A new report warns Britain’s looming energy gap could cost the country more than £100bn a year in less than a decade from now. The analysis by the business services group LogicaCMG believes that the energy gap could arrive much earlier than previously thought. It says that by 2010 the shortfall could be 5 per … Read More
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WWF: British Government Should Stop Financing Big Oil
WWF is calling on the UK Government to stop using its Export Credit Agency (ECA) to subsidize Big Oil and other carbon intensive sectors. ECAs are public agencies that provide government-backed loans, guarantees, credits and insurance to private corporations from their home country to do business abroad.
Will the New Congress Act on Climate?
Will a new Democratic Congress mean a sea-change in environmental and climate change policy? That is the question being asked by many people who voted out the Republicans. Whatever the short-term euphoria, it remains far from certain what will happen over the next two years and some of the initial signs are not good. Let’s … Read More