Environmental stories tagged with: environment

Four activists from environmental action group Climate Rush glued themselves around a statue in the lobby of the Houses of Parliament today. Once fixed they spoke about the impacts of climate change, to the surprise of MPs, civil servants and tourists.

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.

If you are planning a trip to Germany in your car, you will need to make sure it has passed new emissions standards for "environmental zones" in designated city centres.

Five nonprofit groups have filed a lawsuit challenging the December 19th decision by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to deny California its request to implement its landmark law limiting global warming pollution from new automobiles.

Housing and Planning Minister Yvette Cooper has confirmed that an ideas competition would be run to develop and set the design standards for ten new eco-towns.

British Gas has launched Green Streets, Britain's biggest energy saving challenge and warned that too much focus on 'homes of the future' could undermine the UK's chances of meeting its stated targets of reducing CO2 emissions by 60% from 1990 levels by 2050.

A quarter (25 percent) of Britain's small firms have not taken any steps to make their businesses greener and a growing number are recognising they are not environmentally friendly, according to new research from Lloyds TSB Business and the SERTeam at the Open University.

With the release of SimCity Societies, due on November 15, comes a new feature that lets you choose how much of the power is produced sustainably.

As the Conservative conference gets under way in Blackpool, the environmental agenda is promising to be a key test for David Cameron and his party.

Barnet Council has taken further steps to dramatically reduce its carbon footprint through its pioneering use of fuel technology. Latest figures show the council is on track to cut emissions from its fleet of vehicles by 322 tonnes by 2012.

In an announcement at the Labour Party conference, Hilary Benn, Secretary of State for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, said all high energy bulbs will be phased out by 2011.