A report looking into the role of marine reserves in boosting ecosystem resilience to climate change.
The IPCC (Integovernmental Panel on Climate Change) is warning that we have eroded the ocean's ability to cope with and mitigate the consequences of global warming. They recommend that we reduce our exploitation levels of marine fish and other maritime activities in order to improve the resilience of our seas and oceans and ultimately safeguard their role in stabilising the climate.
Our report uncovers endemic corruption and impunity in the Democratic Republic of Congo's logging sector at a time when key decisions that will determine the future of the rainforests are about to be made by the World Bank.
Eon has applied to the DTI for permission to build two supercritical coal-fired generating units at Kingsnorth Power Station in Kent. This is the full text of Greenpeace's letter to Alistair Darling of the DTI, objecting to the proposal because the new units would perpetuate a highly carbon-intensive and inefficient form of energy generation and would go against government policy on both climate change and energy sources. Greenpeace is demanding an inquiry into the application.
This review looks at the impacts that climate change will have on the coastal environment around a selection of power station sites, over the lifetime of both existing and proposed nuclear reactors, and examines the risks to which they would be exposed by rising tide levels, coastal erosion and storm surges. It also highlights the even more disastrous consequences that would ensue upon the loss of a significant area of land-based ice such as the Greenland ice shelf, which could result in a catastrophic global sea level rise.
The £15 to £20 billion figure stated by the Government and the media hides the real cost of replacing Trident. Using publicly available government figures, including their own running cost estimates, the real cost of replacing Trident is £76 billion. That is equivalent to over £4500 per British family, or approximately 40 per cent of Ministry of Defence conventional weapons purchases each year.
The climatologists who make up the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) have just confirmed that the science of climate change is more certain than ever - including the devastating impacts that are a consequence of a warming world. The need to act urgently and effectively has never been more acute. Yet despite fine words about the problem, the UK government's response is to usher in a new generation of climate damaging coal fired power stations, and attempt to spin their failure on climate change as a success.
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