Climate Tracker Credibility Gap Report ‘In Paris, all governments solemnly promised to come to COP26 with more ambitious 2030 commitments to close the massive 2030 emissions gap that was already evident in 2015. Three years later the IPCC Special Report on 1.5°C reinforced the scientific imperative, and earlier this year it called a climate “code […]
No major oil company invests to support Paris goals of keeping well below 2˚C Carbon Tracker: Oil and gas companies have approved $50 billion of investment since 2018 in major projects that undermine climate targets and threaten shareholder returns, Carbon Tracker finds in a report released today. The first study to identify individual projects that […]
Greener UK ‘Tentative progress on plastics and ‘green Brexit’ held back by absence of environment watchdog Environmentalists argue that improvements in plastics, agriculture and chemicals policy are tempered by continuing uncertainty over how environmental laws will be enforced after Brexit. Tentative progress on plastics and ‘green Brexit’ held back by absence of environment watchdog Environmentalists […]
Two articles: 1. Omitting the Precautionary principle & the polluter pays from the European Withdrawal Bill (EUWB) Guardian: ‘UK withdrawal bill ‘rips the heart out of environmental law’, say campaigners. New bill omits key ‘precautionary’ principle requiring developers and industry to prove actions will not harm wildlife or habitats as well as the ‘polluter pays’ […]
Plastic Bottle Tracker (PBT) Bob Earll 3/10/2017 – See News below – October 24th – Four articles Campaigners and Defra have claimed the success of reducing the use, waste and litter arising from plastic bags. Focused campaigns on particular items have therefore received some encouragement, but what is the next high priority target? There are […]
Waterwise and Ideal Standard have launched an annual water efficiency tracker survey, the aim of which was to collect data on the water efficiency behaviours in the home annually. The data from the second tracker survey which has a nationally representative sample of over 2000 respondents from across the UK, has been summarised in a […]
Late last year, Waterwise and Ideal Standard launched a new annual water-efficiency tracker survey, the aim of which was to collect nationally-representative water efficiency data annually. The data from the very first tracker survey, which had approximately 2000 respondents from across the UK, has been summarised in a Water Saving Report and is now available […]