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  • India flags issues over wealthy nations’ efforts to increase mitigation to agriculture 

    By PTI

    NEW DELHI: India has opposed the developed world’s efforts to increase the scope of mitigation to agriculture on the ongoing UN local weather summit in Egypt, saying wealthy nations don’t need to cut back emissions by altering their life and are “searching for cheaper solutions abroad”, sources stated on Thursday.

    Expressing concern over the draft determination textual content on the Koronivia Joint Work on Agriculture, India stated the developed international locations are blocking a pro-poor and pro-farmer determination by insisting on increasing the scope for mitigation to agriculture, thereby compromising the very basis of meals safety on the earth, a supply within the Indian delegation stated.

    “At every climate summit, the developed countries wish to change the goalposts of the international climate regime using diversionary means to dilute their responsibilities arising from their historical emissions.”

    “Annex-I countries, it may be recalled, owe the world a carbon debt of 790 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide (GtCO2), which is worth USD 79 trillion, even at the modest price of USD 100 per tonnes,” India stated.

    “This year too, the developed countries are distracting attention from their excessive GHG emissions by emphasising reduction in agriculture emissions which are ‘survival emissions’ and not ‘luxury emissions’,” it stated.

    India made it clear that the world is going through a local weather disaster at this time due to the extreme historic cumulative emissions by the developed nations.

    It stated these nations are “unable to reduce their emissions domestically by any worthwhile change in their lifestyles. Rather, they are searching for cheaper solutions abroad”.

    In most growing international locations internationally, agriculture is practised by small and marginal farmers who until exhausting, toil exhausting and courageous the vagaries of utmost climate and local weather variability in addition to the extra stress of local weather change.

    “By seeking to extend the scope of mitigation to agriculture, the developed countries are wanting the world agriculture, lands and seascapes to become a site of mitigation for their profligate, excessive emissions,” it stated.

    India stated there aren’t any further finance gives on the desk by developed international locations and the prevailing interim working entities like Global Environment Facility and Green Climate Fund are being coaxed to deal with their extreme emissions by turning agriculture right into a web site of mitigation.

    As is well-known to the world and understood even in lay parlance, agriculture would be the hardest hit by local weather change and is thus predominantly a web site for adaptation.

    South Asia’s historic CO2 cumulative emissions from the pre-industrial interval until 2019 are lower than 4 per cent (together with land use, land-use change and forestry actions), as reported by Working Group III of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), regardless of it being house to nearly one-fourth of humanity.

    “India’s per capita annual emissions are, even today, about one-third of the global average. If the entire world were to emit at the same per capita level as India, the best available science tells that there would be no climate crisis,” India stated.

    India is amongst these international locations with excessive vulnerability to local weather change. India persistently maintains that agriculture within the growing world is primarily the positioning of adaptation, it stated.

    NEW DELHI: India has opposed the developed world’s efforts to increase the scope of mitigation to agriculture on the ongoing UN local weather summit in Egypt, saying wealthy nations don’t need to cut back emissions by altering their life and are “searching for cheaper solutions abroad”, sources stated on Thursday.

    Expressing concern over the draft determination textual content on the Koronivia Joint Work on Agriculture, India stated the developed international locations are blocking a pro-poor and pro-farmer determination by insisting on increasing the scope for mitigation to agriculture, thereby compromising the very basis of meals safety on the earth, a supply within the Indian delegation stated.

    “At every climate summit, the developed countries wish to change the goalposts of the international climate regime using diversionary means to dilute their responsibilities arising from their historical emissions.”

    “Annex-I countries, it may be recalled, owe the world a carbon debt of 790 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide (GtCO2), which is worth USD 79 trillion, even at the modest price of USD 100 per tonnes,” India stated.

    “This year too, the developed countries are distracting attention from their excessive GHG emissions by emphasising reduction in agriculture emissions which are ‘survival emissions’ and not ‘luxury emissions’,” it stated.

    India made it clear that the world is going through a local weather disaster at this time due to the extreme historic cumulative emissions by the developed nations.

    It stated these nations are “unable to reduce their emissions domestically by any worthwhile change in their lifestyles. Rather, they are searching for cheaper solutions abroad”.

