Posted By Joe Short
on 26 October, 2011
PRESS RELEASE, 26 October, 2011
On a day when the Cabinet is coming under fire for being split on green issues [1], the House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) has published a report [2] warning that business as usual may rule the day at the Rio+20 UN Conference on Sustainable Development next year.
Halina Ward, Director of the Foundation for Democracy and Sustainable Development (FDSD), whose written evidence [3] has been extensively referenced [4] in the EAC report, said:
On the EAC report:
“There is a real risk that Rio + 20′s green economy theme will deliver …
Posted By Halina Ward
on 19 October, 2011
New think-tank the Intergenerational Foundation (IF) landed with a big splash today as they launched their new report Hoarding of Housing. The big headline is that there are now 25 million unoccupied bedrooms in British homes.
Meanwhile, the government is proposing a radical shake-up to the English planning system, to get the country back to growth by making development easier whilst tackling the housing crisis. So extreme is the government’s prescription for housing sickness, however, that even The Telegraph has been moved to campaign against the possible loss of greenness in our pleasant land.
IF’s report argues …
