carbon emissions
Reference: Date: Tue, 12/17/2019 Residents are being urged to share their ideas on how the district council can protect the environment and cut emissions. In October, East Cambridgeshire District Council (ECDC) joined more than 200 councils across the UK to declare a climate emergency at its Full Council meeting.
Global carbon emissions are set to have grown more slowly this year, according to researchers at the University of East Anglia – but they have warned stronger action is needed to reverse trends.
A Norfolk council which refused to declare a climate emergency will encourage tree planting after being urged to prevent “permanent damage and loss”.
A Cambridgeshire and Peterborough independent commission on climate change will be established to advise the county’s public authorities and businesses on how to reduce carbon emissions.
Work by year 6 student Rory Braggins modelling the financial and environmental impacts of switching to more environmentally sustainable inhalers has been just been published in BMJ Open. Working with Alex Wilkinson, (British Thoracic Society) and James Smith, (Public Health and Primary Care), Rory’s work demonstrated that large scale switching to dry powder inhalers could be done…
Both the government and the farming industry have set ambitious “net-zero” carbon emissions targets. But what effect will climate change – and the efforts to mitigate it – have on East Anglia’s farming landscape by 2050?
Metered-dose inhalers contain liquefied, compressed gases that act as a propellant to atomise the drug being delivered and to pump it out to the user. Originally chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), were used as the propellant but these potent greenhouse gases and ozone-depleting substances are now banned. Instead they have been replaced by hydrofluoroalkane (HFA) propellants. While HFAs…
A new report reveals a 25.2% reduction over four years
In his half-hour address, Stephen Toope touched on the prospect of potential strike action over pay, Brexit, and carbon emissions