Posted by Richardg — 18 December 2013 at 12:07pm
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The three biggest slaughterhouses in Brazil have taken one more step towards ending the cattle sector's involvement in deforestation in the Amazon - and with deforestation on the rise, that can't come soon enough.
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In the next 20 years a substantial amount of the
UK’s existing electricity generation capacity will
close. How this capacity is replaced will have a
major impact on the UK’s ability to meet its
international and domestic carbon emissions
reduction targets.
To explore this issue WWF-UK and Greenpeace
commissioned Pöyry energy consultants to look
at the implications for the UK electricity sector of
meeting the UK’s share of the EU renewable
energy target. This requires the UK to produce
15% of its energy from renewables by 2020.
"No coal plus no
nuclear equals no lights," said Business
Secretary John Hutton (pictured above, proving he really has heard of climate
change, honest) today.
Bearing in mind the findings
of leading energy consultants Pöyry (pdf) that we don't need new nuclear or
new coal to keep the lights on - we just
need the government to meet its own, existing targets for energy efficiency and
renewables - he might better have said "no vision plus no guts
equals no chance of averting catastrophic climate change". Which at least
has some basis in fact.
"Currently, we have to use a mix of energy sources to power our country - fossil fuel, renewable energy and nuclear power. Together they provide us with a reliable electricity supply. And although the use of low-carbon energy sources is growing, fossil fuel will continue to generate power, not just here but around the globe."
