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Government Floats Proposals to Phase Out Coal and Oil Heating from 2020s
The government has launched a Call for Evidence on its plans to phase out high-carbon fossil fuel heating systems, such as coal fires and oil burners, over the next decade. In a document released yesterday the government offered more detail…
McDonald’s to Take Major Bite Out of Carbon Footprint with New Science-Based Targets
McDonald’s has become the first global restaurant company to set greenhouse gas targets in line with global climate science, it claimed today as it launched a raft of new green commitments. The fast food giant has pledged to reduce emissions…
Anchovies and Chips: WWF Warns of Climate Threat to Iconic Dishes
Many of the UK’s most popular dishes could become much more expensive, or even disappear altogether, over the coming decades as a result of climate impacts. That is the stark warning contained in a report today from NGO WWF ahead…
Report: Unchecked Climate Change Will Lead to Widespread Biodiversity Loss
The world will see enormous losses of biodiversity across all species groups on every continent by the end of this century if we do not make deep cuts to global greenhouse emissions, according to groundbreaking research from the WWF and…
African Development Bank Secures $52.5 Million For 100 Megawatts Of Zambia Renewable Energy
The African Development Bank has this week secured $52.5 million in funding from the Green Climate Fund for Zambia’s Renewable Energy Financing Framework which will seek to finance 100 megawatts (MW) of renewable energy. The funding was approved at the…
Fifth Third Bank Commits & Succeeds In Going 100% Renewable With Single Solar PPA
Ohio-based Fifth Third Bank has become the first Fortune 500 company, the first bank, and the first RE100 member to achieve its goal of securing 100% of its power consumption with renewables in a single Power Purchase Agreement from a…
Researchers Unveil Several Ways to Limit Global Warming to 1.5°C by 2100
A group of researchers led by International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis has used new modelling scenarios to showcase several ways with which to limit global temperature rise to 1.5°C by 2100. According to their research, “Scenarios towards limiting global…