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Co-benefits Co-benefits are the positive effects that an action to tackle climate change may have on other outcomes such as health, transport or housing. Highlighting co-benefits in policy-making is essential to delivering climate action faster. Government spending on healthcare totalled £269 billion in 2020. Investment in climate actions which improve health can reduce costs to...
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Written by Pooran Desai OBE, Founder of OnePlanet ‘Climate changes are happening seventy years earlier than predicted’. Professor Sir David King, former UK Chief Scientific Officer We are crossing climate tipping points decades earlier than predicted. Current ‘net zero’ commitments are no longer in line with the latest scientific evidence. This short briefing summarises...
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The majority of local governments within the UK have declared a climate emergency. However, getting climate action prioritised can be a challenge amongst other competing objectives such as health, job creation and transport. Co-benefits could be key to delivering climate action. Co-benefits of climate action The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change describes co-benefits...
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Daniel Christian Wahl is a pioneer of regenerative design who believes that widespread social and ecological change emerges from local action which transcends into the rest of society through collaboration. ‘A regenerative human culture will be locally adapted and globally connected.’ Daniel Christian Wahl 2021 Regenerative design goes further than sustainability. Sustainability translates as development...
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Written by Pooran Desai OBE (Founder) and Niamh James (Researcher) What may appear complicated, might be simple when viewed in terms of its connections. Eric Berlow is an American Ecologist who embraces systems thinking to identify simple solutions to what appear otherwise extremely complicated problems, as he explains in his TED Talk. From studying ecosystems,...
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Written by Niamh James Within the tech industry, women make up only a quarter of employees and just 11% of its executives. Over the years, technology has become increasingly intertwined with human life. Women, making up half of the world population, have a lot to contribute both as users and creators of technology. At OnePlanet we...
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