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	<title>Carbon &#38; energy efficiency</title>
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	<description>Environmental intelligence for professionals, from ENDSReport.com</description>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s have more green advertisements like this one</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sales of all-electric, battery powered cars have got off to a disappointingly slow start, not just in the UK but globally. Perhaps the whimsical and rather brilliant television advertisement which Renault is now running for its new range of ZE (zero emission) electric vehicles will change things. It is clever and funny enough to deserve [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.endsreport.com/carbonandenergy/2012/01/03/lets-have-more-green-advertisements-like-this-one/</link>
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		<title>Shale gas: a little less nonsense, please</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The most useful academic subject I ever studied was risk management. This taught me how and why people exaggerate, or underplay, the likelihood of certain things happening.
Through my MSc course, I had the honour of meeting Paul Slovic, author of an iconic 1987 paper on the perception of risk. This stated that true risks can [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.endsreport.com/carbonandenergy/2011/11/17/shale-gas-a-little-less-nonsense-please/</link>
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		<title>No more hot air – just more wind and gas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Chris Cullen, Sam Taylor and Adam Baddeley of Eunomia Research &#38; Consulting analyse the problems of securing the UK&#8217;s future electricity supply

Affordable, secure and clean – these are the objectives for the future of electricity supply in the UK, as stated in July’s white paper on electricity market reform (EMR). The question of what levels [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.endsreport.com/carbonandenergy/2011/11/14/no-more-hot-air-%e2%80%93-just-more-wind-and-gas/</link>
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		<title>Give Green Deal customers a choice on how they repay</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Andrew  Warren, director of the Association for the Conservation of  Energy, blogs  for endsreport.com on the government&#8217;s Green Deal scheme

The government’s forthcoming Green Deal scheme is primarily designed to save energy used  for heating  and hot water.  Households will borrow  money to finance major energy saving improvements to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.endsreport.com/carbonandenergy/2011/09/26/give-green-deal-customers-a-choice-on-how-they-repay/</link>
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		<title>Lord Lawson and the Daily Mail gang up on green energy taxes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Daily Mail’s recent re-adoption of climate change scepticism has its origins in a lunch between editor Paul Dacre and former Tory chancellor Lord Lawson.
In recent years, the mighty Mail has shown signs of joining the global warming consensus. While it could never be accused of leading the charge for decarbonisation or of being a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.endsreport.com/carbonandenergy/2011/07/26/lord-lawson-and-the-daily-mail-gang-up-on-green-energy-taxes/</link>
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		<title>Amber light for the Green Investment Bank</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The advent of an independent Green Investment Bank will be a major step forward for a government that claims to be the greenest ever. It comes at a time when, hopefully, electricity market reforms (ENDS Report, December 2010) will unleash a £200bn low-carbon energy infrastructure investment programme by 2020.
Especially welcome was deputy prime minister Nick [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.endsreport.com/carbonandenergy/2011/06/01/amber-light-for-the-green-investment-bank/</link>
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		<title>Time for mandatory carbon reporting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The environment department (DEFRA) recently published a consultation on proposals to require larger companies to report their carbon emissions.
But speaking at an event in London on 16 May, Sainsbury’s chief executive Justin King said he was against mandatory carbon reporting. He argued that the need for companies to protect their reputations and competition between firms [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.endsreport.com/carbonandenergy/2011/05/18/time-for-mandatory-carbon-reporting/</link>
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		<title>Fallout and climate policy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s no exaggeration to say that the Fukushima nuclear reactor disaster in March has cast a shadow over plans for new nuclear power capacity globally, and it is too early to say whether this will fade with time. But it’s also having much wider indirect consequences which could yet cause a shift in Europe’s energy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.endsreport.com/carbonandenergy/2011/03/30/fallout-and-climate-policy/</link>
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		<title>CRC: Dead man walking?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Industry lobby groups are calling on the government to kill off the Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) Energy Efficiency Scheme.
The recent consultation by the energy and climate department (DECC) on reforming the CRC focuses on ways to keep it intact while simplifying its rules and requirements. Among the myriad options there seems to be a handful [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.endsreport.com/carbonandenergy/2011/03/23/crc-dead-man-walking/</link>
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		<title>Conflicting objectives</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Conventional wisdom among climate policymakers holds to the idea that greenhouse gas mitigation, energy efficiency, and renewable energy targets will combine to deliver the EU’s 20% emissions reduction goal for 2020 relative to 1990, with a higher 30% target still on the table.
But the reality is that there is a long-standing and unresolved tension at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.endsreport.com/carbonandenergy/2011/03/09/conflicting-objectives/</link>
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