Category Archives: Climate

Fridays for Future is a youth-led global climate strike movement. Its goal is to put moral pressure on politicians to take the forceful action to limit global warming that the world’s scientists tell us is needed. They have called a Global Climate Strike on September 24th. The map on the strike web page shows whereContinue reading “Global strike for the climate”

A new report by Climate Action Tracker highlights the failure of every one of the developed nations, and almost every one of the developing nations, to meet the pledges they have made to reduce their carbon emissions in order to meet the goals of the Paris climate accord of 2015. Pledges which themselves insufficient toContinue reading “World’s leading economies failing to meet their climate pledges”

That seems to be what a survey of mentions on UK television has found. “Cake” was mentioned ten times as often as “climate change”, and “banana bread” more often than “wind power” and “solar power” combined. See this Guardian article for details of the survey. We seem to be too busy consuming to notice theContinue reading “Is cake more important to us than climate change?”

Warwickshire Climate Alliance presents … Register for a free ticket here. Pensions investments into fossil fuels are currently prolonging their extraction and use, at a time when all reputable scientific opinion holds that these must cease within a very few years if we are to avoid catastrophe. Fossil fuel investments only represent the “best option” forContinue reading “Pensions and Climate Change”

In this article from the online magazine Social Europe, two of the lawyers who fought the court case commented on in our previous post, describe the legal consequences of the ruling. The term “historic” may be well-deserved. Lawyers, sharpen your pencils!

A court case brought by a group of young environmental activists has succeeded in forcing the German government to step up its efforts to combat climate change. Judges in the country’s highest court ordered the government to strengthen legislation before the end of the year, to protect future generations — and the government has agreed.Continue reading “‘Historic’ German ruling says climate goals not tough enough”

Our online Climate Hustings took place on April 19th. Continue reading to access a recording… Nearly 200 people registered on Eventbrite. For reasons unknown, the upgrade to our Zoom license to accommodate everyone did not take effect, and so only 100 were able to attend. We apologise to those who were unable to join theContinue reading “Climate Hustings”

Representatives from the Greens, Liberal Democrats, Labour and the Conservatives will answer questions from the public, with Alan Heap, from Purple Monster, in the chair. To ask a question, please send it by the evening of Thursday April 8th, to info@warwickshireclimatealliance.org

The study estimates 10.2 million deaths in 2012 were due to fine particulates, dropping to 8.5 million in 2018. Of the 2012 total, 62% were in China (3.9 million) and India (2.5 million). The figures are more than twice as high as previously believed. See the Guardian report from Feb 9th and the published study,Continue reading “New study shows fine particulates from fossil fuels caused 8.5 million excess deaths in 2018”

Following up on yesterday’s post about the French “case of the century”, here is a link to a report from the United Nations Environment Programme, UNEP, released last month, on global climate litigation. By July 2020, the number of climate change cases had grown to more than 1,550, filed in 38 countries. Hopefully, this growingContinue reading “Climate change in the courts”