Green Times

The world’s major cities are also among the planet’s worst polluters but they have the solutions to most of their problems at their fingertips, a leading environmental consultancy said on Monday.To make the case more compelling, consultancy McKinsey said that most of the available solutions would save more than they cost so made economic sense […]

The Issues
It’s hard to get away from climate change in the news and even though we don’t have the ‘pea-souper’ fogs we used to, air quality is still an issue in Reading and elsewhere.Reading has recently experienced extremes of hot weather, water shortages and severe flooding.
Climate change will increase the chance of these happening more […]

Climate change could lead to a heatwave in the south-east of England killing 3,000 people within the next decade, a Department of Health report said today.It put the chances of a heatwave of that severity happening by 2017 at 25%.
Without preventative action, the report said that a nine-day heatwave, with temperatures at 27 degrees, would […]