    In most growing international locations internationally, agriculture is practised by small and marginal farmers who until exhausting, toil exhausting and courageous the vagaries of utmost climate and local weather variability in addition to the extra stress of local weather change.

    “By seeking to extend the scope of mitigation to agriculture, the developed countries are wanting the world agriculture, lands and seascapes to become a site of mitigation for their profligate, excessive emissions,” it stated.

    India stated there aren’t any further finance gives on the desk by developed international locations and the prevailing interim working entities like Global Environment Facility and Green Climate Fund are being coaxed to deal with their extreme emissions by turning agriculture right into a web site of mitigation.

    As is well-known to the world and understood even in lay parlance, agriculture would be the hardest hit by local weather change and is thus predominantly a web site for adaptation.

    South Asia’s historic CO2 cumulative emissions from the pre-industrial interval until 2019 are lower than 4 per cent (together with land use, land-use change and forestry actions), as reported by Working Group III of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), regardless of it being house to nearly one-fourth of humanity.

    “India’s per capita annual emissions are, even today, about one-third of the global average. If the entire world were to emit at the same per capita level as India, the best available science tells that there would be no climate crisis,” India stated.

    India is amongst these international locations with excessive vulnerability to local weather change. India persistently maintains that agriculture within the growing world is primarily the positioning of adaptation, it stated.

  • COP 27 sponsor Coca-Cola is prime plastic polluter for 5 years in a row, says report

    Coca-Cola firm, one of many sponsors of the COP27 summit, has been named the worst plastic polluter for 5 years operating, as per a worldwide model audit report by ‘Break Free From Plastic’. PepsiCo and Nestlé took up the opposite two spots within the prime 3 record of worldwide plastic polluters, each for 2022 and for the previous 5 years. 

    In India, apart from PepsiCo, Wai Wai noodles-maker CG Foods India Pvt Ltd and Perfetti Van Melle, the meals firm behind Mentos, Alpenliebe and the Chupa Chups lollipops, have been among the many prime plastic polluters in 2022.

    While PepsiCo was discovered to be the highest polluter within the nation this 12 months, milk merchandise have been discovered to be the worst plastic offenders prior to now two years. The Karnataka Milk Federation had topped the record in 2021 whereas Tamil Nadu Co-operative Milk Producers’ Federation Ltd topped the record in 2020. In 2019, SS Food Products (which makes cooking merchandise like baking powder and ready-to-eat soups) was named the highest plastic polluter whereas Perfetti Van Melle took that spot in 2018. 

    Break Free From Plastic, a coalition of round 11,000 world organisations, mentioned that it analysed the trash-collection information for the previous 5 years with the assistance of over 2 lakh volunteers in 87 locations to compile the 2022 Brand Audit report. It outlined the highest polluters as “corporations that pollute the most places around the world with the greatest amount of plastic waste.” The major standards is the width of air pollution, i.e. the variety of international locations the place the product is discovered, whereas the secondary one is the depth, i.e. the variety of branded gadgets discovered.  

    Predictably, plastic packaging was mostly present in meals merchandise, adopted by family merchandise, smoking and packaging materials. Globally, the Coca-Cola Company, PepsiCo, Nestlé, Unilever, Mondelēz International (which makes fashionable snacks like 5 Star, Bournvita, Cadbury, Diary Milk, and Oreos), Mars Inc., Procter & Gamble, tobacco firm Philip Morris International, French meals firm Danone, and Italian chocolate makers Ferrero Group have been featured within the prime 10 corporations which can be liable for plastic air pollution. 

    The commonest varieties of plastics deemed as pollution have been these used to make containers for meals, bottles for shampoos and different private hygiene merchandise, and pipings. As per the report, Polyethylene terephthalate (PET), High-density polyethylene (HDPE) and Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC) have been the most typical plastic varieties discovered within the final 5 years in India.

    The uncooked materials for many varieties of plastics, together with PET and HDPE, is derived from fossil fuels like crude oil and pure fuel. One of the important thing speaking factors on the COP27 summit, being held in Egypt this 12 months, is options to chop down dependence on fossil fuels.

