LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s new support scheme for renewable heat, the first of its kind, would mostly benefit small investors and services companies, given a lack of Scandinavian-style heating networks, experts said.

Britain announced last week an 850 million pounds support scheme for renewable heating projects, initially from June 2011 to 2014/2015, against the backdrop of wider spending cuts.

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s new support scheme for renewable heat, the first of its kind, would likely benefit most small investors and services companies, given a lack of Scandinavian-style heating networks, experts said.

Britain announced last week an 850 million pounds ($1.35 billion) support scheme for renewable heating projects, initially from June 2011 to 2014/2015, against the backdrop of wider spending cuts.

LONDON (Reuters) – Green energy opportunities are emerging after dismal returns this year, led by a buoyant solar industry and government renewable energy targets, but more support was needed to convince the world’s biggest investors.

Optimism was returning to the renewable energy market, blocked after project finance froze in the global financial crisis, executives told the Reuters Climate and Alternative Energy Summit this week.

OSLO/LONDON (Reuters) – Rich nations must spell out their plans for cutting greenhouse gases more clearly to enable U.N. talks in Mexico to agree the cornerstone of a pact to slow global warming, the U.N.’s climate chief said.

Christiana Figueres said the annual November 29-December 10 meeting in Mexico would fall short of a U.N. treaty to combat climate change, saying countries learnt there was no “magic bullet” for a quick new U.N. accord at a Copenhagen summit last year.

OSLO/LONDON, Oct 13 (Reuters) – Rich nations must spell out
their plans for cutting greenhouse gases more clearly to enable
U.N. talks in Mexico to agree the cornerstone of a pact to slow
global warming, the U.N.’s climate chief said.

Christiana Figueres said the annual Nov. 29-Dec. 10 meeting
in Mexico would fall short of a U.N. treaty to combat climate
change, saying countries learnt there was no “magic bullet” for
a quick new U.N. accord at a Copenhagen summit last year.

LONDON (Reuters) – Water shortages will be the world’s most pressing problem in the next decade, compounded by a growing global population, Britain’s chief scientist John Beddington said on Tuesday.

Climate change is forecast to disrupt rainfall patterns, leading to more severe droughts and floods, posing problems for the supply of fresh water.

LONDON (Reuters) – Anglo-Dutch oil company Royal Dutch Shell (RDSa.L: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) opposed tougher European Union carbon emissions targets, as proposed by some EU countries, the company’s head of carbon dioxide (CO2) said.

A unilateral EU move to tighten its carbon caps before other countries followed suit would entail “very real business risks,” Graeme Sweeney told Reuters on Monday.

LONDON/BEIJING (Reuters) – Just last year experts at the International Energy Agency proposed a target for China’s carbon emissions to peak in 2020 before declining if the world were to be saved from devastating climate change. Too late now.

Figures from energy firm BP showed earlier this year that Chinese emissions will steamroll through the Paris-based IEA’s 2020 peak target next year, nearly a decade early, with no sign of slowing down.

LONDON (Reuters) – Imagine driving across America using a fuel so new you have to carry your own supply wherever you go.

At the start of the 20th century, before the era of ubiquitous gas stations, drivers did just that as they tested the limits of cars like the Ford Model T, which ran on gasoline, kerosene or ethanol and could, if driven carefully, travel more than 150 miles on a full tank.

LONDON (Reuters) – Imagine driving across America using a fuel so new you have to carry your own supply wherever you go.

At the start of the 20th century, before the era of ubiquitous gas stations, drivers did just that as they tested the limits of cars like the Ford Model T, which ran on gasoline, kerosene or ethanol and could, if driven carefully, travel more than 150 miles on a full tank.