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CIVIC PLAN FOR A CLIMATE EMERGENCY

Building the 1.5 city:

Discussion document for policy makers & civic leaders

By Paul Chatterton, School of Geography, University of Leeds, UK. Full text HERE

This climate emergency is also a ‘city emergency’. Most of the world’s population will soon be urban. Cities are locked in to high energy throughputs, are responsible for about three-quarters of global GHGs and energy use, have ecological…

Oslo takes bold steps to reduce air pollution, improve livability

Source: https://www.unenvironment.org/news-and-stories/story/oslo-takes-bold-steps-reduce-air-pollution-improve-livability 

Norway’s capital city Oslo, home to over 670,000 people, is boldly pushing forward with a range of measures to improve air quality for the city’s inhabitants. Oslo is one of 42 cities who take part in Breathe Life, a campaign led by the World Health Organization, UN…

Op-Ed: “After 25 years of failure, we should abandon the UNFCCC”

By Chandra Bhushan, deputy director general of the Centre for Science and Environment in New Delhi. Published Climate Change News on 27/03/2019,  Because of its importance, we reproduce it here in its entirety. With thanks.

Emissions are at record levels and the international  treaty designed  to rein them  in cannot  drive action.   It is time for new ideas to be explored

“While we’ve made…