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Watch Ice on Fire
Ice on Fire is a 2019 documentary which explores the potential extinction level event caused by arctic methane release, and the newly developed technologies that could reverse global warming by sequestering carbon out of the atmosphere. The film premiered to … Continue reading →
State of Climate Action 2021
COP26 has inspired the production of a report from World Resources Institute entitled “State of Climate Action 2021” which says that to keep the window open to achieve the Paris Agreement’s goal to limit global warming to 1.5°C, transformations must occur … Continue reading →
Breakthrough Agenda
At COP26 in Glasgow, more than 40 countries launched the Breakthrough Agenda – a commitment to work together internationally this decade to accelerate the development and deployment of the clean technologies and sustainable solutions needed to meet the Paris Agreement … Continue reading →
Global Cost of Transition to Net Zero by 2050: $4tn per year
New reports by the International Energy Agency [1] and by BloombergNEF [2] in the lead-up to COP26 both estimate that the global cost of reaching net-zero emissions by 2050 will be somewhere around $4 trillion per year. This is over … Continue reading →
Climate Change Anxiety
Professor Jem Bendell writes in the October 2021 edition of Deep Adaption Quarterly: Anxiety about climate change and its impacts was discussed more widely in mainstream media in the last few months. For both children and adults, the main message … Continue reading →
Ask your councillors for an ambitious Climate Action Strategy and Plan
Coventry currently has no Climate Change Strategy. The last one expired in 2020 and has not been replaced. And, unlike 78% of councils, it has never had a Climate Action Plan. Clearly, tackling climate change is clearly not one of … Continue reading →
Sustainable Science Meetings
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, some scientists were expected to cross the world several times a year for conferences and collaboration meetings at the cost of thousands of dollars and a sizeable carbon footprint. COVID-19 put the scientific community on a … Continue reading →
Suggested Letter to MPs
Bob Arnott suggests that Coventry people send the following letter to their MP. You can find your MPs email at https://members.parliament.uk/members/commons Dear [name], Can I suggest that, as one of Coventry’s members of parliament, you use Coventry’s status as City … Continue reading →
Swiss Vote Against Reducing Carbon Emissions
On 13 June the Swiss people voted by a narrow majority to reject an Act proposed by the Federal Government law aimed at reducing CO2 emissions by 2030 by investing in building refurbishment and charging stations for electric vehicles, investments … Continue reading →