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Brit's Eye View: Not now, Darling
U.K.'s Labor Party embraces nuclear but is slow to move on the big climate challenge |
Ben Tuxworth |
09 Apr 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Ben Tuxworth, communications director at Forum for the Future, writes a monthly column for Gristmill on sustainability in the U.K. and Europe. The British press swooned over the visit of Nicolas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni to the U.K. late last month. We're suckers for the idea of French romance, particularly mixed with wealth, sophistication, and the sort of impetuosity we "rosbifs" can seldom muster. Apparently, Bruni saw Sarkozy on TV and said to a fri ... |
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| Topics: climate, energy, European Union, nuclear power, politics, United Kingdom (all these topics) |
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Brit's Eye View: U.K. climate politics heating up
Tough new climate targets are all the rage in the Britain and Europe |
Peter Madden |
20 Mar 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Peter Madden, chief executive of Forum for the Future, writes a monthly column for Gristmill on sustainability in the U.K. and Europe. Things are hotting-up over here on climate change. And I'm not talking about the fact that we're set to have the warmest year on record. The political temperature is rising, too. The European Union has agreed to a joint CO2 target for its 27 member countries and their 490 million citizens. The leaders committed to reducing greenhou ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, United Kingdom, politics, European Union (all these topics) |
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A Little Light Music
U.S., E.U. push phaseout of incandescent bulbs, U.K. gets serious about carbon |
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14 Mar 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| A Little Light Music U.S., E.U. push phaseout of incandescent bulbs, U.K. gets serious about carbon The world is seeing the energy-efficient light: a U.S. coalition including Philips Lighting and the Natural Resources Defense Council will push to phase out incandescent bulbs by 2016. ... |
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| Topics: Angela Merkel, climate, climate change mitigation, energy, energy efficiency, European Union, greenhouse-gas emissions, news, politics, United Kingdom, United States (all these topics) |
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Receding Blair Line
Blair government tried to weaken E.U. climate-change targets |
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18 Jan 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Receding Blair Line Blair government tried to weaken E.U. climate-change targets The U.K. environmental community is all atwitter over revelations that senior officials in Prime Minister Tony Blair's government tried to remove tough greenhouse-gas reduction targets from the E.U.'s official climate policy. Specifically, they asked that language calling for 50 to 80 percent reductions (from 1990 levels, by ... |
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| Topics: climate, European Union, politics, United Kingdom (all these topics) |
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Tony Tony Tony!
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25 Feb 2003 |
Daily Grist |
| Tony Tony Tony! In a speech that compared the danger of environmental degradation to the threat of terrorism, British Prime Minister Tony Blair yesterday outlined a sweeping plan to combat global warming. Blair called on his country, the European Union, and would-be E.U. members in Eastern Europe to cut carbon dioxide emissions 60 percent ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, climate, European Union, international government agencies, politics, United Kingdom, United States (all these topics) |
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