10 Mar 2020
Another step towards goal to be a net zero carbon business by 2030 Anglian Water is set to further enhance their renewable energy portfolio this week with start of the latest installation of solar energy at one of their key operational sites based in Huntingdonshire. Grafham Water uses approximately 45 million kilowatt hours of energy […]
10 Mar 2020
As the UK readies for the upcoming COP26 Summit in Glasgow in November, the Corporate Leaders Group on Climate Change urge government to deliver ambitious net zero strategy Some of the UK’s most high-profile businesses, including household names such as Tesco, EDF, Unilever, and Coca-Cola, will today call on the government to “accelerate” efforts to […]
03 Mar 2020
Royal Society Climate Change Issue – with lots of marine examples Climate change mitigation and nature conservation both require higher protected area targets Callum M. Roberts, Bethan C. O’Leary and Julie P. Hawkins Published: 27 January 2020 https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0121 Abstract Nations of the world have, to date, pursued nature protection and climate change mitigation and adaptation […]
25 Feb 2020
BBC News Human life “as we know it” could be threatened by climate change, economists at JP Morgan have warned. In a hard-hitting report to clients, the economists said that without action being taken there could be “catastrophic outcomes”. The bank said the research came from a team that was “wholly independent from the company […]
25 Feb 2020
This supplementary planning document sets out the standards required to meet the visions, objectives and policies of the Cambridge and South Cambridgeshire Local Plans as sustainably as possible. It comes at a critical time in the approach to climate change and the environmental crisis by both local and national government, and after Parliament revised the […]
25 Feb 2020
Interesting Quayside anchored wave energy device – watch the video – many attractive features ‘Another wave energy device is the Seahorse system [25]. The Port of Pecem, Brazil, began the commissioning of a wave power plant with an installed power of 50 kW in June 2012. The initiative promoted by the Alberto Luiz Coimbra Institute […]
20 Feb 2020
The Climate Coalition has today published its report ‘Home truths: how climate change is impacting UK homes’, looking at the impacts of climate change on UK homes and the heightened risk of flooding, heatwaves and extreme weather. It states that that around 1.8 million people in the UK are living in an area with significant risk […]
18 Feb 2020
Guardian ‘PM must prioritise climate or Cop26 will fail, say leading figures IEA welcomes appointment of Alok Sharma but others worry about nature of his dual role Boris Johnson must put the climate crisis at the top of his government’s agenda if crunch UN talks this year are to be a success, leading international figures have […]
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