s renewable energy […]
Posted on June 20th 2008
The Times, Friday June 20th 2008. Ben Webster, Transport Correspondent
£100m city hubs plan for cyclists to get Britain on two wheels
Disappearing into a broom cupboard with a sweaty red face and wearing Lycra shorts, only to reappear moments later in a suit, but still with a sweaty red face, is a daily ritual for many […]
Posted on April 22nd 2008
Plans for Britain’s biggest land-based wind farm were turned down by the Scottish government yesterday, in a landmark decision with wide implications for the future development of renewable energy in the UK.
Posted on April 15th 2008
By David Adam and John Vidal, environment editors for The Guardian. Photograph: Peter Parks/AFP/Getty images.
Developing countries, including China and India, are unwilling to sign up to a new global climate change pact to replace the Kyoto protocol in 2012 because the rich world has failed to set a clear example on cutting carbon emissions, according […]