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The Crown Estate is considering investing up to £20 million in the UK's first wave and tidal stream array projects.

 

The Government’s new licensing system for electricity generation from offshore wind farms yet again appears to skew the market in favour of wind power at the expense of other renewable technologies.

 

Researchers based at the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) in Southampton have found that greenhouse gas concentrations similar to the present (almost 400 parts per million) were systematically associated with sea levels at least nine metres above current levels

 

The first wave energy converter (WEC) devices may now be deployed at the Wave Hub test site following approval by the Marine Management Organisation (MMO).

 

Two UK and one Irish tidal project are among the 23 renewable energy schemes to receive part of €1.2bn (£1bn) under the first call for proposals for the EU NER300 funding programme.

 

Scotrenewables Tidal Power Limited has agreed terms in respect of a major financing package totalling £8.84m, which includes £1.24m in public funding from the Scottish Government as well as £7.6m in private investment from a trio of multi-national backers.

 

 

The Green Construction Board (GCB) is marking its first anniversary by unveiling its priorities for 2013 while celebrating news that more than half the actions in the Government’s Low Carbon Construction Action Plan have now been completed.

 

 

A food waste recycling plant, expected to produce enough renewable energy to power 3,000 homes and the first such plant to be located at a sewage treatment works, has officially been opened today.

 

Governments are falling far short of their commitment to keep global average temperature rise below the accepted 2°C goal, putting the world on the brink of climate catastrophe.

 

The world is"barreling down" a path to heat up by 4 degrees at the end of the century if the global community fails to act on climate change, triggering a cascade of cataclysmic changes that include extreme heat-waves, declining global food stocks and a sea-level rise affecting hundreds of millions of people, according to a new scientific report commissioned by the World Bank.

 

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