UK spends £100m to protect foreign forests as it threatens to axe its own
(Sun 31 Oct 2010 17:08)
The UK government has announced it has committed to spending £100 million on international forestry projects despite confirming plans it is looking to sell off 2.5 million acres of its own woodland to private buyers.
MeyGen secures "Crown Jewel" marine energy site
(Wed 27 Oct 2010 00:01)
MeyGen has announced it has entered into an ‘Agreement for Lease’ with The Crown Estate for the Pentland Firth Inner Sound tidal power site.
REpower UK achieves historic 500 megawatt milestone
(Tue 26 Oct 2010 18:22)
REpower UK, a subsidiary of REpower Systems AG, a leading manufacturer of onshore and offshore wind turbines, has reached an historic milestone of 500 megawatts of power installed across UK wind farms.
Power deal secured for pioneering Orkney marine energy site
(Tue 26 Oct 2010 12:54)
SmartestEnergy, the UK’s leading purchaser and supplier of electricity from the independent generation sector, has signed a Power Purchase Agreement with the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC), for all of the power g
UK announces multi-billion pound green energy cash boost
(Mon 25 Oct 2010 19:06)
Prime Minister David Cameron has announced a massive cash injection to support the UK's renewable energy drive as part of the Government's National Infrastructure Plan.
Scottish Govt tells Westminster: “Our forests are not for sale”
(Sun 24 Oct 2010 18:21)
The Scottish Government has moved swiftly to refute claims Britain's national forests are to be sold off in an attempt to balance the public books.
Cities awarded European Green Capital titles for 2012 and 2013
(Sun 24 Oct 2010 13:35)
Spanish regional capital Vitoria-Gasteiz and the French city of Nantes have been named as winners of the European Green Capital award for 2012 and 2013.
€1billion North Sea wind farm to power half-a-million German homes
(Thu 21 Oct 2010 20:33)
Continuing to invest in renewable energy, Vattenfall has now entered into the DanTysk project for the construction of an offshore wind farm in the North Sea. The wind farm will produce renewable energy equivalent to the
Former defence site converted into biomass plant
(Thu 21 Oct 2010 20:03)
One of the UK’s largest wood recyclers Growing Beds Recycling Services has announced that work has started to build a 2.6MW renewable energy power station, situated in a disused 1960’s Ministry of Defence research an
Amur tiger habitat threatened by Russia timber auctions
(Thu 21 Oct 2010 19:49)
Ahead of next month’s global Tiger Summit in St. Petersburg, the forestry administration of Primorsky Province in the Russian Far East is moving to open critical Amur tiger habitats for logging.
All the reaction to UK's green public spending plans
(Wed 20 Oct 2010 16:50)
The UK green sector's leading influencers and decision-makers have given a positive, yet cautious, reaction to the Government's four-year spending plans.
UK shifts from red to green following Govt Spending Review
(Wed 20 Oct 2010 16:32)
The UK Government has announced a shift in its green investment as it aims to become a global leader in a low-carbon future.
Legal challenge threat to feed-in tariff reductions
(Tue 19 Oct 2010 18:26)
The UK Government could face a legal challenge if tariffs paid to homes, businesses and communities for generating small-scale renewable electricity are cut in tomorrow's Comprehensive Spending Review, Friends of the Ea
UK's otter population back from brink of extinction
(Mon 18 Oct 2010 16:53)
The faint splash of an otter gently entering a river could have been a sound lost to England forever, but the iconic mammal has fought its way back from the brink of extinction, a new Environment Agency report has reveal
Energy minister calls for joined-up thinking on nuclear and renewables
(Mon 18 Oct 2010 16:17)
A surge of investment in new energy sources will be needed to ensure our energy security and reduce reliance on fossil fuels in the decades ahead, Chris Huhne said today.
Eyes down as Mecca Bingo goes green to save energy
(Mon 18 Oct 2010 16:06)
Meccabingo.com has gone from pink to green, with a brand new scheme that aims to provide bingo fans with quick and easy ways to save energy.
Leading green quangos axed in UK Govt shake-up
(Thu 14 Oct 2010 10:21)
Several environmental agencies have been chopped in the “bonfire of the quangos” as the UK's Coalition Government strives to balance its books.
Dubai has most damaging eco footprint on Earth, WWF report
(Wed 13 Oct 2010 20:50)
Humanity’s demands on natural resources are sky-rocketing to 50 per cent more than the earth can sustain, reveals the 2010 edition of WWF’s Living Planet Report – the leading survey of the planet’s health.
Austria, Denmark & Italy warned to do more to cut emissions
(Wed 13 Oct 2010 19:10)
A new report by the European Environment Agency (EEA) shows that large drop in emissions seen in 2008 and 2009 gives EU-15 a head start to reach and even overachieve its 8% reduction target under the Kyoto Protocol.
London's River Thames wins world’s largest environmental prize
(Wed 13 Oct 2010 18:24)
The UK Environment Agency has collected the world’s largest environmental prize after Britain’s most iconic river was crowned the beauty queen of the planet’s waterways.