    COP27 and Coca-Cola

    When COP27 introduced its choice to associate with Coca-Cola in September 2022, a number of activists slammed the transfer, stating the American beverage firm’s document as a prime plastic polluter.

    Greenpeace USA Oceans Campaign Director John Hocevar termed the selection as “baffling.” “Coca-Cola produces 120 billion throwaway plastic bottles a year – and 99% of plastics are made from fossil fuels, worsening both the plastic and climate crisis. They have yet to even acknowledge that this is a problem or explain how they will meet their climate goals without ending their plastic addiction. This partnership undermines the very objective of the event it seeks to sponsor,” Hocevar mentioned in a press release.

    Super enjoyable to have a local weather summit in a police state sponsored by @CocaCola whereas most “civil society” delegates save their indignation for jacked up resort costs as an alternative of locked up political prisoners. #COP27 in #Egypt is shaping as much as be very cool and regular. #SaveAlaa https://t.co/28NEuyYxVD

    — Naomi Klein “#COP27 Egypt Unsilenced” (@NaomiAKlein) October 1, 2022

    Coca-Cola instructed that it “shares the goal of eliminating waste from the ocean”.

    “Our support for Cop27 is in line with our science-based target to reduce absolute carbon emissions 25% by 2030, and our ambition for net zero carbon emissions by 2050,” it instructed The Guardian.

    However, Von Hernandez, Global Coordinator of Break Free From Plastic criticised governments worldwide for not holding firms accountable for the air pollution they’re inflicting. “Instead of allowing companies like Coke to greenwash their image, governments need to compel polluters to invest in reuse and alternative product delivery systems that avoid the problem in the first place. This is one of the key systemic changes required for the world to avert the full consequences of climate change and plastic pollution,” Hernandez mentioned.

    Through its report, the Break Free From Plastic group has requested polluting firms to disclose and cut back their world plastic footprint, and redesign product packaging to minimise dependence on plastics. They have additionally referred to as on world leaders to push for a legally binding Global Plastics Treaty, holding in thoughts the ineffectiveness of voluntary commitments made by firms.

  • COP27: What to anticipate from India at UN-led local weather motion summit?

    By Online Desk

    The United Nations-led Conference of the Parties (COP) is an annual local weather motion summit that includes world leaders, diplomats, scientists and campaigners. This 12 months, greater than 120 world leaders will attend the COP27, which takes place from November 6 to November 18, 2022, in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.

    Unlike the earlier years, geopolitical circumstances together with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, surging power prices and meals costs and international inflation might show to be a stumbling block in arriving at a consensus this 12 months. The rising tensions between the US, Russia and China, and simmering hostilities inside Europe may also are available in the best way.

    Union Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Bhupender Yadav will lead India’s delegation at COP27. In the previous, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had spearheaded India’s illustration on the local weather summit.

    What to anticipate from India at COP27?

    * India will set its sights on local weather financing and can search readability on its definition.
    * Domestic motion and multilateral cooperation on local weather change.
    * Climate funding in the long run at the side of local weather change and limiting fossil gas emissions will probably be excessive on India’s agenda.
    * Will emphasise that strengthening the monetary mechanisms of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is crucial to fulfill the local weather finance supply targets.
    * Will push for the $100 billion-a-year pledge of local weather funds for creating nations, a promise made in 2009 that hasn’t but been fulfilled regardless of it being two years previous its deadline.  No different nation will see an even bigger enhance in power demand than India within the coming years, and it’s estimated that the nation will want $223 billion to fulfill its 2030 clear power targets. Currently, 42% of the nation’s put in electrical energy capability is from non-fossil gas sources.

    ALSO READ | India to flex its negotiating muscle tissue at UN local weather summit

    India’s pledge from COP26

    India took the next pledge as a part of its local weather motion plan on the 2021 COP summit held in Glasgow. 

    * Reach 500GW non-fossil power capability by 2030.
    * 50 per cent of its power necessities from renewable power by 2030.
    * Reduction of whole projected carbon emissions by one billion tonnes from now to 2030.
    * Reduction of the carbon depth of the economic system by 45 per cent by 2030, over 2005 ranges.
    * Achieving the goal of web zero emissions by 2070.

