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EU Bans Halogen Bulbs in Favour of Greener LEDs
The EU has announced it is to ban halogen bulbs this September, forcing consumers to fit their homes with greener LEDs. The move is intended to improve energy efficiency and cut carbon emissions across the EU’s domestic stock and follows…
Grate New Solar Plant Powers Cheese Processing Facility
A giant solar farm that is powering a cheese processing facility in Northern Ireland has been launched. The 5MW project is providing green electricity to Dale Farm’s cheddar cheese plant at Dunmanbridge in Cookstown and consists of 15,500 solar panels.…
Caribbean Aims to Be World’s First ‘Climate Smart’ Zone
Virgin Group Founder Richard Branson and Olympic Gold Medal Winner Usain Bolt are backing the Caribbean’s ambition to become the world’s first “climate smart” zone. The athlete helped launch the Caribbean Climate-Smart Accelerator in Jamaica yesterday, a coalition of 26…
‘Turning CO2 into Useful Products Such As Concrete Will Incentivise Decarbonisation’
The University of Michigan says removing carbon dioxide from the air must be incentivised by turning the gas into a useful commodity. Its $4.5 million (£3.5m) ‘Global CO2 Initiative’ aims to reduce the equivalent of 10% of current atmospheric carbon…
UK Experts Back Subsidies for Mini Nuclear Power Plants
The UK Government should provide subsidies to developers of mini nuclear power stations like it did with the offshore wind industry. That’s the recommendation of the Expert Finance Working Group (EFWG), an independent group convened by BEIS in January to…
Japan Considers Adopting Daylight Savings Time for 2020 Summer Olympics
This summer’s deadly heatwaves in Japan have caused government and Olympic officials to consider the benefits of adopting daylight savings time for the 2020 Summer Olympics to ensure athlete safety. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has ordered his ruling party to…
Forests Storing Greenhouse Gases ‘Crucial to Tackling Climate Change’
UK scientists say replacing forests with crops for bioenergy power stations that capture carbon could instead increase the amount of emissions. Carbon capture technologies will help curb the world’s efforts to tackle climate change but it may be better to…