Electric cars are no longer just a 'pipe dream' claims transport minister as he announces £60 million in funds for charging points and grants for people buying new vehicles
UK announces £5,000 subsidy for electric car buyers from 2011 Tom Levitt | 14th December 2010 News Electric Cars Renewables Energy Transport electriccar.jpg Government advisors have said the UK …
Giant wind farms may grab the headlines but plans to develop local off-grid electricity will have bigger impact on Africans and carbon emissions
… Local electricity: Africa goes off-grid Tom Levitt | … Renewable Energy Politics And Economics africaelectricity.jpg Reliable access to power is … headlines but plans to develop local off-grid electricity will have bigger impact on …
A blueprint for how Britain could reduce its greenhouse gas emissions to zero over the next 20 years by a combination of electrification, insulation and a massive scaling up of offshore wind reports Tom Levitt
… on just 16 per cent of the total current electricity demand. Smart charging at night … the day can reduce the need for additional electricity production. Reductions in car use … in full READ MORE... INVESTIGATION Can our electricity grid cope with all the new wind …
Government subsidies to replace oil or traditional electric heating with heat pumps ignore the global warming impact of their HFCs, argues new analysis
… he said. 'In countries with low-carbon electricity like Sweden heat-pumps tend to win … could be producing renewable heat and electricity for the local community as early …
As Japan's Fukushima disaster unfolds, the EU is financing a controversial nuclear expansion programme in Ukraine to increase exports to energy-hungry consumers in western Europe. Tom Levitt reports
… Ukraine has been upgrading its high-voltage electricity transmission lines as part of its … said it plans to produce 25 TWh of excess electricity - close to Slovakia's total electricity generation in 2007. Industry …
Plans for a tidal barrage across the River Severn to produce hydroelectric power have been scrapped due to financial constraints as government confirms eight sites for new nuclear power plants
… has a target of achieving 15 per cent of its electricity from renewable sources by 2020 it … to other options for generating low carbon electricity.’ However, the RSPB said it … to, at the very least, 20 per cent of our electricity needs. INVESTIGATION Think nuclear …
Subsidies for oil, coal and gas sectors were six times higher than those for renewable energy in 2009, the latest International Energy Agency (IEA) assessment has revealed
… tackling climate change. Although coal-fired electricity generation was expected to …
How do the Liberal Democrats, Conservatives, Labour and the Green Party measure up on their environmental manifesto pledges? Here's the definitive list...
… home up to £10,000 Aim for 40 per cent of UK electricity to come from non-carbon sources by … Green Investment Bank Aim for 40 per cent of electricity to come from low-carbon sources by … wind and other renewables Nationalise the electricity network Introduce smart meters and …
Targets for increasing the use of biofuels to power cars, trains and buses will result in more ecosystems being converted to agriculture - actually increasing carbon emissions, says new report
Europe's push on biofuels 'no better than fossil fuels' Tom Levitt | 8th November 2010 News Biofuels Climate Palm Oil News Politics And Economics Food And Farming exhaustpipe.jpg Targets for …
The Dominican Republic's organic and Fairtrade boom has helped banana growers but what about the slum-dwelling Haitian migrant workers? Tom Levitt reports on the plight of the forgotten people in the banana trade
… iron hut, with no water, toilet facilities or electricity. Jan Luis is just one of many … families but no-one has water, toilets or electricity. Some of them have jobs. Some … live in the community of wooden huts with no electricity, water or toilet facilities. Jan …
New Government planning rules will shorten the approval process for big power projects like nuclear plants, but do little for the local renewables sector
… to meet our objective of 30 per cent of our electricity coming from renewables by 2020 … underestimated the potential of under 50MW electricity generation and of the contribution …
Just as biofuels have gobbled up farmland that should have been growing food so the push on biomass by Monsanto, Cargill and others will see an 'unprecedented' grab on land, plants and biodiverse-rich forests
… be able to use much more of it for generating electricity, fertilisers and chemicals. The …
Deutsche Bank economist Pavan Sukhdev is heading up the groundbreaking TEEB (The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity) report and doing for nature what Sir Nicholas Stern did for climate change - valuing it
… given you a job and provided you with an electricity connection. That is the person the …
The idea of a personal energy allowance, dismissed by government officials, could help ensure fair and equal access to energy and spur collective action to meet emission reduction targets says a new report
Energy rationing would give 'common purpose' in cutting carbon emissions Tom Levitt | 19th January 2011 News Climate Change Carbon Emissions Carbon Trading Energy Quotas creditcardtransaction.jpg …
In producing nuclear power we are taking the benefits today but leaving the burden of cleaning up waste and accident risks to future generations, argues a study on nuclear ethics
… the nuclear waste, produced as a byproduct of electricity generating power stations, remains …
Current 'dump it or burn it' mindset can only be resolved by moving away from incineration and landfill and aiming for a zero waste policy, say campaigners
… can be recovered and used to generate electricity, heat, steam or hot water; in a …
A new vision to replace our grazing land with energy crops will help reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but many are unwilling to embrace its suggestions for our future diet and countryside
… form of woodchips that can produce heat or electricity; or the carbon it takes up during …
The latest film from the 'Story of Stuff' team focuses on consumer electronics and the problems of waste, recycling and toxic components
The Story of Stuff: Electronics Tom Levitt | 10th November 2010 Other Electronics Health Toxins Mobile Phones storyofelectronics.jpg The latest film from the 'Story of Stuff' team focuses on consumer …
Ahead of the latest UN climate conference, Tom Levitt asks if its time we let go of the holy grail of targets and looked at alternatives such as 'carbon clubs'?
… emissions. The more difficult sector would be electricity generation. All new coal-fired …
Well-publicised simple steps like using energy-saving light bulbs may be making it more difficult to prepare people for the bigger changes needed to tackle climate change, argue psychologists
The psychology of climate change: why we do nothing Tom Levitt | 12th August 2009 News Climate Change Society Green Living Psychology Take Action manonsofa.jpg Well-publicised simple steps like using …
Study estimates emissions of methane from freshwater systems to be 103 million tonnes per year - equivalent to 25 per cent of all the carbon dioxide absorbed by the world's land areas
… plants in the Sahara to generate and export electricity have been on the table for years. …
Its short lifespan and greater potency means tackling methane emissions now could have a dramatic effect on atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations reports Tom Levitt
… plants in the Sahara to generate and export electricity have been on the table for years. …
As well as local outrage over 'fracking' drilling there is new evidence its greenhouse gas footprint may be higher than that of coal. Tom Levitt reports from the centre of this potential gas boom near Blackpool
… produced from their wells in Lancashire into electricity – something the researchers in the …
Despite outrage in the US over ‘fracturing’ techniques used to extract shale gas and new evidence its greenhouse gas footprint may be higher than that of coal, the UK has given the go-ahead to companies here to begin drilling. Tom Levitt reports from the centre of this potential unconventional gas boom near Blackpool
… produced from their wells in Lancashire into electricity – something the researchers in the …