Full Coverage: Northern Europe

05/06/2008 Maan Ystävien Polttava kysymys -kampanjan aktivoimina yli 10 000 suomalaista on pyytänyt kansanedustajaansa tukemaan ilmastolakia, joka velvoittaisi vähentämään ilmastoa lämmittäviä päästöjä viidellä prosentilla vuosittain.

05/06/2008 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

05/03/2008 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.

05/02/2008 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.

05/02/2008 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.

05/02/2008 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.

05/02/2008 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

05/02/2008 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.

05/02/2008 Jopa 52 prosenttia suomalaisista on kiinnostunut lähtemään mukaan kansalaisjärjestötoimintaan, kertoo Suomen Punaisen Ristin teettämä tutkimus. Erityisesti järjestöjen tarjoamat vapaaehtoistyöt kiinnostavat nuoria.

05/01/2008 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.

05/01/2008 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