Full Coverage: Northern Europe

30.04.2006 London Sustainability Weeks (4-18 June) celebrate local projects that help make the city a cleaner, greener, healthier place. The campaign, timed to concide with World Environment Day (5 June), includes large outdoor festivals, pond dipping, nature walks, bike rides, business breakfasts and fair trade stalls.

29.04.2006 from Dvorak Uncensored blog:
A new windfarm, south of Glasgow, will produce enough electricity to power 200,000 homes. But what about the NIMBYs?

28.04.2006 London's long-term average rainfall is lower than that of Istanbul, Dallas, or Nairobi, yet residents use more water than anyone else in Europe - 165 litres per person per day compared to 120 litres in other European cities such as Copenhagen and Berlin. Learn more about the issues on an evening Thames cruise on 11 May. The event will also see the launch of the "Ripple Effect", an online action campaign to encourage Londoners to do more about water conservation.

28.04.2006 Mary Kayitesi Blewitt lost almost her entire family in the Rwandan genocide and subsequently set up a fund for the 365,000 survivors who continue against the odds, haunted by memories and under threat from perpetrators now released from prison. To accompany the production of The Overwhelming at the National Theatre in London, on 27 June she will discuss the work of the charity and the continuing effect of the atrocities.

28.04.2006 I'm not a Tory but if the Party were to embrace Contraction and Convergence internationally and carbon rationing domestically, I would happily tear up my Green Party card and come aboard the Cameron bandwagon, says Mark Lynas.

28.04.2006 All the major political parties say climate change is the biggest threat we face. They all have ambitious targets for cutting the main cause of it - carbon dioxide gas. Yet emissions of carbon dioxide keep on rising. Ask your MP to support a new law to cut carbon dioxide every year by 3% from now on.
*The Big Ask campaign

28.04.2006 Research by motor insurer MORE TH>N reveals that motorists would be willing to switch to greener hybrid cars, provided the right incentives were provided.

27.04.2006 The UK parliament’s International Development Committee has blamed the EU and Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson for the current crisis at the World Trade Organisation, in a new report published today.

27.04.2006 A leading UK development group today welcomed MPs' criticism of Britain's presidency of the EU on trade issues and called for the collapse of talks at the World Trade Organisation.
* British MPs accuse Mandelson of causing WTO crisis
* Oxfam report warns poor countries against agreeing bad trade deal

27.04.2006 As of May 1 this year Finland will no longer restrict the free movement of labour from the new Member States of the EU.
In Finland, the past two years of restricted entry rights have been put to good use by allowing time for control mechanisms against the grey economy and abuse of foreign labour to be put firmly in place.

27.04.2006 The UK car industry is not doing enough to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from new cars, a leading environmental campaign group said in response to new pollution figures from the UK motor industry.

27.04.2006 Gordon Brown's newly polished green credentials were tarnished when the Labour-controlled Commons Treasury select committee condemned the budget decision to freeze air passenger duty for the fifth successive year as ‘incoherent and unconvincing’.

26.04.2006 from Science Blog:
It's neither yet with the advantages of both. Certainly it's small, safe and CLEVER, this prototype for a low-emission city vehicle.

26.04.2006 British Prime Minister Tony Blair has replied to campaigners' demands that world leaders spend at least 12 pence in every pound of money for HIV and AIDS on services for affected children and families and that he should attend a forthcoming UN Summit on the issue. Read his reply - and the activists' response.

26.04.2006 A new agency to tackle child abuse and indecent images on the internet has been launched by the Home Office in UK.

25.04.2006 Britain is now the largest user of laboratory animals, with academic institutions using more animals than the pharmaceutical industry, according to a dossier released to mark World Lab Animal Week.

24.04.2006 from Anorak:
“The electorate is not going to be taken in by any johnny-come-lately bolt-on environmentalism.”

24.04.2006 Billions of pounds go into new oil projects every year when they could be used to fund renewable sources of energy. People & Planet launches a new campaign this September. Find out more about the issues.

24.04.2006 Thousands of supporters of the UK National Anti-Vivisection Society will be hitting the streets during International Lab Animal Week (24-30 April), with a new leaflet on experiments in UK laboratories.

21.04.2006 Censorship by journalism is virulent in Britain and the US - and it means the difference between life and death for people in faraway countries. By John Pilger.