by Doreen Hosking | 27, Oct, 2021 | Blog
(Pour la version française, veuillez cliquer ici.) OPTIMISM I recently spoke to some friends about the climate situation and how serious it is. I felt afterwards that I was losing my optimism, my belief that we will take useful action about the future of our...
by Doreen Hosking | 27, Sep, 2021 | Blog
(Pour la version française, veuillez cliquer ici.) The kind of food we eat and the way it is grown and consumed is proving to be very bad for the environment. In many cases it is also bad for our health. The global food system is responsible for about a quarter of the...
by Doreen Hosking | 19, Sep, 2021 | Blog
UNITED NATIONS CLIMATE CHANGE CONFERENCE (COP26) GLASGOW NOVEMBER 2021 Glasgow at Night: Photo by Craig McKay on Unsplash COP26 You will have seen many references in the press and on TV to a United Nations Conference called COP26 that is due to take place in...
by Doreen Hosking | 1, Aug, 2021 | Blog
(Pour la version française, veuillez cliquer ici.) “No challenge poses a greater threat to future generations than climate change” (Barack Obama) Changing weather: Photo by Doreen Hosking What is Climate Change? The UK Met Office defines climate change as a...
by Doreen Hosking | 1, Jul, 2021 | Blog
(Pour la version française, veuillez cliquer ici.) We need transformational change of our technology, economics and society in order to avoid extreme global temperature rise and we need it now. The UN has recently said that individual countries’ Climate Action Plans...
