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UK must take urgent action on climate change, warn government advisers

2016-07-12 05:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Energy Live News: The impacts of climate change are already being felt in the UK and urgent action is required to address the risks. The warning from the Committee on Climate Changes (CCC) Adaptation Sub-Committee (ASC) follows more than three years of work involving hundreds of leading scientists and experts. Its 2,000-page report states 14 out of the 15 hottest years on record have already occurred globally since 2000. It warns changes to the UK climate are likely to include periods of too much or too...

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UK food and drink industry urges government to delay sugar tax plan

2016-07-12 01:00:00| Food Processing Technology

The UK's food and drink industry has urged the government to delay its plans for sugar tax as it fears this will affect businesses due to rising inflation, worker shortage and weak consumer confidence after the Brexit vote.

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New government pension rules open the door to rip-offs

2016-07-11 16:51:05| BBC News | Business | UK Edition

Some companies are exploiting new pension freedom rules to get access to pension savings, Panorama discovers.

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Scottish Government and European energy firms participate in Carbon Trusts OWA initiative

2016-07-11 01:00:00| Power Technology

The Scottish Government and nine major European offshore wind developers have agreed to invest a total of 7.9m to Carbon Trust's Offshore Wind Accelerator (OWA) programme to bring new innovations to the renewables market.

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Bulgarian Government Embraces Open Source

2016-07-08 02:03:54| TechNewsWorld

Bulgaria's Parliament recently passed legislation mandating open source software to bolster security, as well as to increase competition with commercially coded software. Amendments to the Electronic Governance Act require that all software written for the government be Free and Open Source Software-compliant. The new provisions reportedly took effect this week.

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