Under a new French scheme cars are labelled according to the pollution that they emit. This allows the worst offenders to be banned when necessary. Last week Paris suffered its fourth smog of the winter and tried a new idea to protect its residents from the worst effects. Like many European cities, the Paris region
Drivers could be forced to give up their vehicles and switch to electric cars in some urban areas. Radical new plans have been drawn up which could see petrol and diesel vehicles banned in some parts of Scotland within eight years. The Scottish Government have pledged to cut emissions by 80 per cent by 2050.
Bill will drop coal, oil and gas investments from Ireland Strategic Investment Fund Ireland has voted to be the world’s first country to fully divest public money from fossil fuels. The Irish Parliament passed the historic legislation in a 90 to 53 vote in favour of dropping coal, oil and gas investments from the €8bn
Exclusive: The five-yearly assessment of what will happen to the UK as the world warms says one of an array of potential threats is the ‘significant risk’ to supplies of food The Government has been accused of trying to bury a major report about the potential dangers of global warming to Britain – including the
The government has placed electric vehicles at the heart of a green paper outlining its ‘post-Brexit’ Industrial Strategy for the UK today (23 January). Launched by Prime Minister Theresa May, the Strategy focuses on designing a smart grid and the roll out of public charging points for the vehicles to bring about ‘affordable energy and
The plan is to invest in the technology needed for battery electric vehicles Diesel technology is set to be a thing of the past, UK car industry executives believe. The plan is to invest in the technology needed for battery electric vehicles over the next five years, according to 93% of executives while 62% felt
I read today a news item coming out of Davos (the World Forum for people invested in the status quo), Major Hydrogen Investment Mooted as OEMs and Energy Companies Form Hydrogen Council: At the World Economic Forum in Davos, carmakers and energy companies have announced the foundation of the Hydrogen Council to lay the foundations
The questions come after talks, on twitter, in the days’ incoming tide of email—sometimes even in old-fashioned letters that arrive in envelopes. The most common one by far is also the simplest: What can I do? I bet I’ve been asked it 10,000 times by now and—like a climate scientist predicting the temperature—I’m pretty sure
“The stone age came to an end, not for lack of stones, and the oil age will end, but not for lack of oil” (Sheikh Yamani OPEC co-founder and former Saudi Arabian oil minister) Electricity companies around the world will begin to go bankrupt by 2018, even while they generate profits. It sounds absurd doesn’t
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