Archive for 'climate change'
Committee on Climate Change calls for cut in imported emissions »
The Committee on Climate Change's recent report on the UK’s carbon footprint identifies a growing need to cut imported emissions as well as those produced in the UK, arguing that a global deal could reduce the UK footprint by 70%.
MOD Northwood Permanent Joint Headquarters leads by example on sustainability »
A case study of Northwood Permanent Joint Headquarters, nominated for a Climate Week award, describes its work to drive the MOD’s sustainability agenda of embedding sustainable practices in everything the MOD does.
The Prevention Papers: upstream investment and early action to prevent harm »
Anna Coote discusses the prevention of social, environmental and economic harm through policy-making and practice - the subject of the recent series of Prevention Papers commissioned by nef.
Publications round-up: sustainable consumption, energy security, community innovations, trade unions »
The SDRN highlights recent publications on sustainable development: sustainable consumption case studies, climate change and energy security, grassroots sustainability innovations, trade unions in the green economy.
Climate Week »
4 to 10 March 2013, across the UK: Climate Week, Britain’s biggest climate change campaign, aims to inspire a new wave of action to create a sustainable future with over 3,000 events planned.
Communicating Climate Change and Migration »
Communicating Climate Change and Migration, a UKCCMC report, provides guidance to organisations attempting to communicate the complex relationship between climate change and the movement of people across borders.
Unsustainable development »
In an extract from her recent ebook, Sustainability in the Public Sector, Sonja Powell describes the characteristics of unsustainable development, concluding that “the solutions to all the issues raised include government action”.
Scotland’s local authorities make progress on climate change »
The Sustainable Scotland Network reports that Scotland’s local authorities are making progress on climate change, according to the analysis of Scotland’s Climate Change Declaration Year Four Reports.
Outcomes from Doha »
The 2012 UN Climate Change Conference agreed a new commitment period under the Kyoto Protocol, a timetable to adopt a universal climate agreement by 2015, and a path to raise necessary ambition to respond to climate change.
Climate change round-up: solutions, legislation, ice-sheets, shale gas, adaptation resource »
The SDRN highlights recent research and publications on climate change: climate change solution case studies, legislation in 33 countries, melting ice-sheets, impact of shale gas, improved online adaptation resource.
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