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Britain sends mixed messages on climate ahead of Paris talks
2015-11-27 16:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Britain's cuts to renewable energy subsidies and abandonment of its carbon capture and storage scheme are likely to diminish the country's influence at the global climate talks starting in Paris this weekend, investors and green groups said. Britain's commitment to foreign aid, including around 5.8 billion in climate finance from 2016-2021, has enabled the country to be an influential deal broker at climate talks in the past, gaining the ears of developed and developing countries. But a swathe...
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Whatever happened to binge Britain? - comment
2015-11-24 15:56:00| Daily beverage news and comment - from just-drinks.com
Ten years ago today, when the new Licensing Act came into effect in the UK, I was a cub reporter on licensed-trade newspaper The Morning Advertiser.
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On eve Paris climate summit, Britain pulls plug on renewables
2015-11-21 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: After standing dormant for 34 years, the Bankside Power Station was reborn last month. The onetime oil-fired, soot-spewing electric power plant, shut down and then converted into the Tate Modern, the worlds most popular contemporary art museum, is back producing energy again. Its roof has been coated with solar panels, which soak up the suns rays even on a cloudy London afternoon and help illuminate the avant-garde works in the galleries below. But rather than a shiny vision of modernity,...
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Britain to Shutdown All Coal Plants by 2025
2015-11-18 14:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: The British government on Wednesday called for the closing of all coal-fired power plants in the country by 2025, and proposed that use of the plants be restricted two years before that. The move, announced in advance of the United Nations conference on climate change set to open in Paris on Nov. 30, appeared aimed at showing Britain as a leader in reducing carbon dioxide emissions. The push came as the European Commission, the executive arm of the European Union, said in a report that the bloc...
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Climate change could bring tropical disease epidemics to Britain, health expert warns
2015-11-15 00:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Epidemics of dengue fever and other tropical diseases could soon affect people in Britain because of global warming, one of the worlds leading medical experts has warned. Jeremy Farrar, director of the Wellcome Trust, said he also believed the planet is already being affected by many other serious health threats triggered by climate change including malnutrition and deaths from air pollution. However, these dangers were not being given proper attention by world leaders, added Farrar, an expert...
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