UK seeks lower green energy targets
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Science & environment: Britain will lobby for a lower national target for renewable energy, John Hutton has indicated.
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UK government departments are failing to meet targets for cutting emissions, waste and water use, a watchdog says.
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WORKERS were urged today to help tackle climate change by taking simple measures such as switching off computers and lights, reducing waste and walking or cycling to the office.   The TUC called on people to "think green" in the workplace to cut energy use.
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Britain wants to launch a major  international clean energy project with other European  countries, Japan and the United States in a drive to combat  climate change, British Prime Minister Tony Blair said on  Tuesday.
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Britons will be asked to "leave it off" by a campaign showing the link between energy use and climate change.
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Some of the biggest Western oil   companies are urging consumers to use less energy to bring down   prices and slow rising global demand.
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If the world is to end the threat from climate change, we need to be able to produce more with less energy.
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The European Commission set targets Wednesday for EU member states to slash greenhouse gases, seeking to calm fears about the burden of fighting climate change and warning that the cost of dithering would be much higher.
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Britain will stage a u-turn by supporting European proposals for binding targets on renewable energy generation.
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BRUSSELS, Belgium &#151; German Chancellor Angela Merkel will push her European Union counterparts to go green on energy at summit talks Thursday, urging them to adopt tough measures needed to fight global warming and reduce Europe's dependence on oil imports.
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The UK Prime Minister, Tony Blair, issues a dire warning on climate change as he sets out policies to tackle it.
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Britain launched a review of its climate change program, as Prime Minister Tony Blair said the country looked likely to miss its ambitious target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 20 percent by 2010.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair pledged to make climate change a priority of Britain&#39;s presidency of both the G8 and the European Union in 2005 to combat the world&#39;s &quot;greatest environmental challenge.
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Britain on Tuesday became the first country to propose legislation setting binding limits on carbon dioxide emissions as it stepped up its campaign for a new global warming pact to succeed the Kyoto Protocol.
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Tory leader David Cameron will  join green campaigners to press the government for a climate change law.
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By NO BYLINE  A TASKFORCE is to be set up to find ways of increasing the supply of wood to make biomass energy. Mike Russell, the environment minister, announced the move yesterday on a visit to E.ON's soon-to- open GBP 90 million plant in Lockerbie.  (c) 2007 Scotsman, The.
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The EU should abandon its biofuels targets because they are damaging the environment, a committee of MPs says.