Green News & The Low Carbon Economy
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Tory leader David Cameron has today set out how his party will tackle the UK’s looming energy crisis and build a sustainable energy system for the future, if it is elected, including overhauling the UK carbon tax system to create a floor price for carbon and to encourage investment in low carbon energy projects.
The Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) has launched three major research projects, worth £4.5 million, to help prepare the ground for a self-sustaining mass market for electric and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles.
Northwest micro-enterprises and social enterprises are being invited to apply for funding from a new £4 million rural carbon grant project for the region.
The UK’s beleaguered car manufacturing industry got a much needed shot in the arm today as two car giants – Nissan and Ford –confirmed nearly £2 billion worth of new investment into the production and R&D of electric and low carbon vehicles at sites across England and Wales.
A new Government report is calling on UK companies to rethink their attitude to waste management and recognise the business opportunities opening up in the growing waste and recycling sector.
East of England businesses will for the first time have the opportunity to have their food waste turned into bio energy to heat homes and power cars thanks to a new anaerobic digestion facility set to be built in Suffolk.
The Government has named Yorkshire and Humber as the UK’s first low carbon economic area (LCEA) for carbon capture and storage (CCS) and has awarded £6.3 million to a five megawatt (MW) CCS project at Ferrybridge in Yorkshire.
Sainsbury’s has, this week, launched two initiatives – one involving bees, another involving scientists – in a bid to find solutions to environmental challenges facing the supermarket, its farmers and customers.
A day after the Government launched its Marine Energy Action Plan, setting out a roadmap for driving the marine energy sector forward, the Crown Estate has announced an unprecedented 1.2 gigawatts (GW) of wave and tidal energy project leases.
The John Lewis Partnership, which owns Waitrose supermarkets and John Lewis department stores, is to open its first ‘off grid’ retail store, probably before the end of the year.