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Britons put planet before profit in their personal savings and expect more action from pension funds and banks, says survey

Envirotec Magazine

Four years after the world’s governments signed the Paris Agreement, thousands of people are taking to the streets in school strikes and Extinction Rebellion protests calling for greater action to meet its target of keeping global warming as close to 1.5 Opinium surveyed 2001 UK adults between September 17th and 27th.

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1.5 and 2°C: A Journey Through the Temperature Target That Haunts the World

DeSmogBlog

Like a chicken and egg dilemma, who came up with these goals first, politics or science? For the first time, it proposed encompassing all the gases that cause global warming in a single indicator. Political Origins of 2°C. The next key moment in the 2°C story is no longer scientific, but political.

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