Posts Tagged ‘Green politics’
Some 125,000 new boilers and doubling of commitment to carbon capture and storage included in Alistair Darling’s speech Householders will be able to trade in their old boilers for newer,
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But mayor stops short of making personal pledge to cut carbon emissions by 10% by 2010 Boris Johnson today signed City Hall up to the 10:10 climate change campaign, as part of his goal to make
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Willie Walsh says Conservative plan to bar third runway on environmental grounds is incoherent The British Airways chief executive, Willie Walsh, has rounded on the Conservative party in the wake
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Watchdog says air travel cannot continue to grow unchecked if UK’s emissions targets are to be met Heavy taxes on passengers and a ban on expansion at regional airports will be needed to
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Dan Milmo on Climate Change Committee okay for Heathrow third runway, but no expansion elsewhere Dan Milmo
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As the Copenhagen summit begins, energy secretary attacks those who claim the science of global warming is in doubt Ed Miliband, the climate change secretary, today said critics who argue that
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• PM urges world to make historic agreement • Obama acts to cut US emissions Gordon Brown raises the bar for climate change negotiations, urging world leaders to give their promises at
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If you think climate change is a lie, your logic will lead you into the arms of Putin and Chávez Anyone who knows the history of backlash populism, from Nixon and Agnew onwards, will find the new
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PM leads a chorus of condemnation against climate change sceptics who have tried to derail the Copenhagen summit Martin Rowson
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We need to avoid a global hangover the day after the summit in Copenhagen. A breakthrough is possible, but only with sacrifices Mounting scepticism and deadlocked negotiations have culminated in
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We need to avoid a global hangover the day after the summit in Copenhagen. A breakthrough is possible, but only with sacrifices Mounting scepticism and deadlocked negotiations have culminated in
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Polls are narrowing, David Cameron is making unforced errors, Gordon Brown sat down to deafening roars from his party at this week’s question time. Is the political climate beginning to
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Multibillion-pound programme will go to all 26m homes in UK and lay the foundations for a ’smart grid’ – but who will pay? The government unveiled its vision of hi-tech homes last
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Former Tory leadership contender says it is unsurprising more than half the public no longer believe in climate change since planet has cooled over last decade A senior Tory attacked the
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Tory leader says Goldsmith should give up his non-domiciled tax status ‘as a matter of urgency’ David Cameron has told Zac Goldsmith, one of his most important advisers on the
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The Tory blogger on what caused his climate change epiphany – after two decades of believing that humans were to blame A couple of weeks ago there was a lively online exchange between Douglas
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Confidential papers reveal Europeans want assistance for poorer countries to come from existing cash pot The EU was accused of threatening the global climate talks last night after confidential
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Ahead of the Copenhagen summit, leading scientist and IPCC chair Rajendra Pachauri warns of radical charges and regulation if global disaster is to be avoided Hotel guests should have their
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PM says he expects £10bn plan to be backed by Commonwealth leaders, Nicolas Sarkozy and US Gordon Brown today proposed setting up a global fund to “kick-start” the Copenhagen climate
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The Conservatives’ Green Deal would help to greatly reduce the 27% of UK carbon emissions that comes from households, writes shadow housing minister, Grant Schapps Next month world leaders
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The Conservatives make an ambitious pitch to win the environmental vote with a raft of measures The Conservatives will tomorrow make an ambitious pitch to win the environmental vote with a raft of
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Writer John Harris and Guardian photographer Martin Argles shadowed the energy and climate change secretary, Ed Miliband, for 40 hours during his trip to an intergovernmental meeting in Copenhagen
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Roger Helmer says Anglican hierarchy has dropped the gospel in favour of ‘the new religion of climate alarmism’ A Tory MEP has accused the Church of England of having “abandoned
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Act on Copenhagen is a web tool aimed at allowing students to add to a manifesto that will be handed to Ed Miliband next month The UN climate talks in Copenhagen have certainly caught the public
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It was not the market that failed, but the policies that governed how it worked Your article is profoundly disheartening (Carbon trading is useless, says Friends of the Earth report, 5 November).
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Key Conservative thinkers doubt climate change is man-made, according to a survey of the most influential Tories online All of the top 10 Tory bloggers either doubt or dismiss the scientific
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The Danish prime minister, Lars Lokke Rasmussen, wrote to 191 leaders, saying their presence would be ‘pivotal’ Gordon Brown confirmed today that he will attend the UN climate change
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Fifteen grand to green my home, Adair? Yeah, right: a new boiler blew half that. Beating climate change is complex and costly A £15,000 price tag to green your home? You have to be joking. That
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Tories can lead on climate change | Tim Yeo
Thatcher was the first leader of a major country to take climate change seriously. Cameron can continue that legacy The increasing concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere will, if
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