The Community Choice Aggregation (CCA) programme provides local governments the powers to buy and manage energy on behalf of citizens and businesses. CCA enables local governments to create an electrical buying organisation to purchase power from more sustainable energy sources, like wind or solar. CCAs can also aid in reducing dependency on fossil fuels, which are a significant cause of climate change.
There are multiple categories of drought; agricultural, meteorological, hydrological and socioeconomic. Climate change has exacerbated the frequency and intensity of drought. In Somalia droughts have caused an estimated 43?,000 more deaths compared with the mortality levels in 2015–2016.
Solar energy is renewable and viable for the UK. A lot of space would be required for solar farms, but the same amount of space as coal mines. The UK has the ability to switch to renewable energy in the next few decades.
by Tasnia Amirun Naher Are fast food corporations like McDonald’s sustainable? What does this exactly mean? For a food company to be sustainable, it needs a food system that “contributes to food security and nutrition for all in such a way that economic, social and environmental bases generate food security, and nutrition for future generations...
Electrical energy stems from fossil fuels which produce deadly gases like carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, damaging the ozone layer and therefore changing the climate at an unforeseen pace. Governments are using different methods to tackle this but more needs to be as wildfires, drought and more natural disasters are happening now. Could be catastrophic for future generations with temperatures rising above 2oC unless we change as well e.g. switching to renewable energy to help save habitats as well.
Hemp is a sustainable crop with a range of environmental benefits Replacing carbon-intensive products with sustainable hemp, in manufactured products reduces climate-warming emissions Using sustainable products, hemp oil instead of palm oil, for example, gives farmers and governments the signal to switch to sustainable agriculture
This article will examine the relationship between the climate crisis and the increasingly extreme British summers as global heating leads to hotter and more frequent heat waves, with devastating effects.
5.25 trillion pieces of plastic are in our oceans, which breaks down to 46,000 pieces every square mile. Each year, hundreds of thousands of aquatic animals become tangled in plastic waste in the ocean. Although it is fantastic if you choose to go plastic-free, encouraging large businesses to do the same can have an even larger impact.
In the past few decades, more than 525 billion tons of additional atmospheric CO2 has dissolved in the ocean, currently 22 million tons per day. Learn more about the effects that ocean acidification has on marine ecosystems all over the world.
The climate crisis and rising global temperatures is one of the biggest and most alarming problems the entire world faces. It affects everyone, it affects you and it is an issue that only continues to grow. The sea level is rising and polar ice caps are melting, leading animals such as polar bears to extinction. The number of severe droughts is increasing and agricultural yields are on a decline. Here is what you can do to help: