Full Coverage: Europe

10.05.2008 British government ministers have scrapped radical plans to test a carbon rationing scheme that would have forced citizens to carry a carbon card to swipe every time they bought petrol or paid an electricity bill. They claim the idea was too expensive and would be unpopular.
From: The Guardian

06.05.2008 Coca-Cola is looking to make huge profits as one of the three primary sponsors of the Olympic Torch Relay despite flagrant human rights abuses perpetrated by China, writes grassroots activist Amit Srivastava.

06.05.2008 Scientists report that the rising temperature of Lake Baikal, located in frigid Siberia, shows that this region is responding strongly to global warming.
From: Terra Daily

06.05.2008 Maan Ystävien Polttava kysymys -kampanjan aktivoimina yli 10 000 suomalaista on pyytänyt kansanedustajaansa tukemaan ilmastolakia, joka velvoittaisi vähentämään ilmastoa lämmittäviä päästöjä viidellä prosentilla vuosittain.

05.05.2008 Today's Millennium Development Goals summit in London is in danger of becoming an empty gesture for the world’s poor and a public relations stunt for big companies, campaigners warned today as they launched an alternative action plan and challenged UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown to support it.
+ Brown slated on ‘cynical’ poverty event

05.05.2008 Public bicycle rental programs are quickly springing up across Europe; cities including Washington, DC, Beijing, Moscow, and Tel Aviv may also soon be launching similar services.

03.05.2008 Queen and Country by Steve McQueen - a cabinet containing a series of facsimile postage sheets, each one dedicated to a British soldier killed in Iraq - is on tour, starting at the Royal Festival Hall.

02.05.2008 The hit of the 2006 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Black Watch, comes to London for the first time, following a sell-out tour of Scotland, the US and Australasia.

02.05.2008 Future technology designed to cut the carbon cost of air travel will be displayed to the public for the first time in a new exhibition that opens at the Science Museum in London on 15 May.

02.05.2008 The Energy Bill being debated by parliament needs to be amended to guarantee a premium payment - known as 'feed-in tariffs' - for all the green energy generated by householders, businesses and local communities, says Friends of the Earth.

02.05.2008 Many British food and drinks processing companies have much to do before they can claim to be operating sustainably in terms of water consumption, concludes a new report.
From Ecumenical Council for Corporate Responsibility

02.05.2008 Root for the hottest environmental entrepreneurs as they try to get their carbon-cutting innovations past a panel of climate change and business experts. Hear the straight-talking feedback and cast your vote for the best idea.

02.05.2008 Euroopan unioni on biopolttoaineiden kestävyyskriteereillään ottamassa ensimmäisen askeleen kohti biomassan vastuullisen tuotannon edellyttämistä, kiittelee WWF Suomi. Jos kriteerit hyväksytään, EU:sta tulee ensimmäinen alue, jossa biopolttoaineiden tuotannon ympäristö- ja sosiaalista vastuuta vaaditaan laissa.

02.05.2008 Jopa 52 prosenttia suomalaisista on kiinnostunut lähtemään mukaan kansalaisjärjestötoimintaan, kertoo Suomen Punaisen Ristin teettämä tutkimus. Erityisesti järjestöjen tarjoamat vapaaehtoistyöt kiinnostavat nuoria.

01.05.2008 a British court has ordered the government to disclose previously secret records of lobbying by the Confederation of British Industry, following a court case won by an environmental campaign group.

01.05.2008 About half of the people who moved to Britain from the countries that joined the European Union on 1 May 2004 have already left the UK, according to a new report.
From Institute for Public Policy Research