NYC TO SPEND US$2.3 BLN TO CUT GREENHOUSE GASES
07.9.08 - Leído 21 veces. Enviar esta notaNew York City will spend US$2.3 billion to cut greenhouse gases emitted by municipal buildings and operations in order to cut the emissions by 30 percent in 2017, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said on Monday
NEW YORK, US; July 9, 2008.- The program puts in place one of the independent mayor’s so-called PlaNYC initiatives, a series of proposals he said were needed to manage the city’s growth in the next few decades.
BROWN CALLS ON BRITONS TO CUT FOOD WASTAGE
John Joseph
Britons can help bring food prices down by cutting the amount they waste every year, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on Monday.
LONDON.- Brown was speaking to reporters travelling to the Group of Eight summit in Japan where the rich nations’ club is meeting to discuss rising fuel and food prices as well as global warming.
“If we’re to get food prices down, we must do more to deal with unnecessary demand by all of us doing more to cut our food waste which is costing the average household in Britain about eight pounds per week,” said Brown, ahead of the release of a government report on food policy.
A government study has found Britain wastes around four million tonnes of food a year, adding something like 420 pounds to the average family’s shopping bills.
Rising food and fuel prices have pushed Britain’s inflation rate to 3.3 percent, well above the central bank’s 2 percent target and Environment Secretary Hilary Benn predicted Britons could at best only expect a slight easing in prices.
“The experts say we may see them come down a bit, but they’re not going to go back to where they were a year ago,” Benn told the BBC.
“We’re living at a time when, over the next 50 years, there will be another 2.5 billion mouths to feed on this planet so we are going to need a significant increase in food production if we are going to make sure that everyone has enough to eat.”
(Reuters)
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