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West Midlands Greener Together Forum

The West Midlands Greener Together Forum brings together people and organisations from across our region committed to creating a sustainable and net zero carbon future for all of us. The forum aims is to help us share knowledge and collaborate in support of the environment. Their first meeting was held on 31 March 2022. Click here for a PDF of …

Sustain

Sustain is an alliance of organisations and communities working together for a better system of food, farming and fishing, and cultivating the movement for change. They advocate food and agriculture policies and practices that enhance the health and welfare of people and animals, improve the working and living environment, enrich society and culture, and promote equity.

WMO predict 50% chance of 1.5°C increase before 2026

The World Meteorological Organization published an update on 9 May 2022 stating there is a 50% chance of the annual average global temperature temporarily reaching 1.5 °C above the pre-industrial level for at least one of the next five years – and the likelihood is increasing with time. There is a 93% likelihood of at least one year between 2022-2026 …

Rewilding London

The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has allocated £600,000 to a Rewild London Fund that will help restore London’s most precious wildlife sites and create more natural habitats for plants and animals to thrive. There are 1,600 Sites of Importance for Nature Conservation (SINCs) in London, covering 20 per cent of the capital. These include the world-famous nature reserve Richmond …

Climate change makes heatwaves more intense

A Met Office study published on 18 May 2022 said that climate change has made the chances of record-breaking heatwaves in north-west India and Pakistan over 100 times more likely. The study shows that the natural probability of a heatwave exceeding the average temperature in 2010 is once in 312 years. In the current climate – accounting for climate change …

State of the Global Climate 2021

In its annual State of the Global Climate report, published on 18 May 2022, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said that four key climate change indicators – greenhouse gas concentrations, sea level rise, ocean heat and ocean acidification – set new records in 2021. The report confirmed that the past seven years have been the warmest seven years on record. …

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