EU to award rest of green energy fund within 12 months

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Commission aims to award remaining funding for renewable energy and carbon capture projects within the coming 12 months, EU Environment Commissioner Connie Hedegaard said on Tuesday.

Daimler faces legal action over green air conditioning (News)

The German car company, Daimler, is facing a storm of criticism after announcing an intention to defy EU legislation and continue using a super greenhouse gas in its car air conditioning systems next year. Infringement proceedings from Brussels could follow, EurActiv...

Big Oil v Big Hollywood

The new Hollywood film about fracking, which stars Matt Damon, entitled ‘Promised Land’ could tap into the growing grassroots rebellion against the technique which is slowly sweeping across America. In the film Damon plays an energy company land agent sent...

Violence in Mali threatening survival of endangered elephants

(University of British Columbia) University of British Columbia and Oxford University researchers have revealed the secrets of survival of an endangered population of African elephant in the unforgiving Sahara desert. The elephants have the biggest range in the world,...

Climate change action needs forests and farms working together

The UNFCCC COP-18 in Doha worked overtime to finally agree not to disagree. The Secretariat was quick to make a release that declares success and highlights four results: Amendment of the Kyoto Protocol Timetable for negotiating a 2015 agreement (…) Read the...

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