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EU to impose new rules that will cut driving cost by 25%
Moustaches in the driving seat: Siim Kallas, Vice President of the EC in charge of Transport (left), and Dieter Zetsche, Chairman of Daimler AG and Head of Mercedes-Benz Cars, at yesterday's CARS 21 group meeting.The European Commission is proposing...
European emissions rose in 2010, with UK second largest emitter
European greenhouse gas emissions increased by 2.4% in 2010, or 111 million tonnes of CO2-equivalent, due to a cold winter and the economic recovery following the 2009 recession in many countries.About 56% of the EU increase in GHG emissions...
We're heading for 6 degrees rise says IEA. Here's a way to stop it.
I've got good news and bad news. Which would you like first? OK, here's the bad news, and it's really bad. According to the latest figures from the International Energy Agency, greenhouse gas emissions reached a record high last year of 31.6...
The new Energy Bill is everything the UK doesn't want
The draft Energy Bill, published today, will do nothing to help energy efficiency or make it easier for new renewable energy companies to enter the market place. It is too complicated, biased towards the Big Six, gas and nuclear, and still contains...
Everyone on the planet helps subsidise fossil fuels by £45 per year
NASA's James Hansen Fossil fuel companies get between $400 and $500 billion in subsidies per year. This must end. The first major scientist to alert the world to the dangers of climate change, NASA's James Hansen, has issued a new...
Should Britain increase it's speed limit if it wants to reduce CO2?
The Government is to take forward its proposal for increasing the motorway speed limit to 80 mph by trialling the new limit on selected managed motorways. Roads Minister Mike Penning said this week that his Department "is carrying out work to...
Dash for shale gas will not help save the climate or lower prices
Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, for shale gas, is said to be seismically "safe" in the UK, but critics say it will impede us from meeting our greenhouse gas reduction targets and stall investment in renewables. DECC has published an...
Could the Climate Change Act be used to curb new gas-fired plants?
DECC's decision to set EPCs at 450gCO2/kWh could be open to legal challenge. It is now fashionable to term natural gas a “transitional" fuel on the road to a low or zero carbon economy at some vague point in the fuzzy future. Just as many thought...
“Perfect storm" has arrived for efforts to reduce carbon emissions
Efforts to reduce carbon emissions in the UK and across Europe are facing a combination of factors strongly hindering investment in low carbon power generation and energy efficiency and promoting the burning of coal.Now who do you believe? Today,...
Germany and UK have greatest deficit of EU carbon allowances
UK carbon Emissions and allowances by sectorFigures show that the UK and Germany have the largest deficit of allowances to pollute under the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU-ETS), meaning they have to purchase more to meet their obligations. The...
New grid under-sea cable to connect England and Scotland
The route of the Western HVDC Link While politicians talk of Scottish independence from England, a world-beating €1.1 billion contract has today been announced to make the two countries even more interconnected. The Western HVDC Link will be the...
What's the deal with personal carbon trading?
Personal carbon trading is at the heart of a new proposal from academics to reducing energy use in buildings and help meet the aims of the Green Deal. It comes in the form of a strategy document, Achieving Zero, being launched today by Dr. Brenda...
