by Terry Prue | Dec 17, 2024 | Climate Matters, News
In September’s Climate Matters I presented the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, launched in 2015 as an ambitious plan to transform the world by 2030. The 17 goals were broken down into 169 targets. Approaching the two-thirds point of this 15-year plan,...
by Terry Prue | Nov 28, 2024 | Climate Matters, News
For a change of subject and viewpoint, this month’s Climate Matters is a guest article from a local , Dr. Harrison Watler MRCVS describing his work with a sea turtle charity. You may think that sea turtles are not part of our local marine fauna, but ocean...
by Terry Prue | Oct 23, 2024 | Climate Matters, News
With the recent announcement of £22 billion pounds investment in carbon storage and capture research by the new government, it is pertinent to ask whether technological solutions may allow the planet to avoid the worst ravages of climate change. The magnitude of the...
by Terry Prue | Sep 27, 2024 | Climate Matters, News
Climate Matters has focussed particularly on the dangers and causes of climate change. However, climate change is just one facet, albeit a massive one, of the overall degradation of the planet caused by unrestrained growth. Sir David Attenborough said some years ago:...
by Terry Prue | Jul 22, 2024 | Climate Matters, News
There are some that believe either that the facts that the earth is warming aren’t true, or give it different interpretations, such as this warming being due to a natural cycle in Earth’s climate, despite all the scientific consensus to the contrary. These...
by Terry Prue | Jun 21, 2024 | Climate Matters, News
In December 2015 196 parties at the UN Climate Change Conference in Paris adopted the Paris Agreement, a legally binding international treaty on climate change. Its overarching goal is to hold “the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2°C above...
