Interview: Mark Jaccard – The Citizen’s Guide to Climate Success
Mark Jaccard has been a professor for the School of Resource and Environmental Management at Simon Fraser University, Canada since
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£11m project to remove plastic from the English Channel
Organisations across the South West are coming together as part of an international project to remove and prevent plastic pollution
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How fungi can help create a green construction industry
Ian Fletcher Senior Lecturer in Architecture at Leeds Beckett University discusses the future of building developments, from mushroom materials to
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West Yorkshire authority to spend £1.7m on natural flood defences
West Yorkshire Combined Authority will spend £1.7m on natural flood defences to protect homes and businesses from severe weather conditions.
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Majority of consumers would boycott a brand for environmental reasons
A new report by the Dutch banking group ING has revealed that consumers are willing to stop using brands based
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Planting trees must be done with care or it can create more problems than it addresses
Lulu Zhang, a senior research associate at the United Nations University discusses why we need to be careful when planting
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Edinburgh council will plant one million trees by 2030
Edinburgh City Council has announced that they will plant one million trees by the end of the decade to become
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Reducing air pollution could be a ‘natural climate solution’
Reducing air pollution could allow plants to grow faster and capture more carbon dioxide (CO2), according to researchers at the University of
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Why we should be wary of blaming ‘overpopulation’ for the climate crisis
Heather Alberro, Associate Lecturer/PhD Candidate in Political Ecology at Nottingham Trent University talks about why we need to be careful
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‘Enhanced’ Environment Bill returns to Parliament
The long-awaited Environment Bill has returned to Parliament today (January 30) with two ‘enhanced aspects’ that promise to tackle plastic
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7,000 trees will be planted in London to improve air quality
The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan has announced that in order to help reduce air pollution and carbon dioxide (CO2),
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UK government is involved with financing £60bn into overseas fossil fuel projects
The UK government is involved with financing overseas fossil fuel projects that when complete will produce an estimated 69 million
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Palm oil production is a major contributor to CO2 emissions
Preparing land for palm oil plantations releases high levels of CO2, according to research published in Nature Communications. Palm oil
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Responding to a climate emergency
Kirklees Council has a new ambitious plan to make the borough completely carbon neutral by 2038. Cabinet members backed the
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Starbucks to cut emissions by 2030, but is it soon enough?
In an open letter to the public, the CEO of Starbucks, Kevin Johnson has pledged that the company will become
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Climate crisis: we are not individuals fighting a faceless system – we are the system that needs to change
Tom Oliver, professor of applied ecology at the University of Reading, talks about human connectivity, and why individual action is
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School pupils invited to climate summit in Manchester
Over 300 pupils from schools across Manchester came together last Friday (January 17) for a summit on climate change. The
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UK land use must be transformed in order to reach net-zero, report says
If the UK is committed to reaching net-zero emissions by 2050, then the way land is currently used must be
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UK Climate Assembly to discuss the future of the planet
This weekend, over 100 people will travel to Birmingham for the first meeting of the UK’s citizen assembly on climate
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Five ways to turn CO₂ from pollution to a valuable product
From using CO2 to make buildings or as plant fertilisers, Ella Adlen and Cameron Hepburn from the University of Oxford
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