Is Hargreaves Lansdown’s head of investment research an ‘open-minded’ climate sceptic?
Dictionaries define research as, “The systematic investigation into and study of materials and sources in order to establish facts and reach new conclusions.” By any standard, impartial research into climate change has set a very high bar in proving human causation. Climate change will affect investment performance. When the world’s...
UN lauds science and technology as ‘critical’ in sustainable development
United Nations officials gathered with policymakers and NOGs at the Economic and Social Council forum (ECOSOC) on Monday to discuss how innovative science and technology could aid the world’s sustainable development. “Science, technology and innovation hold great potential as tools and enable to integrate the three dimensions of sustainable...
Global carbon dioxide levels hit highest levels for three million years
On May 4, global carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere reached 400 parts per million (ppm). It has been three million years since our air has been so heavily concentrated with the greenhouse gas. A continuously running CO2 monitor installed at Mauna Loa volcano in Hawaii has been measuring levels...
Fossil fuels are a ‘barrier’ to cleantech progress, says World Bank president
The world must scrap fossil fuel subsidies and attach a price to environmentally-harmful carbon dioxide emissions in order to combat climate change, according to World Bank president Jim Yong Kim. Kim urged the implementation of a five-point plan to environment ministers from all over the globe during a talk...
Public will vote for candidates that support wind farms, says poll
A poll conducted by ComRes on behalf of trade body RenewableUK ahead of tomorrow’s local elections has revealed that 35% of the public are more likely to vote for a candidate who supports wind farm developments. Results from the poll of 2,019 voters suggest that parties with pro-wind policies...
UAE to sign £1bn financing deal with UK Green Investment Bank
The UK government is expected to sign an agreement with United Arab Emirates (UAE) president Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed al Nahyan this week, that will see the UK Green Investment Bank (GIB) invest collaboratively with Masdar. The GIB has up to £3 billion of investment available for energy efficiency,...
Increase in support for renewable energy in government poll
Public support for renewable energy in the UK has risen to 82% from 79% in the latest Public Attitudes Tracking Survey conducted by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC). Eighty-five per cent of respondents gave their backing to solar, while 77% said they were behind wave and...
Report shows growth potential of small-scale solar in developing world
New research from the Carbon Trust has found that developing countries hold enormous growth potential in the use of small-scale concentrated solar power (CSP) systems. In a report commissioned by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC), the Carbon Trust found that there was particularly huge room for...
Green spaces make life more satisfying for city dwellers
People living in urban areas with more green spaces are reported to have greater wellbeing and quality of life than city dwellers, according to new research. A study by scientists from the University of Exeter Medical School’s European Centre for Environment and Human Health, published in the journal Psychological Science,...
Loss of $200bn pollinating services will be harmful, scientists warn
A new study has warned that the loss of $200 billion (£131 billion) worth of pollinating services from insects because of human-induced pressures will cause profound economic, health and environmental consequences. The paper, Threats to an ecosystem service: pressures on pollinators from a team of 40 scientists from 27...
Plants inspire scientists to use hydrogen for energy
Inspired by plants, Scottish scientists have harnessed the principles of photosynthesis to generate clean energy from hydrogen. The breakthrough, they say, offers a potential solution to the global energy crisis. Published in the journal Nature Chemistry, the scientists, from the University of Glasgow, said that the innovation could generate green...
Wireless technology and cloud computing are ‘energy monsters’
The technology industry has largely underestimated the surge in power use from cloud and wireless services, according to a study by Melbourne’s Centre for Energy Efficient Telecommunications (CEET). Researchers from the CEET are among the first to calculate the energy consumption of the multiple components required to power cloud...
Lomborg talking nonsense (again) on global warming
Danish author Bjorn Lomborg (degree in political science) gave a typically spirited defence of global warming in last weekend’s Sunday Times, describing it as a “joy“. He’s missing the point. Many of his assertions in his most famous book, The Skeptical Environmentalist, have been repeatedly questioned by the Danish Committees on Scientific...
Bees; the budget; climate change in schools: March in headlines
Here, Blue & Green Tomorrow rounds up some of March’s biggest headlines – a month that rippled with debates over the protection of bees, the removal of climate change from parts of the national curriculum and George Osborne’s latest budget speech. According to a study published in the Nature...
Jane Goodall: ‘If humans are the most intelligent beings on Earth, why are we destroying it?’
Dame Jane Goodall is a world-renowned pioneer in the study of chimpanzee behaviour, a UN messenger of peace, an ethologist and an anthropologist – one who has made fascinating advances in our perception of the connection between primates and humans. Today, on Goodall’s 79th birthday, Emma Websdale looks back...
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