Two senior Green MEPs have spoken out against David Cameron’s decision to move Conservative MEPs from the European People’s Party grouping to the new European Conservative and Reformists, criticising his decision to join forces with people who “deny that theretest
Oliver Letwin this afternoon announced radical new plans to retrofit the entire British housing stock. But the proposals, which appeared to preempt a speech by Greg Clark tomorrow, provoked questions over the cost and feasibility of the proposals.
The chief executive of E.ON UK, Paul Golby, has told Reuters news agency that he does not believe any new nuclear station will come online before 2020 saying, “It’s clearly not possible to accelerate the build time.”
Left Foot Forward is in Madrid today for the Global Progress conference, organised by the Center for American Progress and Ideas Foundation. Kicking off the day, Jen Palmieri – a former deputy press secretary to President Bill Clinton and Seniortest
Protesters in Brighton on Sunday called for the scrapping of tuition fees, an end to testing in primary schools, and nationalisation of parts of the renewable energy industry. Mark Flower, a former blade technician at Vestas on the Isle oftest
Yesterday’s announcement from the International Air Transport Association sees more vapour trail and mirrors being employed by the airline industry in an attempt to persuade the world that they care about climate change and want to cut emissions. This new approach will not mean substantial or real cuts in emissions.
The Independent this morning promised that, “China lays down challenge to Obama on climate.” It went on: “Officials in Beijing indicated last night that Mr Hu would arrive in Manhattan this morning ready to unveil ‘important’ plans for reducing China’stest
Avaaz, the international online civic organisation, held a successful campaign event in Parliament Square yesterday with one activist telling Prime Minister Gordon Brown that she was, “deeply concerned that the [Copenhagen] negotiations are way off track.”
Campaigners have reacted with anger to reports over the weekend that the Treasury is blocking German and French plans for a tax on currency transactions – a “Tobin Tax” – which would be used to help the world’s poorest nations. Estimates suggest that $17 to $33 billion could be raised by the tax depending on which countries took part.
Ed Miliband has launched a campaign to get his boss, Gordon Brown, to join him at the Copenhagen talks. Meanwhile, the international online civic organisation, Avaaz, have sent an email to their 300,000 British members urging them to, “flood a UK online poll [and] … send Gordon to Copenhagen.”
