Environmental News from United Kingdom

EarthWire UK provides a daily overview of the environment in the UK as reported in the media. The web site is updated every day by a team of editors that reviews media sources for environmental news stories.

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Growing Valentine's Day roses harming Kenya's ecological site
Guardian Unlimited | 14 Feb 2011
Supermarkets eager to meet demand for cheap flowers urged to show more concern for the environment. Consumer appetite for cut-price Kenyan roses for Valentine's Day is "bleeding the country dry" by threatening the region's precarious ecology. University of Leicester ecology and conservation...

Manufacturers appeal for simplified carbon tax
Guardian Unlimited | 20 Jun 2010
EEF says a single levy based on energy use would encourage businesses to move towards cleaner energyBritain's manufacturers have condemned the government's climate change policy as "chaotic, overcrowded and complicated" and are calling on George Osborne to use his emergency budget to introduce an...

England | Cleaner Technologies | Greenhouse Gas Emissions | Trade and Environment

Ocado, the eco-friendly firm that runs on diesel
The Independent | 27 May 2010
Ocado, the online "green van" delivery service that supplies groceries to customers' doors and claims to have changed the face of shopping, has been falling short of its own environmental pledges. According to its branding, Ocado delivery vans run on biodiesel only – a marketing strategy to incentivise eco-conscious customers to use its service. But in London, drivers are filling up their vans' tanks with regular fossil-fuel diesel at a normal garage.

England | Fossil Fuels | Trade and Environment | Transport

Taxidermist and wife traded in endangered species on eBay
Guardian Unlimited | 15 Apr 2010
A couple who used eBay to illegally trade in dead endangered species were given suspended prison terms and fined today.

United Kingdom | Threatened Species | Trade and Environment

Can I do my hair and be green? | Lucy Siegle
Guardian Unlimited | 10 Apr 2010
Hairsprays, dyes and shampoos mean your clean hair comes at a price.

Trade and Environment

Heavy industry claims carbon emission targets are 'death by a thousand cuts'
Guardian Unlimited | 10 Apr 2010
High carbon emitters like steelmakers and chemical plants are becoming concerned that new environmental taxes could mean that within a decade, there won't be much of Britain's heavy industry left in the country.

United Kingdom | Cleaner Technologies | Greenhouse Gas Emissions | Trade and Environment

Carbon credit documentary should not have been shown, BBC admits
Guardian Unlimited | 10 Apr 2010
EnvirotradeA BBC documentary about socialite Robin Birley and his carbon credits business venture in Africa should never have been broadcast, an internal inquiry by the corporation has found. Millions of viewers were misled because the sympathetic documentary shown on BBC World News failed to declare that it was financed by a secretive trust that was linked to Birley.

United Kingdom | Greenhouse Gas Emissions | Trade and Environment

Businesses urged to monitor energy use
Energy Saving Trust | 07 Apr 2010
Businesses have been encouraged to assess their energy use due to new regulations.Businesses have been encouraged to pay closer attention to their energy use ahead of the implementation of the Carbon Reduction Commitment Energy Efficiency regulations. The scheme kicked off this month (April) but will only gradually come into force with the full bill for carbon emissions not being applied until the same time next year.

United Kingdom | Energy Conservation | Trade and Environment

Shoppers choose green products to improve social status, says study
Guardian Unlimited | 29 Mar 2010
Researchers found consumers are willing to sacrifice performance for perceived social status from green products.

United Kingdom | Trade and Environment

MPs present meaty challenge to new Government
Friends of the Earth- England, Wales and N.Ireland. | 23 Mar 2010
Peter Ainsworth MP (Conservative, East Surrey) has today presented a Sustainable Livestock Bill check to the House of Commons.

United Kingdom | Climate Change | Policy | Trade and Environment

Africa: Fair and Accurate Food Pricing Needed to Protect Environment and Support Poor Farmers
DFID - Department for International Development | 17 Sep 2007
UK Trade and Development Minister Gareth Thomas today (Monday) called for fair and accurate pricing that reflects the true carbon footprint of all the food we buy.

Agriculture | Economics and the Environment | Trade and Environment

Canada rain forest town tackles drought crisis
Reuters | 04 Sep 2006
A drought-hit resort town in Canada's Pacific rain forest is trucking in water to avert a total shutdown, but hotels and other businesses will have to severely limit consumption, the mayor said on Friday.

Drought | Floods | Floods and Hurricanes | Tourism and Biodiversity | Trade and Environment

Academies ask G8 to tackle health and energy
SCIDEV.NET | 16 Jun 2006
In an effort to strengthen their influence on the world's political stage, 12 national science academies have issued two joint statements to the G8 leaders ahead of the annual G8 summit meeting, to be held in Russia next month.

Company law key to tackling poverty
wwf.org.uk | 09 Jun 2006
Parliament is discussing the Company Law Reform Bill. WWF - as part of The Trade Justice Movement and Corporate Responsibility (CORE) Coalition - is calling for the bill to recognise and legislate for social and environmental impacts by companies.

EIB and EBRD sign environmental declaration
Environmental Finance | 02 Jun 2006
The European Investment Bank (EIB) and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) have signed a declaration promising to apply the EU's principles on environmental protection to project financing.

Trade and Environment

Government welcomes report on affordable rural housing
DEFRA - Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs | 18 May 2006
A new report which highlights the need for more homes to help families in rural areas has been welcomed by Housing Minister, Yvette Cooper and Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs David Miliband.

Corporate Interests Threaten Rural Poor and Environment
Friends of the Earth- England, Wales and N.Ireland. | 16 May 2006
Civil society groups from around the world gather at the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Geneva this week to protest against the US, European and other exporting countries' aggressive attempts to open developing country markets.

WTO confirms ruling against EU GMO moratorium
Reuters | 12 May 2006
The World Trade Organization (WTO) has confirmed in a final ruling that a European Union moratorium on genetically-modified (GMO) foods was illegal, but Brussels said on Thursday the finding would not affect policy.

Genetically Modified Organisms | Farming Practices | Trade and Environment | World Trade Organisation and Environment

Amid extinctions, parrots, panthers get costly aid
Reuters | 11 May 2006
Australia's orange-bellied parrot and the Florida panther are in an exclusive but growing club -- rare species getting costly protection even as the world faces what may be the worst wave of extinctions since the dinosaurs.

China's glaciers in rapid retreat due to climate change
SCIDEV.NET | 04 May 2006
Glaciers on China's Qinghai-Tibet plateau are shrinking by seven per cent a year because of global warming, the state news agency Xinhua reported

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