Daily Archives: September 4, 2007

Acre - Director, Energy & Carbon

Acre, a leading recruitment agency specialising in Environment, CSR / Sustainability and Climate Change, are advertising the position below:
Director, Energy & Carbon
London | Circa £60k
A unique role has arisen within one of Europe’s largest telecoms companies as a Senior Manager within their Energy and Climate Change team. This is a fantastic chance for an experienced [...]

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Loose Fit Surf Shop

Loose Fit are a surf shop based in Braunton (UK) have strong environmental credentials. One of the many schemes they operate include planting over 200 trees in the last 12 months which have absorbed over 180 tonnes of carbon dioxide!   They

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Green taxes

In the UK ‘green taxes’ include:

Fuel duties £25.1 billion
Air passenger duty £2.1 billion
Landfill tax £0.9 billion
Climate change levy £0.7 billion
Aggregates levy £0.3 billion
Vehicle Excise Duty bands E, F & G £0.2 billion

Giving a grand total £29.3 billion raised through taxation.  However, the Government only gives back £549 million via various tax breaks.  Something does sound [...]

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