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Stern calls on world to commit US$400bn to green stimulus plans
A major new UK report has called on governments to include a minimum of US$400bn of green spending in their various economic stimulus plans or risk locking the global economy into several more decades of carbon intensive growth. The research from the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment and the new Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy was carried out by many of the academics who worked on the influential Stern Review, and assessed the economic case for incorporating a green infrastructure projects in the raft of fiscal stimulus packages currently being prepared ... |
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Energy expert T. Boone Pickens decries US continued dependence on foreign oil
Energy expert T. Boone Pickens has highlighted the negative impact of America’s staggering dependence on foreign oil by focusing on Houston’s deteriorating roads and interstates and stunning traffic congestion at a news conference in Houston at TranStar, a consortium responsible for providing Transportation Management and Emergency Management services to the Greater Houston Region. Pickens was joined by State Representative Beverly Woolley, who voiced her concerns over the enormous transfer of wealth involved with our dependence on foreign oil.
Pickens said the U.S. imported tens of billions ... |
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- UN Secretary-General warns that climate change could lead to economic upheaval
Failure to tackle climate change could lead to insecurity and economic upheaval, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has warned. Speaking at ...
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- Environment Agency warns Obama`s `Green New Deal` puts UK in the shade
The chair of the Environment Agency, Lord Chris Smith, has accused government efforts to incorporate green investment into its economic stimulus plans ...
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More than one in four homes in the UK will be offered an environmental makeover in an effort by the Department of Energy and Climate Change to cut a third ...
- Millions in support of new Swedish environment projects
The Board of Directors of the research programme ProEnviro has decided to finance four new projects for small- and medium-sized enterprises. All four ...
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- Eco Expo Asia receives strong support from the Hong Kong Environment Bureau
Following its success in 2008, Eco Expo Asia, Hong Kong’s only trade fair that is dedicated to products, services and solutions for environmental protection ...
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