This morning’s BBC article Curbing climate change ‘unlikely’ has a rather disturbing message.
A major scientific report, published by the government, states that current levels of pollution is causing irreversable damage, and it is too late to prevent major climate change.
The report’s foreword was written by PM Tony Blair:
It is clear from the work presented that [...]

Joz Cozijnsen at New Values Community summarizes a range of analysts’ current forecasts for future carbon prices:
“They go from €15 to €52 for 2007; and from €23 to €50 for 2010. They depend on the different assumptions for gas and coal price, allocation, supply and liquidity.”
We agree with him that companies with carbon emissions “should [...]

Today marks the start of building work on what will be the UK’s largest Biomass plant.
E.ON UK’s Chief Executive Dr Paul Golby said:
As the station will burn willow alongside forestry residue it’s particularly apt that we’ll be planting a willow tree on site.
But, above all, this is about E.ON investing in a project that both [...]

“The UK has been ranked fifth best in the world at tackling domestic and global environmental problems , according to the first performance league tables, which will be launched this week at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.”, according to The Guardian newspaper (London) yesterday. The overall Top 10 are:

New Zealand
Sweden
Finland
Czech Republic
UK
Austria
Denmark
Canada
Malaysia
Eire

The [...]

The DTI Secretary of State and Minister for Energy have launched the consultation document “Our energy challenge: securing clean, affordable energy for the long term”.
The Energy Review Consultation is available from the DTI.
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