Warmest Years and Warmest Ocean on Record. It is likely the oceans are now at their warmest for 1,000 years and heating faster than at any time in the last 2,000 years. Read More Greta Thurnborg Publishes THE CLIMATE BOOK. The science concerning the future impact of climate change is clear; what is missing is […]
Category: General Updates
Kitchens in a new-build estate in Wallingford Flooded
Residents were shocked to wake up and find pools of water in their new Bloor Homes based on an estate in Crowmarsh Gifford last weekend. Due to the temperatures reaching lows of -9C, water in the pipes had frozen and expanded causing the pipes to burst and leak into people’s homes. After resident’s raised the […]
Rebellion against house building targets
Emma Barnet sets the scene on BBC Woman’s Hour re the rebellion against house building targets with input from Kitty Donaldson, Political Editor at Bloomberg News. Listen on BBC Sounds at https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001fw5t . First 8.5 minutes, Emma Barnet setting the scene, then Rosie Pearson talking about this for about 21 minutes. Rosie Pearson runs the […]
No new houses without infrastructure!
New homes are putting intolerable strain on our services: GPs, sewage works, schools etc. Councillor Sue Roberts told the Oxford Mail that her nephew was denied medical care for his two-year old son. They had recently moved to Didcot where there are not enough GPs. The child was sent home from nursery with a blood-encrusted ear but […]
Britain’s biggest listed companies aren’t doing enough to combat climate change
Footsie falls short. Britain’s biggest listed companies aren’t doing enough to combat climate change. Not even close. Newly updated Tortoise data shows that FTSE 100 companies overall In human terms: current FTSE 100 emissions reductions targets are inadequate to maintain a habitable planet for millions of people. Total CO2 emissions by these companies are down slightly this year […]
Thoughts on COP27 – Professor Emily Shuckburgh, Director of Cambridge Zero
Robert Falcon Scott wrote in his last diary entry on 29 March 1912: “We shall stick it out to the end, but we are getting weaker, of course, and the end cannot be far.” As we enter another COP, with the world at 1.15°C of warming, it feels as though the hope of “keeping 1.5°C […]
Out of Synch – COP27 and the UK’s Climate Agenda
A Rocha Report: The world is in a very different place since COP26 in November 2021 when countries last came together to negotiate the global response to the climate crisis. Against a background of the war in Ukraine, the energy and cost of living crises and instability in UK politics tackling the climate crisis is […]
What Putin’s war means for net zero
Germany has fired up nuclear power stations; China has leaned on coal; gas exports from Qatar are booming. The war in Ukraine is reshaping the flow of energy around the world. But what does it mean for the transition to net zero? Overall, emissions have grown more slowly than expected this year, according to the […]
House of Lords Environmental Report
KEY Messages in the House of Lords Environmental and Climate Change Committee Report – 12th Oct 2022 • Behaviour change is essential for achieving climate and environment goals, and for delivering wider benefits. • The Government’s current approach to enabling behaviour change to meet climate and environment goals is inadequate to meet the scale of […]
SODC Introducing More Efficient IT
SODC is transforming its operational side to tidy up and make more efficient it IT and interfaces between customers and officers. It should result in carbon savings in terms of a) enabling more home working and indeed reducing the numbers of staff needed b) reducing the use of paper c) reducing computer-server energy use.