• Politics

Extinction Rebellion Stages New Round of Protests Across the U.K.

• #COVID19
• #ExtinctionRebellion
• Boris Johnson
• climate crisis
• London
• parliament

The U.K. Parliament returned to work this week after their summer recess, and the leaders were met with thousands of Extinction Rebellion (XR) protesters who are leading acts of civil disobedience throughout London, which they plan to continue for another 10-14 days.

Why This Matters:  The COVID pandemic is much more under control in the United Kingdom than it is here, but government officials are not taking any chances — they have strict orders about social distancing and limiting the protests to off-road areas near Parliament Square

• Politics

Cross-party Cooperation on a Green Recovery in the UK, There’s Still Hope for the US to Do the Same

• Boris Johnson
• climate action
• Congress
• net zero
• United Kingdom

by Kate Cullen  “A bipartisan coalition in the U.S. Congress pushes for an economic stimulus that dramatically scales-up the transition to a net zero emissions”  Today, this feels like an unthinkable headline, but after working on these issues in the U.K., I’ve come to believe that bipartisan action to decarbonizing the U.S. economy may not […]

• Weather

Extreme Heat on the Rise in the UK

• Boris Johnson
• Cambridge
• climate change
• extreme heat
• extreme weather
• United Kingdom

by Julia Fine, ODP Contributing Writer A new study published in Nature Communications reported that UK summer temperatures could soon reach and exceed 40°C (104°F). As Olivia Rosane reported in EcoWatch, UK summers, at present, only hit this high temperature every 100-300 years. However, according to the new study, which was released by the UK […]

• Ocean

Climate Change and Brexit Upsetting EU Fishers and Markets

• Boris Johnson
• Brexit
• cod
• fisheries
• fishing

The United Kingdom is threatening to close its waters to fishers from other countries in Europe once it leaves the European Union next week, and if it does, the impact would be immediate and severe on fishing communities in neighboring nations that are now seeing their local fish stocks decline due to climate change.

Why This Matters:  One of the key issues in the Brexit negotiations that will begin after the U.K. formally leaves the EU on Friday is bound to be fisheries – right now all EU nations have free access to the U.K.’s lucrative fishing grounds.