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 […]
Posted on April 1st 2008
Press Release by The Climate Group
March 14, 2008
Former UK Prime Minister, Tony Blair, has today announced a major new climate change initiative: Breaking the Climate Deadlock – achieving a global deal on climate change. The Climate Group - an independent, not-for-profit organisation working internationally with government and business leaders - is providing strategic international support […]
Posted on March 17th 2008
John Vidal, environment editor for The Guardian. Photograph: PA/Haydn West
Britain’s climate change emissions may be 12% higher than officially stated, according to a National Audit Office investigation which has strongly criticised the government for using two different carbon accounting systems. There is “insufficient consistency and coordination” in the government’s approach, the NAO said.
Using one system, […]
Posted on March 15th 2008
Ian Traynor in Brussels for The Guardian
Europe’s chances of spearheading a global post-Kyoto climate change accord were jeopardised yesterday when Germany secured pledges that several of its heavy industries could be protected from international competition and exempted from the EU’s plan to combat global warming.
The concessions, agreed at a summit of European leaders in Brussels, […]
Posted on March 14th 2008
From BBC News
Climate change has dominated the spring summit
European leaders meeting in Brussels are set to endorse binding measures for cutting greenhouse gas emissions.
Slovenia’s PM, who is chairing the summit, said the leaders had approved a timetable to implement an agreed 20% cut by 2020, compared with 1990 levels.
He likened the EU’s plans to move […]