Blogposts tagged 'Green Investment'

Top 10 things we need to see in the budget to solve our energy problems

Posted by tracy.frauzel - 21 March 2011 at 7:10pm - 8 Comments

The government will present the budget on Wednesday and motorists are hoping George Osborne will make fuel cheaper for them as energy prices soar. While this may ease the wallet squeeze in the short term, the last year has shown us that we are at the mercy of world events for fuel prices – first with BP’s oil spill in the Gulf and now because of unrest in the Middle East. And the consequences of these events are more far reaching than pump prices.

Article tagged as: aviation, budget, clean energy, energy, energy efficiency, fuel duty, green investment, transport

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Breaking news: Greenpeace pulls off a bank job

Posted by tracy - 24 November 2008 at 11:00am - 78 Comments

Four campaigners scale the Bank of England
Four Greenpeace campaigners scale the Bank of England to highlight need for green investment. © John Cobb/Greenpeace

Update: All four campaigners have now been arrested. You can see more photos from the day on Flickr.

Times are tough. We not only face an immediate global financial crisis but a long-term climate crisis. The urgency of the first is no excuse for neglecting the second.

Four of our campaigners have scaled the Bank of England this morning ahead of the Chancellor’s pre-budget report to highlight that the solutions to our financial crisis are also the solutions we need to tackle climate change.

The answer is a clean energy economy.

Article tagged as: budget, economy, energy efficiency, green economy, green investment, renewable energy