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29 November 2024
In This Climate: Did COP29 actually achieve anything?
Keir Starmer was one of only a few major leaders who headed to Azerbaijan for the COP29 climate conference in Baku. We assembled a panel to react to whether the conference will help us in fighting the climate crisis.
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26 November 2024
In This Climate: Stuart Goldsmith is trying to make the climate crisis funny
Stand-up comedian Stuart Goldsmith recently wrote an entire show about the climate crisis. Here, he tells us about trying to get laughs out of the most serious subject imaginable.
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25 November 2024
In This Climate: How fast fashion is destroying the world
When I was asked to create a piece of writing on the climate crisis, I struggled to find a way to minimise this enormous issue into one blog. Through research, I found that the fashion industry is having devastating effects on our planet.
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21 November 2024
In This Climate: Mother Earth's struggle and the power we hold
Climate change. We've all heard of it by now. Polar bears. Ice caps. Rising sea levels. The works. Doom is upon us, but there’s always hope.
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20 November 2024
In This Climate: Change... it's up to us
Climate change. It’s a big issue that affects all of us and the majority of people want to do something to help slow it down, but it can be overwhelming. Find out what you can do to help.
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19 November 2024
David Attenborough: My Climate Hero
In recent years, Attenborough has become much more than a natural historian; he’s a climate change hero, determined to wake us up to the reality of the environmental crisis.
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19 November 2024
In This Climate: Wren James explains how books might save us all
Wren James is the author of several books about the climate crisis, as well as the founder of the Climate Fiction Writers League — a collective of writers dedicated to getting the word out there about the state humanity is in.
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22 June 2023
Far Out: in to the future
A comedic telling about the catastrophic future awaiting us.
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22 November 2022
COP 27 Roundup
A look at the key achievements and agreements from this year’s climate conference in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt.
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5 November 2022
COP 27: is it too little too late?
Ahead of COP 27, I ask whether political summits are as effective as we need them to be, and look at the goals for this year’s summit in Egypt.
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28 July 2022
Strettfest review: An ideal family day out!
On the theme of ‘carbon zero’, this lively event aimed to bring all generations together for a celebration of dance, music, and the visual arts.
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2 July 2021
BBC Bitesize amends climate change 'benefits' page
The page on the educational website has been changed only to explain the negative effects of climate change after outrage from social media.
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21 June 2021
CogX - The heat is on: The greatest threat to our national security
Sweta Chakraborty: “The climate crisis is changing everything”. How climate is impacting countries’ national security.
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9 June 2021
Interview with activist, author and poet Moses Uyang
"To all young people I say, the world wants to listen to you! If you do not speak up, no one may know what you want."
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4 June 2021
Interview with climate change environmentalist, Paul Lodry
"If nothing is done to reach sustainable development in 2030, we will be in an international apocalyptic era. There is no second earth."
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24 May 2021
Trials to extract CO2 from atmosphere begin in UK
Atmosphere-heating carbon dioxide will be sucked from the air using trees, peat, rock chips, and charcoal in a new £30 million nationwide project.
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12 May 2021
Leading fashion retailers join sustainable initiative Textiles 2030
WRAP, the UK’s leading sustainability non-profit, has created the Textiles 2030 action plan, and major fashion brands such as Primark and ASOS have signed up.
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9 May 2021
Debunking climate myths: protected areas
I weigh out pros and cons of protected areas, looking into biodiversity, climate change, and human rights.