Archive for September, 2010
Climate bill in doubt as Democrats delay action
US Senate Democrats said on Thursday they will wait until September at the earliest to take up broad climate change legislation, a potentially fatal blow to the White House push to curb greenhouse gases.
Tesco launches car-sharing trial
Tesco has launched a car-sharing trial at some of its stores in an effort to improve the carbon footprint of its shoppers.
Northwest needs to ‘green’ a quarter of its workforce
England’s northwest will need to 'green’ the skills of up to a quarter of its workforce by 2020 if the region is to meet its objectives of developing a low carbon economy.
New software offers cost-effective solution to tackling ICT emissions
A newly-launched UK company has developed a piece of system management software that could help significantly reduce the carbon footprint of the information communication technology (ICT) sector, tackling the emissions and energy efficiency of even the smallest of data centres.
Shapps commits to 2016 zero carbon housing target
Housing minister Grant Shapps has confirmed that the new Coalition Government remains committed to the target to make all new homes zero carbon by 2016.