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United Kingdom: Green Deal launches amid criticism over interest rates
2013-01-28 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: The government's flagship Green Deal programme to transform the energy efficiency of the UK's building stock officially launches today, promising to allow households and businesses to undertake wide-ranging property improvements at no upfront cost. But businesses have warned the scheme will have to overcome a series of teething problems if it is to have the transformational impact ministers are predicting. Energy and climate change secretary Ed Davey last week promised the "world first" programme...
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United Kingdom: Trina Predicts U.K. Solar Boom to Double Installations
2013-01-28 02:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: U.K. solar electricity may more than double this year as a boom in solar farms and domestic installations adds 2 gigawatts of new capacity, according to Trina (TSL) Solar Ltd., the third-biggest solar cell maker. The U.K. industry benefits from a stability that every other country in the world pretty much envies right now, Ben Hill, president of Trina Solar Europe, said in a Jan. 25 phone interview from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Government incentives for rooftop panels...
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United Kingdom: Economist Stern: 'I Got It Wrong on Climate ChangeIt's Far, Far Worse'
2013-01-27 23:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Truthdig: Lord Nicholas Stern, the widely respected author of a landmark 2006 government-commissioned report on global warmings effect on the world economy, says he should have been more blunt about the dangers posed by rising temperatures. In an interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Stern said: "Looking back, I underestimated the risks. The planet and the atmosphere seem to be absorbing less carbon than we expected, and emissions are rising pretty strongly. Some of the effects...
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United Kingdom: The green deal is just for fatcats, not consumers
2013-01-27 19:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: I should be at the front of the queue to sign up to the government's flagship "green deal" energy-saving scheme, which launches on Monday. I want to reduce my heating and electricity bills, I like the idea of energy saving, and I don't have the 10,000 it might take to retro-fit my leaky old house with the kit to insulate and warm it efficiently. Yes, I really do want a whizzy new biomass boiler and underfloor heating, and even ground source heat pumps! So what's wrong with my getting the work...
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United Kingdom: Diesel fumes more damaging to health than petrol engines
2013-01-27 01:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Diesel fumes are significantly more damaging to health than those from petrol engines, according to research which shows that related air pollution contributes to lung disease, heart attacks, asthma and other respiratory problems. The findings, published by the Department for Energy and Climate Change, are an embarrassment for successive governments, which have encouraged a switch to diesel since 2001 by linking road and company car tax to CO2 emissions. Diesel engines have been billed as "green"...
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