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UK`s first low carbon budget
The Chancellor unveiled a series of ‘green’ initiatives in the UK’s first ‘carbon budget’ this week, with approximately £1 billion pounds earmarked to encourage alternative and efficient energy use and deliver ‘green-collar jobs’. The budget promised carbon reductions of 34% by 2020. Darling called the move a `landmark step`. The new target is well ahead of the 20 per cent promised at EU level and puts UK targets well above those in the US.
Greenpeace dismissed the new energy saving initiatives, ... |
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State of the environment industry
The current economic downturn has exacted a heavy toll on many industry sectors. The collapse of the banking and finance system, the humbling failures of the big three North American automakers, and slowdowns in construction and housing market spending have prompted massive injections of government cash to keep the wheels of commerce turning - however slowly. In the US the Associated Builders and Contractors expects the value of commercial and industrial construction to fall between 10 to 20 percent ... |
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