Saleemul Huq, a global expert on the links between climate change and sustainable development, particularly from the perspective of developing countries and a friend of EiD, gives his views on the loss and damage from climate change. In an article on the Daily Star website. Saleem is Director of the International Centre for Climate Change … Continue reading “Let 2021 be the year when the issue of loss and damage from human-induced climate change is recognised with utmost urgency and importance”
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Environment campaigners in Italy are suing the government for failing to sufficiently tackle the climate crisis
Plaintiffs want court to order Mario Draghi’s government to adopt more ambitious climate policies. In 2019, Italy set itself a 33% target for carbon emissions reduction by 2030. Campaigners say the ecological objectives outlined in Italy’s recovery plan, which was submitted to the European commission in late April, are not ambitious enough. Angela Giuffrida discusses … Continue reading Environment campaigners in Italy are suing the government for failing to sufficiently tackle the climate crisis
Disappointment in new climate information hub for SMEs in Britain
Opened to great fanfare, the UK government-backed Business Climate Hub has come in for criticism from small businesses that hoped it would help them to cut their carbon emissions and provide a simple reporting guide. Richard Tyler explains in an article on The Times website. Climate hub ‘sends small firms on wild goose chase’ … Continue reading Disappointment in new climate information hub for SMEs in Britain
Miami hires the first official in the US appointed to focus solely on heatwaves
Having been to Miami, one certainly understands extreme heat and it is getting worse. The city and Dade county have hired a chief heat officer to focus attention on what can be done to address the problem. Oliver Milman discusses recent developments in an article on the Guardian website. Miami’s chief heat officer calls … Continue reading Miami hires the first official in the US appointed to focus solely on heatwaves
International Maritime Organization accused of repeatedly delayed and watered down climate regulations
Behind closed doors, shipbuilders and miners can speak on behalf of governments while regulating an industry that pollutes as much as all of America’s coal plants. Matt Apuzzo and Sarah Hurtes discuss the organisation in an article on the New York Times website. Tasked to Fight Climate Change, a Secretive U.N. Agency Does the … Continue reading International Maritime Organization accused of repeatedly delayed and watered down climate regulations
Human development is not only a matter of economic justice but also climate justice
Marta Baltruszewicz, Postgraduate Researcher, School of Earth and Environment at University of Leeds raises some important issues in an article on The Conversation website, showing that there is an important counter-intuitive finding showing that lower levels of deprivation were linked to lower levels of energy demand, not higher levels. Reducing poverty can actually lower … Continue reading Human development is not only a matter of economic justice but also climate justice
Energy efficiency at heart of global push to net zero
This is a good summary from Energy in Buildings & Industry about the recent IEA report outlining the roadmap to net zero. Energy-efficiency measures are “front-loaded” in the IEA’s new roadmap to net zero The International Energy Agency’s new roadmap to net zero by 2050 has identified energy efficiency as its' first “key pillar … Continue reading Energy efficiency at heart of global push to net zero
The day Big Oil discovered that the makeup of its board could be changed against its will
This appears to have been a David versus Goliath moment. An upstart environmentally-minded hedge fund outmanoeuvred the directors of ExxonMobil to gain seats on the board. Nils Pratley explains in an article on the Guardian website how they did it. How did a green, newbie hedge fund out-play Exxon so comprehensively? In the short … Continue reading The day Big Oil discovered that the makeup of its board could be changed against its will
Our society has come to believe that technology is the solution to our climate crisis – it isn’t
With the climate crisis, Peter Sutoris argus this moment calls for humility – we cannot innovate ourselves out of this mess. The problem with believing technology is the solution is that it focuses on the symptoms, not the causes of environmental decay. Peter Sutoris, is an anthropologist of development and the environment, and the author … Continue reading Our society has come to believe that technology is the solution to our climate crisis – it isn’t
“If we are really serious about overcoming climate change the next phase will be much harder than the last”
The first step is to recognise the challenges much more clearly and honestly. Pretending it will be easy risks making it impossible. It’ll take a rethink on taxes and investment of £50bn a year to hit their targets on emissions These are the messages of Paul Johnson, director of the UK’s Institute for Fiscal Studies … Continue reading “If we are really serious about overcoming climate change the next phase will be much harder than the last”
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