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United Kingdom: Productivity plan is death knell for zero-carbon homes, say campaigners
2015-07-10 21:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The governments sweeping review of how to improve productivity across a range of areas, including planning and higher education, has been criticised by campaigners as the death knell for zero-carbon homes. Energy conservationists are angry at announcements in the productivity paper released on Friday, which drops plans for higher on-site energy efficiency, as well as a separate target for zero-carbon emissions for non-domestic buildings by 2019. The productivity paper is the product of two...
United Kingdom: Don't assume scrapping planning laws will get more houses built
2015-07-10 19:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: There are few greater scandals in Britain than the housing crisis. Every year we are building less than half the new houses we need, and prices are continuing to rise. The young are particularly hard hit: a few years ago Shelter reported that two and a half million people were putting off starting families because they did not have a home of their own. ADVERTISING Housebuilding can also be a vital spur to growth. Constructing hundreds of thousands of homes helped Britain survive the 1930s depression,...
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United Kingdom: University of Warwick commits to fossil fuel divestment
2015-07-09 12:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: After two years of campaigning from staff and students, the University of Warwick has committed to divesting from fossil fuels. The educational institution has joined a host of other UK universities pledging to some form of divestment. Members of the University Council met on Wednesday to make a strategic decision on continuing to invest in fossil fuels. The University of Warwick currently holds a 14 million endowment, 1 million of which is invested in oil, gas and coal companies. The Council...
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United Kingdom: National Trust to invest 30m in renewable energy sources
2015-07-06 07:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The National Trust is to invest 30m in solar panels, woodchip boilers and innovative technology that can extract heat from a lake, in a bid to supply half of its energy needs from renewable sources by 2020. The significant investment in renewable power by Europes largest conservation organisation is an eightfold increase on the 3.5m the trust has already invested in five pilot green projects. Although the trust has opposed individual windfarms on visual grounds in the past it says it believes...
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United Kingdom: Peatlands burn as gamekeepers create landscape fit grouse-shooting
2015-07-05 01:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: They are home to a diverse range of wildlife and up to 8,000 years old. And, according to a damning analysis by an independent government advisory body, the UKs upland peat bogs are facing a sustained threat from the shooting classes desire to bag grouse. The Committee on Climate Changes 2015 progress report to parliament notes: Wetland habitats, including the majority of upland areas with carbon-rich peat soils, are in poor condition. The damaging practice of burning peat to increase grouse...
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