    (With Inputs from AP, Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change)

    The United Nations-led Conference of the Parties (COP) is an annual local weather motion summit that includes world leaders, diplomats, scientists and campaigners. This 12 months, greater than 120 world leaders will attend the COP27, which takes place from November 6 to November 18, 2022, in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.

    Unlike the earlier years, geopolitical circumstances together with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, surging power prices and meals costs and international inflation might show to be a stumbling block in arriving at a consensus this 12 months. The rising tensions between the US, Russia and China, and simmering hostilities inside Europe may also are available in the best way.

    Union Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Bhupender Yadav will lead India’s delegation at COP27. In the previous, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had spearheaded India’s illustration on the local weather summit.What to anticipate from India at COP27?

    * India will set its sights on local weather financing and can search readability on its definition.
    * Domestic motion and multilateral cooperation on local weather change.
    * Climate funding in the long run at the side of local weather change and limiting fossil gas emissions will probably be excessive on India’s agenda.
    * Will emphasise that strengthening the monetary mechanisms of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is crucial to fulfill the local weather finance supply targets.
    * Will push for the $100 billion-a-year pledge of local weather funds for creating nations, a promise made in 2009 that hasn’t but been fulfilled regardless of it being two years previous its deadline.  No different nation will see an even bigger enhance in power demand than India within the coming years, and it’s estimated that the nation will want $223 billion to fulfill its 2030 clear power targets. Currently, 42% of the nation’s put in electrical energy capability is from non-fossil gas sources.

    ALSO READ | India to flex its negotiating muscle tissue at UN local weather summit

    India’s pledge from COP26

    India took the next pledge as a part of its local weather motion plan on the 2021 COP summit held in Glasgow. 

    * Reach 500GW non-fossil power capability by 2030.
    * 50 per cent of its power necessities from renewable power by 2030.
    * Reduction of whole projected carbon emissions by one billion tonnes from now to 2030.
    * Reduction of the carbon depth of the economic system by 45 per cent by 2030, over 2005 ranges.
    * Achieving the goal of web zero emissions by 2070.(With Inputs from AP, Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change)

  • ‘Earth began to purge us too’: slam poet brings refugee voices to Glasgow

    She heard them when she spoke to Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, and when she met Syrians at a camp in Jordan: the identical cries of the dispossessed that rang throughout her personal childhood, when she escaped from Darfur.
    Now, Sudanese-American poet Emtithal “Emi” Mahmoud – topped world champion on the 2015 Individual World Poetry Slam in Washington DC – is carrying the message of these voices to world leaders on the local weather summit in Scotland.
    Her mission, she defined to Reuters, is “to just get the most vulnerable people’s voices into spaces where we’re not normally represented”.
    “At 11 years old I saw my neighbour’s house crumble before my eyes,” she writes in her poem entitled ‘Di Baladna’, or ‘Our Land’ in Arabic, which she unveils on Monday on the COP 26 U.N. local weather summit in Glasgow.
    “Our country was already locked in turmoil and now the earth began to purge us too,” it reads.
    As a refugee herself and a goodwill ambassador for U.N. refugee company UNHCR, she has spoken to fellow refugees across the globe. She noticed how a lot they’d in widespread.

    “…You realise that the same vulnerabilities and issues and sensitivities and crises that we witnessed during the Darfur crisis are being repeated over and over,” she mentioned.
    “I think I try to answer the question a little bit of how it is that we can bring everyone into the same cause that a lot of us are in right now.”
    At COP26, she will probably be interesting for pressing motion but additionally highlighting the efforts refugees are already making to adapt to their habitats.
    “Is the situation dire? Absolutely, yeah. But can it be changed? It can, and they’ve already changed it themselves. But that work can go to waste if we don’t support them sometime soon.”

