Britain can finally make the dash for gas with Paterson September 4, 2012 DAVID Cameron has promised to end his government’s “dithering” and “paralysis”. As part of this, yesterday’s reshuffle was intended to kick-start new initiatives for reviving Britain’s flagging economy. One of the key political battle grounds in coming months will be the growing divergence between an outdated green agenda and a new push for environmental deregulation [...]
OED endorses mansion taxes and micro pigs August 22, 2012 LEXICOGRAPHERS of the internet rejoice: the latest additions to Oxford Dictionaries Online are out. Like its dead-tree counterpart the Oxford English Dictionary, ODO periodically picks the best new words and phrases to add to its online library, skewing the list towards trendy buzzwords to craftily boost its traffic. Today’s additions include “Dunbar’s number”, the upper [...]
UK listed companies are failing on green policies November 7, 2010 UK-LISTED companies are failing to follow guidelines on how they monitor their carbon footprint, according to Deloitte. The business advisory firm’s survey of 100 companies revealed that none were adequately addressing the environmental impact of their operations. Only 37 per cent provide statistics on how much pollution they were creating, while only one in five [...]
Accountants can save the world, report November 11, 2009 THERE has been no shortage of talk about the forthcoming Copenhagen climate change conference in December, at which presidents and prime ministers will discuss ways to save the world by reducing carbon emissions. Already, many suspect that little will be decided at the meeting. The reality is that if the world is saved, it will [...]
We owe it to democracy to vote today June 3, 2009 TODAY is Election Day – even though the astonishing circus of resignations, backstabbings and the near collapse of the Labour government have completely overshadowed the parties’ manifestoes for the European parliament. Many readers will doubtless be planning to abstain in disgust at the evident moral and financial corruption of our ruling classes, a belief that [...]
Anger as government admits it will miss carbon target by huge margin July 18, 2008 The Government admitted yesterday what experts have been saying for some time — that it will miss by a large margin its own target of cutting carbon dioxide emissions by 20 per cent from 1990 levels by 2010. New projections from the Department of the Environment (DEFRA) put CO2 emissions in 2010 at only 15.5 [...]