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Climate change: Should the UK’s 2050 target be sooner?
Image copyright Getty Images Over the next 31 years, we’re likely to be taking fewer flights, eating less meat, and using far less single-use plastic. That is, if the UK government is to achieve its target of cutting greenhouse gas emissions to almost zero by 2050 – an ambitious plan that no other major nation …
Climate change: UK government to commit to 2050 target
Image copyright PA Image caption Extinction Rebellion staged 10 days of protests in London calling for action on climate change Greenhouse gas emissions in the UK will be cut to almost zero by 2050, under the terms of a new government plan to tackle climate change. Prime Minister Theresa May said reducing pollution would also …
Climate change: Half world’s biggest airlines don’t offer carbon offsetting
1.5 degrees Keeping the rise in global average temperature below 1.5 degrees Celsius will avoid the worst impacts of climate change, scientists say. That’s compared with ‘pre-industrial’ times. The world has already warmed about 1C since then. 2 degrees The original target for limiting the rise in global average temperature. Recent research points to 1.5 …
Trump says ‘climate change goes both ways’
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Mr Trump said he was moved by Prince Charles’ passion, but the conversation did not change his views President Donald Trump has said he believes climate change “goes both ways” following a 90-minute discussion with environmentalist Prince Charles. “I believe that there’s a change in weather and I think …
Climate change: Emissions target could cost UK £1tn, warns Hammond
Image copyright PA The chancellor has warned Theresa May that reducing greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050 could cost the UK more than £1tn. The Financial Times reports that the PM wants to introduce the legislation to Parliament next week as “one of her most important legacies”. Philip Hammond has written to her, …
White House blocked State Department agency from warning about climate change, Washington Post reports
The Post, citing several senior administration officials, reported that officials from several different White House offices took issue with written testimony Rod Schoonover of the State Department planned to deliver to the House Intelligence Committee on Wednesday. The apparent attempt by the White House to mute wide-ranging concerns within the administration about human-caused climate change …
Under pressure, Biden drifts leftward on abortion, climate change
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Joe Biden Express to the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination went a bit off track this week. FILE PHOTO: Democratic 2020 U.S. presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden speaks at a campaign stop at the IBEW Local 490 in Concord, New Hampshire, U.S., June 4, 2019. REUTERS/Brian Snyder/File Photo Since …
