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United Kingdom: Older and disabled people 'put off' energy efficiency schemes

2013-05-02 08:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: Older and disabled people are put off the government's flagship energy efficiency programmes because of their complexity and fear of taking on debt, unpublished government research shows. Focus groups commissioned by the Department for Energy and Climate Change (Decc) to assess the "perceptions" and "potential take-up" of the green deal and Energy Company Obligation (ECO) found significant concerns, a freedom of information request has revealed. The green deal facilitates loans - paid back...

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United Kingdom: Energy Bill 'should be amended to protect community energy schemes'

2013-05-01 08:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: Community owned renewable energy has received remarkable levels of vocal support from ministers and shadow ministers alike as the Energy Bill has progressed through parliament. However, it currently contains no supportive policy measures and, as it stands, represents a huge threat to this vibrant and rapidly growing sector. Currently, the Energy Bill threatens to prevent larger community schemes over 5MW, such as the Westmill Wind Farm Co-operative in Oxfordshire and the Lochcarnan Community Wind...

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Earth-cooling schemes need global sign-off, researchers say

2013-03-31 19:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: Controversial geoengineering projects that may be used to cool the planet must be approved by world governments to reduce the danger of catastrophic accidents, British scientists said. Met Office researchers have called for global oversight of the radical schemes after studies showed they could have huge and unintended impacts on some of the world's most vulnerable people. The dangers arose in projects that cooled the planet unevenly. In some cases these caused devastating droughts across Africa;...

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Eruption yields bad news for iron fertilization-based geoengineering schemes

2013-03-22 12:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Mongabay: Geoengineering schemes that aim to slow global warming by seeding oceans with iron to boost carbon dioxide-absorbing phytoplankton may not lead to long-term sequestration of the important greenhouse gas, finds a new study published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters. The research looked at the impact of the 2010 eruption of Eyjafjallajökull volcano, which released large amounts of iron in the North Atlantic near Iceland. Some researchers speculated that iron fertilization would lead to...

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