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United Kingdom: Households are throwing away six meals a week as the nation bins 'staggering' amount of food and drink
2013-11-07 07:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: The average household is throwing away six meals or 3kg of food each and every week despite rising bills - costing families 60 a month. Experts last night called for a combined effort from Ministers and high street stores to do even more to bring down the "staggering" amount of waste in the nation's kitchens. Wrap, the environmental campaign group, said 4.2 million tonnes of "avoidable" food waste - food which could have been eaten - is binned each year, including 320,000 tonnes of potatoes,...
United Kingdom: Climate wavering 'not justified'
2013-11-07 02:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Britain is playing its part in a worldwide bid to reduce emissions and should not weaken its proposed cuts, says a report to the UK government. The Committee on Climate Change says no change in global science or policy justifies a slackening of effort. The report was compiled after Chancellor George Osborne said the UK's competitiveness might be put at risk by leading the world in curbing emissions. The CCC research challenges this assumption. "It is not accurate to say that the UK is leading...
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United Kingdom: Lord Stern snubbed as free trade trumps climate change
2013-11-06 10:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Ecologist: Lord Stern yesterday called on Parliament to introduce a revolutionary system of 'carbon tariffs' to help save the global climate. This would take the form of an import duty on goods from countries that do not charge companies for their carbon emissions - and so remove the disadvantage faced by businesses whose prices are undercut by firms in states which do not have carbon pricing. "Over the medium term, some sort of border adjustment for differential approaches to policy on carbon in different...
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United Kingdom: We can still celebrate bonfire night without burning toxic waste
2013-11-05 09:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: "Bonfire night kills whales" is the sort of headline that gives environmentalists a bad name. But the facts can't be helped, even if the messengers must be shot for sounding like killjoys. Most communities have festivals of subversion, in which the rules by which they live for the rest of the year placid, ordered and obedient are upended in a marvellous explosion of chaos. Without these festivals - May day, Holi, Carnival, the Day of the Dead, Hallowe'en and Guy Fawkes night are examples -...
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United Kingdom: House of Lords votes to bring old coal power stations under new regulations
2013-11-05 00:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The House of Lords has voted to kill off Britain's coal-fired power plants more quickly than expected as Labour defeated the government in a vote to amend the energy bill. Peers led by shadow energy minister Lady Worthington supported the closure of a loophole allowing some of the UK's oldest coal stations to get around applying a new emissions performance standard (EPS) to cut their carbon emissions. The government was defeated by 237 to 193, as the Lords voted to bring old coal power stations...
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