UN: $750bn could finance "Global Green New Deal"
The UN Environment Program suggests that world leaders invest the equivalent of one percent of the global gross domestic product to revive world economy and put a brake on global warming.
Gazeley's G Park Blue Planet wins new 'outstanding' BREEAM classification
Gazeley’s £50m G Park Blue Planet at Chatterley Valley in north Staffordshire, UK, has become the world’s first scheme to be awarded the new BREEAM ‘outstanding’ classification since the energy ratings were toughened up in June 2008. Solarcentury is proud to be Gazeley's solar energy partner on this project and many more across Europe.
New UK Solar Campaign Launched 'We Support Solar'
The UK Solar PV Manufacturers Association is today launching a new campaign to promote the use of solar power in the UK. The campaign "We Support Solar" (www.wesupportsolar.net) has already attracted the support of MPs on all sides of the House of Commons, and is endorsed by campaign groups Friends of the Earth, the World Future Council, Greenpeace and the Green Alliance, as well as the European Photovoltaic Industry Association and Renewable Energy Association.The launch of "We Support Solar" comes at a critically important time for the development of solar power in the UK with Feed-in tariffs for solar PV and other renewable electricity technologies due to be launched in a little over a year's time. MPs endorsing the campaign include former Labour Ministers, Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg MP and Shadow Conservative Ministers Greg Barker MP and Bill Wiggin MP. The full...