Abu Dhabi to Invest in London Array

Photo: Mads Armgaard

E.ON and Abu Dhabi-based company Masdar have joined forces to partner in the London Array offshore wind farm project – which, when built, will be the world's largest offshore scheme. The two partners will also extend their relationship further and intend to work together across a range of potential projects that will complement their existing renewable energy strategies.

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Report Shows Need for More Forests while UK Woodland Declines

Kakamega Rainforest at sunrise, Photo: Melanie Szirony

Delivering his special report on saving the world's forests, Johan Eliasch Special Representative to Gordon Brown on deforestation and clean energy , said: “Saving forests is critical for tackling climate change. Without action on deforestation, avoiding the worst impacts of climate change will be next to impossible, and could lead to additional climate change damages of $1 trillion a year by 2100.”

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Fight Back with Carbon Managers – Plant a Tree for Life

Here at Carbon Managers we are all in favour of planting trees and renewing our woodland. You can make a start on your own reforestation programme by getting involved in our ‘Plant a Tree for Life' project.

UK woodlands under threat

Eliasch Report

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‘Plant a Tree for Life' The Christmas gift that keeps on giving

Reducing carbon emissions is one of the defining issues of our age and this Christmas there is no better present to give a friend or loved one than the forward-thinking eco package that everyone's talking about, ‘The Plant a Tree For Life' gift range.

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Models of Eel Cells Suggest Electrifying Possibilities

Electric Eel Photo: Stan Shebs

The biggest electric eels can produce charges up to 600 watts of electricity. This is enough to power your computer, monitor, printer and office lighting simultaneously in a short burst. Nature bats last, and researchers at Yale University working with US National Insititute of Standards and Technology are applying eel power to artificially created cells. This is the new science of cell biology. “Artificial versions of the eel's electricity generating cells could be developed as a power source for medical implants and other tiny devices,” the researchers say.

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Windfall Tax may blow in

Ed Miliband M.P. at North Doncaster Kerbside Recycling

Ed Miliband, the man in charge of the new Ministry for Energy and Climate Change has warned utilities that a windfall tax still remains a possibile option for the Government. When meeting representatives of the six largest energy suppliers last week, he told them the department was monitoring the profits they stood to make from the EU emissions trading scheme. They are thought to be going to make in the region of £9 billion, which would be taken from customers in the form of higher bills.

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