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Pioneering growth and profitability trends in the travel sector
Posted on: 29 January 2013
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This study includes findings from interviews with 30 travel industry thought leaders and, combined with macroeconomic forecasts from Oxford Economics, provides insights into how the industry will develop in the coming decade. Focused specifically on the challenges and opportunities facing airlines and agents, the report not only looks at potential new revenue opportunities and drivers of profitability but also changing traveller tastes and preferences, and new models driving future growth.
An easier life at home? ‘Selling’ the Green Deal to UK households
Posted on: 29 January 2013
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A key assumption behind the Green Deal is that once market barriers are removed, there will be a flood of demand from UK homeowners for energy efficiency measures in their homes. However, interim findings from research from the UK Energy Research Centre casts doubt on whether this expected flood will come, for one simple reason: energy efficiency is rarely the main motivating factor for people’s decisions to renovate their homes.
London Business Survey
Posted on: 29 January 2013
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This report presents the findings of the sixteenth CBI/KPMG London business survey, based on responses from a cross-section of businesses in London. Topics covered include: the impact of the 2012 Games, London’s transport and London’s competitiveness.
Federation of Master Builders: State of Trade Survey
Posted on: 29 January 2013
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This quarterly survey examines the workload of small and medium sized enterprises in residential and non-residential sectors in the UK. The survey also covers prices, costs and employment.
EU funds and local growth
Posted on: 29 January 2013
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This report, commissioned by the Local Government Association, makes the case for giving local partnerships sufficient freedoms and flexibility to maximise local growth through the use of EU structural funds during 2014-2020. It makes a series of recommendations which would ensure decisions are devolved, and grounded in the arguments for a genuinely local approach to growth.
Reference Framework for European Sustainable Cities
Posted on: 29 January 2013
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The Reference Framework for European Sustainable Cities (RFSC) has been successfully launched and is now available to all European cities and municipalities wishing to pursue an integrated and sustainable urban development. The RFSC offers practical support in integrating sustainability principles into policies and actions at various urban scales, from neighbourhood level to the wider metropolitan level.
Slum tourism and city branding in Medellin
Posted on: 29 January 2013
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Since the 1990s the second biggest city of Colombia, Medellin, is undertaking programmes and projects in informal settlements, to try integrate them both physically and socially to the urban fabric. Public space upgrade and community services such as schools and libraries designed by prestigious architects have enriched the atmosphere and to some extent the quality of life, in these impoverished areas. To the point that the barrios of Medellin are commonly visited not only by Colombians but also by international visitors who want to see first-hand the projects and how the settlements and the city have changed. Medellin, perhaps without noticing or anticipating, has found a role for informal settlements in branding the city, and promoting the tourism to those areas. Read this article for more information.
Green Deal goes live
Posted on: 29 January 2013
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The government has launched the Green Deal which provides people with the opportunity to transform their homes by paying for energy efficient home improvements with the savings on their energy bills. With buildings in Britain among the least efficient in the world, the Green Deal aims to provide homes and businesses with a new way of paying for energy efficient improvements such as insulation and new heating systems.
Improving the energy efficiency of existing buildings. Specification for installation process, process management and service provision (PAS 2030)
Posted on: 29 January 2013
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BSI, the business standards organisation, has published an update to PAS 2030, the standard which supports the Green Deal policy, encouraging the implementation of energy efficiency measures within existing households and businesses. Working with industry experts, BSI has reviewed and amended the standard to coincide with the first Green Deals being signed from January 28th, 2013. The updated PAS 2030 standard builds on the existing 26 permitted measures (which already cover heating, insulation and glazing) by adding a further 12 permissible energy efficiency measures either in the form of new annexes or through amendments to existing annexes.
Worldwide Observatory on Climate Think Tanks
Posted on: 29 January 2013
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The International Centre for Climate Governance (ICCG) has launched a new website featuring an interactive ‘Think Tank Map’ tool, which illustrates the different think tanks active in the field of climate change governance around the world. Using this tool, it is possible to search the projects of different think tanks, and view think tank statistics, updated in real-time.
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