23 May 2019
‘The Guardian has updated its style guide to introduce terms that more accurately describe the environmental crises facing the world. Instead of “climate change” the preferred terms are “climate emergency, crisis or breakdown” and “global heating” is favoured over “global warming”, although the original terms are not banned. “We want to ensure that we are being scientifically […]
23 Apr 2019
Bank of England boss Mark Carney has told global banks they cannot ignore climate change dangers. Writing in The Guardian, Carney and François Villeroy de Galhau, the governor of the Banque de France, said financial regulators, banks and insurers around the world had to “raise the bar” to avoid catastrophe. The heads of two of the […]
16 Apr 2019
Call for evidence The Committee on Climate Change has launched a call for evidence to identify relevant published information about the risks and opportunities facing the UK from climate change. The evidence will help to inform the Government’s third UK Climate Change Risk Assessment, due to be published in 2022. Every five years, the UK […]
16 Apr 2019
The Environment Agency’s Climate Change impacts and adaptation report (2018) highlighted that it may not be cost effective to protect or adapt some of England’s coastline as currently planned. Some coastal flood defences may possibly fail as sea levels rise, meaning some currently defended land may not continue to be defended from flooding in the […]
02 Apr 2019
Climate change could make insurance too expensive! Insurers are warning that their products could become unaffordable for ordinary people, as the world’s biggest reinsurance firm puts the blame for the £18bn bill it faces from the California wildfires firmly on global warming. Munich Re’s chief climatologist (yes, they do employ one of them) told the […]
05 Mar 2019
This newsletter – sign up here provides an important oversight to global changes on climate change. Five of the articles carried in the latest edition include: 2018 was the 4th hottest year on record for the globe Ice shelves buckle under the weight of meltwater lakes 2018’s billion-dollar disasters in context Warm temperatures and significant […]
18 Feb 2019
The school strike for climate change Friday 15th saw a remarkable event with school children across Europe taking a stand on climate change Temperature anomalies 1887 – 2017 – John Curtin Environment Agency 15th February On a day filled with climate debate & action spend just 37 seconds watching this. Temperature anomalies for every nation […]
10 Dec 2018
Guardian ‘Continuation of civilisation is in your hands,’ Attenborough tells world leaders – video The collapse of civilisation and the natural world is on the horizon, Sir David Attenborough has told the UN climate change summit in Poland. The naturalist was chosen to represent the world’s people in addressing delegates of almost 200 nations who are in […]
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