Working together to deliver a low carbon future for Scotland
BT has signed an agreement with npower under which it will source all of its electricity in the UK from renewable sources. BT has calculated that if this amount of electricity was sourced from non-renewables, it would equate to a carbon footprint of around one million tonnes of CO2 a year. Over the 2011/12 financial year, BT consumed 2.3TWh of energy running its UK networks, data centres and offices, equivalent to 0.76 per cent of …
Some of the most extreme predictions of global warming are unlikely to materialise, new scientific research has suggested, but the world is still likely to be in for a temperature rise of double that regarded as safe. The researchers said warming was most likely to reach about 4C above pre-industrial levels if the past decade’s readings were taken into account. That would still lead to catastrophe across large swaths of the Earth, causing droughts, storms, …
One in four London properties, collectively worth around £250bn, are at risk of flooding, according to official assessments of the dangers now facing homes in England and Wales. Ten of the top 25 most at-risk local authority areas across England and Wales are now London boroughs. The environment agency’s 2013 national flood risk assessment, unpublished but seen by the Guardian, shows that London boroughs now dominate the local authorities with most properties in jeopardy from river and tidal flooding.
As part of the journey towards a low carbon Scotland, the 2020 Lecture Series is designed to bring business, voluntary, academic and public sectors together to share information and encourage cooperation. Following a highly successful inaugural lecture in January 2013 on ‘The Challenges and Opportunities of Cleantech and New Energy’, the second in the series ‘Climate Change is What the Boxer Trains For but Weather Throws the Punches’ is being held on 11 September 2013 …
Electric buggies could be coming to the roads of rural Scotland after a pioneering tourism project from Wales won the £50,000 first prize in a new award for environmental innovation. The Eco Travel Network (ETN) offers a cheap, green and fun alternative to 4x4s on country roads in the Brecon Beacons using small, lightweight ‘Twizy’ cars. After the scheme was named the winner of the first-ever Green Transport Prize award, ETN Director Dr Alison Kidd …
