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How Businesses in Cov & Warks are cutting energy bills

The Coventry and Warwickshire Green Business Programme, (GBP) which is part-funded by the European Union Development Fund, provides SMEs with much needed grant funding, enabling them to both cut costs of their energy bills and reduce their carbon footprint. So far the GBP which is delivered by Coventry Council and its partners, has made a significant difference to our local …

Spon End Doesn't Matter - video

This film explores Coventry City Council's decision to cut down historic trees in Spon End, Coventry, on the edge of a conservation area in order to extend a road into a dual carriageway. Local protestors and resident complaints and objections were ignored to make way for the road-widening scheme. Martina Irwin, Judith Craig and Terry Sandison, a mixture of campaigners …

Climate Change Committee says UK government must act to deliver on policy

The key messages of the Climate Change Committee's 2022 Report to Parliament on Progress in reducing emissions published on 29 June are that: The UK Government now has a solid Net Zero strategy in place, but important policy gaps remain. Tangible progress is lagging the policy ambition. With an emissions path set for the UK and the Net Zero Strategy published, …

Major CO2 capture plant being built in Iceland

Euronews reports that construction is beginning on what may become the world's biggest CO2 capture capture plant. Climeworks AG which is building the plant, called Mammoth, says the new direct air capture (DAC) plant will have have capacity to and deposit 36,000 tonnes of CO2 it underground every year. This is only one millionth part of all energy-related CO2 emissions …

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