UK Government unveils Mainstreaming Sustainable Development package

Posted by refer on 07/03/11

The Government has announced that its sustainable initiatives would be implemented faster and that a new package of initiatives would be put in place soon. This new plan tests Government’s initiatives and judges their level of sustainability, ensuring they help improving UK citizen’s quality of life, protect the environment and are sustainable enough for generations [...]

Energy Sustainability in (Northern) Periphery Regions: What we need to deliver

Posted by refer on 14/01/11

The European North is one of the areas that will undergo significant changes due to climate change in the coming decades. Important business branches as fishing industry, forestry, energy production, tourism and reindeer herding are amongst those that will be affected first and most of climate change. There is an urgent need to ensure that [...]

Moroccan Minister for Environment describes sustainable development as a priority

Posted by refer on 02/12/10

Mrs Amina Benkhadra, Moroccan Minister for Energy, Mines, Water and Environment has declared that the country’s government wanted to include sustainable development as a priority. She confirmed that the country wants to develop its approach to renewable energy and environmental protection. Her declaration was made at a conference for the EU Commission project “Sure” that [...]

INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES

Posted by refer on 20/07/10

The world of science strives to generate innovative technologies aiming at a smaller consumption of resources in the provision of our needs for living and producing, technologies that will make it possible for us to harm the environment to a lesser degree. While the world of science had been working on this for decades, the [...]

Emergency Budget: UK businesses deliver verdict on environmental tax and regulation in PwC study

Posted by refer on 21/06/10

British businesses want chancellor George Osborne to deliver an overhaul of green taxes and regulations in his emergency Budget tomorrow that would effectively force them to embrace lower-carbon business models. That is the perhaps surprising result of a major survey from consultancy giant PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), which found that 94 per cent of British firms expect [...]

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Responsible Energy for European Regions (R.E.F.E.R) is an initiative lead by the Assembly of European Regions and GE Energy, teaming up to confront climate change. more.



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