SETTLE AND AREA
Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg met with Chancellor Angela Merkel yesterday (Thursday) urging her and other leaders to “treat the climate crisis like you treat any other crisis.”
“What we want is leaders. We want people to step up, to dare to step out of their comfort zones, to prioritize the future ahead of the now,” Thunberg told reporters after the 90-minute meeting.
Continue reading “The world is still in denial’ Greta Thunberg”
Sarah George 17 August 2020, source edie newsroom
SSE, an energy company based in Perth, has become the first UK energy firm to commit to developing ‘Just Transition’ plans, which will protect affected workers and communities as it aligns with the UK’s net-zero target. It employs more than 20,500 people, making it one of the ‘big six’ energy firms in the UK.
Cumbria Action for Sustainability (CAfS) bid for £2.5 million of National Lottery funding to cut carbon emissions in the county has been successful, it was announced today. CAfS is one of nearly 70 organisations from many walks of life in Cumbria that came together to submit the bid to the National Lottery Community Fund, the largest funder of community activity in the UK. The award to the Zero Carbon Cumbria Partnership will fund a five year programme of action aiming to make Cumbria the first carbon-neutral county in the UK, in a way that benefits communities and is led by them.
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The UK is under immense pressure to sign up to US demands on the regulations applying to GMO (genetically modified organisms), as part of the US-UK trade deal writes Martin Brooks in the current edition of Yorkshire Bylines: https://yorkshirebylines.co.uk/the-gmo-lobbyist-will-see-you-now-minister/. One look at the USA’s commercial commitment to GMO tells you why.
Continue reading “The US-UK trade deal – a Trojan horse for GMOs?”
