Search results for ‘Climate change’
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Are parties taking climate change seriously in the election?
It’s a time when the climate is facing ever increasing chaos. Extreme weather, record heat waves, but instead of becoming a high profile election issue, it’s barely featured in the campaign at all.
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Scottish government ditches climate change targets
The Scottish government has confirmed it is scrapping its interim and annual targets for cutting greenhouse gases.
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Failure to tackle climate change is breach of human rights, says top European court
Today began with concerning climate news – the world just experienced its hottest March on record, according to new data from the EU.
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How can climate change impact the UK’s weather patterns? Met Office expert explains
We spoke to Professor Lizzie Kendon, who is a scientist at the Met Office.
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Impact of climate change is being felt in the East Midlands, says flood risk adviser
We spoke to Alex McDonald, an Environment Agency flood risk advisor for the East Midlands.
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COP28 agreement ‘beginning of end of fossil fuel era’, says climate change business champion
We speak to Nigel Topping, a business champion on the climate change committee and who played a key role for the UN at COP26.
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UK ‘doing everything’ it can to help countries impacted by climate change, international development minister Andrew Mitchell says
We talked to international development minister Andrew Mitchell, who’s just been announcing £100 million to support climate vulnerable countries at COP28, and began by asking him for his reaction to Grace’s story and the plight of Tuvalu.
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Global record breaking temperature is ‘500x bigger’ than expectations says climate change professor
We spoke to Professor Piers Forster of Physical Climate Change at the University of Leeds – who’s interim chair of the government’s climate change committee.
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Climate Change debate: What do the UK’s net-zero changes mean for the environment?
As well as cars, Rishi Sunak also announced an increase in the grant for heat pumps and scrapping plans to force landlords to make their properties energy efficient.
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EXCLUSIVE POLL: 40% of voters less likely to vote Conservative if government doesn’t stick to previous climate change commitments
How is the Prime Minister’s change of messaging on the government’s green strategy playing out with voters and businesses?
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FactCheck: what we know about the Libyan flood and climate change
Research is still underway to establish the exact role climate change could have played in Storm Daniel and the Libya flood.
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We need trillions not billions of dollars to tackle climate change, former Costa Rican president says
Costa Rica, which isn’t in the G20, has pledged to totally decarbonize its economy, generate all of its electricity from renewables by the end of the dacade, and is the first tropical country to have reversed deforestation.
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‘Warmer oceans created by climate change have made hurricanes worse’, says Professor of Thermal Sciences
We spoke to John Abraham, a climate scientist and Professor at the University of St.Thomas in the United States, and asked him to what extent hurricanes like the one we’re seeing in Florida are caused by rising temperatures in the oceans.
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Hawaiian wildfires are a ‘coincidence of a lot of unfortunate circumstances’, says climate change expert
We spoke to Erica Fleishman, who’s director of the Oregon Climate change research institute
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FactCheck: were the Greek wildfires caused by climate change?
This summer has already been marked as another year with record-breaking heat right across the globe, from China to North Africa and North America to Europe. In the past week at least 34 people died from spreading wildfires in Algeria, while in the Greek island of Rhodes thousands were evacuated due to wildfires following extreme…
