A Cornish eco-hotel where world leaders will meet for a G7 summit has felled trees and dug up shurbs to build new meeting rooms ahead of the event.
Carbis Bay Hotel in St Ives has faced fury from campaigners after mature trees were removed before planning permission was sought to create three rooms.
An application was submitted on Monday. If rejected, the work carried out so far will have to be reversed.
World leaders including Boris Johnson, Justin Trudeau, and potentially Joe Biden are expected to visit Carbis Bay Hotel in June for the G7 summit to discuss climate change.
Prince Charles has penned an article for Waitrose s weekly newspaper claiming the fundamental value of nature is increasingly at stake as he praised the John Lewis Partnership for becoming the first retailer to sign up to his ambitious Terra Carta.
Writing in the supermarket s free Waitrose Weekend publication, the Prince of Wales, 72, said the world is at a tipping point as it faces the triple threat of climate change, catastrophic biodiversity loss and now coronavirus .
He addressed the fierce and urgent need to secure a sustainable future, which is why he launched his Terra Carta.
Charles s Earth Charter initiative, which has parallels with the Magna Carta, aims to encourage the private sector to safeguard the planet by adopting sustainability and to invest £7.3billion in natural capital by 2022.
Floods, humidity and rising temperatures caused by climate change threaten thousands of National Trust sites, the charity warns today.
It has developed a game-changing map to illustrate the risks facing some of its most famous and culturally significant sites.
The tool is based on a worst-case scenario failure to drive down carbon emissions over the coming decades, and highlights potential hazards in specific locations.
The likes of Ham House on the Thames, Lyme Park in Cheshire and Birling Gap in East Sussex are all feared to be in danger.
Floods, humidity and rising temperatures caused by climate change threaten thousands of National Trust sites, the charity warns today. Pictured: The Cherry Garden at Ham House on the Thames, which is at risk from climate change
While Britain left the orbit of the European Court of Justice on December 31, it has agreed to apply ECJ judgements in any case initiated while it was still a member.
Global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions still need to decrease tenfold to avoid a climate emergency, scientists warn, despite a global fall in 2020 due to Covid-19.
An international team of experts has performed a global stocktake of humanity s progress towards the Paris Agreement – which aims to keep the global average temperature rise to well below 3.6ºF (2°C), compared to pre-industrial levels.
They found global CO2 emissions fell by around 2.6 billion tonnes in 2020, a decrease of about 7 per cent from 2019 levels.
This fall – the largest decrease observed to date – was due to reduced human activity under the lockdowns intended to curb the spread of coronavirus.