Climate news/2020
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- Green body gives verdict on Boris Johnson carbon-cutting policies, Dec 29, 2020[1]
- UK to end aid for fossil fuel projects abroad, Dec 12, 2020[2]
- Europe's first Climate City Contract signed in Sweden today, Dec 11, 2020[3]
- Covid drives record emissions drop in 2020, Dec 11, 2020[4]
Global citizens' assembly planned to address climate crisis, Dec 10, 2020[5]
- Low-carbon revolution 'cheaper than thought', Dec 9, 2020[6]
- UK aims to cut emissions by 68% by end of 2030, Dec 3, 2020[7]
- Humans waging 'suicidal war' on nature, UN chief Antonio Guterres, Dec 2, 2020[8]
- How the president-elect plans to tackle climate change,[9] Nov 10
- Philippines declares moratorium on new coal power plants, Oct 28[10]
- Having avoided a catastrophic century, could we be happy with a merely wretched one? Or might we redefine our ideas about “decent living”, to cope better? Oct 16[11]
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- Has the world started to take climate change fight seriously? Sep 30[1]
- 'We deserve to be taught about it': why students want climate crisis classes,[2] Sep 28
- Global warming driving California wildfire trends say scientists,[3] Sep 25
- Climate change: GB athletes call for government to prioritise environment after Covid,[4] Sep 24
- China aims for 'carbon neutrality by 2060',[5] Sep 22
World's richest 1% cause double CO2 emissions of poorest 50%, says Oxfam,[6] Sep 21
- California and Oregon 2020 wildfires in maps, graphics and images,[7] Sep 18
- Oregon wildfires: Half a million people flee dozens of infernos,[8] Sep 11
- California wildfires: Smoke turns skies orange,[9] Sep 10
According to YouGov poll, UK public think we do not have a free press[10] Only a minority of adults in the UK think that we have a free press. Most people think the press ownership concentration is unacceptable. 48% of people think the UK press generally pays too little attention to climate change. Sep 10
- UK path to net zero must be underpinned by education, choice, fairness and political consensus, urges Climate Assembly,[11] Sep 10
- Portuguese children sue 33 countries over climate change at European court, Sep 3[12]
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- Why the Climate and Ecological Emergency Bill could lead to a revolution of the imagination.[1] Aug 18
- Campaigners call for climate crisis to be enshrined in law.[2] Aug 14
- A crime called "ecocide": how Macron in France, and the Danish Parliament, are willing to use laws (and referenda) to hit climate targets.[3] Aug 10
- Extreme droughts in central Europe likely to increase sevenfold, Aug 6[4]
In Budapest, Washington State, Paris - and Camden - Climate Assemblies are expressing voices, shifting priorities and setting policy.[5] Aug 4
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France to ban heated terraces in cafes and bars[2] Jul 27
- Climate change: Siberian heatwave 'clear evidence' of warming[3] Jul 15
- Britain beyond lockdown: can social and climate justice come together? Communities in Bristol are devising their own solutions to problems linked with the city’s role in slavery[4] Jul 3
- Tackle UK carbon emissions by working with nature, government urged.[5] Jun 24
- Britain still failing on climate crisis, warn advisers.[6] Jun 21
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- Dutch officials reveal measures to cut emissions after court ruling, Apr 24[1]
- In the world’s first ‘Coronavirus elections’, South Korea voted for climate action. In the first national elections in the time of Covid-19, South Korea’s Democratic Party won in a landslide – after putting forward a bold Green New Deal plan in their manifesto.[2] Apr 23
- Britain bans sale of new gas, diesel and hybrid cars from 2035.[3] Apr 23
- Climate change: Switch road cash to broadband, adviser says.[4] Apr 21
- 'The impossible has already happened': what coronavirus can teach us about hope, Rebecca Solnit.[5] Apr 7
- Why We Can't Ignore the Link Between Coronavirus, Climate Change and Inequity.[6] Apr 1
- News from The Climate Mobilization: The Climate Emergency Movement continues to grow, approaching 1,500 declarations world wide. 829,280,700 people, or more than 10% of global population live in under municipal or national governments that have declared a Climate Emergency.[7] Apr 1
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- Tackle climate crisis and poverty with zeal of Covid-19 fight, scientists urge.[1] Mar 28
- Coronavirus: Air pollution and CO2 fall rapidly as virus spreads.[2] Mar 19
Climate change: The rich are to blame, international study finds.[3] Mar 16
- This winter in Europe was hottest on record by far, say scientists.[4] Mar 5
- Greta Thunberg Bristol climate strike: 'The world is on fire'[5] Feb 28
Climate campaigners win Heathrow expansion case,[6] Feb 27
- How to make friends and decarbonise people: The need for user-centered advocacy within the climate action movement, Tom Harrison,[7] Feb 18
- Is Scotland leading the way on climate change?[8] Feb 4
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Finland: My country’s ambitious plan to be carbon-neutral in 15 years[1]
- Why we should be wary of blaming 'overpopulation' for the climate crisis,[2] Jan 22
- We can't tackle the climate crisis by ignoring the root cause of our problems,[3] Jan 22
- “It’s now official that we have just completed the warmest decade on record, a reminder that the planet continues to warm as we continue to burn fossil fuels,” Prof Michael Mann at Penn State University in the US.[4] Jan 15
- New Zealand schools to teach students about climate crisis, activism and 'eco anxiety'[5] Jan 13
- The government has been forced to talk about climate change, so it’s taking a subtle – and sinister – approach, Greg Jericho,[6] Jan 13
- The Australian bushfires may be the "Chernobyl" of climate crisis - the event that makes our current system untenable, Jan 4[7]
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