The UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (CoP30) has now concluded in Brazil. Our Climate campaigners were keeping watch on proceedings and welcome the progress under the Just Transition Work Programme, methane initiatives and the new focus on fertilisers, although it appears progress stalled on fossil fuels. Here’s an overview of the key activities […]
EIA’s report Cooling the Climate Crisis analysed the climate impact of supermarket refrigeration and revealed that up to 70 per cent of a supermarket’s emissions stem from cooling. Our Climate campaigners have been directly engaging with the retail sector since 2009 to make it aware of the serious impacts of using climate-harming refrigeration while simultaneously […]
The world’s pressing climate targets are being jeopardised by huge rogue emissions of a potent greenhouse gas. HFC-23 emissions reached a record high of 17,300 tonnes in 2019, equivalent to more than a quarter of a billion tonnes of carbon dioxide. The climate super-pollutant is produced and emitted primarily as an unwanted byproduct of manufacturing […]
Planet-threatening greenhouse gas emissions due to plastics production could be halved over the next 25 years if there is a freeze and reduction in the production of plastic polymers.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) today published its AR6 Synthesis Report, making plain the urgent need to address the escalating climate crisis
ASDA has recently installed rooftop cooling units using a potent climate-harming refrigerant