Businesses up and down the country are being invited to contribute ideas on how the Government can cut red tape and regulatory burdens without affecting its responsibilities to protect the environment says Defra. For the next three weeks the Red Tape Challenge (RTC) will be focusing on the 287 environmental regulations that apply to [...]
Footprint Comment: Osborne’s call to mediocrity
By footprint on October 9, 2011
Published in: Comment, Foodservice News, Legislation Updates, News, News Analysis, Zeitgeist.
George Osborne declared last week Lets at the very least resolve that were going to cut our carbon emissions no slower but also no faster than our fellow countries in Europe. To put this into context under the Climate Change Act, the government is legally bound to cut Britains carbon emissions by 34 per cent [...]