A tree planting demonstration will be carried out in the grounds of County Hall to mark National Tree Week (Saturday 23 November – Sunday 1 December) and support the Woodland Trust’s “Big Climate Fightback”.
Pupils from St Leonard’s Primary School and representatives from the Devon Youth Parliament will be helping to plant ten trees on Friday 29 November.
The aim is to promote tree planting to tackle climate change and also raise awareness of the importance of acting now to replace trees lost to Ash dieback and other diseases.
Managing coastlines in a changing climate will be discussed at the inaugural South West Coastal Change Conference next week (Tuesday 26 November).
The conference, which will examine how we can better manage our coast and protect our coastal communities in the context of the climate emergency, is being organised and hosted by the Devon Maritime Forum, in partnership with the University of Plymouth and Royal HaskoningDHV.
Key speakers include Dr Andrew Russell, from the Committee on Climate Change, which provides independent advice to government on building a low-carbon...
The rising concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide has passed a symbolic threshold early due to the fastest annual increase on record
The human-caused rise in atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide is being given an extra boost this year by the natural climate phenomena of El Niño, say climate scientists in a paper published in yesterday's edition of the journal Nature Climate Change. As a result, 2016 will be the first year with concentrations above 400 parts per million all year round in the iconic Mauna Loa carbon dioxide record.
Join two local artists for a day of graffiti art on Exeter Phoenix’s terrace as part of Art Week Exeter.
Cleo Heard runs Miss*C’s Graffiti Academy and has run many community arts events and graffiti workshops. Clare Bryden is an environmental artist. She has created a series of ‘colour by numbers’ maps using UK Climate Projections data from the Met Office, and these will be the starting point for refreshing the graffiti wall.
Cleo and Clare have been working on their design with Freefall, Exeter Phoenix’s youth art group through April and May, and are inviting the public to...
Thursday 25th February 2016 at 13.00 with Jan Freedman
Over the last 2 million years Devon has gone through enormous changes in climate.
This talk will look at museum collections in the South West and what they are able to tell us about our recent past.
Come along and discover how hippopotamus managed to live in Honiton. Discover how cave lions and sabre tooth cats lived not so far away, and how hyenas were the most abundant predator of the last Ice Age! Ticket Information £5 available from 01392 285983 and online.
More than thirty people participated in the Devon Churches’ Green Action pilgrimage on 5th December to draw attention to the Paris Climate Summit, and to make connections between global climate impacts and with local vulnerability in the lower Exe Valley.
The walkers (and a couple of cyclists) left South Street Baptist Church in Exeter and reached Dawlish Methodist Church five hours later, with a break for lunch and prayers at St. Clement’s Church at Powderham on the way. Those joining in included members of different Christian traditions and none, but all with a common goal of...
Greenhouse gas emissions must be reduced aggressively and immediately because there are significant constraints to large-scale deployment of negative emissions technologies in the future, new research has shown.
The study by a team of international scientists, including Professor Pierre Friedlingstein from the University of Exeter, demonstrates the potential environmental, economic and energy impacts of negative emission technologies for addressing climate change.
Negative emission technologies aim to remove carbon dioxide (CO2), a major driver of climate change, from the...
An exploration of the relationship between cultural heritage and climate change is being led by an expert from the University of Exeter at the world’s largest ever climate change talks.
David Harvey, Professor of Historical Cultural Geography at the University of Exeter, will argue that strategies on climate change must both learn from human history and look forward to consider tomorrow’s heritage, if they are to be successful.
Professor Harvey will lead the session, sponsored by the United States International Council on Monuments and Sites (US-ICOMOS), on how to ensure...
Exeter is one of over 50 UK cities that has pledged to be run entirely on green energy by 2050.
The City Council has joined the likes of London, Edinburgh, Manchester, Newcastle, Liverpool and Leeds to make the environmental commitment to dramatically reduce CO2 emissions.
Exeter's pledge comes ahead of crucial international climate change talks in Paris next month (December).
In Exeter, the City Council is already well ahead of the game in terms of its green credentials and is on track to make hundreds of thousands of pounds of savings by delivering low cost energy...
Organised by Exeter Green Walks, this march for the climate will be made around Exeter to raise awareness of politics to take strong decisions at the climate negociations in Paris (COP21).
The march starts from the entrance of Exeter Cathedral at 2pm
Everybody is welcome!
More information: https://www.facebook.com/events/679243435546338/
