by Terry Prue | Jul 22, 2024 | Climate Matters, News
As reported in our June Newsletter, the legally binding Paris Agreement of 2015 requires the 196 signatories to pursue efforts “to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels.” Last year average world temperatures reached 1.6°C above...
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...
by Terry Prue | Mar 28, 2024 | Climate Matters, News
The connection between climate change and atmospheric Carbon Dioxide (CO2) was first noted in the 1800s and the French mathematician and physicist Joseph Fourier likened the earth’s atmosphere to a greenhouse, keeping some of the heat from the sun from escaping to...
by Terry Prue | Mar 13, 2024 | Climate Matters, News
This month’s column is a practical look at how following our ancestors’ advice can reduce the energy we use to heat buildings, in both home and business settings. Heating buildings accounts for nearly a quarter of UK CO2 emissions, largely from heating private homes...
by Terry Prue | Oct 21, 2023 | Climate Matters, News
We now publish a regular Climate Matters column in our members’ monthly newsletter – you can see back copies in the ‘Archive’ section of this website. It is of concern to many of us that recent government policy changes seem intent on rolling...
