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Environment
Environment
Environment and Climate Change are inexorably entwined. We must understand the complexities of both issues. We research and discuss local, national and internations environments from our local gardens, parks and farms to the desserts, tropical rain forests, arctic and antarctic and all the seas and oceans that surround our planet Earth
Climate
Climate
We face up to the realities of global warming and openly talk about the current Data and what this represents in terms of the future of life on planet Earth. When we fully understand the problems our climate is facing we are better placed to recognise solutions. It can be a daunting subject but it is important that we keep talking about this difficult conversation.
Change
Change
We celebrate the amazing innovations and discoveries and draw hope that despite all the odds we can be part of the 'C' change being lead by experienced scientists, commercial entrepenures, committed individuals and the younger generation who are activily promoting the safeguarding of Planet Earth, their future home when we become their ancestors
Welcome to the Odiham u3a Environment and Climate Change Microsite.
You will find a wealth of information within the pages of this site providing links to scientific papers, legislation and even online Carbon Calculators so you can measure your 'Footprint'.
Use the menu at the top of this page to navigate to items of interest to you.
The 'News' tab has links to key new items. With so much attention on Environment and Climate Change, we have filtered the online content to provide key articles covering the salient issues of the moment.
Included below are links to YouTube videos, Podcasts, New Books, BBC iPlayer. You can find much more under the AV Resources Tab at the top of this page.
This series of 5 podcasts in the BBC Rethink series examines why is there a gap between the pledges made to combat climate change and delivery of a reduction in greenhouse gases? Amol Rajan and guests Rethink Climate Change.
Doughnut Economics
Doughnut Economics is a concept and framework proposed by economist Kate Raworth. It presents an alternative approach to traditional economic thinking and aims to create a sustainable and thriving world that respects social boundaries and planetary limits.
The central idea of Doughnut Economics is to envision an economic system that operates within a "doughnut-shaped" space. The inner ring represents a social foundation that ensures essential human needs are met, such as food, water, healthcare, education, and social equity. The outer ring represents ecological limits beyond which the Earth's systems may become compromised, leading to environmental degradation and resource depletion.
A comprehensive review can be found here.
The Doughnut Economics Action Lab provides inspiring examples of Doughnut Economics in action around the world.
New Books
New Books
A former civil servant, Simon Sharpe, makes a persuasive case for dropping economy-wide emissions targets and focusing on tipping points where green technologies become affordable
We need to act five times faster to avoid dangerous climate change. As Greenland melts, Australia burns, and greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise, we think we know who the villains are: oil companies, consumerism, weak political leaders. But what if the real blocks to progress are the ideas and institutions that are supposed to be helping us? Five Times Faster is an inside story from Simon Sharpe, who has spent ten years at the forefront of climate change policy and diplomacy. In our fight to avoid dangerous climate change, science is pulling its punches, diplomacy is picking the wrong battles, and economics has been fighting for the other side. This provocative and engaging book sets out how we should rethink our strategies and reorganise our efforts in the fields of science, economics, and diplomacy, so that we can act fast enough to stay safe.
Read the Guardian review here
Our Group
Our Group
The alarm bells are ringing – the earth’s climate is rapidly changing, and it is because of US.
The alarm bells are ringing – the earth’s climate is rapidly changing, and it is because of US.
“The science is unequivocal: any further delay will miss the brief window we have to secure a liveable and sustainable future for all.” Prof. Dr. Hans-Otto Poertner IPCC AR6 WG2 Co-Chair
“The science is unequivocal: any further delay will miss the brief window we have to secure a liveable and sustainable future for all.” Prof. Dr. Hans-Otto Poertner IPCC AR6 WG2 Co-Chair
A view forcefully illustrated by Sir David Attenborough in his recent BBC programme Extinction – The Facts.
A view forcefully illustrated by Sir David Attenborough in his recent BBC programme Extinction – The Facts.
If haven't already estimated the impact of your own lifestyle on carbon emissions then have a look at one of the online calculators on our Your Impact page
BBC programme Extinction – The Facts.
With a million species at risk of extinction, Sir David Attenborough explores how this crisis of biodiversity has consequences for us all, threatening food and water security, undermining our ability to control our climate and even putting us at greater risk of pandemic diseases. ...
See the programme on iPlayer here
The programme will be available for another 11 months.
Global heating is a concern for everyone, and a new Group has been formed to discuss, investigate and inform members of its probable implications and outcomes.
Global heating is a concern for everyone, and a new Group has been formed to discuss, investigate and inform members of its probable implications and outcomes.
Our Site
Our Site
This microsite provides access to a wide range of resources for members to explore climate change issues, technologies options for governments to inform actions they might take individually and collectively to mitigate the affects of a warming climate. The site provides access to reports, videos and links to a range of organisations actively involved in combatting Climate Change. You can see at a glance in real-time the UK's energy mix in power generation and carbon emissions by visiting UK Electricity or National Grid: Live. If you want to compare with other regions where similar data are available the you can use the Electricity Maps App
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