News

In this section, you can browse through our wide range of News articles. The most recent news is at the top of the page:

Yesterday (21 October 2014) the UK's wind farms generated more electricity than our nuclear power stations. Wind made up 14.2% of all electricity generated, overtaking nuclear power's 13.2%. Meanwhile on 18 October, our wind turbines generated a record 6,372MW of electricity - more than ever before and actually almost 20% of the UK's electricity needs on that day.

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Have your say on sustainability, Eurostar and the Young People's Trust for the Environment's competition for young people aged 11-18 is now open for entries, giving the future generation of voters the chance to share their views with MEPs in Brussels.

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All of the winners of the Total Green School Awards have now been announced. We have seen amazing projects from over 35,000 children this year and it's great to see so many schools getting involved in some brilliant environmental projects.

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On 31 March 2014, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issed a new report on climate change and its effects on our planet. Some 309 lead authors from 70 countries consulted with thousands of experts to compile the report.

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Almost at the last minute at the ‘Conference of the Parties’ – the climate talks taking place in Warsaw – an agreement was reached. This followed mass walkouts by NGOs, who were unhappy at lack of progress being made earlier in the week. Mostly, delegates seem to have agreed to put off agreeing any real action until a new round of climate talks, scheduled to take place in Paris in 2015.

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Around 800 delegates representing some of the world’s leading environmental groups have walked out of the latest round of climate talks, being held in Warsaw, Poland. It’s not hard to see why they felt driven to it. It has taken a long time for the world’s scientists to agree that human activity – specifically our use of fossil fuels – has been a cause of accelerated climate change. However, that agreement has finally been reached and the evidence shows that emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) caused by human activities are causing climate change.

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Yesterday the World Meterological Organisation (WMO) announced that levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) were at the highest level ever recorded during 2012. Last year there were 393.1 parts per million (ppm) of CO2 in the atmosphere, an increase of 2.2ppm on 2011 and 141% of the atmospheric CO2 level in the year 1750, when CO2 was at 278 ppm.

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