Action on climate emergency
The environmental and health dangers of wood burners were highlighted towards the end of 2022 in a report from chief medical officer for England Professor Chris Whitty – namely that wood burning stoves produced 450 times more toxic air pollution than gas central heating. Older stoves, banned from sale, produced 3,700 times more, while electric …
The climate crisis is a major workplace risk, says the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC). The climate crisis is creating new and heightened occupational risks to workers, for example, extreme weather and changing weather patterns are affecting job security and health for workers, the global union body says. In response to the crisis, the theme …
Insulate draughty homes and do more to make that happen is the call from Britain’s climate change chief Chris Stark, head of the UK’s Climate Change Committee. Speaking to the BBC this week Stark rated government policy on insulation as “very poor” and went on to say that insulation, together with renewable power, is the …
Yorkshire river pollution at all time high has been reported in a study undertaken by the Angling Trust. Eighty-three per cent of English rivers contain evidence of high pollution caused by sewage and agricultural waste. In Yorkshire this includes the Swale, Ure, Nidd and Upper Ouse. The Guardian reports that hundreds of anglers took part …
New homes standards – what to expect? In a long-delayed consultation on low-carbon building standards the government has formally backed plans to ban gas and “hydrogen-ready” boilers from newly built homes in England from 2025. This could mean heat pumps being installed as standard as part of measures to make all new homes “net zero …
Taxpayer billions for Drax carbon capture, it is claimed, are being made to a company that generates around 4% of the country’s power and 9% of the UK’s renewable electricity by output and is seen as an energy source when weather conditions preclude significant wind and solar power generation. Drax has received government permission to …
The ‘dash for gas’ and oil as temperatures soar is reported across media in worrying news that last year was the warmest on record. It is generally accepted that this is a result of human-caused climate change and has also been influenced by the natural El Niño weather event. The news comes just weeks after …
What is war good for? Oil profits, if the fact that 2023 was a bumper year for shareholders investing in oil is anything to go by. While the majority struggle to cope with the cost of living crisis and the hike in energy prices, shareholders in the five largest oil companies can expect record pay-outs …
Ending Fossil Fuel Subsidies by reading all about it. Despite many local authorities declaring a climate emergency in 2019 they continue to invest some of their pension funds in coal, oil, and gas. One simple step in support of climate action is the transition away from fossil fuels, and opting to invest in green technologies and projects. That’s …
