28 Nov 2018
Three articles & reports Michael Gove launches new Met office Projections Gove’s speech – a detailed statement US Climate change report highlights massive costs not least to inland and coastal flooding Committee on Climate Change Animation 1. The Environment Secretary, Michael Gove at the Science Museum in London, in which he launched new data giving the […]
28 Nov 2018
EA ‘Environment Agency Chair, Emma Howard Boyd is calling on businesses and communities to prepare as latest UK climate change projections are published. Writing in the Environment Agency’s Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation report, the Chair of the Environment Agency says worryingly few FTSE boards are disclosing the strategic risks to their shareholders brought by the […]
20 Nov 2018
Thanks to Richard Ashley for this report AECOM & Sniffer: Study of Evidence from 25 case studies on how projects and schemes meet climate change adaptation requirements The Committee on Climate Change (CCC) is an independent, statutory body established under the Climate Change Act 2008. The Adaptation Sub Committee (ASC), which is part of the […]
01 Nov 2018
Standing on the shoulders of giants in a rising sea Emma Howard Boyd speech to the Global Engineering Congress London, 24 October 2018 to the Global Engineering Congress – 24th October 2018 at ICE (continue) Thank you and good afternoon. This year, marks 200 years since the founding of the Institution of Civil Engineers. Now, […]
29 Oct 2018
Committee on Climate Change: Managing the coast in a changing climate Managing the coast in a changing climate (2.92MB) This report by the CCC’s Adaptation Committee investigates the long-term challenges of managing England’s coastline against the backdrop of a changing climate. Overall, we conclude that the current approach to coastal management in England is unsustainable […]
30 Sep 2018
Following on from the hard hitting What Lies Beneath report another stark warning Sir James Bevan, Environment Agency This speech takes twenty minutes, provided I don’t get heckled. But for those of you who are in a rush, here’s the short version of what I’m going to say: Climate change is the biggest threat we […]
27 Sep 2018
The Understatement of Existential Climate Risk David Spratt & Ian Dunlop The opening chapters include – Risk understatement – Excessive caution – Thinking the Unthinkable – The Underestimation of Risk – The Existential risk to human civilization – Public sector duty of care on climate risk ….. you get the drift. Click here to download […]
10 Sep 2018
Carbon Brief: ‘The BBC, one of the world’s largest and most respected news organisations, has issued formal guidance to its journalists on how to report climate change. Carbon Brief has obtained the internal four-page “crib sheet” sent yesterday to BBC journalists via an email from Fran Unsworth, the BBC’s director of news and current affairs. […]
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