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Climate change: China's forest carbon uptake 'underestimated'
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Climate Crisis
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Joe Biden could bring Paris climate goals 'within striking distance'
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/nov/08/joe-biden-paris-climate-goals-0-1c
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Is Your Online Habit Killing the Planet?
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Dispatches 8:00
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UK ban on new fossil fuel vehicles by 2030 'not enough' to hit climate targets
Thinktank says deadline of 2026 is needed for government to meet its own carbon budget
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New Zealand singer says Donald Trump, Great Thunberg and California wildfires spurred her to visit before it turns ‘to slush’
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While a clear market signal to remove petrol and diesel cars is absolutely necessary, the timescale and ambition of the current plan are completely at odds with the immediacy of the climate emergency.
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The environment secretary, George Eustice, acknowledged the damage done to the environment by industrial farming since the 1960s and said the new plans would deliver for nature and help fight the climate crisis. Farming occupies 70% of England, is the biggest driver of biodiversity loss and produces significant greenhouse gas emissions and water pollution.
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Humans waging 'suicidal war' on nature - UN chief Antonio Guterres
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The decision follows a row over Foster and Partners’ work on airports around the world – seen by critics as incompatible with tackling the climate and ecological emergency.
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UK vows to outdo other major economies on emissions cuts by 2030
Boris Johnson promises to go further and faster by setting target of 68% reduction in annual carbon emissions
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If the government is to get to net zero by 2050, changes will be expected to the way electricity is generated, how people travel, how land is used and how buildings are heated, says an NAO report.
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The £52m scrapyard
Excellent report on why Scotland is going nowhere fast in getting jobs from renewables until companies are forced to invest here.
No amount of 'green economy' reports and studies equate to real skills from the people on the ground.Sunday Post does a lot more than 'the Broons'!
"All the jackets will be fabricated thousands upon thousands of miles away and sailed over here. We are building these structures for green energy yet we are using diesel ships to sail them back here. It’s been estimated emissions from these ships’ journeys will be the equivalent of over 30 million new diesel cars being put on the road."
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Not exactly climate change, which is why I started a new thread.
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Yes
But it is too
CC very much about human activity/built environment.
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CC is one of the results of human activity. It is part of the Anthropocene, as are mass extinction events, and waves of pandemic disease caused by humans encroaching too far into formerly wild habitats.
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Its Green Recovery report urged the Scottish Government to "not lose sight of the pressing need to tackle climate change", suggesting a green recovery can help rebuild after Covid-19.
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We’ve received the go-ahead to build our world-first hydrogen heating network
Date: 30 Nov 2020
We’re delighted to announce that plans for H100 Fife, our pioneering project that will demonstrate 100% green hydrogen heating in homes for the first time, have been approved by Ofgem.
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https://www.sgn.co.uk/news/h100-fife-ofgem-approved-world-first-hydrogen-heating-network
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“We need to stop focusing on goals and targets for 2030 or 2050,” she said. “We need to implement annual binding carbon budgets today.”
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But Thunberg, who has given speeches at previous UN climate summits, concludes her video message by saying: “There is hope … we are the hope – we, the people.”
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