Wow!: Former coal hub Nottingham aims to become Britain’s first net zero city
SAMUEL BAUGH, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how former fossil fuel industry hub Nottingham is aiming to slash its carbon emissions to reach net zero by 2028…
Ahead of UN climate summit, urgent calls to “fix the future”
London, UKReuters When the Paris Agreement on climate change was finalised after two weeks of fraught negotiations and years of past failures, diplomats hugged and shed tears of joy. They had haggled over verb tenses, cut deals, and in the end, brought 196 countries into the accord. Five years later, governments are lagging far behind […]
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 […]