The Caribbean nation should be reimbursed for centuries of punitive treatment and brutality by the outside worldLast week started with a conference in Montreal, called by a group of governments and international agencies calling themselves Friends of Haiti, to discuss the long and short term needs of the recently devastated Caribbean nation. Even as corpses remained [...]
Campaigners fear government’s cashback offer for microgeneration will not be enough to stimulate renewables industryThe government will tomorrow publish the long-awaited levels of remuneration it will offer for renewable energy generated by households and communities and fed back into the national grid.It hopes the new tariff will boost the growth of “micro-generation” by small-scale wind [...]
Keith Roberts (Letters, 26 January) is right to applaud the passing of the Marine and Coastal Access Act which provides for a walking route around the coast of England, and to remind us of the leading part played by the Ramblers in campaigning for this.But he is premature in saying that the coastal access has [...]
BOSTON, Jan. 29 /PRNewswire/ — In his State of the Union address to Congress, US President Obama highlighted the importance of solar power to America’s future and stressed that, “It is time for America to lead again.” With the strong support of govern…
BERLIN (Reuters) – German Environment Minister Norbert Roettgen wants to delay some of the proposed cuts for solar power incentives, government sources told Reuters on Friday, a move that is unlikely to alter the gloomy outlook for the industry.
Development minister Gareth Thomas hits back at claims in a report that his department is not paying enough attention to agriculture in its poverty reduction plansA report that called for the government to allocate at least 10% of its aid budget to agriculture and food security has been dismissed as “out of date” and [...]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama said on Friday the U.S. government would reduce its greenhouse gas emissions 28 percent by 2020 as the result of an executive order he issued to set the example on fighting climate change.
Enthusiastic response has seen call centre staff battling with a backlog, and applicants waiting to receive their vouchersThousands of householders who have applied for the government’s boiler scrappage scheme are facing long delays for the vouchers needed to give their installers the go ahead.The scheme, which was launched about three weeks ago, is designed to [...]
Environmental group says the plan will create a legal headache for any government pushing ahead with airport’s expansionEnvironmental activists have invited some of the UK’s leading architects to design an “impenetrable fortress” to be built on land earmarked for the third runway at Heathrow.Greenpeace plans to build the winning design at the centre of the [...]
MANILA, Philippines, Jan. 28 /PRNewswire/ — Today the Founder and C.E.O of True Green Energy Group, and the Founder of Spectrum Blue Steel Corporation, Mr. Ronald Flynn explained, “that the secretary of the environment for Brazil, Mr. Luiz Augusto Pin…