Tag: climate

In this special blog for the International Day of Forests, we take a look at the successes of a major European action plan to fight deforestation and illegal timber flows

With the 21st Conference of the Parties (CoP21) underway in Paris, our Climate Campaigner, Adela Putinelu, lays out daily behavioural changes that can make a difference including dietary change, electricity consumption, checking the energy investments of your bank, reusing and recycling and using your consumer power.

With the Paris Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (CoP21) around the corner, it is important to remind ourselves that climate change is the greatest threat facing this and future generations. Doing nothing is not an option and CoP21 is an opportunity to take urgent action.

While the date might not have been pinned to your fridge door, it’s probably affected the way the fridge operates. In fact, the discovery of the ozone hole in 1984 and the subsequent introduction of ozone-friendly alternatives in the years that followed did more than just alter the way we cooled our food and our homes

Green electricity didn’t exist in the world back in 1996. When Ecotricity offered it for the first time, it became not just Britain’s but the world’s first green electricity company, kick-starting the now-global green energy generation industry.

Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) are everywhere: in our cars, refrigerators, air-conditioners and wall insulation. They are also increasingly in our atmosphere, where they are important contributors to climate change. Yet you don’t hear HFCs – aka fluorinated- or F-gases – talked about all that much. Until now, that is