Action on climate emergency
Nature recovery needs money if nature recovery strategies are to be delivered as we reported in a post on 1 February. This followed a report in The Yorkshire Post that North Yorkshire Council had not yet received any funding to deliver a nature recovery strategy after being told by the government to prepare the plan. …
Nature recovery needs money if nature recovery strategies are to be delivered. The Yorkshire Post has recently reported that North Yorkshire Council has not yet received any funding to deliver a nature recovery strategy after being told by the government to prepare the plan. The report, which was approved by the council’s executive committee, established 39 …
Google’s huge new datacentre to emit massive tonnes of CO2 a year. Google has applied for planning permission for yet another enormous data centre in Thurrock, Essex. It will emit 570,000 tonnes of carbon emissions every year equivalent to about 500 short-haul flights a week, planning documents show. Spread across 52 hectares (128 acres), the …
A deep peat burning ban is coming into force attendees of Saturday’s ACE Green Café meeting in Settle learnt. The meeting heard that the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) will ban the burning on England’s deep peat so as to restore habitats for rare wildlife and reduce air pollution and flooding. England’s …
Children’s woodland to be destroyed as Harrogate Spring Water, owned by the multinational Danone, is planning to cut down a wood planted by schoolchildren in order to expand its bottling factory in Harrogate. Almost 20 years ago two primary schools, along with other local volunteers, helped to plant 450 trees in a project aimed at …
Money for the right trees and place is the key message in a report that urges that public money should be spent on native forests with greater biodiversity benefits. Just how much money is spent in support for woodlands and is the money well spent? After all public money has been supporting woodlands for over …