All posts tagged "Sustainability"

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  AI makes water shortages harder to predict, says UK Environment Agency

  Advancements in artificial intelligence have created a blind spot for the UK government over future water shortages in England, the Environment Agency has said. Data centres used to power AI are

  • Posted July 2, 2025
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  How’s the UK attempt to reach net zero going? There’s good news and bad news

  Each year, the Climate Change Committee – the UK’s independent advisory body tasked with monitoring the country’s movement toward its legally binding climate goals – gives a report on the

  • Posted July 1, 2025
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  EU ‘on course to achieve 2030 emissions target’

  The European Union is “well on track” to meet its target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 55% by the end of the decade. The European Commission’s assessment of National

  • Posted June 5, 2025
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  Current climate policy ‘doomed to fail’, says former UK PM Tony Blair

  Net zero policies are increasingly viewed as “unaffordable, ineffective, or politically toxic” and efforts to phase out fossil fuels in the short term are “doomed to fail”, according to a

  • Posted May 1, 2025
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  Paris Agreement goals out of reach unless top emitters step up, study warns

  Collective efforts “still fall far short” of what is needed to limit global warming to 1.5C of pre-industrial levels, according to research by the World Resources Institute (WRI). The study

  • Posted April 24, 2025
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  UK government releases research and innovation framework for climate change adaptation

  The UK government has identified research and innovation challenges across 11 sectors that will need to be addressed in a bid to drive collaborative action on climate change adaptation. The

  • Posted April 15, 2025
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  Sustainability takeaways from Innovation 2025 

  Global Government Forum has used an artificial intelligence tool to analyse all the sessions at the Innovation 2025 conference for takeaways on how governments are tackling climate change and working

  • Posted April 14, 2025
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  Governments urged to make smarter use of data to combat deforestation

  Smarter use of data and stronger regulatory partnerships are needed to combat deforestation, according to a new report. Entitled ‘Tackling deforestation through import controls’ and supported by Global Government Forum,

  • Posted April 9, 2025
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  Report urges AI sustainability as energy concerns grow

  The British government should invest in sustainable AI amid concerns about the amount of energy needed to power the technology, according to a report by the UK’s National Engineering Policy

  • Posted February 17, 2025
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  US Treasury leaves major climate risk mitigation network

  The US Treasury and central bank have withdrawn from a group of central banks and regulators created to mitigate climate risk in the financial system and support the transition to

  • Posted February 5, 2025
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