£50m to put developing countries at forefront of green energy revolution

Some of the world’s poorest nations will be thrust to the forefront of the global green energy revolution with the help of a £50 million commitment from the UK Government.

The funding, part of the UK commitment to provide “fast start” climate finance before 2012, will see the UK become the largest contributor to a £160 million global initiative to help boost the renewable energy sector in low-income countries.
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AIR FORCE ONE EMMISSIONS FROM FLIGHT TO COPENHAGEN CLIMATE CONFERENCE TO BE OFFSET BY LIMEGREEN EARTH

LimeGreen Earth, Inc. announced today that it will offset the carbon emitted by President Obama’s flight on Air Force One to the United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP15 in Copenhagen, Denmark. The conference, which began on December 7, has brought together diplomats from 192 nations to discuss the global reduction of carbon emissions.
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Nepal’s forests to be handed over to local communities

Hundreds of thousands of hectares of forest are to be handed over to Nepal ’s rural poor, with help from a £40 million programme from the Department for International Development (DFID).

The ten-year National Forestry Programme will give Nepalese communities ownership of the thousands of hectares of forest currently under government control, helping some of the world’s poorest people to earn an income from their natural resources and put a stop to the rampant deforestation currently blighting the country.
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People Power Company Launches to Develop First Open Source Home Area Network Empowering Consumers to Save Money and Reduce Electricity Usage

People Power Company, an energy efficiency company providing residential monitoring and control systems, today announced it has closed Series A funding from New Cycle Capital, Seraph Group and other angel investors to support commercialization of the company’s inaugural product offering. Research projects with U.C. Berkeley and Stanford University will focus on open source implementation of wireless sensor networks in home energy monitoring and control systems. These joint venture projects will lower technology development cost while improving reliability and expanding the market for home area networks.
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Is London Heading For a Water Crunch?

The warning comes from sustainability experts Envirowise and follows research which found that 70% of sustainability specialists consider the threat of dwindling water supplies to be equal to the impact of carbon emissions, while 54% believe the world will run out of water before it runs out of fuel.

It is predicted that UK groundwater will begin to decrease by 2025, with the overall amount of water available in English and Welsh rivers reducing by 15 per cent by 2050.
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