CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » This site

Dealing with Climate Change & Justice

(1539 posts)
  • Started 2 years ago by chdot
  • Latest reply from Frenchy
  • This topic is sticky

No tags yet.


1…5152

  1. chdot
    Admin

    Not CC as such…

    “

    “The Environment Act sets out the importance of the polluter pays principle. The chemical industry in England should be putting its hands into its pockets and financially contributing to the vast costs that society and nature are facing. We must also make sure that we stop adding to this pollution burden, and the UK government needs to urgently act to ban these chemicals at the source.”

    Historic landfills make up the bulk of the 10,000 sites that could also be causing pollution, according to the agency’s report, followed by wastewater treatment works, heavy industry, and fire stations and airports where PFAS-laden firefighting foams were also widely used.

    “

    https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/oct/15/cost-dealing-pfas-problem-sites-frightening-environment-agency-england

    Posted 2 days ago #

  2. chdot
    Admin

    “

    Wars, debt, climate crisis and Covid have halted anti-poverty fight – World Bank

    Setbacks mean UN goal of ending extreme poverty by 2030 is impossible to hit, report finds

    “

    https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/oct/15/wars-debt-climate-crisis-covid-poverty-world-bank

    Posted 2 days ago #

  3. LaidBack
    Member

    Deregulation is the new mantra. Big business unchecked is not compatible with climate goals.

    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/15/starmer-red-tape-big-business-labour

    Britain’s politicians have long genuflected to the City, but they increasingly doff caps to big tech now too. Last year, according to Open Democracy, Labour ditched its proposals to levy a digital services tax on the tech giants – a day after senior Labour figures received thousands of pounds’ worth of Glastonbury freebies, as guests of Google’s YouTube. Starmer seems to be taking the side of global monopoly power over the people of Britain. But if his goal is to make the UK safe for American or Chinese multinationals, then who runs Britain?

    And what is the red tape to be cut? There are of course always rules that hold parts of the economy back. But most of these rules are intended to save people and the planet from unjust exploitation. As the late President John F Kennedy once said, referencing GK Chesterton: “Don’t ever take a fence down until you know the reason why it was put up.”

    Posted 2 days ago #

  4. chdot
    Admin

    “

    George Monbiot rightly eviscerates the government’s foolish plan to waste nearly £22bn on the carbon capture and storage (CCS) venture

    “

    https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/oct/15/carbon-capture-plan-is-a-colossal-waste-of-money

    Posted 1 day ago #

  5. chdot
    Admin

    “

    Shift Cycling Culture, a non-profit organisation dedicated to accelerating climate action in the cycling world, is launching an annual Climate Action Pulse Check for the Cycling Industry.

    “

    https://bikebiz.com/shift-cycling-culture-launches-climate-action-pulse-check-2024/amp/

    Posted 1 day ago #

  6. chdot
    Admin

    “

    Flies, rats and offers of hush money - the price of living next to a ‘monster’ incinerator

    “

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwylepd79d5o

    Posted 1 day ago #

  7. chdot
    Admin

    https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/oct/16/global-water-crisis-food-production-at-risk

    Posted 1 day ago #

  8. chdot
    Admin

    “

    In its place has come a fraught but urgent debate about insurance coverage for losses from climate-related catastrophes, which until now has remained an unfamiliar concept for most Italians. Italy has become known by scientists as one of Europe’s climate risk hotspots and is beginning to reckon with the widespread implications of extreme weather to livelihoods and the economy.

    Currently just 6% of homes are insured against natural disasters, and 5% of businesses. That, says the government, needs to change.

    “

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/17/its-shameful-and-i-wont-pay-it-flood-hit-italians-rage-against-insurance-call

    Posted 18 hours ago #

  9. Frenchy
    Member

    https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/oct/10/harvest-in-england-the-second-worst-on-record-because-of-wet-weather

    Presumably of niche interest, but the Scottish estimates are less pessimistic: https://www.gov.scot/publications/cereal-oilseed-rape-harvest-2024-first-estimates/pages/first-estimates-suggest-an-average-cereal-harvest-in-2024/

    Posted 14 hours ago #

RSS feed for this topic

1…5152

Reply

You must log in to post.


Video embedded using Easy Video Embed plugin