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What’s the carbon footprint of your product?

Businesses can from today assess the carbon footprint of their goods and services and play a greater part in fighting climate change, thanks to a new standard launched by BSI British Standards, the Carbon Trust and Defra.
The standard - called PAS 2050 - is a consistent way of counting the greenhouse gas emissions embedded in [...]

October 30th, 2008 | Gareth Jones | 0 comments | Continued
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Brown Says Downturn Won’t Hit Green Plans

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on Tuesday the global economic downturn would not affect a government drive to reduce the country’s carbon emissions. However, an industry executive cast doubt on the ability of the UK’s existing power transmission network to cope with planned increases in wind power output. Brown told a wind energy conference [...]

October 30th, 2008 | Gareth Jones | 0 comments | Continued
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Plans to fly aircraft over Suffolk opposed

A public consultation over a proposal to allow aircraft fly over Suffolk’s countryside has been opposed by the majority of those who turned out.Some 86 per cent objected to the plans when 15,225 individuals and groups responded to the consultation, according to the East Anglian Daily Times.According to the news source, pressure is mounting for [...]

July 23rd, 2008 | News Service | 0 comments | Continued
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Inquiry launched over Stansted runway

A public inquiry has been launched in advance of a government decision on the construction of a second runway at Stansted Airport.The expansion plan, brought forward by the British Airports Authority (BAA), has previously met opposition from campaign group CO2, which is made up of local councils.According to the BBC, the group asserts that the [...]

July 23rd, 2008 | News Service | 0 comments | Continued
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Noise pollution concerns in Cambridgeshire

Plans to use the sky around Cambridgeshire as a stacking zone for flights coming in to land at Luton airport are raising concern among local residents and environmental groups. According to proposals by the National Air Traffic Service, up to 25 aeroplanes could be circling at any one time overhead, which many claim will create [...]

March 19th, 2008 | News Service | 0 comments | Continued
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Six East of England councils unite against Stansted plans

Council representatives from across the East of England gathered yesterday to protest against plans to double the size of Stansted Airport. The Essex-based travel hub could see the building of a second runway – which has caused concern among environmental campaigners, politicians and local residents. Six local authorities in Essex, Suffolk and Hertfordshire are said [...]

March 17th, 2008 | News Service | 0 comments | Continued