Committee on Climate Change Newsletter - April 2010
|
|
| | PROFILE |
|---|
Profile on Prashant Vaze - the Economical Environmentalist
|
|---|
Self-styled environmental economist, Prashant Vaze is on a mission to reduce his carbon footprint. He is Chief Economist at Consumer Focus and previously worked at the UK’s Office of climate Change, the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit and the Department of the Environment. He recently published “The Economical Environmentalist” which charts his attempt to live a low-carbon life in London and what it cost...
|
|  |
| | NEWS |
|---|
| Heathrow third runway decision 'untenable,' court rules |
|---|
The decision to grant Heathrow Airport the ‘go ahead’ to build a third runway has been described as “untenable”, at the final ruling of a High Court case concluded at the end of March.
The case was brought by a coalition of local councils, green groups and residents. The group included six local authorities, Greenpeace and the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE).
|
| | Next Parliament is the last chance in fight against climate change |
|---|
A panel of six experts - Jonathon Porritt, Barbara Stocking (CEO Oxfam), Steve Holliday (CEO National Grid), Stephen Hale (Director, Green Alliance), James Cameron (Executive Director Climate Change Capital), and Professor Lord Robert May, (Committee on Climate Change) have warned voters that the next Parliament will be the last chance in which to stop runaway climate change.
|
| | CCC's trip to Forest Farm |
|---|
| CCC staff recently spent a day planting trees and helping to regenerate derelict land in Hainult, East London, as part of the organisation’s commitment to supporting voluntary work and sustainability. |
| | Electricity market arrangements reviewed |
|---|
The Government published an assessment of the energy market alongside this year’s Budget, in which they concluded that the current market framework requires reform in order to encourage low carbon power generation.
|
|
| | | | |  |
|
Printable Version
email a friend
