A New Weather Institute report Dirty Tackle - the growing carbon footprint of football released today reveals that the carbon footprint of the global football industry is around the annual emissions of Austria or around 60% more than those of Uruguay, the nation that...
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New alliance to tackle the menace of urban SUVs
The New Weather Institute along with groups such as Scientists for Global Responsibility, Mums For Lungs, the Campaign for Better Transport, and the Badvertising and Adfree Cities campaigns have launched a new alliance to promote a manifesto for safer, fairer streets,...
One Planet Shipping report predicts smaller, cleaner, regional ships
Urgent action needed from the maritime sector of climate targets are going to be achieved - New Weather Report on Shipping “As an Olympian who spends much of his life on the sea, I witness first-hand the problems of ocean pollution and disruption to the climate caused...
New Weather report finds Oil and Gas ‘sportswashing’ now a $5.6 billion industry
The time is now to ask “uncomfortable questions” regarding sponsors who threaten the future of sport, says former Australian soccer captain Craig Foster Hear Team GB Paris Olympic champion, Imogen Grant, speak to the BBC Radio Today programme about the 'Dirty Money'...
Hopeful tales of sport
Sporting Tales - our new book, just published - is about finding more imaginative ways to engage with the unprecedented challenges our times, and brings together a huge range of insight and imagination from elite athletes, academic experts, poets, artists and...
“Polluters on the Podium” new research reveals Olympic emitters
In the week of the Olympics opening ceremony, new research from the New Weather Institute reveals the most climate-polluting worldwide sponsors of the 2024 Paris Games. The Olympic Partner (TOP) programme is the highest level of Olympic sponsorship, granting...
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This pamphlet looks at how the UK is unprepared for a new era of crises and disasters. To illuminate the national predicament we look at lessons from recent history, and what we can learn, often from countries in the Global South, about the kind of local planning required and resources needed to be ready for when storms and other disasters strike near where we live.
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