The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) has established a Climate Change Task Force, comprising senior British business leaders, to identify the role which business can play in preventing and mitigating climate change, and to make recommendations for appropriate actions by business. The Director General of the CBI, Richard Lambert, has told the FT that:
“he wanted [...]
As part of its week of programs related to technology, Geek Week 2.0, the BBC TV 2 Newsnight program has a segment on environmental technologies, including technologies for alternative energy and for climate change mitigation. The program is accessible online, although only for a limited period.
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The EC’s new Energy Strategy, just released, seeks a 30% reduction in carbon emissions by developed countries by 2020 from their 1990 levels. However, the EC’s target for the nations of the EU itself aims only for a 20% reduction by 2010. Why should Europe’s own target be less than what they are seeking for all the developed [...]
UPDATE to yesterday’s post: Mr Blair’s office has clarified his position, and he’s now in favour of offsetting carbon emissions caused by air-travel.
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According to the World Devolopment Movement, the average Briton by midnight last night, January 8th, was responsible for the same amount of carbon emissions as the average citizen of the world’s poorest countries in an entire year. Primarily, this fact reflects the enormous differences in wealth between average citizens in rich and poor countries, and the [...]
