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27th November 2014 Calgary, Canada

UK & Canada Continue to Move Ahead Together on Carbon Capture & Storage

Canada shares the UK’s view on the importance of carbon capture and storage (CCS) in reducing GHG emissions, and has invested heavily. As coal and oil & gas continue to be strongly used here, as well as in much of the world, CCS is a key technology in the mix of approaches to mitigate global […]

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27th October 2014 Budapest, Hungary

by Jonathan Knott

Former British ambassador to Hungary, Budapest

Canalettos and Brueghels, EU climate and energy policy and fantastic people  

Guest blog by Kriszti Kocsis, Senior Policy Officer (Energy, Climate and Environment) at the British Embassy.  I spent two days in the beautiful Prague Castle on 22-23 October. As part of the GREAT Energy Summit in Prague, among Brueghel and Canaletto paintings in the lovely Lobkowitz Palace, energy industry leaders from the UK and Central Europe met […]

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6th March 2014

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by Jonathan Allen

Former Ambassador to Bulgaria

Modernisation and Energy Security

by guest blogger Baroness Verma This blogpost follows Baroness Verma’s official visit to Bulgaria, 3-5 March. It was also published in Standart newspaper. I am delighted that I had the chance to visit Bulgaria this week. As European partners, Bulgaria and the UK need to share ideas on the big challenges of our generation: ensuring energy security, tackling […]

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11th February 2013 Warsaw, Poland

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by Martin Oxley

Director of UKTI Warsaw

Power is GREAT – a week long UK Roadshow focused on promoting Emerging Europe’s GREAT Power opportunity

With this in mind UKTI organised a week long UK roadshow 4-8 February focused on promoting the opportunity and holding in depth meetings with UK companies interested in expanding their business in the region. The week kicked off on Sunday evening with an inaugural dinner of the Emerging Europe Energy Council hosted by UKTI Business […]

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16th August 2012 Toronto, Canada

DECC releases new innovation assessments for low-carbon technologies

DECC, the UK’s Department for Energy and Climate Change, has released the latest round of Technology Innovation Needs Assessments (TINAs). These reports “aim to identify and value the key innovation needs of specific low carbon technology families to inform the prioritisation of public sector investment in low carbon innovation.” Currently available on the DECC website […]

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