As part of Centre’s series of events, we explored whether nuclear energy is needed in a low carbon net-zero energy system or whether its costs and risks are too high.
This article is a written version of the interview held between Founder of the Green Schools Project Henry Greenwood and Torrin Wilkins.
The Common Home Plan is our vision of a Green New Deal for Scotland. By establishing seven main environmental threats and providing solutions which span across every industry (broken down below), we believe we have the capacity to go Beyond Net Zero.
With gas bills going up our current system is failing. Families are being pushed into a situation where they have to choose between heating their homes or eating properly.
Despite Boris Johnson’s environmental faux-pas when stating that maybe “climate change couldn’t be fixed”, we can safely say that a number of hopeful projects have emerged from COP26. However, in accordance with the saying “only time will tell”, it is the upcoming months and years that will determine whether the UK managed to meet the challenges the below agreements represent.
In 2018, The European Environmental Bureau, in collaboration with the environmental consultancy firm Eunomia Research and Consulting. released a list of the top recycling countries in the world.
While Wales made it to fourth place, after South Korea and before Switzerland, England, Scotland and Northern Ireland were absent from the Top 10, showing a need for the UK to find inspirations in the models of some of their well-ranked neighbours, such as Germany
In 2009, the participants of the Eighth Forum on Indigenous Issue were told by Nicolas Lucas Ticum, a Maya priest from Guatemala and a researcher on the Calendrio Maya, that “The Earth does not belong to human beings. Human beings belong to the Earth”. Despite this phrase being stressed by the United Nations, many member countries, including the UK, have continued activities that seriously endanger biodiversity.
There is currently more microplastic in the sea than stars in our galaxy, more rapid extinction rates than pre-human background and more climate change-related deaths. Yet, many leaders are still not taking the problem seriously.
In 2020, the Environment Agency recorded that raw sewage was discharged into rivers across England over 400,000 times. This came to a total of 3 million hours spent draining raw sewage into rivers in that year alone.
