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United Kingdom: Supermarkets pledge to cut food waste 20% by 2025
2016-03-15 10:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Britains leading supermarkets have pledged to drive down food and drink waste by a fifth within the next decade. Retailers including Asda, Sainsburys, Tesco and Morrisons are backing a voluntary agreement, which also targets a 20% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions created by the food and drink industry. Some 24 local authorities, including the London Water and Recycling Board, and major brands and manufacturers such as Coca-Cola, Nestle and Pizza Hut have also committed to the agreement...
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United Kingdom: John Swinney announces plans to cut airport tax
2016-03-15 09:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Scotsman: First Minister John Swinney has launched a consultation on plans to halve and eventually abolish Air Passenger Duty, in a move he claims will boost the Scottish economy. He visited Edinburgh Airport to set out why the Scottish Government wants to use new powers coming to Holyrood to slash the tax paid by passengers leaving on international flights. But environmental campaigners said the cut would incentivise people to use the least sustainable transport option. And Labour accused the SNP...
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United Kingdom: Coal-fired plant permits no longer need proof of pollution standards plan
2016-03-13 19:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Scores of Britains coal-fired power stations, steel plants and iron works will no longer have to maintain a plan to show they will meet air pollution standards under the latest permits issued by the government. ClientEarth, a group of environment lawyers who last year successfully sued the government over air pollution, said the permits deleted a condition that required the plants operators to publish air quality management plans and to assess how much they might damage protected nature areas....
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United Kingdom: A pocket of acorns
2016-03-12 07:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: When he wasn't at sea blockading the French, Admiral Collingwood liked nothing better than walking out from his house in Morpeth, Northumberland, with a pocket full of acorns, which he would press into the soil at likely spots, in order to ensure that, years after he was gone, there would be full-grown oaks enough to build new ships of the line for the Royal Navy. Today, our ships are no longer heart of oak, and thousands of our oaks are afflicted with a disease called acute oak decline. This...
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United Kingdom: Keep mandatory carbon reporting rules, businesses urge Treasury
2016-03-11 12:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: The UK must keep its mandatory carbon reporting requirements, business leaders have today urged the Treasury ahead of an imminent decision on carbon reporting and taxation rules in next week's Budget. In a letter published this morning in The Independent executives from Aviva, BT, Marks & Spencer, the National Grid and a host of other businesses, argue the government should keep carbon reporting requirements first introduced in 2013, which require listed companies to report annually on their global...
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