budget
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Overall reaction:
John Sauven, Executive Director of Greenpeace UK, said:
“Hammond’s first Budget could have put the UK on course to lead the global race for clean technology, healthy air and a strong economy. To really ‘prepare Britain for a brighter future’ the Chancellor should have used this moment to gain an advantage by boldly backing offshore wind power, supporting solar and driving consumers towards cleaner cars.
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Posted by sgelmini — 18 March 2015 at 12:36pm
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image from IF coalition campaign
In 2009, George Osborne told us that if he became Chancellor "the treasury will become a green ally, not a foe." There appears to have been some confusion about what is expected of a 'green ally', so, to clarify things, here's what he should have done.
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Greenpeace response
In response to the Chancellor's Autumn Statement, Dr Doug Parr, Chief
Scientist at Greenpeace UK, said -
“In what looks like the warmest year on record, George Osborne has
strikingly failed to shield the UK economy from climate change and grasp the
opportunities of a modern clean-tech economy.
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Wednesday 19th March, London - Responding to today’s budget, the
5th from this Government, Greenpeace is highlighting three areas
where the budget has failed to deliver for the environment and protect the
quality of people’s lives. These include a new tax boost for coal that will
inevitably increase the amount of coal used, driving up carbon emissions and
speeding up global warming.
Commenting
on the lack of vision from George Osborne Executive Director of Greenpeace John
Sauven said:
“ The most notable thing about this budget was its lack of ambition
in connecting the economy with the environment, one of the key drivers of
growth globally. Four years ago we were told it will be the ‘greenest
government ever’. Today, the absence of any green growth strategy or
measures to deal with the risks of climate change is a damning indictment of a
government that has clearly lost its way.”
Posted by Graham Thompson — 23 April 2013 at 12:21pm
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Osborne feeling slightly overwhelmed
This week, the Office of National Statistics will
tell us if Britain has slipped into a triple dip recession, and if the news
is grim we may be treated to the sight of George Osborne – the most stridently
anti-environment chancellor for a generation – blaming it all on climate
change.
Posted by petespeller — 29 March 2012 at 1:24pm
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Middelgrunden offshore windfarm in Denmark
Hot on the heels of Germany’s ambitious renewable
energy plans, the Danish government went even further and announced last week that they plan to get half of their country’s total
electricity requirement from renewable sources by 2020 and 100% of total energy, including electricity, heating, industry
and transport, by 2050.
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UK
energy customers, who pay billions each year for domestic fuel, are unknowingly
about to stump up an extra £50 million a year bonus for French energy giant EDF.
In a written reply to a MP Martin Howard,
Justine Greening from the government Treasury team let out the coalition’s dirty
little secret:
Posted by Richardg — 18 April 2011 at 4:41pm
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Cairn's tugs drag icebergs out the way of its Arctic oil drilling rig
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