Wind and water to power UK canals' green revolution
James Murray, The government agency responsible for the UK's network of canals and rivers yesterday unveiled ambitious plans to generate enough renewable energy to power 45,000 homes through the installation of 50...Read more |
Environmental groups furious as Hoon gives Stansted expansion go-ahead
James Murray, He may be less than a week into his new job, but Transport Secretary Geoff Hoon has already attracted the ire of environmentalists after today giving the green light to...Read more |
Mandelson sets out IT responsibilities
Parliamentary reporter, Newly-appointed business secretary Peter Mandelson has split the responsibility for IT issues among three ministers in the Department for Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform that he inherited in Gordon Brown's...Read more |
Starbucks looks to turn off the taps
Tom Young, In a move highlighting the speed with which accusations of "greenwashing" can force firms to change their environmental policies, coffee chain Starbucks has announced it is actively investigating alternatives to...Read more |
Distributed collaboration tools add to risk burden
Phil Muncaster at ISSE 2008 in Madrid, Technology leaders were urged today to work closely with business and legal teams to mitigate the security risks posed by the growing number of distributed collaboration tools taking root in...Read more |
UK leads world in corporate carbon disclosure
The UK's largest firms are generally out-performing their global counterpartsin their adoption of climate change strategies and willingness to report on
their carbon emissions, according to figures released today by the
Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP).The report details responses to data requests from the CDP from UK firms in
the FTSE 350, and found that 90 per cent of FTSE 100 businesses provided
information on climate change activities to the investor-backed lobby group –
the highest proportion of any CDP sample group around the globe.
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