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CCC Calls for Deep Waste and Energy CO2 Cuts in Wales’ Carbon Budgets
The UK’s Committee on Climate Change has today given its recommendations for CO2 cuts in Wales over the next decade, setting out how the region can play a leading role in tackling climate change while also growing its economy. Wales…
London CO2 Cuts Must be ‘More Ambitious in Scale and Pace’, Mayoral Body Warns
London’s economy has grown as greenhouse gas emissions have fallen over the past five years, but future decarbonisation in the capital will “need to be significantly more ambitious both in scale and pace”, a Mayoral advisory body report has warned.…
Survey: Quarter of Brits More Worried About Climate Change in 2017
After a year which has seen the world hit by a series of devastating weather events and President Trump announce plans to pull out of the Paris Agreement, UK adults are now more worried about climate change than they were…
How Cities Can Meat the Climate Challenge
Addressing a crowd of mayors gathered in his hometown last week, former President Obama called on the “new faces of American leadership” on climate change to take swift action to spare our children and grandchildren from a climate catastrophe. Twenty-five…
3 Extreme Weather Events in 2016 ‘Could Not Have Happened’ Without Climate Change, Scientists Say
Three of 2016’s extreme weather events would have been impossible without human-caused climate change, according to new research. The Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society published a collection of papers Wednesday focused on examining the effect of climate change on…
Arctic Report Card 2017: Ice Cover Is Shrinking Faster Compared With Prior 1,500 Years
The 2017 Arctic Report Card reflects contributions from 85 scientists representing 12 countries. The pace of sea ice area (hereafter extent) decrease is unprecedented over the past 1,500 years, according to Emily Osborne’s et al. 2017 contribution to the Arctic…
20 Companies Pledge to Phase Out Coal
Twenty companies including Unilever and the Virgin Group announced on Tuesday that they will phase out usage of coal in order to combat climate change. The companies announced their decision at the One Planet Summit hosted by French President Emmanuel…