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The Scottish Parliament has approved an ambitious climate-change plan that aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 80 per cent by 2050. That target includes emissions from international aviation and shipping. The Government’s bill also sets an interim goal of cutting emissions by 42 per cent by 2020. “Scotland
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Is it time to start panicking yet? After years of issuing academically dry, if increasingly dire, warnings about the accelerating pace of climate change, it seems leading scientists have now been pushed over the edge into new and more emotionally charged territory. Here in the UK, for example, the director
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The UK’s climate change goals fall far short of what’s needed to avert dangerous levels of warming, according to the director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research. The Guardian reported this week that Tydall director Kevin Anderson warns that the Government’s proposed carbon cuts, if
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Coming on the heels of a report with dire climate projections for the UK, the Government has created a new sub-committee focussed on climate adaptation strategies for the country. Environment Secretary Hilary Benn named the first six members of the sub-committee, to be chaired by Lord John Krebs: * Sam Fankhauser;
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Sea levels could keep rising higher than previously projected — for the next couple of millenia — even if we manage to keep atmospheric carbon dioxide levels from growing any further, according to new research published this week. Researchers from the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (NOCS), the University of Bristol and the
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UK Government Ministers this summer plan to set out the building blocks of a five-point plan designed to both reduce greenhouse gas emissions at home and abroad, and to protect against and prepare for the climate changes that are already inevitable. The plan rollout began this week with the publicaton
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This week saw the launch of The World Climate Community, the world’s first online social community for discussion and debate about issues relating to climate and environmental change. The World Climate Community was set up by the city of Copenhagen ahead of the UN Climate Change Conference set to
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A team of UK and Canadian researchers have found a direct link between carbon dioxide emissions and global temperature changes. The team used a combination of global climate models and historical climate data to show that there is a simple linear relationship between total cumulative emissions and global temperature change.
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While the mayor is spending more on the environment, it’s not clear how those expenses are benefitting the environment or climate change, a new report from the London Assembly reveals. The Assembly Budget and Performance Committee report found that less than one-third of the total Greater London Authority (GLA)
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Munich has received the German Federal Environment Ministry award for “Innovative and exemplary strategies for the implementation of municipal climate protection.” One of nine municipalities to win such an award, the city was signaled out for its Munich for Climate Protection Alliance, established in 2007. One of the alliance’s
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Do we detect a trace of Dick Cheney in Lord Drayson? While the Science and Innovation Minister lacks the former US Vice President’s trademark sneer and air of menace, it seems Lord Drayson too believes that, despite the threat of climate change, our current lifestyle is “non-negotiable,” and that
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More than 4,000 participants have gathered in Bonn today to begin a second round of United Nations Climate Change talks (PDF). Among those attending the discussions, which run through 12 June, are government delegates, representatives from business and industry, environmental organisations and research institutions. Negotiators from 182 countries plan