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Oxfam campaigners pose as G7 leaders on Swanpool Beach near Falmouth, Cornwall, in June 2021
CLIMATE change should be treated as an emergency in the same way as the Covid-19 pandemic, Glasgow academics say, amid fears that recovery from the pandemic could detract from global environmental efforts.
A study led by Glasgow Caledonian University’s centre for climate justice focused on the experiences of policymakers in parts of sub-Saharan Africa.
Published today, the project’s report also recommends that governments keep the public informed with data about climate emergencies in the same way they have during the pandemic, with real-time reporting about loss of life and the damage caused by the impact of adverse weather.
One of the major criticisms of China’s breakneck development in recent decades has been the impact on nature — returning after 15 years away, BEN CHACKO assessed whether the government’s recent turn to environmentalism has yielded results
ALASTAIR BONNETT reports on the paradoxes of populist attitudes towards protection of the natural world
When it comes to extreme weather events, from wildfires to flash floods, it’s firefighters who are on the front line of defence, but services have been cut to the bone, and government is not taking seriously its responsibility for the environment, says STEVE WRIGHT