Hailed at first as a "green" achievement notable for its lowering of the surface temperature of its surroundings as well as greatly increasing local biodiversity, it also has its ecological drawbacks.
In a tacit admission that ministers have failed so far to live up to their claim to be part of the "greenest government ever", the prime minister will, in effect, make their job security dependent on "green achievement" by demanding that those whose departments fall short of environmental targets write to him with a full explanation of what went wrong.
He said: "The Green Investment Bank was one of the Coalition government's few great, green achievements.
Ross Hawkins (@rosschawkins) Cameron says we should try to cement green achievements January 14 , 20145.29pm GMT Anne McIntosh, the Conservative chair of the environment committee, goes next.
The problem was that the hydrogen needed to power these buses had to be brought in from Quebec.Overall, the David Suzuki Foundation, a prominent Canadian environmental organisation, has awarded the Vancouver games a symbolic bronze medal for its green achievements.
Sources have told the Observer that Clegg – unhappy that the coalition could not boast more green achievements – had recently chaired meetings with ministers in "growing frustration that some departments were not taking their green responsibilities seriously enough".
The Tory MPs' letter emphasises the green achievements of previous Conservative governments, including the Clean Air Act in 1956, the creation of the environment department in 1970 and the Wildlife and Countryside Act in 1981.
Perhaps that was because his supposed colleague in the department of energy and climate change, Greg Barker, spent the conference giving his characteristically ebullient defence of the government's green achievements.
Is the Orbit the type of landmark the organisers of the 2012 Olympics – who have some impressive green achievements under their belt – really had in mind when it said London would host the world's "first sustainable Olympic and Paralympic Games"?
The page, represented by what appears to be the merger of a restart button and an abstract pine tree, will showcase the company's latest green achievements, pertinent articles and a bevy of fun facts.
Green's achievement was to change that and radically alter how employees and the City felt about the business: she is widely credited with saving the travel agent, whose shares were up tenfold just before her premature departure was announced.
