Category: Carbon footprint

In order to prevent global warming spiralling out of our hands the IPCC, the UN body responsible for summarising worldwide research on climate change and providing advice to governments around the world, says that we must limit global warming to less than 1.5C. In order to understand how to do this, the IPCC have developed…

In July this year (2025) the International Court of Justice ruled that countries are legally obligated to reduce their emissions and to protect the climate, placing unprecedented legal pressure on states to meet their climate responsibilities. The Court was asked by the UN General Assembly to clarify two fundamental questions: (a) What are the obligations…

<Back to Blog Contents A landmark study published in Nature last year found that the carbon footprint of small scale non-organic veg was 6 to 7 times higher than conventional farming [1]. The study highlighted various factors, such as the typically shorter lifespan of small scale agriculture which led to the embedded carbon of capital…

<Back to Blog Contents Carbon reduction grants of up to £25,000 are available to businesses within the Swansea City Council boundary. The grant is aimed to help businesses meet their carbon reduction goals and will provide up to 50% of funding for any carbon reduction project. The grant is open to all businesses except those…

<Back to Blog Contents There does seem to be a lot of confusion over this issue in the mainstream media and among the general public, largely caused it seems by looking at discrete and incomplete parts of the life-cycle of battery powered electric vehicles (BEVs) and regular cars (ICEs – internal combustion engines). Two papers…