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Many Brits will back ban on goods related to deforestation

Many Brits will back ban on goods related to deforestation: Nearly 60% of the British people would like to have the UK government ban imports of products connected to deforestation. That’s reported from a current poll by Ipsos MORI that investigates the degree of public support for a variety of measures by the UK government…

Global Warming Current Status – Full Review

Global Warming Current Status – Full Review Global Warming Current Status: How Critical is Global Warming Now? At this point, global warming’s current status is critical. There is no doubt about that. How do we know this? There’s more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere today than at any point in time in the last 800,000…

UK unites to cut deforestation in the Peruvian Amazon

6th June 2021

Heather Trudeau

amazon, deforestation, Efficiency & Environment, Finance & Markets, germany, investment, Norway, Peru, rainforest, UK, US

UK unites to cut deforestation in the Peruvian Amazon: The UK is teaming up with the US, Germany, Norway & Peru to improve efforts and assist in the reduction of deforestation in the Peruvian Amazon rainforest by 2025. Last week Ministers from the countries signed a Joint Declaration of Intent, indicating their help to Peru…

The end to new overseas coal funding in 2021

The end to new overseas coal funding in 2021 In a pledge made recently, G7 countries have agreed to prevent all new direct funding for coal power projects in all developing countries by the end of 2021. They are also committed to the acceleration to switch from unbated coal capacity to an ‘overwhelmingly decarbonised’ power…

Forest Groups warn Drax shareholders of Pinnacle Pellets

Forest Groups warn Drax shareholders of Pinnacle Pellets: New maps show critical primary forests and endangered species habitat in British Columbia overlap with pellet facility wood sourcing across an area equivalent to 1.4 million football pitches 23rd March 2021, London, England and Unceded Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nation Territories (Vancouver, British Columbia) — …

UK gives £3bn of climate finance to nature & biodiversity

UK gives £3bn of climate finance to nature & biodiversity: Prime Minister Boris Johnson has made a promise to invest as much as £3 billion of international climate finance on nature and biodiversity covering the next 5 years. Programmes assisted by the funding will contain the flagship Blue Planet Fund for marine conversation, plans to…

Government reports £12m to plant 500 hectares of trees

6th December 2020

Heather Trudeau

carbon capture, carbon dioxide emissions, deforestation, Efficiency & Environment, forestry, net-zero, Policy

Government reports £12m to plant 500 hectares of trees: The government has reported a £12.1 million fund for planting 500 hectares of trees throughout the UK within the next 5 months. The new program will support ten neighbourhood forests in areas including Yorkshire, Manchester & Bristol. It is expected the trees will house 100,000 tonnes…

Wood pellets burned linked to forest degradation

2nd December 2020

Heather Trudeau

biomass, carbon, Climate, deforestation, Drax Group, Environment, eu, Europe, Renewable energy, solar power, Sustainability, UK, wildlife, wind power

biomass, carbon, Climate, deforestation, drax group, Environment, eu, Europe, Renewable energy, solar power, Sustainability, UK, wildlife, windpower, yorkshire

Wood pellets burned linked to forest degradation : Wood pellet use by Drax Plc in Yorkshire, together with bioenergy demand from other countries in Europe, is driving intensive clearcutting in protected forests in Estonia and Latvia, a new report reveals. Hidden inside a wood pellet: intensive logging impacts in Estonian and Latvian forests,[1] published by…

deforestation

Many Brits will back ban on goods related to deforestation

Global Warming Current Status – Full Review

UK unites to cut deforestation in the Peruvian Amazon

The end to new overseas coal funding in 2021

Forest Groups warn Drax shareholders of Pinnacle Pellets

UK gives £3bn of climate finance to nature & biodiversity

Government reports £12m to plant 500 hectares of trees

Wood pellets burned linked to forest degradation

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