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How can we improve the governance around climate change?
Opinion
The floods bring home how climate change is actually relevant to us all, demanding a significant change in the way we make policy and decisions.
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A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall
Opinion
With the seemingly unending rain and the tragedy unfolding for many householders and businesses in the º£½ÇÊÓƵ it's tempting to ask if we are finally seeing the impact of climate change.
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Dealing with floods needs co-ordinated actions across Government departments
Opinion
Recent events illustrate that we need better joined-up policies across national and local government to address our changing climate and weather.
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An Inconvenient Regulatory Truth
Opinion
The government have stated with much political gusto that they will be the first government ever to have cut the number of regulations on the statute book.
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Off with Offsetting
Retail & Consumer
Would you like to drive for up to an hour to enjoy a stroll in your 'local' green space or wildlife site?
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New green road building technique could save millions says partnership
Economic Development
The low temperature asphalt project has the potential to save the º£½ÇÊÓƵ road industry £46.2 million in energy costs over the next decade as well as cutting carbon emissions by up to 39 per cent.
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Fracking on Presumption
Opinion
We need a proper grown up fracking conversation and consultation with the public given access to information and evidence as is their right.
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'530 people a year could be dying from air pollution-related conditions in Birmingham' - Friends Of The Earth
Economic Development
Friends of the Earth hits out after monitoring stations in the city were shown to be recording levels of pollution above recommended European safety limits
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Cracking the Fracking Debate
Opinion
There are dangers in making significant and hasty policy changes without providing the necessary information and consultation processes to the public
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Wildlife and wild weather
Retail & Consumer
Rain, wind and flooding are part of the natural order and plants and animals have been coping with them for millions of years.
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I kept searching for my baby but the waters were up to my chest
Retail & Consumer
Mary Griffin visits Bangladesh and Pakistan with Islamic Relief to find out why funding for disasters arrives too late.
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New Year, old problems for nature
Retail & Consumer
The natural world seems to contain a strange combination of resilience and fragility.
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Birmingham City Council’s new green commission policy 'lacks ambition'
Economic Development
Green Party leader Natalie Bennett was commenting on the Carbon Roadmap issued by Birmingham’s Green Commission last month which outlined measures to cut carbon emissions
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Are green energy levies working?
Opinion
The political football that is the cost of energy, just got booted up field as the coalition Government quickly turns defence into attack.
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No nurture for nature
Retail & Consumer
The Nation's wildlife organisations have looked at how well the Government is performing according to its own nature conservation policies.
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BCU goes into the Scottish hills in the pursuit of sustainability
Opinion
I have co-edited a book about the Scottish uplands which I believe offers important lessons for us in here in the West Midlands as we pursue our narrative of sustainability. 
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Friends of the Earth praises Birmingham City Council for pledge to cut carbon emissions
Retail & Consumer
The city’s Green Commission published its carbon roadmap which outlined a range of measures and policies, from improving public transport to retrofitting insulation to homes and businesses
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Funding cuts to nature conservation
Retail & Consumer
Why is money so hard to come by to address loss of habitats, but apparently available to give us images of wildlife which may or may not still be living in the places concerned?
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Live: Renewable energy investment explained
Economic Development
Alternative energy schemes could provide alternative investment for millions of savers, join our live interactive web TV show from 11am to find out how they work...
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Declining bird numbers lead to missing murmurations
Retail & Consumer
Are there still starling roosts near to you, and do you enjoy their autumn and winter murmurations?
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Energy prices - the political blame game
Opinion
Hot on the heels of Ed Milliband's controversial pledge to cap energy prices if voted in at the next election, and to predictable howls of derision and criticism from all sides, Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE) has announced an 8.2% rise in energy prices.
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Enjoy Himalayan balsam don't eradicate it
Retail & Consumer
If you are out and about this autumn you are bound to come across some patches of Himalayan balsam, a close relative of busy-Lizzies.
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Changing the climate of climate change
Opinion
Climate change generally brings a big sceptical yawn from the population at large, exacerbated by government reluctance to do anything that might harm the interests of º£½ÇÊÓƵ PLC.
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The alternative to a possibly cruel cull
Retail & Consumer
Common sense indicates that a potential solution which, if successful, enables livestock and wild animals to co-exist without harming each other, has more chance of success than an uncertain, possibly cruel and at best only partial solution.
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