Blog by Dr Peter Matthews, past president of CIWEM and former Chair of Natural Resources Wales COP26 is fast approaching, bringing with it – we hope – all the attention and urgency the climate crisis requires. We see it in the news, we read it in IPCC reports – but it’s not (exclusively) through academic […]
The Water Climate Discussion conference starts Tuesday 5 October with a categorisation of water climate issues and potential solutions, and continues on 16 and 19 October as the sector develops & starts to fulfil the Water Climate Call to Action. Future Water together with organisations from across the water sector joined forces this year to bring the water […]
As we near the date for the Glasgow meeting of COP26 a steady stream of views, demands, publications and reality checks in the media. They include: Historical climate emissions reveal responsibility of big polluting nations. Click here Letter to all parties from Alok Sharma including emerging elements of the COP 26 negotiated outcome. Click here […]
From Water Briefing The Nature: Water theme seeks to highlight how governments, organisations and businesses across the world are responding to the increased risk of droughts and flooding, to enable communities to thrive in a warming world. Led by non-state actors from business, investors, civil society, academia, cities and regions, it seeks to increase the […]
IPCC Reports – Link to all reports https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/#SPM Watch the press conference IPCC Press Release ‘GENEVA, Aug 9 – Scientists are observing changes in the Earth’s climate in every region and across the whole climate system, according to the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Report, released today. Many of the changes observed in […]
PML: On World Oceans Day, and ahead of the G7 later in the week, leading UK experts from Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML) and partners shone a spotlight on the critical role the ocean plays in greatly slowing the rate of climate change but also the subsequent impacts of this and why support from nations for […]
‘Biden vows to slash US emissions by half to meet ‘existential crisis of our time’ US president tells virtual climate summit that ‘time is short’ to address dangerous global heating in a break from Trump era. The initiative has also fostered a new climate of co-operation between world leaders’ – Guardian overview Climate Action Tracker: […]
The Guardian ‘The prime minister’s green rhetoric has been accompanied by a series of actions that have left many observers aghast, and that appear contrary to leading an international push to net zero. These include: The green light for a Cumbrian coalmine, which provoked a months-long rowthat ended with the promise of a public inquiry New licences […]