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Weakening climate targets
It is depressing that the Government has decided today to weaken its carbon targets. Given the existential threat to humanity, this is hardly good news. The Government would have us believe the following narrative. The UK has been leading the world in decarbonisation, reducing emissions by 40-50% since 1990. We are on track for net…
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Food for thought
A few days ago, a group at Oxford University published a report in Nature on the environmental impact of different diets in the UK. https://www.nature.com/articles/s43016-023-00795-w Broadly speaking, this new report reaches very similar conclusions to a previous study, also undertaken by an Oxford team, published in 2018. In brief, if we are worried about the…