CityCyclingEdinburgh was launched on the 27th of October 2009 as "an experiment".
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CCE is 15years old!
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It soon became useful and entertaining. There are regular posters, people who add useful info occasionally and plenty more who drop by to watch. That's fine. If you want to add news/comments it's easy to register and become a member.
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The UK taxpayer is to stop funding fossil fuel projects overseas as part of the government’s push for international action on the climate ahead of a key summit on Saturday.
The Paris agreement five years on: is it strong enough to avert climate catastrophe? Taxpayers helped to support more than £21bn of fossil fuel development overseas in the last four years, despite calls from green campaigners to halt the finance.
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'Our key message is that we're not doing this because.. we're tree hugging, mung bean munching, eco-freaks. We're doing it to save the planet.' This is our Prime Minister.. perpetuating the negative stereotype of caring for the planet.. really?
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Video of him actually saying it.
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Speaking to a tree summit organised by Friends of the Earth, Lord Goldsmith, the forestry minister, quoted research suggesting that nature-based solutions such as trees and soils could provide a third of the emissions reductions required under the Paris agreement to limit global heating to 2C but currently only received 3% of global climate finance.
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You don't say!
"The Scottish Government’s pursuit of a road building programme that may produce more, rather than fewer, car journeys may make achieving the desired reduction in car travel more difficult. In addition, the Scottish Government will also have to carefully manage demand for car travel as we exit the coronavirus pandemic, to prevent unsustainable travel choices becoming embedded in people’s daily routines."
https://spice-spotlight.scot/2020/12/16/back-to-the-future-reducing-car-travel-in-scotland/
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This week, the Scottish government published another policy paper on climate change targets, as part of its planned green recovery post-Covid; but it has repeatedly missed its own carbon reduction targets in recent years, and on its watch, a combination of climate change and destructive forms of land use has contributed to what Scottish Environment Link calls a growing “nature emergency”, with 11 per cent of Scotland’s species now threatened with extinction.
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Six leading Edinburgh businesses and employers have signed a pledge aimed at sparking radical action on climate change across the city.
These include:
* Prioritising active and sustainable travel in their workforce and investing in a switch to zero-emissions company owned vehicles;
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Yeah but
Did they consult all the people who might be inconvenienced a bit??
Do they plan to restrict workplace parking?
Well, Gogarburn's multi-storey car park is currently a pile of rubble...
Taken down before it falls down apparently...
...but with plans to replace the lost spaces with more surface parking... of which 200 will have EV chargers...
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Professor Iain Stewart concludes a landmark five-part series in which he reveals how Scotland's unique and beautiful landscape has been shaped over the centuries.
During the Industrial Revolution, Scottish scientists and engineers helped unwittingly set off a chain of events that today we know as climate change - a process that is transforming our atmosphere and warming our planet. Professor Iain Stewart looks at how Scotland is on the verge of another revolution: the transformation of a carbon economy to a green one.
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T’were the days after Christmas and all though the land not a blade was turning
I suppose we’re all on the nuclear just now?
gridwatch.co.uk says that we are currently burning gas for electricity unfortunately.
Still some electricity coming from renewables, only about 1/4 of that from gas at the moment. About 3GW being imported from France and Belgium too.
“being imported from France and Belgium too“
Why wasn’t it delayed at the new border??
Interesting to note that peak electricity demand per day is slightly lower than in early December, despite shorter hours of daylight and much colder weather. Maybe the effect of so many restaurants, bars, cafes and non-essential retail being closed? Folk being at home increases domestic demand, but seems not quite enough to match the demand from massed ranks of espresso machines, hairdryers, and pub one-armed bandits.
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Sobering new report says world is failing to grasp the extent of threats posed by biodiversity loss and the climate crisis
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Biden expected to cancel $9bn Keystone XL pipeline's permit
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“The Sámi people are not the ones who have contributed the most to climate change, but we seem to be the ones who have to carry its greatest burden,” said Gunn-Britt Retter, the head of the Arctic and environmental unit at the Sámi Council, a non-governmental organisation that represents Sámi people. “That’s not climate justice, that’s climate injustice.”
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Up to two months’ worth of rain is expected in two and a half days in the Midlands, according to the Met Office, which has established its most serious weather warning, amber for rain, for the east Midlands, West and South Yorkshire and large parts of the north-west of England up to Thursday morning.
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Paris Treaty is one step in right direction.
Outlawing Nuclear arms is another (considering the massive environmental consequences of even accidental radioactive events/leaks).
We know, thanks to the Ferret, that Faslane is not immune.
Tomorrow - Friday 22nd January 2021 - the TPNW (Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons) comes into being. Obviously the UK has yet to sign along with others. Brian Quail writes in BC.
https://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2021/01/21/oft-in-the-stilly-night/
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