Sir Richard Branson, founder of the Virgin group, has pledged all of the next 10 years of profits from his transport companies to fight global warming.
“We must rapidly wean ourselves off our dependence on coal and fossil fuels,” said Sir Richard.
The funds, expected to total roughly US$3bn (€2.36bn) will be invested in companies developing [...]

The UK’s DEFRA is inviting comments on the European Emissions Trading Scheme Phase II targets, as per here.   The comments are restricted to noting, “any errors that may be contained in the data and information used to calculate the incumbent allocations.”   Deadline is 2006-10-16.
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UK Met Office researchers, writing in Atmospheric Science Letters, have concluded that the 1°C increase in the Central England Temperature since the ’50s is highly unlikely to be part of natural cycles.
David Karoly (now at the University of Oklahoma) and Peter Stott of the Hadley Centre, part of the Met Office, found that the [...]

Former US presidential candidate Al Gore’s film, An Inconvenient Truth, is today opening across the UK.
The film has been out in the US for 16 weeks and has been seen more than 2 million times.
The official site also links to a list of 10 Things that everyone can do to “help stop global warming.”
Ashok Sinha, [...]

The Government today announced plans for an Energy Technologies Institute,
a new energy and environmental research institute, and for it to become, for Britain, at the cutting edge of science [...]