The Crown Estate today announced that 96 companies have registered their interest in the third round of bidding to develop offshore wind farms in nine zones around the UK.
The government hopes the projects will provide 33GW of energy and be developed by 2020, with construction beginning in 2015.
Business Secretary John Hutton welcomed the launch of [...]
Written on September 30, 2008 | Posted in
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The battle between the world’s leading retailers to deliver the deepest cuts in plastic bag use intensified last week when supermarket giant Wal-Mart announced it is to cut plastic shopping bag waste from its stores globally by a third by 2013.
The company, which owns Asda in the UK, said that the move would eliminate more [...]
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New PC from HP shows why green thinking is good for business as Amy Fetzer discovers
HP’s slick new TouchSmart PC doesn’t look green with its sleek touch screen technology designed to tempt style-conscious consumers looking for cutting-edge gadgets. Yet under its shiny black casing, the TouchSmart has impressively green credentials. Its power management technology can [...]
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In Web discussions and blogs centered on environmental health and sustainability, Toyota and Honda have an unlikely stable mate: General Motors, a bane of environmentalists for spending millions to lobby against fuel economy mandates.
In a new report by J.D. Power and Associates’ Web Intelligence Division, the three auto brands garnered higher-than-average positive mentions in the [...]
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Tackling climate change could potentially generate millions of new employment opportunities, according to a new United Nations-backed study – the first of its kind on the emergence of a “green economy” and its impact on labour – released today.
Entitled “Green Jobs: Towards Decent Work in a Sustainable, Low-Carbon World,” the publication shows how efforts to [...]
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Business leaders including directors at Tesco, Lloyds TSB and other top high street names have urged Gordon Brown to drop his slowly, slowly approach to tackling global warming and go for “transformational change”, saying the prime minister should not be held back by fears over the current financial crisis, the Guardian reports.
The companies, all members [...]
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The prospect of U.S. regulation of climate-warming carbon dioxide has sparked a pre-emptive outcry from the Chamber of Commerce, which warned of bureaucratic gridlock if proposed limits are put in place.
In a report to be released on Tuesday, the pro-business organization projected such regulation would affect more than 1 million [...]
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Even the most ambitious carbon emission reduction goals being set by industry are unlikely to avert “catastrophic” temperature increases of more than four degrees centigrade, according to a major new study assessing the potential commercial risks and opportunities associated with climate change.
The report from the Carbon Trust and management consultancy McKinsey & Co claims that [...]
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Successful sustainability initiatives have become a key component of global firms’ brand strength, according to the consultancy behind the annual Best Global Brands Report.
Speaking ahead of the publication today of the latest edition of the report, Rune Gustafson, London chief executive at Interbrand, said that it was becoming almost impossible for a firm to retain [...]
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Company scores plummeted in the previous edition of Greenpeace’s Guide to Greener Electronics, when new criteria on climate change were introduced. However, leading brands like Nokia and Samsung are now making significant progress in greening their electronics products, with improved environmental policies responding not only to these new energy criteria, but also to the more [...]
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