Protestors march down the Royal Mile in Edinburgh as part of the Friday for Futures Global Strike.Around 200 climate protesters stopped traffic as they marched through the city centre, from the Meadows, down the Mound, along Princes Street and then down the Royal Mile to Holyrood on Friday as part of demands for climate justice.
But critics described Mr Shapps’s announcement as ‘weak and feeble’
Government’s official advisers point to ‘lost decade’ in efforts to protect lives and livelihoods
Britain has launched a 12-week consultation on measures such as a potential carbon border tax in an effort to protect businesses against cheaper imports from countries with less strict climate policies. The domestic emissions trading system (ETS) that charges power plants, factories and airlines for each tonne of carbon dioxide they emit is part of British efforts to reach net zero emissions by 2050, but the Department for Energy and Net Zero said it is looking at ways to prevent so-called carbon leakage - a term used to describe when companies relocate production to countries with looser emissions targets and lower carbon costs. Many countries have put a price on carbon emissions, but these vary greatly.
The Climate Change Committee said the new National Adaptation Programme, due this summer, must not repeat the same ‘lacklustre’ mistakes.
The government’s pro-climate rhetoric has met reality – and it doesn’t look good.
In latest blow to Joe Biden’s reputation as the ‘climate president’, 73.3m acres of the gulf will be offered for fossil fuel extraction
Environmental campaigners are considering taking the government back to court over its "lacklustre" energy and climate policy. Friends of the Earth is poring over the new revised net-zero strategy, published on Thursday morning, to see if it still fails to meet legal obligations to cut carbon emissions. The campaign group - along with ClientEarth and the Good Law Project - took the government to the High Court last year over its original flagship climate plan, and won.
Controversial technology is at centre of ‘powering up Britain’ strategy, but critics argue it has ‘little merit’ and ‘delays real cuts in emissions’
The disturbing projection is related to the melting of ice caps caused by global heating
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A new report reveals that investments in renewables need to be quadrupled to around $5 trillion per year to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
The UN General Assembly took a major step towards urgent global climate action Wednesday as members adopted a resolution calling for the world body's top court to outline nations' legal obligations related to curbing warming."Together, you are making history," United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said, emphasizing that even if non-binding, an ICJ opinion "would assist the General Assembly, the UN and member states to take the bolder and stronger climate action that our world so desp
Cases opened Wednesday before the European Court of Human Rights against France and Switzerland over alleged failings to protect the environment, marking the first time governments are in the court's dock for alleged climate change inaction."If the European court recognises that climate failings violate the rights of individuals to life and a normal family life, then that becomes precedent in all of the council's member states and potentially in the whole world," she told AFP. The European Court
A Westhoughton company is providing a blueprint for small businesses wanting to be energy efficient and environmentally friendly.
Places as diverse as New York City and the Faroe Islands have developed brands to build positive feelings that translate into tourist dollars and, increasingly, support for the environment.
(Bloomberg) -- Barclays Plc Chief Executive Officer C.S. Venkatakrishnan said the shift to a low-carbon economy is one of today’s “defining issues.”Most Read from Bloomberg$52 Billion Chipmaking Plan Is Racing Toward FailureFBI Releases Files on Ivana TrumpNew Yorkers Are Moving to These Three Florida CitiesBanks in France Face More Than $1.1 Billion Fines After RaidsMcKinsey Starts Eliminating 1,400 Roles This Week in a Rare Round of Job CutsIn his first public remarks since finishing three mon
(Bloomberg) -- Forty of the world’s largest livestock producers may collectively see profits fall by almost $24 billion in 2030 from 2020 levels, as a result of climate change, according to an estimate by a large investor group known as FAIRR.The forecast reduction in profits mainly reflects a jump in feed prices and carbon taxes. The group of 40 companies could see profit margins fall by 7%. Those in North America, including Tyson Foods Inc. and egg producer Cal-Maine Foods Inc., will be among
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Sputnik/Sergei Karpukhin/Pool via Reuters The ruling party of Armenia has warned that if Russian President Vladimir Putin comes to Armenia, the country will have no choice but to arrest him.The International Criminal Court (ICC) issued a warrant for Putin’s arrest earlier this month over alleged war crimes in Ukraine, particularly his alleged involvement in the unlawful deportation of children from Ukraine. But the ICC doesn’t have the power to enforce its warrants, and since Russia doesn’t reco
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