CLIMATE CHANGE DECLARATION FOR THIRD SECTOR LAUNCHED

Voluntary organisations, charities, and social enterprises have been urged by Ministers to sign up to a climate change declaration that commits them to a positive response. It is expected that thousands of organisations will sign up and improve energy efficiency in their own operations and then mobilise millions of people in the fight against climate change.

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GREEN ELECTRICTY DEAL FOR PUBLIC SECTOR

A deal to provide green electricity negotiated by the Office of Government Commerce with EdF Energy will help central and local government to achieve their sustainability targets and also cut fuel bills. Under the deal buying green energy will be no more expensive than buying “brown”, non-renewable, energy and paying the associated climate change levy.

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The Commission for Racial Equality has responded to the growth in immigration and the changed map of diversity in Britain with this report. It describes how areas where immigrants have traditionally settled have become more diverse than ever, while areas that had previously not known much immigration have received relatively large numbers of newcomers.The findings of the report point to a number of worrying trends influencing both the reception of new migrants across different parts of the UK and the capacity of local authorities to promote integration amid increasing diversity. Misperceptions and misinformation lie at the heart of how new migrants are received, with the media playing a key role in filling what is often a vacuum of accurate information on the dynamics of social change at the local level. These misperceptions are largely forged along the fault lines of race, ethnicity and religion, with white migrants in England reporting a broadly more positive reception than non-white migrants.

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