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Posts Tagged ‘secretary’
Climate Change, Politics, Sep 15th, 2010,
The UK’s top business lobby group CBI released a major report on Monday regarding climate change. The report stressed that both the British government and climate scientists need to improve their communication skills if they want businesses to adapt to a changing climate and that businesses themselves should include ‘climate risks’ as part of their corporate reports. From a report in the Guardian: In particular, the report recommends that the existing UK Climate Projections should be repackaged so that they can be easily understood by non-climate specialists and that the government’s upcoming Climate Change Risk Assessment should feature specific recommendations…
Tags: Caroline, changing, climate, Climate change, environment, inevitable, secretary, Spelman, UK
Climate Change, Politics, Aug 3rd, 2010,
Former UK Energy and Climate Change Secretary Ed Miliband thinks the new coalition government’s energy policies are a ‘huge disappointment’ to industry and to the country. Well, he would say that, wouldn’t he? He’s in the shadow cabinet and that’s sort of their job. Yet it seems Miliband is indeed more pro-active in terms of helping green industry than his replacement, current Energy and Climate Change Secretary Chris Huhne. From BBC News: On a range of issues such as wind power, renewable heat and the green investment bank the government was going “backwards not forwards” compared to the Labour administration,…
Tags: Cameron, change, Chris, climate, coalition, David, energy, environment, Geoffrey, government, Green, greenest, Huhne, Lean, Lib Dem, Miliband, secretary, Tory, UK
Climate Change, Politics, Jan 7th, 2010,
Britain must grow more food, while using less water and reducing emission of greenhouse gases, to respond to the challenge of climate change and growing world populations, the environment secretary, Hilary Benn, said yesterday. –Guardian U.K. environment secretary Hilary Benn has called for a change in how Britain consumes and produces its food. The British government’s 20 year plan highlights research, technology and sustainability, and is consumer-led, with the onus on the public to buy green, waste less and grow more. The idea is that if the buyers demand greener products, then British businesses will follow suit and produce them….
Tags: Britain, Climate change, environment, farming, food, Green, Hilary Benn, plan, secretary, sustainability, U.K.
