Tag Archive: Climathon

With a report revealing  air in 44 UK cities is too dangerous to breathe published  this week, our Leeds Climathon challenge on air pollution could not have been more timely – or more needed. Air pollution causes many chronic health problems, particularly respiratory and cardiovascular, and is also linked with...

Greenhouse gas emissions are still rising. This year atmospheric carbon dioxide levels sailed past 400 parts per million and in January global temperatures were within touching distance of 1.5 deg C above their 1850-1900 levels – the ambitious warming limit set out in the Paris text. Why then am I...