A British athlete in a mountain bike event during the 2023 Cycling World Championship. Photo credit: SWPix. By Anders Lorenzen Anyone who tuned in to the world championship in cycling currently underway in Glasgow was greeted with one of the world’s largest culprits of the climate crisis. Last year, Royal Dutch Shell, the fossil fuel giant, was shamefully appointed as […]
The UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak pictured at a gas plant in Aberdeen. Photo credit: 10 Downing Street, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 via FLICKR. By Anders Lorenzen Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and his government are intensifying their support for the fossil fuel industry, and they have thus distanced themselves further from climate action previously pursued by successive UK governments. The government […]
Lion Link infographic. Photo credit: National Grid. By Anders Lorenzen As the world continues to install more renewables like solar and wind, investing in the infrastructure to better manage such resources is becoming more important. Because of the intermittent nature of solar and wind, energy storage, as well as grid interconnectors, are becoming a crucial element. But so far, while […]
The UK took a huge step toward reducing its single-use plastic pollution. Starting in October 2023, a variety of single-use items such as plastic cutlery, plates, bowls, polystyrene cups, cotton swabs, and balloon sticks will be banned. Fines of up to 10% of the UK revenue generated by the business that distributes these items and prison time for repeat offenders […]
The launch of Adapting Industry to Withstand Rising Temperatures and Future Heatwaves. Photo credit: Anders Lorenzen. By Anders Lorenzen The UK engineering body the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) has in a report released on Wednesday warned about the climate impacts facing the Engineering industry. The report was launched last week at IMechE’s central London location, only a stones-throw away […]
By Jeremy Williams Can you imagine your street with fewer cars? What about your town centre? That’s an invitation that Possible have been putting to residents in four British cities. Focus groups in Leeds, Birmingham, Bristol and London considered what roads might look like if they were low-traffic and climate-friendly. Planners, architects and campaigners were consulted, and the results were […]
The UK took a huge step toward reducing its single-use plastic pollution. Starting in October 2023, a variety of single-use items such as plastic cutlery, plates, bowls, polystyrene cups, cotton swabs, and balloon sticks will be banned. Fines of up to 10% of the UK revenue generated by the business that distributes these items and prison time for repeat offenders […]
sustainability A climate demonstration in London, UK. By Anders Lorenzen Data compiled by Reconomy, a waste management company, has shown that the interest in sustainability among the UK public is at an all-time high. The data set studied Google Trends and revealed that ‘sustainability’ reached a score of 100 in April 2022. Google Trends is publicly available data looking at […]
energy A wind farm in South Wales, UK. Photo credit: Reuters / Matthew Childs. By Anders Lorenzen Data from its national grid operator, the National Grid, have concluded that 2022 was a record year for wind power in the UK. The data shows that the output of UK wind farms onshore and offshore continues to increase; in 2022 they produced […]
Graph credit: The Campaign to Stop High Street Heat Loss. By Anders Lorenzen Have you ever wondered when walking along a shopping street on a cold day, why shop after shop continues to have its doors open? Now a campaign has been launched to tackle precisely that. Simply named ‘Close the Shop Door’ the campaign is asking that the […]