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Research, part of a special feature on Everyday Adaptations to Climate Change ABSTRACT Mountain environments in East Africa experience more rapid increases in temperature than lower elevations, which, together with changing rainfall patterns, often negatively affect coffee production. However, little is known about the adaptation strategies used by smallholder coffee farmers in Africa. Using the

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They are considered a means of levelling the playing field between countries with differing commitments to cutting carbon EU becomes first leading economy to legislate for ‘green tariff’ on imports Cutting carbon places costs on some industries, particularly those that rely heavily on fossil fuels at present, such as steelmaking, or that emit carbon as

What currency options would be available if Scotland became independent? This pamphlet describes how the globalisation of finance and the digitisation of records have fundamentally changed the nature of money and banking. The author considers the mechanics of a currency transition and concludes that the best option is the continued unilateral use of sterling for

The Met Office has weather warnings in place and travel is disrupted, but how unusual is this for the time of year? Cold air from the Arctic has been pushed over the UK. This has been caused by a high-pressure weather system over Greenland and Iceland moving eastwards towards another high-pressure system over Russia. The

Publication date: March 2023 Source: Ecological Economics, Volume 205 Author(s): Danielle S. Spence, Corinne J. Schuster-Wallace, Patrick Lloyd-Smith

Chair of the museum, George Osborne, says it no longer wants to be a ‘destination for climate protest’ The future for the British Museum could be very different indeed. That was the message from the organisation’s chair George Osborne in his annual speech to Trustees last month, in which he announced a “complete reimagination” of