Greenpeace calls for action over Waitrose’s ‘toxic partnership’ with Shell
Environmental campaign group Greenpeace has secured over 30,000 signatures in a petition for supermarket chain Waitrose to drop its affiliation with oil giant Shell. Waitrose announced earlier this year that it would be opening stores at Shell petrol stations across the UK, and Greenpeace has urged individuals to sign...
Green Investment Bank hires Standard Chartered executive as chief risk officer
The Green Investment Bank (GIB) has appointed Peter Knott as its chief risk officer. The former Deloitte & Touche executive was Chief Operating Officer of Risk at Standard Chartered, the banking giant recently fined $330m by US regulators over failing to comply with Iranian sanctions. Knott will oversee the...
Arctic shown to break several ice records as transformation in climate continues
The Arctic is found to have surpassed a number of records in 2012, including for sea ice loss, snow cover and Greenland ice sheet melting, according to a US scientific organisation. In this year’s Arctic Report Card, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) lays out the extent to...
Comprehensive study shows extent of ice loss increase
Sea levels have risen by over 11mm since 1992 because of increased ice melt in both Greenland and Antarctica, according to a comprehensive study by a coalition of 47 scientists. The scientists, from 26 different laboratories across the world, came together with the backing of NASA and the European...
Report highlights clean energy as better alternative to Severn barrage
Plans to build a £30 billion tidal barrage across the river Severn have been put into doubt, after a new report claimed that a mixture of renewable technologies would bring about more advantages and provide more power. The study, which comes in the form of a discussion paper called...
UK floods ought to be ‘wake-up call’ for urgent climate action
As climate talks get underway in Doha, environmental campaign group Friends of the Earth has said that severe flooding in the UK should “wake up” world leaders to the imminent threat posed by a warmer planet. The Environment Agency has issued around 200 flood warnings across the UK, while 300...
Why climate deniers have no scientific credibility – in one pie chart
Over at Desmogblog, a guest post by James Lawrence Powell demolishes the scientific credibility of climate deniers. By Jim’s definition, 24 of the 13,950 articles, 0.17% or 1 in 581, clearly reject global warming or endorse a cause other than CO2 emissions for observed warming. You can read the...
Environment Agency teams ‘mobilised’ for UK floods
The Environment Agency has issued 83 flood warnings, covering much of the UK, as a man dies near Bath after becoming trapped in his car. The Met Office has said that the bad weather looks set to continue for “the next few days”, so people are advised to be...
Help Greenpeace uncover further corruption
November 2012 might well go down as one of the defining months in the coalition government’s reign, not least because of a secret investigation undertaken by Greenpeace that appeared to expose merciless anti-wind and anti-green plots going on in the Conservative Party. The scandal made front page news after MP Chris...
UN claims global emissions reductions are not yet sufficient
A study by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has outlined how measures to reduce the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere do not currently go far enough to avoid a global temperature rise of below 2 degrees. However, UNEP’s Emissions Gap Report does say that this internationally agreed...
British and Chilean Antarctic research centres set for collaboration
The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) has signed an agreement with the Chilean Antarctic Institute that will see the pair cooperate on science, innovation and climate change. The announcement comes following Chilean president Sebastian Pinera’s visit to the UK last month, and strengthens the role of BAS, which was briefly...
BP to pay under 2% of annual profits in Deepwater Horizon fines
Oil giant BP has been told to pay $4.5 billion (£2.8 billion) in relation to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010 – the largest criminal fine in US history. More than 20m gallons of oil – equivalent to 4.9m barrels – spilled into the Gulf of Mexico following...
Peace and security are part of sustainable development, says UN secretary-general
United Nations secretary-general Ban Ki-moon has highlighted peace and security as a “critical ‘fourth dimension’ for sustainable development” in his message for the International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict. The annual event, which began in 2001, aims to recognise the impact...
Government decides not to merge polar research centres
The Rt Hon David Willetts MP, minister of state for universities and science has laid down a written ministerial statement in the House of Commons rejecting the merger between the British Antarctic Survey and National Oceanography Centre. This statement reflects the conclusion of a Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)...
Prepare for severe autumn and winter floods
The wet summer leading to saturated ground, high rivers and groundwater mean we are likely to suffer severe floods throughout the autumn and winter. Today’s warning by the Met Office and Environment Agency demonstrates the harsh reality of our changing climate. The news comes at a time when the...
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