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Local councils that have declared a climate emergency are continuing to pour money into fossil fuels through their staff pension funds, analysis has shown.
Nearly £10bn worth of investments in fossil fuels, including oil and gas companies such as BP and Shell, were found in local government pension funds in the last financial year, according to an assessment by the campaign groups Platform and Friends of the Earth.
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Climate crisis hitting 'worst case scenario', warns Environment Agency head
Sir James Bevan says extreme flooding in UK indicates urgent need for change if humanity is to survive
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Cameron, who as prime minister from 2010 to 2016 oversaw the UK’s recovery from the 2008 financial crisis, said the lessons from that recession were clear. “My advice would be, from what I learnt, is that as well as the framework [of climate and economic policy], you have to roll up your sleeves and be quite muscular in your interventionism,” he told the Guardian in an interview.
“The government has got a strong framework for green energy policy and in green investment, much of which we put in place, but it needs to combine that with active assistance and helping with key green investments that can make a difference,” he said. “There’s every opportunity for this recovery to be a green recovery.”
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Good COP Bad COP, Shotgun Lead Persistence, and Featherdown Adaptation
BBC Inside Science Victoria Gill speaks with authors of the UNEP Making Peace With Nature report that sets out strategies to combine biodiversity preservation with climate mitigation.
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Now, despite the lure of 6,000 jobs, the council is set to fight the appeal, claiming the development is not included in its local development plan - which has earmarked the land for airport expansion.
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Sarah Bridle on how changing our diet could help to save the planet
The Life Scientific Why did a rising star in the study of dark energy turn her attention to food? Prof Sarah Bridle tells Jim Al-Khalili how changing our diet could help to save the planet.
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UK urged to create green apprenticeships to help
Covid recovery Danger of young people’s futures being blighted by climate and Covid crises, say campaigners
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Public accounts committee report says despite green rhetoric, government policy is falling short
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National Trust's climate change threat map a 'game-changer'
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Dr Peter Daszak and Dr William Karesh from EcoHealth Alliance highlight how climate change and pandemic risk are interconnected; all the solutions already identified to tackle global warming will also help prevent the next virus from jumping.
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Inducing more flying and more driving in Edinburgh:
http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19083#post-347981
It’s the stupid economy...
How the 'Union Connectivity' transport suggestions go against COP26 objectives.
Cheaper flights, more roads plus the unfeasible tunnel.
https://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2021/03/10/cop-26-and-the-interim-union-connectivity-review/
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PM accused of hypocrisy over claim that climate is 'foremost priority'
Host of Cop26 overseeing policies that will increase greenhouse gas emissions, campaigners say
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Time is running short – but we can get a grip on the climate crisis
Alok Sharma
Today’s targets are nowhere near enough, we must speed up change and halve global emissions in the next decade
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/mar/18/climate-crisis-cop26-president-global-targets
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Soils and the plants that grow in them absorb about a third of the carbon emissions that drive the climate crisis, partly limiting the impact of fossil-fuel burning. Rising carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere can increase plant growth and, until now, it was assumed carbon storage in soils would increase too.
But the study, based on over 100 experiments, found the opposite. When plant growth increases, soil carbon does not. The finding is significant because the amount of organic carbon stored in soils is about three times that in living plants and double that in the atmosphere. Soils can also store carbon for centuries, whereas plants and trees rot quickly after they die.
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He has criticised Greta Thunberg for “alarmism” and wind power as “economic insanity” – but Nigel Farage appears to have made a U-turn on climate change, after signing up as a lobbyist for a Dutch green finance firm, in his first commercial role outside frontline politics.
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Tonight 7:30
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How You Can Stop Climate Change
DisclosureSeries 3
Reporter Kevin Keane investigates what Scots really think about the change to the climate and asks whether we are able and willing to act now to save the planet.
Release date: 29 March 2021
29 minutes
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