Future generations bill sounds 'namby pamby' but it's start, says Lord Bird, Feb 20 [1] ...UK Climate news 2021
We’re delighted to discover Cape Town’s CANs movement - “community action networks” that have been keeping a city together, under Covid, Feb 19 [2] ...South Africa
'Invisible killer': fossil fuels caused 8.7m deaths globally in 2018, research finds, Feb 9 [3] ...Environment quality news
The Scottish Citizens Assembly has concluded - and one of its big proposals is a "House of Citizens", as a second chamber for Holyrood, Feb 8 [4]
Nature is a blind spot in economics that we ignore at our peril, says Dasgupta Review, Feb 2 [5] ...Biodiversity UK news
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As long as there is no trust and confidence that there will be justice and fairness in resource distribution, political positioning will remain more important than service.
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