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Ed’s note: Energy poverty in our own backyard

Smart Energy International

It brings together academics, policymakers and various experts in the field of energy poverty for a series of seminars, workshops and discussions. Today, it is focused on Latin America, tomorrow on Europe (my own backyard), Thursday on Asia and Friday on Africa.

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A Growing Wave of Litigation Spurs Climate Action

DeSmogBlog

In France, three non-governmental organizations sued the oil company Total over alleged “inadequate” environmental and human rights assessments of its oil project in Uganda and Tanzania. These are just a handful of the hundreds of cases of climate litigation that have arisen worldwide over the past few years.

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Why and how to visit the Scientific Laboratory Show and Conference 2022

Envirotec Magazine

Tara has presented TV programmes including Brave New World with Stephen Hawking in 2011, the BBC’s Expedition Borneo and her discovery of Nile Crocodiles in West Africa was the subject of an acclaimed BBC 2 Natural World Documentary, Lost Crocodiles of the Pharaohs. Professor Richard Wiseman.