climate emergency

‘Historic disregard’ of nature a ‘catastrophic mistake’, finds report

24.06.2020

Laura Edgar

Climate Change | climate crisis | climate emergency | Environmental | environmental breakdown | International | IPPR | nature crisis | Policy & Politics | UK

Policymakers in the UK and around the world need to ‘wake up’ to the ‘accelerating process of environmental breakdown’, according to think tank IPPR.
News in brief: Green building approved in London; Whitehaven regeneration plans set out

27.05.2020

Laura Edgar

Beeching cuts | biodiversity | Cambridgeshire | City of London Corporation | climate emergency | Future High Streets Fund | Housing | North West Leicestershire District Council | Regeneration | UK

A round-up of planning news: Wednesday 27 May, 2020
Appeal: Paragraph 79 nitrate-filtering eco-home rejected

06.02.2020

Matt Moody

climate emergency | Design | East of England | eco-home | Environmental | green technology | innovation | nitrate neutrality | paragraph 79 | Rural

An inspector has rejected plans for an eco-home in Norfolk that would include a filtration system to remove agricultural chemicals from groundwater, ruling that the design’s technological innovations did not...
News report: How local authorities are facing up to the climate crisis

17.09.2019

Huw Morris

Climate Change | climate emergency | Liverpool | UK

Local authority declarations of climate emergencies have become an epidemic in 2019. Huw Morris investigates