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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 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. 

At SODC, councillors are opposed to the new lawless enterprise zones and will not be seeking one for South Oxfordshire (or Vale of the White Horse).

Bathing water status is being sought at Wallingford Beach and up and down river along South Oxfordshire District Council (SODC) land. There has been some misunderstanding with Wallingford Town Council (WTC) members that resulted in the possibility of two applications being put in to DEFRA. The two councils are working together to try to ensure […]

Bioabundance, a Community Interest Company in Oxfordshire, sees the creation of a regional Nature Park as a unique opportunity to secure big gains for nature and to pilot the countryside access and co-ordination of nature and landscape action that is needed to get the best out of our Countryside. The Park covers 113 km2 in […]