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  • Crown Estate launches round 3 of offshore wind farm development

    Czech RepublicHungaryPolandRomaniaRussiaUnited Kingdom 05.06.2008
    The Crown Estate announced on 4 June 2008 the launch of Round 3 of the UK offshore wind development programme, which aims to deliver up to 25GW of additional offshore wind energy generation capacity in...

  • World Bank highlights concerns on state of CDM Market

    Czech RepublicHungaryPolandRomaniaRussiaUnited Kingdom 29.05.2008
    The World Bank has expressed concerns over the current and future state of the Kyoto Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) market in its recently published report entitled “The State...

  • Important clarification of the EU Batteries Directive

    United Kingdom 21.05.2008
    The European Commission has proposed a short, but important, revision of Directive 2006/66/EC on batteries and accumulators and waste batteries and accumulators (“Directive”). The proposal,...

  • The “Merton Rule” - How will it affect the construction and development of hotels?

    United Kingdom 09.05.2008
    At the end of 2007 a group of cross party MPs introduced a Private Member’s Bill to the House of Commons seeking to reinforce the “Merton Rule” in an Act of Parliament. This Bill passed...

  • How green is the new “Green” budget?

    United Kingdom 13.03.2008
    The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Alistair Darling, delivered his first Budget speech on Wednesday 12 March. It was promised to be the “greenest” budget yet, imposing new pollution restrictions...

  • UK Budget supports development of CCS

    Czech RepublicHungaryPolandRomaniaRussiaUnited Kingdom 13.03.2008
    Following the launch of a competition for a carbon capture and storage (CCS) demonstration project in November 2007 and proposals for an offshore regulatory regime for CCS in the Energy Bill published...

  • Funded nuclear decommissioning programme guidance

    United Kingdom 25.02.2008
    Last Friday, the government published a “Consultation on Funded Decommissioning Programme Guidance for New Nuclear Power Stations.” This follows the publication of the White Paper on Nuclear...

  • Turning up the heat on heat

    United Kingdom 18.02.2008
    The government recently published a paper entitled “Heat Call for Evidence” which seeks views on a set of wide ranging questions aimed at understanding how carbon dioxide emissions associated...

  • Construction sites; April 2008 - compulsory site waste management plans

    United Kingdom 11.02.2008
    Under regulations put forward by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (‘DEFRA’) this year, site waste management plans (‘SWMPs’) will become a compulsory part...

  • Offshore wind opportunities in Germany

    RussiaUnited Kingdom 06.02.2008
    As part of the German government’s commitment to reduce CO2 emissions by 2020 to 40% below 1990 levels, the German government adopted a draft Renewable Energy Act (Erneuerbare-Energien-Gesetz –...

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