Two podcasts exploring the possibilities and challenges, including production, distribution and costs, of building hydrogen into the UK energy system.
The future of hydrogen in our energy system
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SCA News: UK
The extraordinary story of peat and carbon
This new short animation explores the extraordinary story of peat and carbon, by IUCN UK Peatland Programme.
Where does your supermarket rank in the latest plastics league table?
Greenpeace and the Environmental Investigation Agency report on what supermarkets are really doing to cut plastic.
Decarbonisation and recarbonisation: Understanding the net zero challenge
Jonathon Porritt explains how securing a stable climate for the future of humankind depends as much on recarbonising natural systems, as it does on decarbonising our industrial economy.
Opposition to new Cumbria coal mine
The UK government’s decision to allow a new coal mine in west Cumbria is criticised by campaigners, scientists and the UK’s own Committee on Climate Change, for increasing emissions and undermining the UK’s credibility in COP26 climate negotiations. Sign Greenpeace’s petition.
Feed trees to sheep to cut greenhouse gases?
It is estimated that one kilogramme of nitrous oxide warms the atmosphere about 300 times the amount than one kilogramme of carbon dioxide does over a 100-year timescale, so anything that reduces nitrous oxide emissions is worth considering seriously. Scientists from...
Over 50 countries pledge to protect 30% of the planet for nature by 2030
The pledge will be a key discussion theme at a biodiversity summit later this year, but there is scepticism about whether countries will actually deliver on it, given the world’s failure to meet a single one of the 20 Aichi biodiversity targets agreed in Japan in 2010.
Do you know where your pension money is invested?
Make My Money Matter have obtained a Christmas message from Guy Byrne-Woods, the CEO of Forestry Felling Syndicate! ““On behalf of the global logging industry, I want to reach out to say a HUGE thank you, for all your support this year. People like YOU have collectively invested hundreds of millions of pounds with us…[in]..YOUR pension funds and savings”
Tell UK government to phase out oil and gas production
Sign Oil Change International’s letter calling on the UK government to halt its policy that makes maximising economic oil and gas production a legal obligation.
Grants for tree planting
Three sources of funding for tree planting.