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26th November 2006

UK Climate Change Bill

Plans for the UK Government's Climate Change Bill were unveiled last week in the 2006 Queen's Speech.

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26th November 2006

Cote D'Ivoire: UN Ecology Chief Calls for Assistance with Toxic Dumping

The United Nations environmental agency today called for urgent international funding to help C�te d'Ivoire clean-up and rehabilitate sites contaminated by deadly toxic waste from abroad that was criminally dumped in Aug...

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26th November 2006

Benn says tackling climate change is up to individuals

People who want the world to change can make a start by changing their own habits, a contender for Labour's deputy leadership said yesterday.

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26th November 2006

"Don't ignore green tax tool":

On Thursday, 23 November, the EU Energy Council will respond to the European Commission's Action Plan for Energy Efficiency. The European Environmental Bureau, Europe 's largest federation of environmental citizens' orga...

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26th November 2006

Sainsbury's flags up sustainability of fish

Sainsbury's decision to launch a 'traffic-light' system to illustrate the sustainability of the fish it stocks has met with a mixed response from pressure groups.

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26th November 2006

EA Took 1500 'Unacceptable Flights'

Officials from the government agency that is championing the fight against climate chaos have taken 1500 climate-wrecking flights between Scotland and England in the last year reports the Sunday Herald in Scotland. The S...

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26th November 2006

Green schemes for Thames Gateway

More family homes and better designed buildings will be key to the Thames Gateway development, Communities Secretary Ruth Kelly has pledged. The Interim Plan will lay down the foundations for 180,000 jobs and 160,000 hom...

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26th November 2006

EU to Broaden Emission Trading Scheme to More GHGs

The European Commission said Monday it would look at broadening the scope of its innovative carbon emissions trading scheme to include more countries, industries and gases.

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26th November 2006

EU 'urban sprawl' harms environment

By 2020, some member states' population will be up to 90 percent urbanised with EU funding contributing to uncontrolled sprawl in some cities, a new environment study has said Europeans' increasing demand for land - part...

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26th November 2006

Government to unveil water metering scheme

Plans to increase the number of homes with water meters in drought areas will be unveiled by the government. The move follows work by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs's Water Saving Group to identif...

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