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Climate, ozone and nitrous oxide – how the Montreal Protocol can offer a path forward
The UN Environment Programme has confirmed a deeply concerning truth for the entire planet in its new Limiting Overshoot report – going beyond the 1.5°C temperature goal established by the Paris Agreement is now “unavoidable”. In the face of the escalating climate crisis, driven by our burning of fossil fuels and emissions of super pollutant greenhouse gases from industry, agriculture and other human activities, the global response has been, so far, insufficient.
Climate, conflict and synthetic fertilisers are sowing the seeds of instability - EIA
As the latest rupture in an increasingly unstable geopolitical landscape, military strikes on Iran by the USA and Israel will likely increase pressure on the world’s ability to feed itself – and it begins with synthetic fertilisers. It is barely more than century since the Haber-Bosch process was developed and the industrial production of ammonia (the starting point for almost all synthetic nitrogen fertilisers) began. Today about half of the world’s food production depends on synthetic nitrogen.
Carbon markets and offsetting: Why the CoP30 climate summit must reject false solutions - EIA
When it comes to international climate summits, there are few more contentious issues than that of money – who should pay for climate action and how should they do it? As the UN Climate Change Conference (CoP30) unfolds in Brazil, our attention turns once again to Article 6 of the Paris Agreement, the mechanism intended to channel climate finance through UN-backed carbon markets. What we see, even as Article 6 is “operationalised”, is a serious risk that past failures will be repeated.
Journal of the British Archaeological Association
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Durham and Islam: The Fortunes of a Theory
Abstract This article traces the fortunes of the theory that medieval architecture in northern Europe—particularly Durham Cathedral—was inspired by architecture in Islamic lands, especially Islamic Spain (al-Andalus). I briefly review the critical fortunes of Christopher Wren’s arguments for the ‘Saracenic’ origins of Gothic architecture, and then examine how and why these ideas were developed in France in the inter-war period, especially under Henri Focillon and his students.
Fit for 40? Celebrating the Vienna Convention and facing the challenges threatening its legacy - EIA
Tom Nickson 20 March 2025 Climate Campaigner Saturday (22 March) is the 40-year anniversary of the signing of the Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer, an achievement which has stood for four decades as an inspiration for multilateral environmental action.
Climate-wrecking refrigerants are everywhere at CoP29, cooling the venue while warming the planet - EIA
As we approach the end of another year defined by record-breaking global temperatures and deadly natural disasters, turbo-charged by the escalating climate crisis, some 50,000 people have descended on Baku in Azerbaijan for the 29th annual UN Climate Change Conference (CoP29).
N₂O: No laughing matter - EIA
Following the launch of a deeply concerning new assessment on the alarming increase in emissions from the ‘forgotten greenhouse gas’ – what should be done to avert a global catastrophe? It is used as an anaesthetic, a rocket propellent and even in whipped cream. It is emitted from our farms and from our factories, and it has been ignored for decades, but Nitrous Oxide (N2O) – better known as laughing gas – is no laughing matter for our climate, our ozone layer or our health.
Identifying opportunities to the strengthen the world’s most successful environmental treaty - EIA
Tom Nickson 18 July 2024 Climate Campaigner The Montreal Protocol was created in 1987 to regulate the chemicals responsible for destroying the ozone layer and in 2016 its scope was expanded to include hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), which are potent greenhouse gases.
World Ozone Day 2023 - the past successes and future challenges to shielding our planet - EIA
For nearly four decades, the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer has been protecting human health, safeguarding ecosystems and slowing down climate change. How? By banning the use of ozone-depleting substances (ODS) and allowing the ozone layer to gradually recover from the damage caused by these man-made chemicals.
Thomas Becket: Murder and the Making of a Saint, British Museum, 20 May-22 August 2021
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Professor Paul Crossley (19 July 1945-12 December 2019)
Paul Crossley was a distinguished scholar and teacher of Gothic art and architecture. He died on 12 December 2019, aged seventy-four. His extraordinary charisma, charm, erudition and kindness will be missed by many. Paul was born in Sussex in 1945 and was brought up largely by his grandmother and father, a music teacher and convert to Catholicism.
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