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  • UK Launches Low Carbon Strategy

    United Kingdom 11.03.2009
    On 6 March 2008, the UK government (BERR and DECC) launched the ‘Low Carbon Industrial Strategy: a Vision’. A public consultation on the draft paper began on Friday and aims to gather responses...

  • Scotland’s Renewable Energy Prize

    United Kingdom 09.03.2009
    (The Scottish Government puts its money where its green mouth is) The Scottish Government has launched the Saltire Prize which aims “to unleash Scotland’s massive green potential”. The...

  • Environment Damage Regulations take effect in England on 1 March 2009

    United Kingdom 26.02.2009
    In May 2008 we outlined new notification obligations arising from draft regulations implementing Directive 2004/35/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on environmental liability with regard...

  • Efficiency in Buildings: Beginning of the end of the “payback period”?

    United Kingdom 19.02.2009
    Last week we reported on the EU’s plans to toughen up the law on the energy performance of buildings by passing a Recast Energy Performance of Buildings Directive. We promised to provide further...

  • The “Great British Refurb”

    United Kingdom 13.02.2009
    Yesterday, the Government published a consultation on the Heat and Energy Saving (HES) Strategy: a long-term plan dubbed the “Great British refurb” by the Energy and Climate Change Secretary,...

  • Carbon Capture and Storage - don't ignore the waste connections

    United Kingdom 11.02.2009
    The below article was first published this month by the Chartered Institute of Wastes Management. Introduction The EU, UK, US and elsewhere are in the process of bringing forward major legislative proposals...

  • Europe gets tough on Energy Performance of Buildings

    United Kingdom 11.02.2009
    In November 2008 the European Commission published its proposal for what it calls a Recast of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (2002) (“EPBD”). In truth, this amounts to a significant...

  • Clean Road Vehicles – Lifetime costs in public procurement agreed

    United Kingdom 09.02.2009
    Recent announcements of President Obama requesting an urgent review of a policy preventing US states from imposing stricter vehicle emissions standards and the ordering of the enforcement of existing fuel-efficiency...

  • EU strategy for a new climate change agreement in Copenhagen

    United Kingdom 03.02.2009
    On 28 January 2009, the European Commission (the “Commission”) published a communication, which sets out a proposed EU approach to the forthcoming Copenhagen Convention in December 2009 (COM...

  • Offshore Energy Development Environmental Report Published

    United Kingdom 30.01.2009
    After over a year of carrying out extensive research on the environment of the UK’s seas to assess the potential for developments in offshore wind, oil and gas licensing and natural gas storage,...

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