Religious buildings could make £29m from cheap energy solar panels

British Gas pointed out that solar panels could save religious institutions a further £5 million every year, as they would no longer have to buy their own electricity.

EU mulls beefing up energy savings policy | EurActiv

But [Günther Oettinger, the EU's energy commissioner] added that the EU's objective to improve energy efficiency by 20% by 2020 is more difficult by nature, as it is as yet not perfectly clear what it implies. An informal meeting of EU energy ministers in September would seek to come up with a "clear, precise definition of what 20% higher efficiency means", he announced.

[Claim: Lack of climate swindle will drive up energy costs] - San Jose Mercury News

"PG&E, one of our state's largest employers, knows that [anti-climate hoax] Proposition 23 will kill jobs, drive up energy costs for families and businesses, and deal a blow to California's leadership in developing clean energy," Steven Maviglio, spokesman for the Californians for Clean Energy and Jobs group that's opposing the measure, said in a news release today.

Flashback: YouTube - Obama [admits that the whole point of cap and trade is to drive up energy costs]

Barack Obama: "Under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket." (January 2008)

McKibben calls on Aspen Ideas audience to take action now | AspenTimes.com

ASPEN — Bill McKibben's campaign to save the world from climate change exhibits a stark irony: he freely admits that “I have the largest carbon footprint of anybody I know.”

McKibben was home 70 days last year; he was on the road the other 295 days...

Climate Finance Deal Needed to Break Treaty Deadlock, U.K. Says - BusinessWeek

July 12 (Bloomberg) -- Developed countries must devise a way to channel $100 billion a year in climate aid to poorer nations to secure an international deal to fight global warming, U.K. Energy Secretary Chris Huhne said.
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In the wake of those financial pledges, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon set up the High Level Advisory Group on Climate Change Financing to advise by November on methods for raising the cash.

Huhne’s comments were made before he meets today in New York with members of the panel, which includes billionaire investor George Soros, Deutsche Bank AG Vice Chairman Caio Koch- Weser and Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg.