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 [...]
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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
Cambridge scientists get water management prize
Cambridge University engineers have been given an award for the best paper on water engineering by the Institution of Civil Engineers.Dr Dick Fenner and two former students were awarded the RA Carr prize for a paper which could help sewage firms establish the state of their networks from a small sample of pipes.Their paper ‘A [...]
September 23rd, 2008 | News Service | 0 comments | Continued
EA: Can’t protect all coastline
Parts of the coastline are so badly eroded that they are not worth protecting, the new head of the Environment Agency has said.Sea defences will have to prioritise certain areas to protect and others will have to be left to the sea said Lord Smith of Finsbury.He noted that parts of north-east Norfolk and Suffolk [...]
August 19th, 2008 | News Service | 0 comments | Continued
Developer gets thumbs up for zero carbon buildings
A developer has been selected for a zero-carbon neighbourhood project in the centre of Peterborough.The East of England Development Agency, English Partnerships, Peterborough City Council and Opportunity Peterborough selected the pPod consortium to carry out phase one of the South Bank project.The mixed-use development will include 344 new homes, all of which comply with the [...]
August 11th, 2008 | News Service | 0 comments | Continued
Eco-town buildings all zero-carbon
All buildings in proposed eco-towns which could appear in Cambridgeshire and Essex, will have to achieve zero carbon status, while 40 per cent of all the developments’ land will have to be green space.The standards for eco-towns were announced by housing minister Caroline Flint, who claimed the new requirements were the most stringent standards for [...]
July 29th, 2008 | News Service | 0 comments | Continued
Dilemma over sea level rises
The government faces "very difficult decisions" concerning the course of action it will take over sea level rises, a government minister has warned.Speaking during a BBC Radio 4 broadcast, environment minister Phil Woolas said the Labour administration is not going to leave significant areas of land in the east of England to flooding, the East [...]
July 21st, 2008 | News Service | 0 comments | Continued
Campaigners set to lobby Woolas over flooding
Flood campaigners are set to lobby environment minister Phil Woolas against proposals to end flood bank maintenance in Suffolk.Members of the Blyth Strategy Group are to travel to Westminster with local councillors to meet with Mr Woolas in order to gain reassurance that the Blyth estuary will be protected against flooding.EDP24.co.uk reports that this is [...]
July 14th, 2008 | News Service | 0 comments | Continued
A Credit for incineration is an act against environment. Zero- waste should be the target, with kryo- recycling:
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