Stay or go?: Rising seas threaten to chase people from UK coasts
Climate change impacts are speeding up coastal erosion in Britain resulting in thousands of people likely to be forced to relocate inland. But, as RACHEL PARSONS, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports some communities want to stay and invest in sea defences…
UK government advised to harness pandemic to speed zero-carbon aims
London, UKThomson Reuters Foundation From creating jobs in home insulation to hiking dirty fuel taxes and expanding electric-vehicle charging, Britain’s government should harness the COVID-19 pandemic to accelerate cuts in planet-heating emissions, an advisory panel said on Thursday. With public support for low-carbon shifts growing and the state spending billions to boost its flagging economy, […]
Will Brexit distract Britain from net-zero emissions goal?
London, UKThomson Reuters Foundation As Britain left the European Union on Friday and started work to rewrite its relationship with the bloc and quickly strike new global trade deals, some fear Brexit may undercut a similarly demanding key pledge to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. The Conservative government’s celebrations on finally reaching divorce day […]