SKY news have sent their A team to "report from the front line of the climate disaster" Madagascar and Brazil.
That figure is just for direct CO2 emissions, it doesn't include all the flights we take, or all the goods we import etc. We're the third biggest aviation polluting nation, after the USA and China and one of the largest importers of goods from the Far East. We can make a difference (albeit a relatively small one).
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos announces a $2 billion pledge allocated directly to restoring nature, as part of a $10 billion commitment to tackle climate change.
She herself says she's uneducated, partly due to her condition and partly due to her lack of school attendance. Her words confirm this.
If they were going there to actually do something I would be less critical but it's just another talking shop.
It's a good start but he can obviously afford to pledge a lot more. It's considerably less than Amazon's weekly profit.
The office of the US president is not permitted to take a commercial flight (any plane he gets on becomes Air Force One and nobody but his staff is permitted on it), the same applies many other world leaders, it's a complete red herring.
Be interesting to see how it compared to a regular croissant Interesting little snip from the BBC coverage this morning… please log in to view this image
I’m off to Tenerife in January for some serious discussions about this climate change malarkey Probably plant a few winter flowering violas and pansys to cover it All good
The government making internal flights cheaper is certainly more damaging and daft than how the delegates turned up for this conference.
Agreed. I just read somewhere that our pensions fund a higher CO2 emittal than the UK's carbon footprint.
Yeah I understand she said that too. She’s clearly a bit more than that. I would rather listen to experts to be honest.
