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The World Development Movement has criticised a UK government plan to put almost £400 million of 'green' aid designed to assist developing countries low carbon development into a World Bank fund that will subsidise new dirty coal power plants.

HSBC Global Markets today announces the creation of a Climate Change Research Facilitation Programme, in association with: Ernst & Young, New Energy Finance, Risk Management Solutions and the Met Office.

Farmers, foresters and biomass producers can apply for up to £200,000 each under a new round of grants opened today by Environment Minister Phil Woolas.

The East of England Development Agency (EEDA) is to manage a £1 million funding pot to help fight fuel poverty across the East of England.

The Australian Treasury Minister, Wayne Swan MP, delivers the new Labor government's first budget which includes AU$3 billion (£1.45 billion) funding for climate change related initiatives.

On the eve of the Intergovernmental Conference meeting in Lisbon on the future of the controversial EU Treaty, the Green Alliance has launched a pamphlet in Brussels, 'Investing in our future: a European budget for climate security', demanding that climate change is put at the heart of the EU Budget.

Innovation Secretary John Denham has the location of the new Energy Technologies Institute (ETI), backed by up to £550m of Government investment announced by Gordon Brown in the 2006 Budget.

On Wednesday, Google announced that they were setting aside funds to help companies develop plugin hybrid technologies for cars.

Who would have thunk it, by chatting on MSN it is actually possible to donate to good causes, including environmental causes, without doing anything other than type a few characters next to your name.

Green tactics are at the forefront of a multi-million pound BIG Lottery Fund investment announced this week to tackle the root causes of youth crime and support struggling pupils.

The Australian Government has announced a new five-year $336.1 million Green Vouchers for Schools programme will provide every school in Australia with up to $50,000 to help install solar hot water systems and rainwater tanks.