‘It’s a huge pity that it took a deadly pandemic to bring our air quality within legal limits’
“The health links between air pollution and Covid-19 should push us to redouble our efforts to clean up our air and protect public health.”
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Scotland fails to hit greenhouse gas reduction targets as emissions rise
The Scottish Greenhouse Gas Emissions report confirmed “The target for 2018 has not been met.”
Biodiversity SoS: ‘Nature is disappearing from our lives right in front of our eyes’
In just 497 words, the opening remarks of the EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030 report sums up the global need to protect our biodiversity. It is urgent, detailed, sobering. Entitled simply ‘Bring nature back into our lives‘ – the draft report will be considered at the European Commission today. And what happens then, could help …
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Emissions fall abruptly in lockdown but still massive challenge to embed change
At first glance it seems encouraging. A new study showing carbon dioxide emissions have fallen significantly in April and likely to be repeated in May. Data by researchers at University of East Anglia suggest that last month they fell 17% year on year. In pockets some fell even more. The UK for example by 31%. …
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Royal Scottish Geographical Society unveil Climate Solutions study plan
MSPs, business leaders and newly enrolled university students may be asked to take mandatory climate change studies if plans currently under consideration are adopted. The module and workshop-based studies would help arm them with facts and knowledge to make urgent changes to society as it emerges from COVID-19 lockdown. The Scottish Government has already committed …
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OPINION: What role has Shell played in moving to a lower-carbon future?
The CEO of Shell is paid 143 times what Shell’s average worker receives. Industry workers are not the problem here.
WATCH: David Attenborough: A Life On Our Planet – Official Trailer
Netflix and WWF have released the first look at Sir David Attenborough’s new movie length documentary. In their official promo material, WWF said; “In his 93 years, David Attenborough has visited every continent on the globe, exploring the wild places of our planet and documenting the living world in all its variety and wonder. “Now, …
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Engineers’ report warns of clothes fibres from wash entering food chain
Experts are warning the way people wash their clothes needs to change to prevent plastic getting into the food chain. A report issued by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers suggests as many as 700,000 microscopic fibres may their way into the ocean every time a garment is washed. That, they say, risks seeing them swallowed …
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WEATHER CRISIS: ‘Heatwaves like these threaten to kill thousands every year’
SCOTLAND is enduring its warmest summer on record, according to climate change campaigners. They say the unprecedented upsurge in readings, allied to the crisis in mainland Europe and beyond, indicates that the killer heatwave’s death toll across the continent and beyond will only rise further. According to data released by Friends of the Earth Scotland …
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Plastic Free Communities and free water stations proposed for cleaner Capital
COUNCIL chiefs in Edinburgh want to create so called Plastic Free Communities in its drive against waste pollution. They would sit within a range of measures including the development of a new litter prevention action plan. Moves towards upping the number of free water filling points are also to be reviewed.