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Will Rita Force Bush to Act on Climate Change?
The ferocity of hurricanes Katrina and Rita must force President Bush to face up to the threat of climate change, Friends of the Earth said today. The call follows recent research showing that hurricanes have become more...
Vietnam's Deputy PM stresses need to improve investment environment
Improving the investment environment to encourage enterprises to invest in business and production expansion is one of the major measures the Government will adopt to carry out its socio-economic development tasks, Deput...
Carbon Vision Leadership Programme – Call for Proposals
The EPSRC and the Carbon Trust have allocated �2.3 million within the Carbon Vision initiative to support The Carbon Vision Leadership Programme.
Call for Contributions to 'Handbook of Sustainability Communication'
The European Reference Point for Technology Transfer for Sustainable Development in Hamburg, Germany (http://www.tutech.de/sd) is pleased to announce a call for contributions for a major publication addressing the issue ...
Professor David Pearce
Professor David Pearce died suddenly on September 8 2005. As a pioneer of environmental economics, David made a huge contribution to sustainable development and to British and international environmental policy. In June ...
Purchasers need to accept the growing importance of corporate social responsibility (CSR)
This was the conclusion from a CIPS event last month examining the role and future of CSR. Chaired by CIPS president Ian Taylor, the seminar explored what companies can do to contribute to the economies of developing cou...
Blair Backs Nuclear
Tony Blair has decided to back new nuclear power stations, which would be built on the sites of existing plants and presented to the public and his party as a job-creating answer to climate change.
Friends of the Earth Expose Most Polluting Power Companies
Friends of the Earth is urging consumers to start pulling the plug on the country's polluting nuclear and fossil-fuel power companies. The environment group's call comes as all power companies are for the first time obli...
Arctic Ice Melt Latest Evidence of Climate Change
Recent findings that Arctic ice levels are at the lowest point in more than a century has provided further evidence that climate change is a pressing and urgent reality.
'Green' Britain breaks pollution rules and forgets promises
The Independent reports that Britain is dragging its feet over three separate European laws on global warming, undermining Tony Blair's claim to be leading the world on fighting climate change, a new report shows.