Latest Climate Talk News: 5/6/2009 - York Green Street Challenge launched on World Environment Da (click here...)
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York Green Street Challenge launched on World Environment Day
The hunt is on for the greenest streets in York.
Residents of York will be given the opportunity make their street the most environmentally friendly in the city in a new campaign being launched today – World Environment Day.
Carbon Footprint of Older People on BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4's Costing the Earth examined the issue of the carbon footprint of older people and quoting a Cliamte Talk's work on this area.
Listen to the programme at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00k8fdz
Policy Brief on Older People and Climate Change
A policy brief outlining key challenges and recommendations of "Growing Old in a Changing Climate" report has been produced for policy makers.
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World Environment Day
Celebrate World Environment Day by doing something for the Planet on Firday 5 June 2009.
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The York Green Street Challenge
Climate change is considered to be one of the greatest challenges we face today. The changing climate will result in wetter winters and warmer summers and will also increase the frequency of extreme weather events such as floods and droughts. It is not only a problem globally but also locally. In order to tackle the problem we need to ensure that everyone understands the issue and what they can do to make a difference.
The York Green Street Challenge has been set up to encourage people to learn about and share experiences, ideas and opinions on climate change and greener lifestyles.
This is a 15 month project started on World Environment Day (5 June 2009). The project will be conducted in two phases:
Phase 1: An assessment of the carbon footprint of York (July-July)
Phase 2: Recruitment of Green teams in selected York neighbourhoods to take the challenge (August)
Further information will be posted in due course.
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