Up to date news articles on what’s happening in the world of Global Citizenship, Sustainability and Anti-racist education.
2/4/21
Blending jazz-funk, glam rock and punk energy in the late 1970s, Britfunk crash-landed into the charts and inspired club culture. The musicians relive one of the first homegrown Black music scenes.
Via The Gaurdian
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/apr/02/how-britfunk-overcame-racism-to-reinvigorate-uk-pop
2/4/21
David Olusuga: The poisonously patronising Sewell report is historically illiterate.
Via The Guardian
1/4/21
Rising Temperatures threaten Corals: Here, we look at coral bleaching, and how warming waters are threatening the survival of a true wonder of the seas.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-56567237
1/4/21
Net Zero Targets are Pie in the Sky: Sharp divisions between the major global emitters have emerged at a series of meetings designed to make progress on climate change.
Via BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-56596200
31/3/21
Uganda Climate Change: The people under threat from a melting glacier.
Via BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-56526631
Volvo Cars to go fully electric by 2030
Via BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-56245618
Friends of the Earth Scotland accuse ministers of ‘flawed thinking’ and ‘unjustified optimism’ over their proposals.
Via STV News
https://news.stv.tv/scotland/climate-plan-may-not-be-enough-for-adequate-emissions-cuts?top
Scotland’s climate plan is at risk of not delivering the emission reductions needed to meet targets, environmental campaigners have warned.
Via the BBC
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-55966625
21/1/21
Race in South Africa: ‘We haven’t learnt we are human beings first’.
Via the BBC
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-55333625
22/9/20
China will aim to hit peak emissions before 2030 and for carbon neutrality by 2060, President Xi Jinping has announced.
Via the BBC
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-54256826
10/9/20
Report says climate change impact on railways ‘accelerating’.
Via the BBC
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-54099688
11/8/20
The Planet Earth-observation company has just released new imagery of the broken Milne Ice Shelf in the Arctic.
Via the BBC
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-53737138
29/7/20
An independent review of UK food policy is calling for “a gold standard level of scrutiny” to ensure new trade deals do not undermine the environment.
Via the BBC
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-53573534
28/7/20
The government is “dragging its feet” over racism and is failing to make it a priority, the chairman of the Equality and Human Rights Commission has said.
Via the BBC
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-53556519
22/7/20
An Australian student has filed a lawsuit against her government for failing to make clear climate change-related risks to investors in government bonds.
Via the BBC
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-53497949
16/7/20
Poll finds most people see no progress on tackling discrimination in their lifetime.
Via The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/16/racism-in-the-uk-still-rife-say-majority-of-britons
7/7/20
The curriculum is at the heart of activist Eunice Olumide’s five-point antiracism plan.
Via TES
https://www.tes.com/news/antiracist-action-must-involve-curriculum-reform
7/7/20
Hundreds of thousands of homeowners will receive vouchers of up to £5,000 for energy-saving home improvements, with the poorest getting up to £10,000.
Via BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-53313640
3/7/20
Climate crisis: Thawing Arctic permafrost could release deadly waves of ancient diseases, scientists suggest.
Via Independent
2/7/20
Jamaica becomes first Caribbean nation to toughen it’s Climate Plan.
Via Climate Home
29/6/20
Worldwide protests against police violence and racial injustice have led some black people to have conversations about racism with white friends for the first time. Patrick George, 26, a London chef is one of them.
Via BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-53208273
27/6/20
The UK is falling behind on its target to cut greenhouse gas emissions and risks a surge in carbon emissions as lockdown eases, the government’s climate advisers warn.
Via Gaurdian
27/6/20
A teaspoon of soil from the Amazon contains as many as 1,800 microscopic life forms, of which 400 are fungi.
Via BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-53197650
24/6/20
With all this havoc, achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is more urgent than ever.
Via News Trust
https://news.trust.org/item/20200623090950-gn4q9/
23/6/20
Inclusive education should be a “non-negotiable” right for all children, the head of the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) said in a new report launched on Tuesday.
Via UN News
https://news.un.org/en/story/2020/06/1066942
22/6/20
The Vatican urged Catholics on Thursday to disinvest from the armaments and fossil fuel industries and to closely monitor companies in sectors such as mining to check if they are damaging the environment.
Via Reuters
New survey results from 40 countries shows that climate change matters to most people. In the vast majority of countries, fewer than 3 percent said climate change was not serious at all.
Via Science Alert
https://www.sciencealert.com/how-much-do-people-around-the-world-care-about-climate-change
17/6/20
Scottish energy giant SSE Renewables has said it plans to press ahead with what would be the UK’s biggest onshore wind farm in Shetland.
Via BBC News
17/6/20
The sale of single-use carrier bags – both plastic and paper – have been banned in Jersey from next year.
Via BBC News
16/6/20
Problems in the power sector have seen Scotland’s greenhouse gas emissions rise and the 2018 target being missed.
Via BBC News
