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Vicky Ford MP: Engineering and technology will make a vast difference in tackling climate change
“We have to tackle climate change, we have to cap the global temperature rise at 1.5%”, said Vicky Ford MP, speaking at the Institution of Engineering and Technology’s fringe event at Conservative Party Conference. “The challenge is we need to make sure everybody plays their role. Some of it is government, some of it is different …
The Displaced: Climate change in Vietnam ‘destroying family life’
Vietnam is one of the world’s most vulnerable countries to climate change. It’s already having a huge impact on the lives of those in the Mekong Delta, the agricultural heartland of the country and home to 20% of the country’s population. Ashley John-Baptiste went to meet the families living on the front lines of climate …
Climate change: Greta Thunberg got the world’s attention. But are leaders really listening?
The line was met by applause and some laughs, but her expression signaled that this was no laughing matter to her. The 16-year-old’s fiery speech was a milestone of sorts for a movement that’s been given new urgency by a group of savvy young leaders. Around the world, young people are increasingly leading the push …
Fresh wave of climate strikes takes place around the world | Environment
Hundreds of thousands of people around the world are taking place in the latest wave of climate strikes to demand urgent action on the escalating ecological emergency. Last week, millions walked out of schools and workplaces, uniting across timezones, cultures and generations in the biggest climate protests in history before a special UN conference in …
How Climate Change Is Affecting Our Children’s Health
Climate change doesn’t just affect our planet’s health, but also our own health — and particularly that of children. Dr. Aaron Bernstein, a pediatrician at Boston Children’s Hospital, joined Boston Public Radio on Thursday to explain how climate change harms our health and which groups are affected the worst. “The way the climate is changing …
How Alberta’s oil and gas sector is using technology to fight climate change
As governments and economies across the world wrestle with how to tackle climate change, Alberta’s oil and gas sector is developing technology to help minimize greenhouse-gas emissions and lessen its environmental footprint. In early September, Suncor Energy announced it would be making a $1.4-billion investment to build a new power cogeneration plant just outside Fort …
Rock-solid climate solutions: Negative emissions technology
A team of international researchers plan to turn the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide into rock by permanently injecting it beneath the Earth’s ocean floor through an ambitious, new research partnership announced today by the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions (PICS) at the University of Victoria. The $1.5 million, four-year PICS Theme Partnership entitled “Solid Carbon: …
Climate emergency: ‘Not much changed’ in Scotland
Former Environment Minister Stewart Stevenson says so far ‘not very much has changed’ since a climate emergency was declared in Scotland. First Minister Nicola Sturgeon made the declaration at the SNP party conference in April. During a discussion on climate change on BBC Debate Night, Journalist Pennie Taylor said “not enough” was being done, while …
Climate change on Cape Cod: At the edge of a warming world
Supported by Skip to main content These bridges span much more than a canal. To traverse the Sagamore, from the north, or the Bourne, from the west, is to cross the boundary between work and play. As the last girder shrinks in the rearview mirror, the road opens onto the pine-fringed mid-Cape expressway. Already those …
Greenbrier Valley floods: Confronting climate change in Trump’s coal country
Image caption A coal-fired power plant in West Virginia It was the day the UK voted to leave the European Union but nobody cared about that in White Sulphur Springs. On 23 June 2016 the residents of this small West Virginia town were fighting to survive. They had been engulfed by a flash flood after …
