Yorkshire Bank, which is part of the NAB Group, has become the first UK high street bank to be awarded the Carbon Trust Standard for its efforts in tackling climate change. The bank was given the prestigious accolade after reducing its carbon footprint by 15.8% over a period of 12 months. Unlike other award schemes, organizations are rewarded for actions they've taken to cut carbon across their own operations. The Carbon Trust Standard was launched in June 2008 with the support of Environment Secretary Hilary Benn and Dragon's Den entrepreneur Deborah Meaden.
... cause, she poses a question once asked by Hilary Benn, the UK's former Secretary of State for Inter...
By Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and Hilary Benn THIS time last year, a remarkable campaign involving millions of people was reaching its climax. The aim was to press world leaders meeting at the G-8 summit in Gleneagles, Scotland, into decisive action on global poverty.
Two of President Bush's descriptions of the current conflict - "war on terror" and "long war" - have come into question. Along with the language issue, the new controversy can lead to useful reconsideration of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and continuing terrorist threats. The phrase "war on terror" has drawn sharp criticism from the British. Prime Minister Tony Blair's international development secretary, Hilary Benn, told a think-tank gathering in New York that his government doesn't use the phrase "because we can't win by military means alone and because this isn't one organized enemy with a clear identity and a coherent set of objectives." He added that extremists want to force their individual and narrow values on others "and by letting them feel part of something bigger we give...
.... 43. Gerald Bloom and Hilary Standing. "Pluralism and Marketisation in the Heal...9. . 82. Hilary Benn, "The Development Challenge in Crisis States," Spe...
.... Hilary Benn, Secretary of State for Environment, Food and...
...Environment Secretary Hilary Benn announced last week that all of the Governmen...
According to the photographs of strikers from the 2009 Lindsey Oil Refinery Strike, the British workers waving the national flag are white and male. [...] the employment of migrant workers is often symptomatic of issues that do not essentially derive from immigration policy.
...For example, Agriculture Minister Hilary Benn recently called for the UK to increase food p...
...And I thank Hilary Benn -- and before him David Miliband -- for their...
ABUJA, Nigeria - A proposal drafted by the United States and Britain to help end the war in Sudan's Darfur region meets key rebel demands and could set the stage for a peace accord, a rebel negotiator said Thursday. The rebel statements came as top U.S. and British envoys faced a Thursday midnight deadline to persuade Darfur's warring parties to sign a peace pact and resolve the crisis that has claimed at least 180,000 lives and forced more than 2 million people to flee their homes in the vast western Sudanese region. Denis Sassou-Nguessou, Chairman African Union (AU) who is expected to help mediate at the Darfur talks attends an AIDS summit in Abuja, Nigeria, Thursday. The latest Darfur peace proposal drafted with U.S. and Britain help meets key rebel demands and could open the way to ...
...Zoellick, British Cabinet member Hilary Benn and other international envoys stepped in to ...
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