EU Continuity Act 2020 used by Holyrood for first time (probably not covered by BBC).
Having a public owned water supply with decent quality is pretty important but rUK is not really able to reverse that mistake.
New new Labour might? Not sure.
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Dealing with Climate Change & Justice
(1310 posts)- Started 2 years ago by chdot
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Speaking at a business leaders dinner in London, the Labour leader said there was no cause for gloom despite the need for radical and immediate action to protect the planet from global heating.
Starmer said Labour’s £28bn-a-year investment plan for a green economy would deliver the jobs and businesses of the future, cut gas and electricity bills and give the UK energy independence. He was speaking ahead of this month’s Cop27 conference in Egypt, where countries will discuss ways of speeding up progress on tackling the climate crisis.
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The UK government is failing to lead by example on taking action to cut greenhouse gas emissions and meet a legally binding target of reaching net zero by 2050, a watchdog has said.
Across Whitehall departments the rules for reporting, gathering data and taking action are vague, there is a free-for-all on reporting emissions reductions or the lack of them, and oversight is fragmented and ineffective, the public accounts committee said on Wednesday.
The committee chair, Meg Hillier, said: “The targets set to maintain our world in a livable state are not ‘nice to have’. Government made a legally binding commitment to deliver net zero by 2050. Government promised to lead the way to national decarbonisation, but isn’t even putting its own house in order.
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Sir Lynton Crosby’s CT Group was lobbying ministers on behalf of a coal trader, a tobacco company, and property firms at the same time as providing political advice to Boris Johnson, the Guardian can reveal.
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https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/nov/02/lynton-crosby-firm-lobbying-boris-johnson-ct-group
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A new AI bot has created images of what cities all over the world will look like in 2100. Edinburgh will suffer increased rainfall due to climate change, with the AI predicting that a constant storm will rage above the Capital.
The images were created by net zero energy experts at Uswitch, who wrote: "One of the biggest side effects of climate change that Edinburgh is expected to see over the next few decades is increased rainfall. AI reveals that this will cause extremely grey skies for prolonged periods of the day and making the city look like it is constantly in a bad storm.”
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Yes well but
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And then there is the most pressing, most real megathreat of all: the global climate crisis, which will cause untold, irreversible economic and human disasters if it continues to be ignored. It’s already at our door, of course. Natural disasters this year alone have resulted in millions of climate refugees. Droughts and heatwaves have swept across India and Pakistan, sub-Saharan Africa and the western United States. They are just a sign of things to come, yet the powerful are doing little to address it – most talk, and indeed most investment, is nothing more than green-washing, and green-wishing. It is not the urgent, tangible action we need.
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/nov/05/megathreats-global-leaders-disaster-world
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Max Koeune, a multilingual Luxembourger who is McCain’s CEO and president, has a global view of just how quickly the climate crisis is affecting the world. McCain sources its potatoes from about 3,500 farmers worldwide, from smallholders to giant corporate farms, and is updated daily on how the climate is changing.
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/nov/05/potatoes-future-climate-emergency-canada
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African nations can’t ‘adapt’ to famine or floods. Rich countries should pay us for the climate crisis they caused
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There are just two actions needed to prevent catastrophic climate breakdown: leave fossil fuels in the ground and stop farming animals. But, thanks to the power of the two industries, both aims are officially unmentionable. Neither of them has featured in any of the declarations from the 26 climate summits concluded so far.
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Even if the minimum number (16.5%) applies, this is greater than all the world’s transport emissions. And it is growing fast. In the 20 years to 2018, global meat consumption rose by 58%. A paper in Climate Policy estimates that, by 2030, greenhouse gases from livestock farming could use half the world’s entire carbon budget, if we want to avoid more than 1.5C of global heating.
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Fossil fuel CEO Vicki Hollub has said people who call for the end of the oil and gas industry “have no clue what that would mean” and refused to say whether she accepted her company’s role in climate disasters.
Speaking on decarbonisation day at Cop27, Hollub, who heads Occidental Petroleum, said mounting extreme climate events, such as this year’s deadly flooding in Pakistan and drought in the horn of Africa, were the responsibility of individuals, not just the oil and gas industry.
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Cop27: Joe Biden warns world faces ‘pivotal moment’ in fight against climate crisis
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Here in Scotland, we are playing our own small part in that. The M8 may not exactly be the highway to hell but it is Scotland’s busiest road and for the past few weeks it has been a little bit busier. That is thanks to contractors from East Dunbartonshire driving through to the capital to resurface a small suburban street on behalf of Edinburgh Council.
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PG tips at the climate march, peddling his anti-semetic nonsense
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Climate march now being funnelled down Thistle St back street, to avoid disrupting the almighty God of traffic flow
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Zero profile here. No one to see it
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Zero profile here. No one to see it
Now heading up Hanover. Should be more profile
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