Plans to create a huge ski resort that would require blowing up part of the Alps are on hold after major pushback from locals coming to grips with warming. A growing grassroots movement is now standing up to the powerful ski industry, arguing that it sacrifices untouched landscapes for ever grander projects that ignore the looming climate crisis.
The Bioasis project is the exciting new UK programme from the team behind STC Expeditions: an ‘immersive’ outdoor adventure, set in the year 2074 in a post climate-change apocalyptic world. School groups can choose either a 6 or 10 day mission to learn about conservation, rewilding and reconnecting with nature. Here Rebecca Waller chats to Adrian Ferraro to find out more.
For a global economy that still relies on oil, gas, and coal for most of its energy and much of its food production, moving to “net zero” by 2050 represents a tectonic shift. As part of Covering Climate Now, a global consortium of news outlets strengthening coverage of the climate story, their Executive Director Mark Hertsgaard talked to United Nations Secretary General António Guterres about how to tackle these urgent challenges.
What is Climate Friendly Travel? How can travel and tourism be aligned with the Paris Climate Agreement? How can the youth be empowered to become the drivers of change that the world needs today?
New research published in the journal of Global Environmental Change suggests that a few ‘super emitters’ are responsible for half of global aviation emissions. The analysis draws together data to give the clearest global picture of the impact of frequent fliers, who have a big impact on the climate crisis that affects everyone. The researchers estimated the cost of the climate damage caused by aviation’s emissions at $100bn in 2018.
