16 items | 6 visits
Environmental media monitoring by Green Alliance.
Updated on Apr 09, 14
Created on Apr 09, 14
Category: Government & Politics
URL:
An independent Scotland could expect to lose subsidies to green energy investment from the rest of the UK, the UK government has warned.
Plans to build a wind turbine over 40m-high near Yetholm have been rejected by Scottish Borders Council.
New report shows benefits of government-backed responsible investment fund
Grant Shapps gives clearest indication yet that Tory manifesto will include commitment to shift wind energy development offshore
Scottish households will have to pay as much as £189 a year more for their energy if they vote for independence, an official Government report warns.
Independent Scotland alone would face the costs of supporting Scottish energy network investment and renewables
Trillion tonne communiqué signed by 70 companies calls for rapid response to rising emissions, reports BusinessGreen
The first and easiest prediction arising from the continuing crisis in Ukraine and the deterioration of relations between Russia and the EU is that natural gas prices will rise. After all half the gas Europe imports from Russia comes through Ukraine.
Germany’s heavy industry will continue to be largely exempted from paying for the country’s switch to renewable energy, under the terms of a deal agreed between Berlin and the European Commission.
The "uncertainty and disruption" caused by the looming referendum on Scottish independence will have a detrimental effect on progress in the economy and energy sector, a cabinet minister will warn.
The latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) Working Group II has concluded that global warming of 2.5˚C would cost the equivalent to losing between 0.2-2.0% of annual income.
Financial incentives for homeowners off the gas grid to switch to technologies such as biomass boilers
Multinational pledges to ensure that the palm oil and palm kernel oil it sources is traceable to the supplier mills
Four-fifths of UK species improve numbers after 2013 and targeted conservation but extinction threat lingers
As resources on dry land are depleted, companies are turning their attention to the oceans, where vast reserves of precious metals lie untouched
Findings contrast with earlier study – and will fan homeowners' demands for compensation when windfarms are approved
16 items | 6 visits
Environmental media monitoring by Green Alliance.
Updated on Apr 09, 14
Created on Apr 09, 14
Category: Government & Politics
URL: