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United Kingdom: Lord Stern touts benefits of decarbonisation target ahead of Energy Bill debate
2013-10-28 01:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: Fast-tracking a target to decarbonise the UK's power sector would help avoid a "rapid and expensive transition" towards low carbon energy further down the line that could result in "large-scale scrapping" of fossil fuel power plants, Lord Stern has warned. The noted economist was speaking ahead of today's House of Lords debate on an Energy Bill amendment that would commit the government introduce a 2030 target next year, which he proposed last week along with fellow cross-bench peer, and former...
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United Kingdom: Green taxes will ultimately cut our bills as well as saving energy
2013-10-27 17:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The collateral damage in the great energy debate is mounting by the day. As the party leaders scrabble to come up with something to say in response to public concern about bills, the costs so far include their reputations for sound economics, the investment plans of many businesses and, potentially, the transition to a low-carbon future. Never mind the grandchildren's planet: burn, baby, burn. As bills go up between 8.2% (SSE) and 10.4% (npower), there is no doubt about the pain. The average bill...
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United Kingdom: Lib Dems to resist Tory plans to cut green taxes
2013-10-27 12:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The Liberal Democrats will resist Conservative plans to to cut green taxes that add to the public's energy bills, Danny Alexander has said. The chief secretary to the Treasury told BBC1's Andrew Marr Show that the taxes, which amount to about 4% of the average bill, are vital to Britain's long-term commitments to funding renewable sources of energy and are a fixed Liberal Democrat policy. His stance has signalled a hardening of the entrenched positions between the two coalition parties over...
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United Kingdom: Green tax goes to wrong homes, says think tank
2013-10-26 22:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: The overwhelming majority of money raised from the Government's flagship "green tax" designed to help poor families cope with their heating bills is going to homes not classed as living in fuel poverty, research by a leading think tank revealed yesterday. Around 80 per cent of the total 540m budget raised from the Energy Company Obligation (Eco), one of the green levies under review by David Cameron, is being targeted at the wrong homes, the IPPR says. As a result, 1.3 million households, more...
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United Kingdom: Russell Brand is a climate hawk as well as a revolutionary
2013-10-26 13:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Maybe you`ve seen this BBC Newsnight interview making the rounds. If youre anything like me, you probably shrugged it off as another celebrity saying marginally interesting things about politics. If so, you were wrong. Even if you strongly disagree with Russell Brands assertion that we shouldn`t vote, its hard not to be amused by the ease with which he bats around hardened journalist Jeremy Paxman. He makes an articulate case that politics in the U.K. and the U.S. are broken and corrupt, and...
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