Here is a very alarming article which was posted by Sky News today (23/09/2019) outlining the results of ongoing work performed by the United Nations Special Envoy for Climate Change. The world is already struggling to meet the current targets. How do we get the world to accept stricter targets? Sky News article here
Sam Arie, Financial Times, 17 July 2019 Few things should make you as optimistic — or as pessimistic — as the rise of renewable energy. Optimism comes from a new sense of urgency as the UK, Germany and Spain set record highs for use of wind and solar power, and record lows for coal. Even … Read more
Ecosia are a Berlin-based search engine, which plants a tree while their users search the web; being green certainly doesn’t get much easier than that. The company uses profit that they make from searches to plant trees where they are needed the most (namely in areas which have been affected by deforestation or over-industrialisation). Ecosia is a fully … Read more
The #FridaysforFuture movement has emerged as the global fossil industry’s “greatest threat”, with some staffers with the Vienna-based Organization of Petroleum Export Countries (OPEC) having to answer uncomfortable questions from their own children about the connection between oil and gas production and the climate crisis. “There is a growing mass mobilization of world opinion…against oil,” … Read more
Despite the profound threat of biodiversity loss, it is climate change that has long been considered the most pressing environmental concern. That changed this week in Paris, when representatives from 130 nations approved the most comprehensive assessment of global biodiversity ever undertaken. The report, spearheaded by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services … Read more
From the South Pacific to the edge of the Arctic Circle, students mobilised by word of mouth and social media are skipping class to protest what they believe are their governments’ failure to take tough action against global warming. The coordinated ‘school strikes,’ were inspired by 16-year-old Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, who began holding solitary … Read more