Climate Change news


Guernsey ‘is going to look like a dirty place’

GUERNSEY’S greenhouse gas emissions have been rising, according to latest figures.


Environmental plan branded ‘half-baked’

THE States Environmental Plan is half-baked and will not achieve enough, it has been claimed.


Greenhouse emissions fail Kyoto Agreement

GUERNSEY is still failing to meet greenhouse gas emission targets.


Greenhouse gases? None of our business

AN ENVIRONMENTALIST told the Longue Hougue planning inquiry he was ‘totally stunned’ that greenhouse gas emissions were not within its remit.


Posters show students are eco worriers

THE GRAMMAR School put  its views on climate change to Education minister Carol Steere yesterday.


‘Greener choices will cost’

ENERGY costs will have to rise if the island is serious about tackling climate change, according to Guernsey Electricity managing director Ian Watson.


More to join in switch-off next year

LIGHTS in buildings across the island were switched off for an hour on Saturday evening to raise awareness of climate change.


Coastal defences may cost millions

REPAIRING the sea wall at Rocque Poisson is going to cost so much that Environment expects to have to take a report to the States to get the money.


Climate change: Guernsey’s not immune

For years people viewed warnings about man-made global warming as unnecessary scaremongering, but the tide of opinion is turning. And Guernsey is not immune to its potentially catastrophic effects, warns Mark Windsor


Forum drew in converted

THE success of the island's first public forum on climate change needs to be put into perspective.

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