Jaguar to go fully electric by 2025
The entire Jaguar brand will go entirely electric within the next four years, according to a company press release. The company will also start to launch all-electric Land Rover SUV models in 2024.
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U.K. supports climate action in the Global South with $4 billion plan
The U.K. government has announced it will commit at least US $4 billion to climate change solutions in developing countries, helping to protect and restore nature and biodiversity over five years.
64% say climate change is an emergency in world’s largest-ever climate poll
The UN Development Program and the University of Oxford surveyed 1.2 million people across 50 countries through ads distributed in mobile gaming apps. Only 10% think world leaders are doing enough to address climate change.
Record number of people sign up for Veganuary challenge
The annual challenge Veganuary announced Tuesday that it had received more than half a million sign-ups and counting, the most in a single year since it first launched in 2014.
The U.K. will soon have a dedicated register of tradeswomen
The not-for-profit project National Register of Tradeswomen aims to ensure that vulnerable householders who feel safer with tradeswomen are able to find them.
Researchers develop technology that instantly converts CO2 into jet fuel
The invention of an onboard system for carbon-neutral flight would represent a massive step towards addressing the climate crisis.
Lloyd’s market to quit fossil fuel insurance by 2030
The world’s biggest insurance market will stop new insurance for coal, oil sands and Arctic energy projects by 2022 and pull out of the business altogether by 2030.
World’s 3rd-largest grocery chain eliminates 20 million single-use plastic wrappings
The U.K.’s Tesco has switched to recycled cardboard for packaging of holiday lights, crackers, pudding, cards, and more.
Efforts to rewild London’s rivers are yielding results, finds report
Sightings of kingfishers in the capital have increased by 450 per cent since 2000, thanks to significant river restoration projects.
London tree rental service solves a Christmas quandary
London Christmas Tree Rental delivers a real, pot-grown tree, lets customers enjoy it for a few weeks, then picks it up in January and takes it back to a farm, where the tree can continue to grow.