David Viner, Climate Scientist and a British Council leader on Climate Change, talks about Climate Change, its importance as an global issue, and his hopes for a UN deal at Cancun in December. Source: DECC

Clean Skies News takes a look at some of the specialist companies in the running to help BP clean up the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and asks why these high-tech machines aren’t already being bought by oil companies. Source: Clean Skies News

The UK Government has announced that it is to carry out a full review of waste policy in England, looking at the most effective ways of reducing waste, maximising the money to be made from waste and recycling, and how waste policies affect local communities and individual households. Announcing the review at the Futuresource conference, Environment Secretary Caroline Spelman said: “There is an economic and environmental urgency to developing the right waste strategy. We have been slowly moving in the right direction with recycling rates. The direction of travel is right – it’s the pace that’s the problem. We need to go faster and we need to go further”. Source: DEFRA

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The European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) has released its forecast for wind power installations in 2010, and expects 10 gigawatt (GW) of new wind power capacity to be installed in the EU during 2010, taking total installed capacity by the end of 2010 to almost 85 GW – an increase of 13%. “We predict another strong year for wind turbine installations in Europe, repeating the high level achieved in 2009,” said Christian Kjaer, CEO of EWEA. “What is encouraging is that the 2010 results consist of orders placed after the start of the financial crisis. This shows continued and strong investor confidence in the technology.” Source: EWEA

In the absence of an alternative, shoppers and businesses in New Delhi have ignored the government’s ban on plastic bags, citing practicality over environmental concerns. Source: Reuters