The UK has joined forces with the Indonesian government to tackle deforestation and prepare Indonesians for the impacts of climate change, International Development Secretary Douglas Alexander announced at Davos today.
The partnership will work to bring down carbon emissions by reversing the high rate of deforestation in the country, boost Indonesia ’s low carbon economy and [...]

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Toyota has comfirmed that production of the petrol-electric hybrid Auris hatchback is scheduled to begin production in the UK at it’s Derbyshire plant.

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The largest wind farm in the South East of the United Kingdom has been officially opened.  The £60 million wind farm was opened by Energy and Climate Change secretary Ed Miliband.  The farm located at Little Cheyne Court on Romney Marsh has 26 wind turbines and stand 115 metres tall.

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Training drivers to use fuel more efficiently could save transport operators £650 million, according to commercial vehicle manufacturer.
Those savings would be accrued just from increased fuel efficiency of articulated trucks, according to MAN.
The company estimates that 132,000 tractor units in the UK cover 11.2 billion miles a year, consuming £6.5 billion worth of fuel.
Dave Cussans, [...]

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Scientist braves monsoons to find 12 new frog species
The Independent | 04 Feb 2009
A dozen new species of tree frog, including a pygmy frog so small that a full-grown adult can fit on to a penny coin with room to spare, have been found living in the mountain ranges of western India, scientists announced yesterday.

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Demand for energy from both UK businesses and households fell over the third quarter of 2008 when compared to the same period last year, new figures show.
According to the latest statistics released by the Department of Energy and Climate Change, consumption over the three-month period was down by 5.7 per cent, with this figure taking [...]

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The development of 250 turbines, each up to 540ft tall, will provide enough energy to power half a million homes.
It is the latest in a drive to see the UK source a fifth of its energy needs from the new technology.
However the local community fear the turbines, visible from the coast, will destroy the local [...]

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Ambitious targets to cut the UK’s greenhouse gas emissions by at least one fifth in just over a decade were proposed today by the government’s Climate Change Committee.
The reductions would be achieved by transforming the way electricity is produced and redesigning buildings, appliances and cars.
If accepted by ministers, the changes could see as much as [...]

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More than 5,000 private and public organizations will get swept into the United Kingdom’s Carbon Reduction Commitment in 2010, but experts warn the program probably won’t deliver emissions reductions until after 2013.
About 80 percent of the organizations, which include universities, retailers and hospitals, won’t cut emissions at all, and as many as 10 percent will [...]

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US scientists say Britain’s new generation of coal-fired power stations would undermine climate change efforts. Photograph: Charles O’Rear/Corbis

The British government will lose its leadership position on climate change and risk scuppering a global deal to cut emissions if it presses ahead with a new generation of dirty coal power, say leading US scientists and environmental [...]

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