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Earlier ruling said expansion plan was illegal as government had not considered its climate commitments The supreme court has overturned a February judgment that a third runway at Heathrow airport was illegal. It means the project can now seek planning permission, but the ultimate completion of the runway remains uncertain. The supreme court ruling marks

Environment Agency urges people in flood zones to plan ahead as Met Office forecasts wet January and February The next couple of months are likely to be wetter than normal in the UK, experts have warned, raising the prospect of flooding. The Environment Agency’s executive director of operations, John Curtin, said teams around the country

I often think it’s comical That Nature always does contrive   That every boy and every gal   That’s born into the world alive     Is either a little Liberal     Or else a little Conservative! Gilbert and Sullivan, Iolanthe, Act II In Radical Uncertainty, Mervyn King and I identify what we call the Viniar fallacy, after the former CFO

Action points for first 100 days of Joe Biden presidency seen as boost to international action currently falling behind The US will hold a climate summit of the world’s major economies early next year, within 100 days of Joe Biden taking office, and seek to rejoin the Paris agreement on the first day of his

One of the fundamental steps to achieving net zero is to increase home energy efficiency, writes Mike Thornton. Plus letters from Tony Jones, Dr Bruce McLeod, Daniel Scharf and Richard Hale We will all benefit from a carbon-free future – so the Climate Change Committee’s new route map to address the climate emergency is a

Minister tells more than 80 world leaders that not enough is being done The world is still not on track to fulfil the 2015 Paris climate agreement, the UK’s business secretary Alok Sharma warned, after a summit of more than 70 world leaders on the climate crisis ended with few new commitments on greenhouse gas

By Quamrul HaiderDec 11 2020 (IPS-Partners) Today marks the fifth anniversary of the Paris Accord hammered out by more than 190 countries at the 21st Conference of Parties (COP21). The core objective of the accord is to save humanity from the existential threat posed by climate change. To that end, the participating nations agreed to

Water quality policy for agricultural lands seeks to improve water quality by changing farmer behavior. We investigate farmer behavior in three water quality regimes that differ by rule structure to examine the fit and interplay of each policy within its social-ecological context, important aspects for improving water quality. Vermont, USA’s practice-based policy requires the adoption