Putin could miss COP26 climate conference October 17, 2021 Vladimir Putin has not decided whether to attend the upcoming COP26 climate conference in Glasgow later this month. Russian ambassador to the UK, Andrei Kelin, told Andrew Marr that a decision on the president’s trip has “not been taken yet”. This follows Wednesday’s comments from the Russian premier that he might avoid the conference due [...]
Scottish Power stops staff catching flights in bid to hold back unnecessary emissions October 17, 2021 Scottish Power, one of the UK’s largest energy suppliers, has stopped its workers from taking domestic flights in a bid to hold back emissions. Staff must now travel by rail between the energy heavyweight’s offices in Glasgow, Liverpool, London and other cities in the country, the Telegraph first reported. The moves comes with the UN’s [...]
Carbon emissions rapidly rising in G20 nations October 15, 2021 Carbon emissions are rebounding across the world’s 20 richest nations, says the latest Climate Transparency Report. The freshly released study states that CO2 emissions are projected to rise by four per cent across the G20 this year due to increasing energy demands in developed economies. This year’s rebound is being powered by coal usage, which is [...]
Prince Harry: Africa’s ‘natural beating heart’ needs to be protected from oil and gas drilling October 15, 2021 Prince Harry has said an area known as a “natural beating heart” of southern Africa must be protected with a moratorium on oil and gas drilling. Starting with rivers in Angola, the Okavango flows through Namibia’s Kavango region to a delta in Botswana, with Harry describing it in 2019 as “this magnificent last Eden”. In [...]
Xi set to snub summit on climate crisis October 15, 2021 Chinese President Xi Jinping will not attend the COP26 climate conference in person. The Times has reported that the Prime Minister Boris Johnson has already been told of Xi’s upcoming absence. The UK is hosting the global summit in Glasgow later this month and over a hundred world leaders are expected to show up. It [...]
Irritated Queen about COP26 in Glasgow: ‘I still don’t know who is coming’ October 15, 2021 The Queen has appeared to suggest she is irritated by a lack of action in tackling the climate crisis, and the monarch still has no clue who will attend the upcoming COP26 conference in Glasgow. Her remarks emerged in clips of a conversation filmed on a phone camera during a trip to Cardiff for the [...]
UK secures £5.8bn of foreign investment for green projects October 15, 2021 As COP26 fast approaches, around 5.8bn of foreign investment has been injected into the UK’s green projects since November last year. It comes alongside some 56,000 new jobs in the UK’s clean and renewables industries, the government said today. The fresh figures follow prime minister Boris Johnson’s ten point plan for a ‘green industrial revolution’ [...]
Net zero: ”Failure to deliver’ is still very much on the cards’, says new HSBC report October 14, 2021 The UK’s manufacturing industry, which produces 12 per cent of the country’s carbon emissions, is in desperate need of financing to reach net zero, according to a new report. The report, by the University College London and supported by HSBC, has urged that the manufacturing sector – a key driver in the UK economy – [...]
Sustainability: ‘Who is ultimately accountable? The board and the CEO’ October 14, 2021 A business’ board and chief executive are the ones ultimately accountable for creating a sustainable company with COP26 on the horizon, according to DS Smith’s sustainability lead. “Sustainability should, as a function, should make itself superfluous,” said Wouter van Tol, head of sustainability at the London listed packaging giant. Speaking at a sustainability roundtable earlier [...]
Volvo launches world’s first fossil-free steel vehicle October 13, 2021 Volvo Group launched today the world’ first vehicle made of fossil-free steel, announcing that more will follow in 2022 as part of the company’s pathway to reach net zero by 2050. Made in collaboration with Swedish company SSAB – which specialises in transforming raw materials into steel – the load carrier for mining and quarrying [...]