Tuesday, 10 September 2019

News in brief - Tuesday 10th September

UN 2020 Climate Change Summit to take place in Glasgow 
Glasgow will be hosting the Conference of Parties climate change summit (COP26) at the end of next year; the event will last for two weeks and over 200 world leaders will attend to discuss ways forward in tackling causes of climate change

Making beef production carbon neutral
The National Farmers Union (NFU) has stated that it is possible to make beef production carbon neutral by 2040 without cutting back on the amount produced; their plan is to offset their carbon emissions by growing crops for biofuels and using carbon capture technology to store carbon emissions in the ground

Radiation still remains at Fukushima
Since the tsunami struck the nuclear power plant in Fukushima (Japan) in 2011, sea water has been accumulating inside the plant that is now highly radioactive; the storage tanks will run out of space by 2022 and there may be no other options expect to release it slowly into the Pacific Ocean and dilute it