Environment Page
Environmental news and issue from Nottingham, the East Midlands and beyond.
Whether it is climate change, loss of bio diversity or pollution of your local area, you will have a real concern about the environment. If you don’t, then you must be burying your head in the sand, and it is time to stop doing that, before it is too late.
This page is here to help you to do just that.
We will be posting events and news as soon we are made aware of them. If you are putting on an event and you want a bit of extra publicity, then send us a link.
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Is the world about to promise to ditch fossil fuels?
BBC

The UN climate change conference in Dubai is close to a big breakthrough on reducing the gases heating our planet, its United Arab Emirates hosts believe.
Expressing "cautious optimism", the UAE negotiating team believes COP28 is gearing up to commit to phasing down fossil fuels over coming decades.
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NOW WE RISE
Nottingham Climate Justice Coalition
9th Dec
Trinity Square, Nottingham

Temperatures are rising. Corporate profits are rising. Now we’re rising.
The hottest summer on record. Politicians backtracking on climate commitments. Continued corporate profiteering fuelling the climate and cost of living crises. It’s time for us to take action.
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Host country of COP28, UAE, to ramp up oil production, BBC learns
BBC

The country hosting COP28 climate talks aimed at cutting fossil fuel emissions is massively ramping up its own oil production, the BBC has learned.
The United Arab Emirates' state oil firm Adnoc may drill 42% more by 2030, according to analysts considered the international gold standard in oil market intelligence.
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UN Climate Change Conference - United Arab Emirates
Until 12 Dec
2023

At the COP28 opening today all parties showed solidarity by agreeing to operationalize the loss and damage fund and funding arrangements.
Amid scenes of applause and jubilation in the Plenary Hall, several countries pledged money to the fund totaling some $300 million.
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The Gift
A Christmas Ghost Story
by Guy Jones
On the top floor of an old Victorian house, that should be empty, there is a light on. A low light. A candle light.
And next to the light, just visible ... or was it my ... a figure ... and was it ... was she looking straight at me?
She? Yes, it was a girl.
All proceeds go toward HotHouse Theatre's Edinburgh Fund
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Tuesday College Support Volunteer
Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust
Idle Valley, North Road, Retford, Nottinghamshire

We're looking for passionate volunteers to help share their enthusiasm for nature with young people at Idle Valley
As part of our activities with Rotherham and North Nottinghamshire College, The Trust offers brief sessions on Tuesdays to young people with special educational needs at the Idle Valley Nature Reserve during term times.
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Climate change: US and China take 'small but important steps'
BBC

The US and China have agreed on measures to tackle climate change but stopped short of committing to end fossil fuels, a joint statement said.
The world's biggest carbon emitters will step up co-operation on methane and support global efforts to triple renewable energy by 2030.
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Carbon budget for 1.5°C will run out in six years at current emissions levels
The Conversation

If humanity wants to have a 50-50 chance of limiting global warming to 1.5°C, we can only emit another 250 gigatonnes (billion metric tonnes) of CO₂. This effectively gives the world just six years to get to net zero, according to calculations in our new paper published in Nature Climate Change.
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Forests are vital to protect the climate, yet the world is falling far behind its targets
The Conversation

The world is falling behind on commitments to protect and restore forests, according to the recent Forest Declaration Assessment. There is no serious pathway to fixing climate change while forest losses continue at current rates, because global climate targets, sustainable development goals and forest commitments depend on each other.
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Storm Ciarán is breaking records
and research suggests more severe weather in future

Storm Ciarán made landfall in south-west England and northern France overnight on November 1, with heavy rain and winds blowing up to 180 kilometers per hour (108 mph).
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Climate Science Breakthrough

Climate scientists are tearing their hair out, so why are millions not in the streets demanding #ClimateActionNow?
Watch and share @MrNishKumar
helping @FrediOtto
rouse the masses in the latest punchy "Climate Science Translated" video!
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Rapid ice melt in west Antarctica now inevitable, research shows
Guardian

Accelerated ice melt in west Antarctica is inevitable for the rest of the century no matter how much carbon emissions are cut, research indicates. The implications for sea level rise are “dire”, scientists say, and mean some coastal cities may have to be abandoned.
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The Hockey Stick
Uncharted with Hannah Fry
BBC

In 1998, the climate scientist Michael Mann published a simple graph shaped like an ice hockey stick: a long straight line which curves suddenly upward at the end. It was based on decades of intrepid work by scientists around the world. But the line held a stark warning. For Michael, notoriety, abuse and a global battle over the reality of climate change followed.
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Ban Bee Killing Pesticides NOW
38Degrees

Despite the Government promising to keep UK environment standards in line with the EU after Brexit, there are still 36 highly hazardous pesticides allowed in the UK that are banned in the EU, some of which are highly toxic to bees.
We, the public, demand you bring UK standards back in line with the EU to protect our bees, human health, the agriculture industry and the environment.
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Mountbatten Hospice Wing Walk 2024
Emily Jones
In 2024, I am taking to the skies and taking part in the first charity Wing Walk on the Isle of Wight in aid of the wonderful Mountbatten Hospice on the island who looked after my lovely Dad and our whole family in his final weeks.
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Why Britain is mourning the Sycamore Gap tree
Guardian

When the famous Sycamore Gap tree, thought to be more than 300 years old, was cut down last week it caused not just anger but deep sadness. The Guardian north of England correspondent Robyn Vinter travelled to Hadrian’s Wall to report on it and was struck by the grief people felt. Even the police on the scene had stories to tell of their personal connections to the tree, which had become one of the most photographed in Britain.
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Pressure on nature threatens many flowering plants with extinction
BBC

Forty-five per cent of the world's known flowering plants could be threatened by extinction, scientists have warned.
Those under threat include orchids, varieties of pineapple, and many important crop species.
Of the nearly 19,000 new plants and fungi species discovered since 2020, 77% are thought to be endangered.
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A slacker’s guide to climate-friendly gardening
The Conversation

A pristine garden can come with an environmental cost. The chemicals we use to kill weeds and bugs rely on fossil fuels, and can disrupt local wildlife.
But gardening doesn’t have to be a guilt-inducing chore. In fact, it can be a liberating act of eco-conscious laziness.
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China makes developers pay compensation for their ecological impacts
The Conversation

In 2017, the Chinese environmental NGO, Friends of Nature, sued the developer of a dam in Yunnan province in the country’s south west. The NGO alleged that the project’s environmental impact assessment had failed to fully capture how the dam would affect the surrounding rainforest, and particularly the endangered green peafowl that lives there.
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Community Group Survey
Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust

We want to create a Wilder Nottinghamshire by 2030, where 1 in 4 people are taking positive action for nature and the climate, and where at least one third of land and water in Nottinghamshire is in recovery for nature, with pressures reduced on wildlife everywhere else.
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Why your perception of climate change threats might depend on where you live
new research
The Conversation

Our planet has just seen its hottest month on record, with many places on fire or flooded. Few events can be directly attributed to climate change, but the likelihood of extreme weather keeps increasing – and people are noticing.
However, not everyone notices or feels this threat to the same extent. Our new research shows there is a contrast in how people in different locations perceive this threat, largely along urban and rural lines.
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