Tag Archives: Energy efficiency
Around Europe 338 – December 2011 / January 2012
Fair Trials International Highlight the Shocking Truth of Pre-Trial Detention; Energy Savings Potential Continues to be Greatly Underutilised; Two Weeks’ Work Experience at QCEA
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Deutsche Ausgabe – Dezember 2011/Januar 2012
Fair Trials International beschreibt die schockierende Wahrheit über die Untersuchungshaft
Posted in Around Europe, Publications
Tagged Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM), Carbon footprint, Climate change, Council of Europe (Strasbourg), Deutsche Ausgabe, Energy efficiency, Europe and Middle East Section (EMES), European arrest warrant, Fair Trials International, Fossil-fuels, Friends World Committee for Consultation (FWCC), Greece, Human rights and Fundamental Freedoms, International Energy Agency (IEA), Junior Yearly Meeting (JYM), Peace and Service consultation, Poland, Pre-trial detention, The Netherlands, The United Kingdom (UK), Volunteer work experience
Around Europe 333 – June 2011
Green Week 2011: Ambition is an Imperative; The Rafah Mission Must Close; Anything Other Than Energy Demand Reduction is a Short-Term Solution
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Deutsche Ausgabe – Juni 2011
Die Rafah-Mission muss geschlossen werden
Consultation response: smart cities and communities initiative
In its Energy 2020 strategy, the European Commission identified the Smart Cities and Communities Initiative as a project of European dimension for energy efficiency and for accelerating the large scale deployment of innovative, low-carbon technologies. QCEA responded to share its considerable experience in this vitally important area of sustainable energy … More…
Around Europe 328 – December 2010 / January 2011
Gaza – the largest prison on earth?; Energy Efficiency: Time for the EU to put its money where its mouth is; An open letter to the European External Action Service
Deutsche Ausgabe – Dezember 2010 / Januar 2011
Ein offener Brief an den Europäischen Auswärtigen Dienst
Briefing paper: energy efficiency and savings
The first briefing paper in the Sustainable Energy Security series. It considers the under-utilisation of Europe’s energy savings potential, and argues that the cheapest, fastest and most reliable way to de-carbonise our society is to invest in energy savings and behavioural change. Energy Efficiency and Savings: the under-utilisation of Europe’s … More…
Posted in Briefing Papers, Discussion Papers, Publications
Tagged Behavioural change, Demand reduction, Deutsche Ausgabe, Eco-design Directive, Energy efficiency, Energy infrastructure, Energy savings, Energy security, Living Witness Project (LWP), Nabucco gas pipeline, Nuclear power, Rebound effect, Sustainable consumption and production, Sustainable energy security, Transition Towns
Consultation response: roadmap for a low carbon economy by 2050
The challenge is well identified, and business as usual will not get us there. We must act now to ensure that existing energy and climate commitments are interpreted in the strongest way possible. If the European Union is not careful, a coordinated response to Europe’s energy revolution will be impossible, … More…
Car scrapping – sense and nonsense of a popular sceme
In September 2009 the British government decided to extend the funds of the car scrappage bonus to an additional 100,000 vehicles with the aim of mitigating the impacts of the financial crisis on the struggling car industry and to prevent possible lay-offs. This initiative rewards people who want to scrap their old … More…
Posted in Fact Sheets, Publications
Tagged Car scrappage, Climate change, CO2 emissions, Energy efficiency, Sustainable energy security
