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Monthly Archives: September 2019
Implications of 1.5°C warming for Coventry
Tom Maidment of E.Mission has produced the following analysis of the implications for Coventry of the IPCC report on 1.5°C of warming. The recent IPCC special report into 1.5°C of warming showed that a reduction in global greenhouse gas emissions … Continue reading →
IPCC special report on global warming of 1.5 °C
The IPCC special report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5 °C was published in 2018. Download the IPCC_Special_Report (19Mb PDF) or read online here.
WMO report on Global Climate 2015-2019
On 23 September 2019, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) published a report on The Global Climate in 2015-2019 to inform the United Nations Secretary-General’s Climate Action Summit due to be held on the same day in New York. The report … Continue reading →
UN Youth Climate Summit 2019 – Morning Session
Held in New York 21 September 2019.
Mitigation vs Adaptation
Responding to climate change involves using both the following approaches: mitigation: reducing and stabilizing the levels of heat-trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere adaptation: adapting to the climate change already happening or foreseen to happen Mitigation The IPCC and NASA … Continue reading →
Addressing Climate Through Food
Lecture by Dr Joseph Poore, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford See also this article in The Guardian 2018 on his recent report and this interview on The Naked Scientists.
Minutes of Meeting with Sarah Watson 16-09-2019
Present Sarah Watson Head of Energy & Low Carbon at Coventry City Council Denise Osborne Marketing and Events Coordinator, Energy and Low Carbon Bethany Kitchener Work Placement, Coventry City Council Philip Brown Coventry Climate Action Network David Chapman Warwick University … Continue reading →
Report from Rugby September 2019
CovCAN Rugby member Samren Reddy was invited to join the Extinction Rebellion Rugby group on Saturday 14 September in a March called ‘The Air We Grieve’. The main aim of the march was to show how further expansion of the … Continue reading →
Coventry Council Consultations
Coventry City Council needs to update its Climate Strategy and will be running a public consultation during the autumn of 2019. CovCAN will be helping them to do this. One way we are planning is to create a public theatre … Continue reading →