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Local government gearing up for the Green Deal

  When launched in autumn 2012, the Green Deal will enable households and businesses to improve the energy efficiency of their properties, without incurring up-front costs. While still in the process of drawing up detailed guidance for the scheme, the Department of Energy and Climate Change has made clear that they see local government playing [...]

Tags: , , , , , , , | Posted by Jonathan Balls on September 20, 2011
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UK Government’s draft Carbon Plan

  The UK government is now committed to reductions of greenhouse gas emissions of 80% by 2050; with 5-year carbon budgets laying out a staged timetable of legally binding national reductions towards this deadline. The first three 5-year budgets have been released, mandating greenhouse gas reductions of 22% in the five year period to 2012, [...]

Tags: , , , , , | Posted by Jonathan Balls on September 12, 2011
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EU Energy Efficiency Directive consultation

  In June this year the European Commission published the draft ‘Energy Efficiency Directive’, which is now open for consultation until the end of September. The draft legislation lays out the framework to achieve the EU’s target of 20 per cent reduction in carbon emissions by 2020. Further details on the proposals and the consultation [...]

Tags: , , , , | Posted by Jonathan Balls on September 6, 2011