Day: 21 March 2007

Profits soar for top wind turbine maker

Denmark-based Vestas, the world's top wind turbine maker, reaped a 201m euro profit last year after a significant rise in sales, according to the company's latest annual report.

Budget promotes green homes and cars

Gordon Brown's 2007 Budget, widely heralded as green long before its publication on Tuesday, focused on energy efficient homes and cars but critics said it failed to seriously take on climate change.

Producers must accept responsibility for WEEE

Although the cut off for joining a WEEE compliance scheme passed last week, producers of electrical equipment who missed the deadline should be looking to sign up as soon as possible, rather than waiting anxiously for the Environment Agency to come calling.

US officials ‘edited out climate message’

A white house official edited evidence for the greenhouse effect out of government documents on hundreds of occasions, according to documents released by the US House of Representatives committee on Monday.

2006 was bad summer for ozone

The European Environment Agency has published figures showing that incidents of ozone exceeding safe levels were widespread and frequent last summer.

Farmers count cost of climate change: $5bn in lost crops

American researchers have estimated that the impact of climate change on the productivity of cereal farms around the world has cost the global economy US$5bn over 20 years.

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