Archive for March 23rd, 2006

Britain’s green-ish Budget

23rd 2006f March, 2006, Peter

Chancellor Gordon Brown presented his 10th budget yesterday, announcing several green-friendly policies, including:

Proposal to the World Bank for a US$20 billion fund to help developing countries deploy renewable energy pojects.
A rise in April 2007 in the climate change levy (the special tax on electricity bills paid by British companies) from 0.43p per kilowatt hour. [...]