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Building over farmland: Will city expansion leave the world hungry?
Nature & Environment

Building over farmland: Will city expansion leave the world hungry?

...Climate Change in Berlin, Germany, who participated in the study. The resulting loss of forests can influence the local climate too. In India, there is enough evidence to believe that forests cleared for agriculture have weakened the summer monsoon rainfall. Interestingly, such cropland losses are not expected to have strong implications for global food security. Navin...
Post-Brexit: we need a new vision for Europe
Nature & Environment

Post-Brexit: we need a new vision for Europe

...climate change and biodiversity meltdown, mass youth unemployment and a humanitarian disaster with thousands dying at our borders, it’s clear that there is an urgent need for a common political vision based not on the neoliberal status quo, but instead on social and environmental justice. Instead of rising to this challenge, European decision-makers have ploughed ahead...
Introducing environment
Nature & Environment

Introducing environment

...climate change is caused by our over-dependence on fossil fuels...so what can we do about it? This is an album with a difference; YOU get the chance to find out how YOUR personal shopping choices are affecting the climate. How addicted to fossil fuels are you? Using the interactive video feature, start off on track 2 and follow the easy instructions at the end of each of...
What is a digital carbon footprint?
Nature & Environment

What is a digital carbon footprint?

...climate change aware in recent years. Accordingly, we have also become aware that our choice of travel, our diet, the things we wear and how we heat our homes all have a climate impact. This impact has become known as a ‘carbon footprint’ and represents the amount of carbon dioxide that our activities or choices have contributed to the atmosphere. Strictly speaking,...
Learning from the Global South
Society, Politics & Law

Learning from the Global South

...change the narrative dominating how human induced climate change is understood. The contributors from Fiji and Aotearoa/New Zealand then take up this baton (film 5) to make clear that the dominant climate narrative is scripted largely by the powerful countries of the Global North, in venues such COP26 in Glasgow. Nevertheless, that narrative can be changed, as the...
Jim Skea - Stories of Change
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Jim Skea - Stories of Change

...Change'...[Jim Skea] Jim Skea has research interests in energy, climate change and technological innovation. He has been RCUK Energy Strategy Fellow since April 2012 and a Professor of Sustainable Energy at Imperial College since 2009. He was Research Director of the UK Energy Research Centre 2004-12 and Director of the Policy Studies Institute 1998-2004. He has operated...
Abbie Barnes - Earth in Vision
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Abbie Barnes - Earth in Vision

...climate change and the impact that global climate change was having on the mountain’s glaciers, the endemic wildlife species, the tourism trade on the local people, so the whole package. And for me that was undoubtedly, hands down, the best, most proud moment for me, summiting that mountain, seeing the glaciers and producing that film as a whole. I did suffer from acute...
The Open University's Carbon Calculator
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The Open University's Carbon Calculator

...Climate Change Assembly Mike Berners Lee, a leading footprint expert, calculated the UK average annual carbon footprint at 12.7 tonnes CO2e per person (Figure 2), just before the COVID-19 lockdowns during which emissions fell significantly before gradually rising again. [Pie chart showing average person's greenhouse gas footprint split by component e.g. Food,...