Tag: climate crisis

“The biodiversity crisis is a crisis because it won’t just kill the plants and animals it is killing, it will kill us too."

In 2015, the chance of exceeding the key threshold for global warming was zero.

"These events drive home the urgency of action," one scientist said.

Only 35 out of 495 serious incidents of water and waste crimes were carried forward, despite its own conclusion that all should be prosecuted.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned that many impacts of the climate crisis were already "irreversible".

“Commercial travel options were not possible for this trip due to the foreign secretary’s busy schedule, and would have been more expensive," the government's foreign office said in defence of the Tory secretary.

A senior lecturer in air pollution said airports put millions across UK and European cities at risk of death and several health issues.

“The problem is that we already have a government of climate delay, which by failing to take the necessary action on everything from energy efficiency to the deployment of onshore wind has left us more vulnerable as a country."

The government only mentioned “the green industrial revolution and transition to net zero” second bottom on a list of 16 priorities.