15 August, 2019 Only Jersey-based bike retailers can use the scheme and shops should register to partner the grant scheme. The scheme goes live next week (Monday 19 August 2019) and a list of approved retailers will be released to the public on that date. Deputy Kevin Lewis, Minister for Infrastructure, said: “The previous e-bike… [Read More]
The World’s Largest Forest Has Been on Fire for Months – Bloomberg
August 9, 2019 In July, Alexander Uss, governor of the vast Siberian region of Krasnoyarsk, said it was simply “pointless and maybe even harmful” to attempt to fight the wildfires that cloaked his capital city in a toxic cloud of smoke. Days later, President Vladimir Putin sent in the army and even Donald Trump took… [Read More]
Who will pay for the huge costs of holding back rising seas? | Grist
Jim Morrisonon Aug 14, 2019 at 5:29 pm For cities in the United States, the price of infrastructure projects to combat rising seas and intensifying storms is coming into focus — and so is the sticker shock. In Boston, where many neighborhoods have been built and recently expanded in low-lying areas, an estimated $2.4 billion… [Read More]
Cycle lanes make roads safer for all users, says Colorado Uni study – Cycle Industry News
Mark Sutton14 August, 2019 Building segregated cycling infrastructure has been demonstrated to have a positive effect in making roads safer for all users, a new US-based study has shown. Researchers at the University of Colorado Denver and the University of New Mexico published findings in the Journal of Transport and Health recently that show correlations… [Read More]
Climate activists call on @ScotGov to follow New Zealand in ending support for oil & gas industry subsidies | CommonSpace
UK provides more financial support for fossil fuel industry than any other EU country New Zealand Government follows up on ending licensing permits for offshore oil & gas last year by withdrawing the majority of government subsidies and support for the sector New Zealand part of Wellbeing Economy Governments group with Scotland, referred to by… [Read More]
Norway Is Walking Away From Billions of Barrels of Oil – Bloomberg
Mikael HolterApril 8, 2019, 6:00 AM GMT+2 LISTEN TO ARTICLE Want the lowdown on European markets? In your inbox before the open, every day. Sign up here. Western Europe’s biggest petroleum producer is falling out of love with oil. To the dismay of the nation’s powerful oil industry and its worker unions, the opposition Labor… [Read More]
Greta Thunberg’s zero carbon journey: ‘I might feel a bit sea sick’ – BBC
13 Aug 2019 Climate change activist Greta Thunberg will spend two weeks travelling across the North Atlantic on a boat with no toilets, kitchens or privacy. Greta, 16, has stopped flying due to environmental reasons, but is due to attend a crucial climate change conference in New York. She told the BBC that travelling by… [Read More]
Comment: Yes, Scientists Say we Need to Plant Trees and Eat Less Meat — But Not as a Re placement for Cutting Fossil Fuels | DeSmog UK
Read time: 6 minsJocelyn Timperley| August 9, 2019 By Jocelyn Timperley• Friday, August 9, 2019 – 09:40 After a three year wait, the UN’s official scientific advisory panel’s verdict on land and climate is here. The report is about as glum as you might have come to expect from a body tasked with documenting humanity’s… [Read More]
North Downs Way – new GPX route | Cycling UK
cycling uk) Victoria Hazael Friday, 28 September 2018 Cycling UK’s Riders’ Route for the North Downs Way is a largely off-road route which will take you over 150 miles from Farnham in Surrey to Dover in Kent. Cycling UK led a group of journalists from MBUK, Singletrack and Cycling Weekly on the inaugural trail blazing… [Read More]
Exxon accused of pressuring witnesses in New York climate fraud case
By Karen Savage ExxonMobil is attempting to discourage witnesses from testifying against it in New York’s climate fraud suit, according to documents filed last week in New York Supreme Court. The oil giant has demanded third-party witnesses provide documents along with depositions in the case, which the New York attorney general’s office says is imposing… [Read More]