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  1. Environmental Science

Carbon credits ‘a free pass for polluters’

Certifying Dr West says that while some developers act in good faith, the system itself is set up to fail: “Not every project developer is inflating baselines.  “Some genuinely want to do the right thing, but they’re forced to follow Verra’s approved methodologies. Even with the best intentions, if you follow the “wrong recipe”, you will probably […]
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Hurricane Melissa adds urgency to COP30

The arrival of Hurricane Melissa in Jamaica shows the importance of the upcoming Cop30 climate summit, the British foreign secretary has told his fellow ministers. Jamaica’s government ordered evacuations from high risk areas and shut down the country’s airports as the Category 5 storm approached late on Tuesday. Hurricane Melissa has caused catastrophic flash floods […]
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A critical decade for climate

The same communities in Kenya are restoring degraded local landscapes through native tree planting and removal of invasive species, because when these habitats are thriving they can better reduce vulnerabilities to climate change – supporting water sources, good soil and pasture, controlling erosion, and providing natural defences against extreme weather.  Absorbing In Cabo Verde, communities […]
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‘We must end animal testing

Sepsis is one of the UK’s deadliest health threats, claiming some 48,000 lives annually – that’s more than breast, bowel and prostate cancer combined.  Yet despite decades of research and billions in funding, effective and targeted therapies remain elusive. Why? Because sepsis research is still dominated by cruel experiments on animals that fail to deliver […]
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Bottom trawling ban ‘must be top of agenda’

The British Government has been told to introduce a complete ban on ocean bottom trawling in its waters, as a former environment minister said some companies were treating the seas like a “bottomless pit”. Labour’s Barry Gardiner said trawlers with nets that stretched more than a mile long “scrape away the existence of all life […]
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Hyperscale data centres will ‘turbocharge emissions’

Strain However, incredibly, there is as yet no national level guidance on planning for water use by data centres – and the operators themselves have been unwilling to give detailed information.  The industry likes to talk up its use of air-cooling, or to indicate how much of its water is actually recycled. But air-cooling and […]
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Sovereign forests

There might be ways to harvest resources responsibly, but a cleaner option is a shift in cultural attitudes to reduce consumption among industrialised nations. Public outcry could leverage pressure on politicians to enlarge ranges for flora and fauna.  Profit Considering the waste that has resulted over the past hundreds of years by industrial societies, modern […]
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The real power brokers

Similarly, the big four professional services companies – Deloitte, EY, KPMG, PWC – all make fortunes helping the fossil fuel industry. While they generally talk a good game on climate action, in reality, they aren’t in the business of putting major clients out of business.  Extraction Together, these firms produce a vast economic interest vested in the status quo, […]
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