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Posted on 6th December 2019
With the General Election on 12th December 2019 fast approaching, the pressure’s on for each party to get across its policies. So naturally, 2EA® have reviewed each of the main party’s manifesto and have provided a summary below of their views on UK energy and climate policy.
Posted on 25th September 2019
With their cute eyes, fluffy white looking fur, big paws and sometimes clumsy cubs, polar bears have been the face of climate change for years. They have been used in images around the world – one polar bear in particular shot to fame when a photographer captured it looking extremely thin and gaunt for National Geographic. This image exploded with the headline ‘this is what climate change looks like’ but like most news in today’s society, this caption turned out to be misleading. There was no proof that climate change had caused this single polar bear to become so skinny; it was even highlighted by the National Geographical team that it entered the water and swam away with no difficulty.
Posted on 4th September 2019
For more than two hundred years, since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, Western economies have been built on the premise of “take, make and dispose”. However, the waste this created in 20th-Century Europe and America was nothing compared to the rubbish that is now produced by emerging economies such as China.
Posted on 26th July 2019
1976 was the second hottest summer since records began for Britain. Heathrow experienced 16 consecutive days of hot weather above 30°C, the rest of Britain experienced temperatures of 32.5°C. On June 28th, Southampton experienced 35.6°C and on July 3rd, Cheltenham saw temperatures of 35.9°C.
Posted on 8th July 2019
Deep-sea mining has the potential to create the largest footprint of any single human activity on the planet. An area closer than, yet less well mapped than Mars, the Earth’s seafloor is rich with creatures and eco-systems. However, it is also rich with minerals. As the demand for such grows larger, and terrestrial sources become harder to mine, the materials that reside deep in the ocean are becoming more and more attractive to countries and companies.
