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, […]
22 Oct 2018
The 73rd session of the Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) is taking place in London this week. On the agenda is consideration of setting a cap of ship speeds to significantly reduce their contribution to climate change, support for implementation of the new lower 0.50% limit on Sulphur in […]
16 Oct 2018
Reaction to last week’s major new climate change report from the IPPC has varied from the hopeful to the absurd. The Executive Director of the Aldersgate Group highlights the opportunities that stem from the “ambitious plan of action” that is needed to deliver on the challenge faced. The pro-fracking government deflected its response by asking […]
15 Oct 2018
The 2015 MCCIP Report Card on marine biodiversity legislation showed that climate change is likely to have significant impacts on the UK’s marine protected areas and their features but identified a lack of advice on how protected features should be managed to build resilience to climate change. MCCIP has therefore worked with some of the UK’s […]
09 Oct 2018
The latest climate change assessment from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is out. It says that Limiting global warming to 1.5°C would require rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society, including land, energy, industry, buildings, transport, and cities. There are clear benefits to people and natural ecosystems from limiting global […]
08 Oct 2018
As part of the decision to adopt the Paris Agreement, the IPCC was invited to produce a Special Report on global warming of 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways. Finalized last week, a key message is that we are already seeing the consequences of 1°C of global warming through more […]
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 […]
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