  • COP 26 Glasgow summit: Key developments on day 3 of local weather convention

    The UN local weather convention in Glasgow, which began on October 31, a bunch of latest pledges that had been meant to curb the manufacturing and use of oil, gasoline and coal.
    In the earlier two days, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had attended the World Leaders’ summit of the twenty sixth Conference of Parties (COP-26) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). He pledged to hit net-zero emissions by 2070 and held quite a few bilateral conferences on the sidelines of the occasion.
    Here are the highlights from day 3 of the occasion:
    1. India-led International Solar Alliance in new pact to hurry up vitality transition
    India-led International Solar Alliance on Wednesday introduced a partnership with the Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet (GEAPP), for accelerating vitality transition in Least Developed Countries (LDCs) and Small Island Developing States (SIDS). The partnership, introduced on the COP26 local weather summit in Glasgow, will champion important photo voltaic capability era globally whereas supporting grid-based and distributed renewable options.
    2. End of coal is in sight, says Britain’s authorities
    Britain’s authorities has claimed that the “end of coal is in sight” after 18 international locations together with Poland, Vietnam and Chile dedicated for the primary time to part out and never construct or spend money on new coal energy.
    The assertion issued late Wednesday mentioned greater than 40 nations are committing to finish all funding in new coal energy era domestically and internationally, in addition to quickly scale up clear energy era. Participating nations additionally decide to phasing out coal energy within the 2030s for main economies, and the 2040s for smaller economies.
    3. Eric Garcetti, US’ subsequent ambassador to India, checks Covid-19 optimistic
    Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, nominated by US President Joe Biden because the nation’s subsequent ambassador to India, has examined optimistic for Covid-19 whereas taking part within the UN local weather convention in Scotland. Garcetti’s workplace introduced on Twitter that he examined optimistic for coronavirus on Wednesday.
    4. Climate change extremes spur UN plan to fund climate forecasting
    As local weather change triggers lethal heatwaves, droughts and floods, three UN businesses on Wednesday rolled out funding plans to enhance climate forecasting in susceptible international locations. The initiative goals to plug gaps in climate monitoring and knowledge assortment so growing international locations can higher put together for attainable climate-fuelled disasters.

    The new initiative, referred to as the Systematic Observations Finance Facility, is led by the UN’s World Meteorological Organization, the UN Development Programme and the UN Environment Programme and falls below international plans to offer $100 billion a yr in local weather financing to poorer nations.
    5. COP26 coalition price $130 trillion vows to place local weather at coronary heart of finance
    Banks, insurers and buyers with $130 trillion at their disposal pledged on Wednesday to place combating local weather change on the centre of their work, and gained assist within the type of efforts to place inexperienced investing on a firmer footing.
    In an earlier announcement on the assembly in Scotland, monetary establishments accounting for round 40% of the world’s capital dedicated to assuming a “fair share” of the trouble to wean the world off fossil fuels.

  • Glacier in Antarctica named after Glasgow local weather summit

    A glacier in far-away Antarctica has been formally named Glasgow Glacier in honour of this Scottish metropolis internet hosting the high-level UN local weather summit which formally opened right here on Sunday, kicking off two weeks of intense diplomatic talks on curbing world warming.
    The 100-km lengthy physique of ice, which has been experiencing speedy melting, was formally named by researchers on the University of Leeds to mark the twenty sixth Conference of Parties (COP26) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), a stark reminder of why such an pressing motion is required.
    “Glasgow represents our best chance. Just as the G-20 shares a collective responsibility to act, so the solutions are in our hands. I hope countries will gather next week in a spirit of responsibility and ambition so we can keep the goal of 1.5 degrees alive,” Johnson asserted.
    Besides Glasgow, the eight newly named glaciers are Geneva, Rio, Berlin, Kyoto, Bali, Stockholm, Paris and Incheon – all named after cities internet hosting essential UN local weather conferences.

    PhD Researcher Heather Selley, from Leeds’ School of Earth and Environment, has recognized 14 glaciers within the Getz Basin of West Antarctica which might be thinning by a mean of 25 per cent between 1994 and 2018 resulting from local weather change.
    Her examine, printed in February 2021, discovered that 315 gigatonnes of ice had been misplaced from the area within the final 25 years.
    In essence, that is equal to 126 million Olympic-sized swimming swimming pools of water.

