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Sunny weather sees Britain break solar power record, estimate says
2015-07-03 15:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Solar power is supplying 16% of the UKs electricity demand this afternoon as the country basks in sunshine, the industry estimates. The news comes as solar-powered homes, commercial rooftop schemes and solar farms open to the public on Friday and Saturday as part of solar independence day. The solar schools project run by climate change charity 10:10 is also celebrating the 1,000th solar panel installed on a school roof to save money and carbon, and solar-powered plane Solar Impulse 2...
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Britain needs to extend policies to reduce emissions - adviser
2015-06-30 01:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The British government needs to extend policies and funding to reduce carbon emissions into the next decade to avoid increasing the cost and impact of global warming, Britain's climate change adviser said on Tuesday. The government has a legally binding target to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by at least 80 percent from 1990 levels by 2050 to limit the effects of climate change and the committee's role is to advise it on the best way of doing so. Britain's emissions are currently 36 percent...
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Britain has twice as many taxpayer-funded electric car charging points as electric cars
2015-06-22 15:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: The Government and local councils have splashed millions of pounds of taxpayers cash on building thousands of electric car charging points that barely anyone uses. Ministers confirmed that public money had been used to construct a network of of 57,567 publicly-funded charging points as of the end of the last financial year. The figure is roughly double the number electric cars actually registered for use on the road in Britain around 24,500 as of December 2014, according to the Office for...
All choked up: did Britain dirty air make me dangerously ill?
2015-06-20 10:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Three months ago, a surgeon at Liverpool Heart and Chest hospital took a saw, ripped through my sternum, levered open my ribcage, cut into the aorta of my still-beating heart and stitched in a vein from my leg. The long, brutal operation was a great success. But it knocked me out and left me unable to walk more than a few paces. As I recovered, I got to asking how had I got into this mess. I had always, I thought, kept pretty fit: I could happily walk all day in the hills, chop wood, play cricket...
WIFM and Workplace SIG aim to 'Get Britain Standing'
2015-06-03 15:21:00| BIFM News
Following on from a very successful national campaign titled 'Get Britain Standing', the WIFM and Workplace SIG's joined forces to bring their very own 'Get Britain Standing' event.
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