The giants of carbon energy came to the UAE Cop to praise fossil fuels – then agreed to start leaving them in the ground. They still have plenty of wriggle room, but the final text is progress. See the report on the Tortoise Media website for more details. The COP28 Outcomes Summit featured panel discussions […]
Category: General Updates
Help us to stop Oxford City’s Inflated Housing Plans which will impact the whole County.
Oxford City Council is planning to build many more houses than the Government figures suggest. Oxford City’s inflated housing need becomes Oxfordshire’s problem when Planning Inspectors can force District Councils to build to meet Oxford City’s inflated housing aspirations. Please write to your District and County Councilors to resist the consequences of this – lots of […]
Deep Sea Mining Moratorium
The UK has just announced their support for a moratorium on deep sea mining. [1] This is a huge win for our oceans and is down to people like you across the country – and the world – taking action. But the work to protect our oceans is far from done. The UK is yet […]
Super National Nature Park for Oxfordshire
We propose a 100 sq mile Regional Nature Park (RNP) for inclusion in Oxfordshire Plan 2050. It is 14 by 7 miles, half in Oxfordshire, the rest in Buckinghamshire. It includes Otmoor, the Upper Ray wetlands and the Bernwood-Stowood-Shotover ancient forests, meadows and heaths. The Oxfordshire section holds a quarter of our county’s nationally important […]
Please tell MPs and Councillors that you care about their Climate Action
It is up to us as members of the electorate to convince our national and local politicians that climate action equals votes. “When it comes to the climate and ecological crisis, we have solid unequivocal scientific evidence of the need for change. The problem is, all that evidence puts the current best available science on […]
UK Taking a Global Lead in Tidal Energy
The source of the UK’s opportunity to lead in the development of tidal energy is our geography. The tidal flows in and out of our coastal regions are sufficiently strong and numerous enough to provide Britain with 50 per cent of Europe’s tidal stream energy capacity, or 10 to 15 per cent of the global […]
Warming Seas Across the Equatorial Pacific
A dramatic change in tropical trade winds has resulted in warming seas across the equatorial Pacific. After two continuous years scientists are calling the end of the La Niña weather cycle and are now on El Niño Watch. As of late March, ENSO-neutral conditions were occurring, but El Niño conditions may develop between May and […]
Global Ocean Treaty
This is huge! After years of campaigning and a tense final week of negotiations, world leaders have put aside their differences and finally secured a historic Global Ocean Treaty. This puts us on a path to potentially save our oceans from the brink of disaster. Can you take a moment to watch and share this […]
URGENT: Help keep ocean destruction at bay
We’ve got one more chance to finalise a Treaty to help protect 30% of the world’s oceans by 2030 — and we need your help to do it. SIGN THE PETITION to tell the UK Government to safeguard our blue planet at the UN talks. Next week, governments are gathering at the United Nations (UN) […]
Companies Failing to Set and Meet Emission Targets
Tortoise Net Zero reports: Less than half of FTSE 100 companies are on track to meet their emissions reductions targets, Companies are coming under growing pressure from investors, consumers and regulators to prepare for the transition to net zero. But while some of the UK’s biggest companies have grasped the need for change, far too […]