    Selley and Dr Anna Hogg had requested that the 9 unnamed glaciers within the examine be named after places of main local weather treaties, reviews and conferences, the newest being the one named after the Glasgow summit.
    Her proposal was submitted by the UK authorities and supported by the UK Antarctic Place-names committee.
    The names will now be added to the International Composite Gazetteer for Antarctica, for the use on maps, charts and future publications.

    “Naming the glaciers after the locations of major climate treaties, conferences and reports is a great way to celebrate the international collaboration on climate change science and policy over the last 42 years,” Selly defined.
    “We wanted to permanently mark the outstanding effort the scientific community has put into measuring the present-day impact of climate change and its predicted future evolution,” she stated.
    Dramatic adjustments in ice cowl and pictures of Antarctica have grow to be synonymous with local weather change.

    Over the previous 40 years, satellites have noticed big iceberg calving occasions, adjustments within the move of glaciers and quickly thinning ice demonstrating the devastating impression of worldwide warming.
    Downing Street stated the UK’s message on the G-20 Summit in Rome on Sunday will likely be to spotlight how 50 years in the past the UK derived round 80 per cent of its electrical energy from burning coal, and 9 years in the past that quantity was practically right down to 40 per cent and at this time it’s beneath 2 per cent.
    The UK plans to part out the usage of coal in energy technology fully by 2024.
    Johnson is asking on the world’s richest economies to do every thing they will to succeed in Net Zero carbon emissions domestically by 2050, whereas serving to creating international locations transition to wash power by halting, reversing deforestation and land degradation by 2030.

  • British Indian minister Alok Sharma given sole cost of UN local weather summit

    Image Source : OFFICIAL TWITTER HANDLE British Indian minister Alok Sharma given sole cost of UN local weather summit
    Alok Sharma, one of many Indian-origin ministers in UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Cabinet, has relinquished his position as Business Secretary in a mini-reshuffle to take sole cost as President of COP26 – the United Nations local weather summit scheduled for Glasgow, Scotland, in November.
    The Agra-born minister, who was till now in command of twin roles, will focus completely on what has been dubbed as the most important summit the UK has ever hosted, bringing collectively representatives from almost 200 international locations, together with India.
    Downing Street stated on Friday that Johnson had requested Sharma to tackle the brand new cost to drive ahead coordinated international motion to sort out local weather change to fulfill the excessive ambitions for the summit.
    “The biggest challenge of our time is climate change and we need to work together to deliver a cleaner, greener world and build back better for present and future generations,” stated Sharma.
    “Through the UK’s Presidency of COP26 we have now a novel alternative, working with buddies and companions world wide, to ship on this purpose.
    Given the very important significance of tackling local weather change I’m delighted to have been requested by the Prime Minister to dedicate all my energies to this pressing job,” he stated.

    The COP26 President will probably be primarily based within the UK Cabinet Office, persevering with as a full member of Cabinet, and can chair the Climate Action Implementation Committee to coordinate authorities motion in the direction of internet zero by 2050 within the run as much as the November summit.
    “A successful summit in November will be critical if we want to meet the objectives set out by the Paris Agreement and reduce global emissions. The UK has set a high bar, with our recent commitment to reduce emissions by at least 68 per cent by 2030, but we also need other countries to do their bit,” Downing Street stated.
    Sharma has been described as a “leading force” behind the UK’s local weather diplomacy, since assuming the position in February 2020. The Climate Ambition Summit co-hosted by the UK in December final yr noticed 75 world leaders set out new commitments to local weather motion.
    Kwasi Kwarteng, who was a minister of state within the Business division, has been promoted to take over from Sharma as Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.
    Anne-Marie Trevelyan will step into Kwarteng’s place as Minister of State for Business, Energy and Clean Growth. She can even proceed in her position because the UK’s International Champion on Adaptation and Resilience for the COP26 Presidency, supporting international locations susceptible to local weather change to adapt to its impacts and construct resilience.
    Downing Street stated the adjustments are a part of the federal government’s Ten Point Plan on going additional and sooner in the direction of a greener future, together with committing to finish the sale of latest petrol and diesel autos by 2030, supporting renewable vitality initiatives throughout the UK, investing in know-how and reworking the vitality effectivity of the UK’s houses and public buildings. 
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