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Surveyors Guidance for UK Housing Industry
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has introducing a best practice guide for sustainability within the UK housing industry.
UK Universities Ahead of Colleges say AoC
A new study by the U.K. based Association of Colleges finds that universities are embracing green practices and buildings faster than any other segment of the public sector.
China Goes for Coal
China is now building about two power stations every week, the top climate change official at the UK Foreign Office, John Ashton, has said.
World's First 'Zero–Carbon' City
A city free of cars, pedestrian-friendly, powered by renewable energy and surrounded by wind and photovoltaic farms -- all in the middle of a petroleum-rich desert.
Pew Center Statement on G8 Climate Agreement
The G-8 agreement represents modest but genuine progress toward an effective multilateral response to global climate change. Chancellor Merkel deserves enormous credit for forging a new consensus among G8 leaders that h...
'Rising health threat' from global warming
With the expected rise in temperatures set to continue, public health is threatened by more frequent extreme-weather events, such as the summer 2003 heat wave, which killed 35,000 people across Europe.
Ikea to Give Staff Free Energy–Saving Lights
The Swedish furnishing giant Ikea announced plans yesterday to give all of its 9,600 employees in the U.K. a six-pack of compact fluorescent light bulbs as part of its goal to green its workforce.
Climate change has 'no influence' on fund managers
The climate may be changing, but most institutional investors are not changing their investment strategies, according to a survey of UK asset managers published this week.
Campaign breakthrough as food giants agree to cut packaging
Some of the world's most powerful food and drink manufacturers have pro-mised to reduce packaging on a large range of everyday products, including Oxo, Hovis and Coca-Cola.
easyJet Hopes ecoJet Will Cut Emissions 50%
The UK's easyJet has unveiled its vision of a short-haul aircraft, dubbed ecoJet, that it hopes will generate 50 percent less carbon dioxide than its current planes and can be delivered by 2015.