Posts Tagged: climate

The wisdom of the crowd was particularly evident at our pivotal Net Positive conference. The attendees – 200 sustainability experts – offered many great insights for firms stepping up a gear. Their guide to going net positive is available via Green Mondays. For a company to reach a net positive result, it’ll need to make [...]

It’s a technology that might be able to safely remove and store harmful carbon emissions from coal and gas-fired power stations. According to some studies it could create 13,000 new jobs in Scotland by 2020. However, some five years after the UK government first launched its £1 billion funding competition, aimed at helping kick-start the [...]

Nadia Bood’s laugh is infectious – and she laughs a lot. A very important character trait, I think, considering the sometimes overwhelmingly depressing topic of her work. She’s helping tackle the impacts of climate change in Belize, Central America. I was in Belize in the second half of June 2012 to help evaluate WWF-Belize’s Coastal [...]

Populations of chinstrap penguins are in decline around the Antarctic Peninsula – one of the fastest warming places on the planet. The US-based organisation Oceanites has been collecting and analysing penguin population data at many locations on the Antarctic Peninsula since 1994. One of those is Deception Island (62°57′S, 60°38′W) – one of the most [...]

After several months of relative quiet there seems to be a flurry of activity in the UK climate conversation around ‘geo-engineering’. Most recently there was a piece in the Sunday Times that labels geo-engineering “a bad idea whose time has come”. For folks who haven’t been following this conversation, geo-engineering is an umbrella term for [...]

Tomorrow afternoon (1pm, Friday 22 June), on the final day of the UN’s Rio+20 conference in Brazil, we’re taking part in an unmissable question-and-answer session organised by the Stop Climate Chaos coalition and hosted at the Guardian website. And we want you to add your own searching queries to the hot Rio debate – for [...]

Tesco was a proud sponsor of Climate Week this year, in which a key message was ‘Eat less meat’. Now, Tesco has just re-launched its value meal range – adding 20% more meat. At the same time Tesco is committed to becoming a zero-carbon business by 2050, without relying on buying offsets. It has published its [...]