Media Alert: Budget Response – Greener Homes and Offices Whilst Alastair Darling may have wanted this budget to be seen as ‘The Green Budget’, and ZEDHomes salutes his intentions for a greener Britain, the company, one of the few genuine ‘green developers’ in the country, would have liked to have seen
Please find below comment on the Budget from Arup, the global design, > engineering and business consulting firm. If you have any queries or > would like to speak to Arup’s Chairman Terry Hill, please do give me a call — Climate change > Overall, the measures introduced by the
Budget too cautious on climate change, says F&C’s Bakhshi Today’s widely trailed “green” Budget was too cautious on the environment, according to Vicki Bakhshi, associate director of Governance and Sustainable Investments at F&C. In his first Budget, the UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, Alistair
Alistair Darling, the chancellor, is going to: * Increase green taxes * Reform tax on heavy carbon-emitting cars. Cars that emit more than 121 grams of CO2 a kilometer will be hit hardest. * Planned 2p rise on fuel postponed until October * Showroom tax comes in fro April 2010. New car tax bands
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transport targets – 2009 reform of tax for least polluting cars
or homes
better energy incentives for green houses
can’t get onto the bbc website to hear the budget
that’s a good idea
biofuels
It must be difficult when ccientists at the University of British Columbia get together in the staff canteen. “What have you discovered today?” “Oh, you know, making some progress on curing some nasty diseases. You?” “Yeah, just discovered that the US government’s rush to produce corn-based ethanol as a
biofuels
Greenbang hasn’t been shy in the past at bringing you numbers – predictions on how much money has been pouring, like a healthy papery tide, into green energy. But the cynics among you may have been saying “ah, but how much revenue is there?” and tapping your nose knowingly. Well
