June 3, 2024

May 2024 has left Britons scratching their heads as the Met Office's provisional figures reveal that May 2024 was the warmest since records began in 1884, with a mean average of 13.1C. This not only surpasses the previous record of 12.1C set in 2008 but does so by an entire degree Celsius!

January 22, 2024

This is a really interesting article, written by Charlie, who is one of our Young Trustees. It discusses a really important, but often forgotten impact of climate change on disabled people.

December 21, 2023

The United Nations' twenty-eighth Conference of the Parties on climate change (COP28) ended in Dubai on 13 December, 23 hours later than planned.  Included in the final wording of the 'Global Stocktake' was an agreement to "transition away from fossil fuels", which was ratified by almost 200 nations.

November 30, 2023

The latest United Nations climate conference, COP28 has started today in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. With 2023 set to be the hottest year on record, surely this will help focus the thoughts and actions of over 160 world leaders, who are meeting there to discuss collective action on the climate crisis. Notable absentees from this year's COP include US President Joe Biden and China's Xi Jinping, but UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will be attending.

October 18, 2023

In 2019, a staggering seven million Halloween costumes ended up as waste, whilst 60% of people who buy pumpkins admitted that they just threw the insides away.

October 16, 2023

Use YPTE's new guide to writing a letter to your local MP.

October 4, 2023

Pope Francis has today issued an update to his 2015 message about the Climate Crisis, which was entitled 'Laudato Si''. His new apostolic exhortation, Laudate Deum, has been written 'to all people of good will on the climate crisis.'

September 29, 2023

The State of Nature report, published on 27 September brought together data from 64 conservation and research organisations. It found that the abundance of species in the UK has declined by an average of 19% since 1970, with almost one in six (16%) in danger of extinction from Great Britain. But mammals like the Hazel dormouse have seen their population decline in Britain by 51% since 2000. 54% of flowering plants have also seen their distributions reduced.

September 26, 2023

According to the head of the International Energy Agency (IEA), significant growth of renewable energy and green investments over the last two years has meant that the world has a greater chance of staying within a 1.5C global temperature increase.

August 4, 2023

In some good news for the environment, work is beginning to install the turbine blades at the world's biggest offshore wind farm, which is located at Dogger Bank, off the coast of northeast England.