Tag: energy

4th February 2011

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by Leigh Turner

Ambassador to Austria and UK Permanent Representative to the United Nations and other International Organisations in Vienna

Brilliant energy-saving photography

Check out these terrific photographs.  They are the winners and honourable mentions of a photo competition called “Save Energy! Stop Climate Change! run by the British Embassy in Kyiv between October and December 2010. The aim of the campaign, about which I blogged in November, is to show the benefits of energy-saving measures both for […]

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27th January 2011 Ottawa, Canada

November Field Trip to Newfoundland

Welcome blog readers to our first billingual guest blog posting!  In this posting, Nicolina, our Science Officer in Montreal discusses her trip to Newfoudland, looking into renewable energy.  This blog was written by our guest blogger in french, and translated to english for the complete Canadian billingualism experience (french and english being Canada’s two official […]

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21st January 2011

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by Greg Dorey

Diplomat

New geothermal potential: from spas to energy

The British  Government aims to be the “greenest ever”. So it is no surprise that in recent official meetings – and we have many more visitors to Budapest than usual as a result of Hungary’s EU Presidency – UK Ministers and officials have raised the subject of renewable energy and Hungary’s geothermal potential. Thermal waters […]

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24th November 2010

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by Greg Dorey

Diplomat

Focus on climate change

This week we have been focusing on Climate Change again. The subject has gone quieter since the Copenhagen Summit, around this time last year. But the problem is as big – and getting bigger. And the issue is about to be addressed again at the Cancun meeting and will feature prominently on the agendas of […]

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11th November 2010

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by Leigh Turner

Ambassador to Austria and UK Permanent Representative to the United Nations and other International Organisations in Vienna

Save Energy! Save Money! Win Prizes!

When I first arrived in Moscow on my posting to Russia in December 1992 I had a terrific view from my 13th-floor window of a sea of apartment blocks, beyond which a blood-red sun sank towards the dark horizon sometime in mid-afternoon.  As darkness fell, I was astonished to see that almost every single light […]

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