Environmental stories tagged with: policy

As Gordon Brown tackles saving face and the economy with President Obama, his predessor, Tony Blair meets with senators, governors, business leaders and international experts to discuss US domestic action on climate change.

 For the first time, the UK's nine leading environmental organisations, representing over five million supporters, have published a definitive assessment of the three main political parties' green credentials.

The draft Climate Change Bill shows the Government is learning some lessons from the failure to meet its 2010 carbon dioxide reduction targets, the Environmental Audit Select Committee concludes in a report out yesterday.

“Reaching 20% of renewable energy by 2020 is feasible only if a fast and adequate policy framework is adopted”, delegates heard at the opening of the European seminar on renewable energy sources organised by the Portuguese Presidency in Lisbon on 11 and 12 July.

England's regions are not getting to grips with environmental problems such as climate change, a new study commissioned by the Campaign to Protect Rural England, Friends of the Earth England and WWF-UK has revealed.