Day: 2 July 2007

Scottish business chiefs talk climate

Leading Scottish businesses are to get together to discuss the implications of the country's proposed climate change law and how they might inspire the private sector to do more to tackle its emissions.

Planning rules must be rewritten in face of climate change – EEA

Europe must wake up to the impact of building developments on climate change and rewrite planning laws to take this into account, according to the European Environment Agency.

WEEE goes live in UK

News in Brief

EU wades in to tackle Naples waste chaos

The waste crisis affecting Naples and the surrounding region which has seen thousands of tonnes of rubbish left rotting in the streets has finally forced the hand of the European commission, which is to take legal action against Italy.

Ugandans told to use banana leaves not plastic bags