Ikea has unveiled a new programme that will ensure that all of its direct suppliers are powered by 100% renewable electricity, as the retailer pushes towards its commitment to become climate positive by 2030 by reducing more emissions than the v.
An online climate change dashboard for Essex would show air pollution, traffic and the number of trees planted and electric vehicles on the road. Photos: Pixabay A ‘climate change dashboard’ for Essex is one of the proposals being recommended to find a way of “worming” a way “into the hearts and minds of everybody where it actually really deeply matters to them”. As part of the Essex Climate Change Commission’s recommendation over steps to reduce CO2 impacts in the county, it says an online dashboard that brings together annual carbon figures alongside more readily available data such as numbers of trees planted, air pollution levels, numbers of car-free streets, numbers of electric vehicles, traffic volumes, renewables capacity and tonnes of waste.
Column by the leader of South Gloucestershire Council, Toby Savage. In South Gloucestershire we know that securing our economic recovery, creating jobs and protecting our environment and climate all go hand in hand. They cannot be separate aims. Last weekend, the UN secretary general, António Guterres, urged governments around the world to declare a state of climate emergency until the world reached net zero CO2 emissions. At least 38 countries have already declared a state of climate emergency and the UK was one of the first in the world to do so and has continued to lead the way on the international stage. We made our own declaration in South Gloucestershire in July 2019, and since then we have made sure progress has matched rhetoric.
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