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Many councils in England dont know how much energy they use, a new survey reveals. The findings make it inconceivable that they will become carbon neutral within 30 years, as the government has mandated.Acc stanley cup ording to the survey, 43% of councils 鈥?93 of the 214 local authorities that responded to a freedom of information request from electrical contractors trade body ECA 鈥?do not measure the energy they use in council-owned buildings or know how much carbon they produce.ECA energy adviser Luke Osborne said the findings were highly concerning . Without immediate changes, it is inconceivable that councils are going to become carbon neutral in less than 30 years , he said.Climate crisis: can councils deliver on bold promises to cut emissions Read moreDespi stanley italia te 78% of councils in the survey saying they are planning towards net zero operation by 2050, 47% say they do not have a strategy in place to reduce the carbon emissions from housing, offices and other buildings.Of the 49 councils in the survey that stated they would be carbon neutral by 2030, 11 do not know their current carbon footprint.Council buildings pump out large amounts of carbon dioxide CO2 . On average, a council HQ building emits 1,234 tonnes of CO2 a year, stanley cup according to ECA. Overall, English council headquarters emit more than 250,000 tonnes of CO2 a year 鈥?the equivalent of 150,000 return flights from London to New York.Many councils have older, energy inefficient buildings, said Osborne, but there are simple me Ltnk Sarah died because he was a police officer : Everard family statement in full
Freedom of the press depends on responsibility, protection of sources and a newspaper s financial security, Irish Times editor Geraldine Kennedy said last night.It followed a day in which the paper had been ordered by the supreme court to pay 鈧?00,000 in legal costs despite having won the case, which hinged on the paper having sought to protect a confidential source.Kennedy, speaking a university in Galway, said she was disappointed by the decision, but believed that winning the case itself had enormously strengthened press freedom.It had established, for the first time in Irish law, the right to protect so stanley mugs urces.Professor William Schabas, a professor of human rights law, said he believed the Irish Times had been punished by the ruling that it must pay the costs. The newspaper should not take too long in referring it to the European court of huma stanley hrnek n rights.Kennedy also spoke about what she called the huge threat of the internet to the traditional structure and financing of the newspaper industry.A trustworthy, authoritative take on our world on any given day is as necessary in the technology-rich world as it ever was, she said. In her view, the people best placed to provide it were professional journalists. While the internet represents freedom in many ways, it does not necessarily represent the freedom of the press that is important to democracy and communal and individual fr termo stanley eedom in society. Who is that blogger, what is their age |
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