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REWILDING: WHAT ARE THE OPPORTUNITIES FOR A GREEN RECOVERY?

In the second of the series of webinars from Planet Pod and Achill Management we ask our guests how can rewilding present opportunities for a green recovery and new way of managing our resources and the planet after Covid? Rebecca Wrigly, CEO, Rewilding Britain joins Simon Boyle Legal Director at Argyll Environmental and a member of Wild Law group at UKELA and Ben Macdonald, author, conservationist and film maker.

All three offer different insights into how rewilding at local and national level can be used to support economic regeneration, connection between communities and rebalance our damaged ecosystem by restoring greater biodiversity. If 30% of public land were rewilded we would be well on the way to recovery says Rebecca Wrigley, while Simon advocates for legal rights for natural landscapes through a wild law and Ben calls for public ownership of grouse moors and farmland.

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A GREEN WAY FORWARD

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In the first of a new series of Webinars from Planet Pod and Achill Management we ask three leading female Climate Change Makers from very different backgrounds and perspectives to discuss how we might collectively work towards a new Green Way Forward – finding an exit strategy fit for the Planet.

Isabella Tree, rewilding expert from the Knepp Estate and author of Wilding, Clare Brook, CEO of the ocean conservation charity The Blue Marine Foundation and Juliet Davenport, CEO and founder of the 100% renewable energy company Good Energy share their thoughts and perspectives on what the immediate impacts of Covid-19 have been on the environment and business. They also discuss in conversation with Amanda Carpenter host of Planet Pod how we can use the pandemic as a catalyst to think differently and begin and develop a route out that works not just for the planet but for society for the economy and for citizens.

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National Business Support Network

Calling all LSA members!

As the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on towns and cities across the UK intensifies, there is an urgent need to link business resources to the needs of communities – in the right place, at the right time and at the right scale. In response Business in the Community (BITC) is launching the National Business Response Network (NBRN).

The NBRN will use BITC ‘boots on the ground’ to work directly with communities across the UK to identify where and what the greatest needs are, focused on the following areas: access to food, keeping people connected through technology, social care for the vulnerable, and support for small businesses.

Find out more here.

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Why action on carbon can work

International cooperation on ozone-depleting chemicals is helping to return the southern jet stream to a normal state, according to a study published in the journal Nature that reinforces the scientific view that human action can halt global heating. The powerful wind shapes the weather and ocean currents in the southern hemisphere. It was sent off course – tracking southwards and disrupting weather patterns – by depletion of the ozone layer due to manmade chlorofluorocarbons and hydrochlorofluorocarbons. The chemicals, found in fridges, aerosols and industrial processes, were phased out from 1987 under the UN Montreal protocol. The jet stream has since stopped moving south and the “hole in the ozone layer” has shrunk to its smallest size since 1982. Alexey Karpechko, a reviewer of the study, said: “This is good news, definitely. It shows our actions can stop climate change. We can see coordinated action works … we can manipulate the climate both ways: in a wrong way and by reversing the damage we have done.”

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(From the Guardian – 25.3.20)

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Existing climate solutions, not innovations, crucial to meeting net-zero

A recent study (published 3 March) by Project Drawdown forms a comprehensive update to list of policy, business, community and individual actions needed to achieve ‘Drawdown’ – the point at which greenhouse gas (GHG) levels in the atmosphere peak and begin declining.

Drawdown’s first comprehensive analysis in 2017 was based around the Paris Agreement, listing refrigerant management, onshore wind and reducing food waste as the top three climate solutions. The updated version details the changes necessary to meet the IPCC’s call to climate action, made in its landmark report on global warming of 1.5C vs 2C above pre-industrial levels – an assertion that has seen the rise of net-zero national, state and business-level pledges accelerate rapidly across the world.

According to the updated report, it would be “feasible” to reach Drawdown by the early 2040s and global net-zero by 2050 without the use of any technologies and practices which do not currently exist – so long as simultaneous transitions towards stopping emissions at the source and sequestering them are made quickly.