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United Kingdom: Companies warned over tough new timber legislation
2013-02-11 01:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: Businesses have been told that from March they could face stiff penalties if they cannot prove any timber they are selling has not been illegally harvested. On March 3 the UK will adopt the EU's timber legislation, which will not only mandate companies to check where timber has been harvested or if it has been logged illegally, but will also allow inspectors to enter business premises and seize any illegally harvested wood. Placing illegally logged timber on the market will become a criminal...
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United Kingdom: The high seas are too precious to be left to plunderers and polluters
2013-02-10 01:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The oceans are changing faster today and in more ways than at any time in human history. We are the cause. Which is why I welcome the launch of the Global Ocean Commission, dedicated to ending the neglect, in international affairs, of the high seas. These seas lie far beyond the horizon 200 nautical miles offshore to be precise and begin where sovereign national waters give way to the global commons, owned by none, shared by all. There was a time when foreign travel gave many people a familiarity...
United Kingdom: Thousands of wind turbines to go up as subsidies cut
2013-02-08 22:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: The "dash for wind' has been prompted by a cut in subsidies due this year and an apparent relaxing of the planning rules. Some 763 turbines are due to be built onshore in 2013, up 60 per cent from last year. Already there are 4,366 turbines in operation in the UK providing 8.2GW of power, enough to power 4.5 million homes for a year. There are a further 7,843 turbines that have been approved but are yet to be built, bringing the total due to go up in the UK to more than 10,000. In the...
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United Kingdom: Bee deaths 'not down to pesticides'
2013-02-08 09:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Last week the European Commission proposed that member states restrict the use of certain classes of pesticide that are believed to be harmful to bees. The Today programme's science correspondent Tom Feilden explains that this comes after the European Food Safety Authority (Efsa) issued guidance on the use of chemical neonicotinoids, in which they recognised "high acute risks" to bees who encountered residue from these sprays in pollen and nectar in crops like oilseed rape and sunflowers. Speaking...
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United Kingdom: Nationwide launches new green home loan
2013-02-08 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: Fears the government's Green Deal energy efficiency scheme will be undercut by cheaper loans from established lenders look set to materialise, after Nationwide Building Society today launched a new energy efficiency loan offer boasting interest rates from 2.29 per cent. The building society said its new Green Additional Borrowing service would allow existing mortgage customers to take out loans of between 5,000 and 20,000 to undertake approved energy efficiency measures. It added that the...
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