climate change
COP22: Ban-Ki Moon Declares Climate Action ‘Unstoppable’ As World Leaders Gather In Marrakesh
As world leaders were being escorted to the COP22 conference centre in Marrakesh for today’s high-level plenary session, outgoing UN Secretary-General declared climate action is now “unstoppable”, regardless of the actions of any one government. Ban Ki-moon, who has attended…
Southill Solar Flicks Switch On Community Renewables Project
The UK’s latest community renewables project came online on Friday as Southill Community Energy (SCE) flicked the switch on the 4.5MW Southill Solar farm in West Oxfordshire. The project, which was built by developer Solarcentury, is now expected to provide…
German Coalition Agrees to Cut Carbon Emissions up to 95% by 2050
Germany’s coalition government has reached an agreement on a climate change action plan which involves reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 80 to 95% by 2050, a spokesperson said on Friday. The plan, which will require German industry to reduce its…
Patricia Espinosa Outlines 5 Key Areas of Action
The UN Climate Change Conference in Marrakech kicked off on Monday, just three days after the Paris Climate Change Agreement entered into force. In her opening address Patricia Espinosa, Executive Secretary United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change said that…
Last 5 Years Hottest on Record, Human Footprint ‘Increasingly Visible’
There is growing evidence that man-made climate change is contributing to individual extreme weather and climate events, according to the latest analysis by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). The report, released at COP22 in Marrakech, finds that greenhouse gas emissions…
Britain’s Last Coal Power Plants to Close by 2025
The last coal power station in Britain will be forced to close in 2025, the government has said as it laid out the detail of its plan to phase-out the polluting fossil fuel. Ministers promised last year that the UK…
Water resilience in Africa at forefront of COP22 agenda
Several African ministers in charge of water took part in a side event organised in the Moroccan pavilion yesterday during which they stressed the pertinence of putting water issues at the top of the COP22 agenda in light of the…