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Tourism Key to Climate Challenge
The global tourism industry has a key role to play in confronting the challenges of climate change, the head of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) said as an international seminar on the subject wrapped up i...
Keep the green coat in a cool economy
The list of businesses going "green" lengthens by the day. Household names such as Wal-Mart, Coca-Cola, General Electric, Hewlett-Packard and L'Oreal boast programmes to cut their greenhouse gas emissions, use natural re...
Climate change hitting Arctic faster, harder
Climate change is having a greater and faster impact on the Arctic than previously thought, according to a new study by the global conservation organization WWF.
Get–one–free deals 'boost waste'
The government has criticised buy-one, get-one-free offers at supermarkets for increasing the amount of food thrown away by British shoppers.
Climate Change Risks for Businesses Identified by KPMG
In a report released this week, KPMG identified four risks businesses face from climate change:
Big oil to big wind
T Boone Pickens is famous for thinking big. He founded his Texan oil company, Mesa Petroleum, in 1956 with just $2,500 (�1,200) in the bank.
Defra Advocate Waste Wood for Biomass Fuel
Defra recently published its market information report, �Waste Wood as a Biomass Fuel' which draws on a range of published material and activity surveys of producers, aggregators and users of waste wood, in order to prov...
Rich countries not leading on climate change: IPCC chief
The head of the United Nations's scientific panel on climate change said in an interview published Monday that developing countries were unwilling to sign up to a global deal on cutting carbon emissions because rich coun...
The big turn off: Could you drink, bathe and clean using just 20 litres a day?
Full marks to those who keep a tight rein on their carbon footprint, but don't relax just yet: water is the new carbon, and our engorged water footprints need to be scrutinised before the rivers really do run dry.
Environmentalists disappointed by UK's renewables record
The UK's renewable energy performance is a "national disgrace", environmental campaigners claim today.