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Proposals for a high speed rail network announced yesterday by Transport Secretary Andrew Adonis, have received a mixed reaction from business leaders and environmental campaign groups.
Climate Exchange plc (ECX), the exchange company for trading emissions and environmental products, saw profits grow last year on the back of a big increase in volume of emissions trading.
WRAP is to work more closely with small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) when it becomes the new single Government ‘superbody’ on resource efficiency for England next month.
UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) today told 170 small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) how they could exploit the fastest-growing low carbon markets in the world as it produced figures showing that the low carbon sector is already worth some £112 billion and employs 900,000 people in the UK.
Within a week, energy company E.ON has launched two new services aimed at improving the energy efficiency of UK businesses – one mainly for SMEs, one for high energy users.
Hopes for drawing up a global climate change treaty this year appear to be fading.
Despite their greater commitment to resource efficiency, UK manufacturers – particularly SMEs – are reluctant to invest in ‘eco-design’ to reduce the environmental impact of their products.
A coalition of environmental groups is suing the European Commission over its refusal to release documents that allegedly contain previously undisclosed information on the negative impact the widespread use of biofuels in the EU is having on climate change.
A UK company that has found a way to store the energy from intermittent renewables, such as wind and solar, and turn them into hydrogen, is to test its off grid clean fuel technology in a Dutch-designed floating office, with the aim of delivering a world first in sustainable, zero carbon building solutions.
A low carbon technology that waterproofs, strengthens and extends the life of softwood by up to 50 years has been shown in trials to be able to turn MDF into a product for outdoor use that could revolutionise the use of the wood composite.