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United Kingdom: Solar still a good option despite subsidy cut and VAT hike, says industry
2016-01-14 12:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Solar panels still make financial sense for consumers despite a double whammy of subsidy cuts and a rise in VAT rates, the industry has said. Midnight on Thursday marks the final chance for homeowners to secure the current incentive of 12.47p per kWh for electricity from solar panels. The feed-in tariff scheme then closes to new applicants for three weeks and anyone installing panels will get 4.39p per kWh, a 65% cut that was branded huge and misguided when it was announced just before Christmas....
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United Kingdom: PM challenged over climate policies
2016-01-12 01:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: The PM has been accused of double standards over climate change, ahead of a Commons committee appearance. Select committee chairmen Huw Irranca-Davies (Labour) and Angus MacNeil (SNP) said he has scrapped UK schemes aimed at cutting emissions, despite pledging internationally to protect the climate. They singled out the decision to axe a carbon capture and storage (CCS) project promised in the Tory manifesto. The government said the CCS scheme had always been "subject to affordability"....
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United Kingdom: Claims rises in flood defence spending 'essentially meaningless'
2016-01-09 13:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Government claims that it increased spending on flood defences ahead of the wettest December on record are essentially meaningless, an independent adviser on climate change has said. Daniel Johns, head of adaptation at the Committee on Climate Change, urged the government to commit to spending more on maintaining defences after weeks of heavy rain caused flooding across the UK. The warning comes as water levels in north-east Scotland reached their highest levels in 45 years, causing further...
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United Kingdom: The Observer view on the floods and budget cutting
2016-01-03 01:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Inundated; crumbling; overwhelmed: there could hardly have been a more graphic physical representation of the fragile state of Britains infrastructure than the floodwaters surging down the streets of our towns and cities and into shops and living rooms in the past few days. And the government cant say it wasnt warned. Our story today reveals that experts had left ministers in no doubt that skimping on flood defence spending was exposing a growing number of households to risks. In 2014, too,...
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United Kingdom: Hundreds of buses to be fitted with green technology to cut air pollution
2016-01-03 01:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: A million greener bus journeys will take place across the UK next year after ministers announced 7million to fund new technology. Hundreds of buses will be fitted with devices to cut harmful nitrogen oxide emissions in areas where pollution is high, reducing toxins by 90 per cent according to government research. Fifty London buses will go green and Bristol and Brighton will both see 35 vehicles fitted with the technology. Other areas including Leeds, York, Sunderland and Norfolk will...
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