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Nobody is listening to climate scientists. What if they went on strike?

Grist

In an article published in the academic news outlet The Conversation last week (and in the academic journal Climate and Development last month ), three scientists from New Zealand, including a former lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, argued that the world’s climate experts should take action — by not taking action.

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Net zero innovators receive £24 million cash boost from UK government

Envirotec Magazine

Along with other key stakeholders including local authorities and Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs), these ‘local industrial clusters’ will develop coordinated and collaborative decarbonisation plans that will kickstart their journey towards a low-carbon future.

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West Berkshire Council launches UK's first local government green bond

Business Green

West Berkshire Council has today launched what is being described as the UK's first local government green bond in a bid to raise £1m from residents to fund solar panel installations on five council-owned buildings, as the local authority pushes towards its goal of net zero emissions within the next decade.

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Virgin Group company to restore damaged 6.4-MW solar facility on St. Thomas

Renewable Energy World

The facility is expected to be completed and enter service in the fourth quarter of this year and will sell the power it generates to the Virgin Island Power and Water Authority (VIWAPA) under a newly negotiated 25-year Power Purchase Agreement. This will be the second project BMR Energy will operate to provide electricity for the utility.

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Category 6-level hurricanes are already here, a new study says

Grist

A super-hurricane is brewing in the Atlantic Ocean in the opening pages of The Displacements , a novel by Bruce Holsinger published in 2022. The Gulf of Mexico hasn’t seen a storm with such high winds in the modern era, but the authors found that conditions in the region are already ripe for a Category 6.

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Conference aims to provide answers in relation to Government woodland ambitions

Envirotec Magazine

“Spurred on by the COP26 climate summit, local authorities, environmental charities and businesses are enthusing about planting more trees,” says conference organiser Dr Bruce Howard.

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Major Polluter Drax Among Government-Backed Companies Donating to Northern Tory MPs

DeSmogBlog

Drax sponsored a panel entitled “next steps for levelling up the north”, in which Bruce Heppenstall, the director of the wood-fired power station, spoke alongside Michelle Dewberry of GB News, Dehenna Davison, and Sir Howard Bernstein, the former chief executive of Manchester City Council. “We