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It looks like ecodesign is one area where the UK will be keeping up with Europe

The government indicated last week that it still plans to honour a commitment to match or go further than EU green product rules after Brexit. The evidence – a rather
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How to shift the UK from also ran to winner in the electric car race

This post is by Greg Archer, UK director at Transport and Environment Measures to reduce CO2 emissions from cars have so far failed. Minimal improvements in the efficiency of new
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The government isn’t putting its money where its mouth is on the environment

This post is by Alistair Taylor, senior policy officer at the RSPB. The news that substantial areas of the Amazon rainforest have been set on fire crystallised opinion on the
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Under our new government, environmental progress has ground to a halt

This blog was first posted on Business Green. The new government’s energy is devoted either to preparing for – even willing on – a disastrous no deal Brexit or to election planning.
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Big things from a small place

This post is by Tom Burke, chairman and founding director of E3G and former director of Green Alliance (1982-91). When I became the director of Green Alliance in 1982, its
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Is the government going from green to grey?

A month into the new government and the prospects for the environment look increasingly grim. It is not just that a no deal Brexit now seems probable, though that is
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What’s the beef with beef?

“Beef is like a loaded gun, pointed at the living world.” So began George Monbiot’s response to the publication of the IPCC’s report on land use, which cited dietary change
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