A Sustainable Life: Sustainable Christmas trees – an ecologist’s buying guide
UK-based ecologist PAUL CAPLAT, in an article first published on The Conversation, looks at what factors to consider when aiming to buy a more sustainable Christmas tree…
Essay: How the world’s militaries hide their huge carbon emissions
UK-based researchers DOUG WEIR, BENJAMIN NEIMARK and OLIVER BELCHER, look – in an article first published on The Conversation – at what we do know about the contribution armed forces make to the climate crisis…
Rooftops to railways: neighbourhoods race to hit net zero climate goals
Durban, South AfricaThomson Reuters Foundation Tackling climate change at a city level – let alone on a global scale – is time-consuming, but neighbourhoods are being targeted as testing grounds for speedy, community-led climate solutions. Ahead of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in November, engineering company Arup and the C40 Cities network have launched […]
China to step up tree planting campaign to help reach net zero
Shanghai, ChinaReuters China will plant 36,000 square kilometres of new forest a year – more than the total area of Belgium – from this year to 2025 as it bids to combat climate change and better protect natural habitats, a senior forestry official said on Friday. Tree planting has been at the heart of China’s […]
More needed: G7 nations agree to boost climate finance
Carbis Bay, UKReuters G7 leaders agreed on Sunday to raise their contributions to meet an overdue spending pledge of $US100 billion a year by rich countries to help poorer countries cut carbon emissions and cope with global warming, but only two nations offered firm promises of more cash. Alongside plans billed as helping speed infrastructure […]
Britain to treble tree planting by 2024 to fight climate change
London, UKReuters Britain said it planned to treble tree planting rates over the next three years to help reach its target of net zero carbon emissions by 2050, as part of efforts to fight climate change. The UK wants to push ahead with its environmental plans and encourage other nations to do the same ahead […]
Invest in low-carbon cities to protect climate and boost jobs, governments urged
Bogota, ColombiaThomson Reuters Foundation More COVID-19 recovery spending and public investment is needed for green transport and clean energy in cities, to create jobs, cut planet-heating emissions and limit the damage from climate change, UN officials and researchers said on Wednesday. A report by the Coalition for Urban Transitions, a group of research organisations pushing […]
Carbon emissions from trawler fishing on a par with aviation, say ocean researchers
Barcelona, SpainThomson Reuters Foundation Trawling of the ocean floor by fishing fleets releases roughly the same amount of carbon emissions into the water as aviation puts into the atmosphere each year, researchers said on Wednesday, calling for greater protection of the planet’s seas. In a study published in the journal Nature, a team of 26 scientists and […]
Scientists warn of rebound after record seven per cent fall in global emissions
London, UKReuters Coronavirus restrictions led to a record seven per cent fall in global carbon emissions last year, but the drop will be short-lived unless efforts to phase out fossil fuel are intensified, a study by scientists in the journal Nature Climate Change said. The study by scientists from institutions in Australia, Britain, France, Norway […]
A Sustainable Life: I tried to cut my carbon footprint for a month. Here’s how I did
Georgian-based UMBERTO BACCHI, a correspondent with the Thomson Reuters Foundation, talks about his personal efforts to lesson his carbon footprint using the app Giki Zero…