Day: 8 December 2006

Investors offer backing for enviro-tech

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Europe’s land use futures revealed

Contrasting visions of Europe in 30 years time - from a high-tech decentralised rural society to swelling urban ghettos - are shown through a new online tool designed to help EU citizens reflect on how their activities are transforming the continent.

Cash available to reduce packaging waste

Packaging accounts for a sizeable chunk of the rubbish that ends up in our household bins and now grants are available to organisations which can show they are able to put a dent in this waste mountain.

Recycling banks could disappear due to public abuse

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Air pollution hits Indian rice harvest

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Companies fined for failing on ETS

Civil penalties have been issued against four companies which failed to play by the rules during the first year of the EU's Emissions Trading Scheme.

Courts stall ‘toxic’ ship breaking

The dismantling of a ship which environmental campaigners claim contains hundreds of tonnes of toxic materials has been put on hold in India after two judges called a halt on the scrapping pending an investigation into whether the yard commissioned to do the work has appropriate facilities.

World to get more uranium from Down Under

Bans on new uranium mines in Australia should be lifted to make the most of the country's reserves as prices shoot up, a parliamentary committee report has said.

Hydro ’emits more carbon than fossil fuels’

A hydroelectric dam in the tropics can release four times as much carbon as a comparable fossil-fuel station in the first ten years of its life, scientists have said.

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