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Greenhouse Weekly Round-Up

Sally Hill | 20.08.10

One hundred days into the coalition leadership, Richard Black has analysed the UK government's claim to be the greenest-ever government and asks: if the government says it's green, how has it been measured?

How does this 'greenest-ever' claim weight indicators of success or failure such as a reduction in carbon emissions, or a rise in the extinction rate of farmland birds? With the decision not to back a third runway at Heathrow, but also to close the Sustainable Development Commission.

There was also an interesting discussion on the Guardian blog about the Government's willingness to demote the importance of the environment in favour of spending cuts and political expediency. Leo Hickman argued that the current cuts are in a long line of policies that are seeing short-termism failing the environment.

Here are the links we loved this week:

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UK Government Threatens Future of Solar in the UK

Sophie Rivett-Carnac | 14.02.11

The government has made a damaging decision to pull the plug on large scale solar feed-in-tariffs, threatening the growth of renewable energy in the UK.

This week, Chris Huhne, Britain’s Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, announced the government would start its first review of the feed-in-tariff scheme for small-scale, low-carbon electricity generation. This news comes earlier than expected and will lead to uncertainty within the UK renewable market, in particular for solar PV.

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Greenhouse Weekly Roundup

Greta Jonyniate | 18.07.11

Last week, the Energy Market Report was at the centre of the national media’s attention. At 3:30pm on Tuesday, the UK's secretary of state for energy and climate change, Chris Huhne, set out his thoughts on how the nation can meet the “Three C’s” of energy in the 21st century: carbon, cost and continuity of supply. Greenhouse’s team followed the news and, if you missed any of it, you can catch up on the best summary to be found on Guardian’s Live blogged: The UK's new energy future.

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