Analysis: How will England’s strategies for trees and peat help achieve net-zero by 2050?
Plans to plant millions of trees and restore swathes of peatland across England are at the heart of two new UK government strategies to...
A New Guide to the First Amendment for Scientists
This is a re-post from the Climate Science Legal Defense Fund
Today we published A Pocket Guide for Scientists: The First Amendment to help scientists understand how this...
Government publishes much-anticipated LNG policy statement
18 May 2021
The Government has issued its highly anticipated policy statement on Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) imports.
The statement notably includes a moratorium on the...
Peatland restoration promises climate and biodiversity solutions
18 May 2021
Peatland restoration is one of the most promising solutions to the dual climate and biodiversity crises in Ireland, an Oireachtas Committee heard...
Hurricane Sandy caused an ‘extra $8bn’ damage due to human-caused sea level rise
More than $8bn of the damage caused by Hurricane Sandy in 2012 was due to the increase in sea levels caused by human-caused climate...
Campaigners call for MPAs to be enshrined in law
17 May 2021
Extinction Rebellion Ireland
are demanding the Government enshrine Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) into Irish
law through a newly launched initiative.
Their #SeaChange
campaign is...
IEA: Renewables should overtake coal ‘within five years’ to secure 1.5C goal
The world needs a “radical” shift towards renewables to reach net-zero emissions by 2050 and secure the 1.5C goal, says the International Energy Agency...
SEAI: Covid-19 lockdown led to major drop in energy-related emissions
17 May 2021
Covid-19 restrictions
in Ireland had a significant impact on energy use and related carbon dioxide
emissions in 2020.
According to a study
by the Sustainable...
Guest post: Lessons learned from five years of extreme weather ‘rapid attribution’
In the immediate aftermath of an extreme weather event, a common question arises around how much human-caused climate change contributed to its likelihood or...
2021 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #20
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